Sujet

Tower Bridge under construction, London, c1893. Artist: Unknown

Légende

Tower Bridge under construction, London, c1893. The construction of Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 to designs by Sir Horace Jones and it opened in 1894. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London.

Date

1893

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B04_061

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,1Mo (1,8Mo) / 39,2cm x 32,1cm / 4626 x 3787 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river water building buildings London England River Thames Thames architecture country bridge British geography English castle fortification innovation location Victorian century Tower Bridge Britain concept civil engineering Tower of London B&W MONOCHROME under construction metaphor road bridge bascule bridge Construction Industry 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery geographical feature TGN work in progress photograph Unknown Jones Horace Jones Sir Horace Horace Sir Horace Jones