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	Grosvenor Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grosvenor Bridge, often alternatively called Victoria Railway Bridge, is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London, between Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea Bridge.
		Both bridges were rebuilt in steel in 1963-1967, the original piers now being encased in concrete.
		Battersea Power Station is immediately to the south of the bridge, and Battersea Park to the south west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grosvenor_Bridge (222 words)

	Blackfriars Railway Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blackfriars Railway Bridge is a railway bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and the Millennium Bridge.
		The first bridge was opened in 1864 and was designed by Joseph Cubitt for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.
		The second bridge, built slightly further downstream (to the east), was originally called St Paul's Railway Bridge and opened in 1886.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackfriars_Railway_Bridge (230 words)

	London Bridge - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The population of the bridge was such that it was made a ward of the City with its own alderman, which it retained until the 18th century.
		The new bridge was built 100 feet (30 m) west (upstream) of the original site at a cost of £2,000,000 and was completed by Rennie's son (of the same name, confusingly) over a seven-year period from 1824 to 1831.
		Rennie's bridge was constructed from Dartmoor granite, with a length of 928 feet (283 m) and a width of 49 feet (15 m).
	www.voyager.in /London_Bridge (1713 words)

	River Thames and boaty things
		Wandsworth Bridge, with its central span of 200 feet comprising seven high-tensile steel girders, was built between 1937-40 by Sir T Peirson Frank and replaced an earlier iron lattice bridge built by J H Tolme and opened in 1873 by Colonel Hogg MP.
		As the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament) is situated between Westminster and Lambeth Bridges, Lambeth Bridge is painted predominately red to represent the House of Lord's benches whilst Westminster Bridge is painted green to represent the House of Common's benches.
		This railway bridge needed five spans and as the Thames Conservators insisted upon the piers of the two new bridges being in line, it was decided that the new road bridge would also have five spans.
	www.the-river-thames.co.uk /bridges2.htm (3074 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - London (England)
		A new stone bridge was begun in 1176 to replace the old wooden bridge that had been repaired and rebuilt multiple times over the preceding 1000 years.
		Grosvenor, Bedford, Belgrave, and Russell squares were all built during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
		The old London Bridge was replaced by a modern version in the 1830s, and the Tower Bridge, a marvel of modern engineering, opened in 1894, to become London’s most recognizable landmark.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761574117__1/London_(England).html (7720 words)

	Chelsea Bridge - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Image:Chelsea bridge london.jpg Image:Chelsea bridge 1.jpg Chelsea Bridge is a self-anchored suspension bridge for road and foot traffic running north-south over the River Thames in London, between Grosvenor Bridge and the Albert Bridge.
		The bridge was conceived of at the same time as and as a compliment to Battersea Park, and authorised by an 1846 Act of Parliament.
		Chelsea Bridge, and the famous tea stall now retired to the London Transport Museum, became a notorious spot in the 1960s as a hang out for the young tearaway motorcyclists called Rockers drawn to the attractions the unlimited supply of young women coming out of the Battersea Park Fun Fair.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Chelsea_Bridge (350 words)

	River Thames
		Part of the area west of London is sometimes termed the Thames Valley[?] whilst east of Tower Bridge development agencies and Ministers have taken to using the term "Thames Gateway".
		There are many bridges and tunnels crossing the Thames, including Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Lambeth Bridge[?], and the Dartford Crossing.
		There are also many tunnels used by "tube" trains as part of the London Underground network or (at Greenwich), the Docklands Light Railway, and a free ferry for vehicles, cycles and people on foot during daylight hours at Woolwich.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thames.html (579 words)

	Cad-Capture News - July 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cheshire County Council needed to reference drawings of the historic Grosvenor Bridge in Chester in order to assess the structural capability of the bridge and to maintain an accurate record of details for all the county's bridges.
		The 168 year old bridge with a span of 62m and a rise of 12.5 above the river is still the longest span arch of its kind in Britain.
		The scanning of the Grosvenor Bridge drawings is the final task to be completed by Cad-Capture as part of a major project to scan all the County's bridge drawings.
	www.cadcap.co.uk /n0700.html (357 words)

	Grosvenor Railway Bridge, London : tourist information from TourUK
		The bridge was built to the design of John Fowler for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB and SCR).
		By the turn of the 20th century the bridges became insufficient to meet the needs of the railway and a third bridge was constructed downstream in 1907 to increase the width to 178 ft and bringing the number of tracks up to ten.
		Victoria Station remains one of the busiest terminals in London and as a result the Grosvenor Bridge is one of the few railway bridges in the capital that has escaped rationalisation.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_bridges/grosvenorrailway_bridge1.htm (303 words)

	The Illustrated London News - London
		Grosvenor bridge across the Thames was the first railway bridge over the river in the London area; it was désigned by John Fowler, engineer of the VS and PR, and took exactly one year from the commencement of construction to the passage of thefirst train, on 9 lune 1860.
		The chains and ironwork of Brunel's bridge were sold and used in the Clifton suspension bridge, although the new lattice girder bridge used Brunel's two red brick piers and abutments.
		George Wythes the contractor; but the bridge, as well as the other iron bridges along the line, are to be con-structed and erected for the contractor by Messrs.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/ind_rev/iln/london.htm (1202 words)

	Welcome to Chester, the historic roman city of northwest England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The bridge was so-called because prisoners using the bridge to receive their last rites prior to execution would often sigh heavily before hurling themselves into the water below rather than face the executioner.
		The actual line of the city's walls between the Bridge Gate and the Grosvenor Bridge was altered in the 1830's to accommodate the County Hall, which stands on top of the Castle Gaol.
		A tower which stood at the South end of the bridge was demolished in the 1780's and the bridge itself was widened in 1826.
	www.guide2chester.co.uk /Attractions.htm (4438 words)

	Main Street Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A careful observation yesterday afternoon, however, showed that the bridge was rigid at the point it had reached at the time of the last observation the day before.
		The closest record before made was on the Grosvenor bridge in England, where on the first attempt the bridge fell in when the false work was removed from beneath it.
		It is not known whether the contractors would allow the bridge to be thrown open to vehicles before it is entirely completed and turned over to the city or not, but in all probability they would offer no objections.
	wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us /landmark/bridges/mainbr2.htm (606 words)

	Middlesex - Chelsea
		There was also a bridge over the watercourse at the Cheshire Cheese public house; to the south, a bridge built by the proprietors of Ranelagh gardens was by 1826 inaccessible for public use.
		Another stone bridge, recorded from 1409, is identified as carrying the highway across the western boundary, later Bull bridge or Stanley bridge on the King’s Road.
		Repair of the bridge was to be shared equally by the bishop of London and the lord of Chelsea in 1582.
	www.middlesexpast.net /chelsea2.html (1834 words)

	London Bridges
		As one of the few suspension bridges in London, the Albert Bridge is also among the most attractive, especially when lit at night.
		Following the removal of houses from the bridge in the 18th century, a competition was held to design a new London Bridge.
		Built by Sir John Rennie and opened in 1831 the bridge, which stood for 130 years, was eventually sold to a businessman in the US during the 1960s.
	www.talkingcities.co.uk /london_pages/sights_bridges.htm (1424 words)

	The Grosvenor Bridge, Chester
		The outer courses of the arch and the quoins are of Anglesey limestone, which was brought to Chester by sea, while the rest of the bridge is cased in Peckforton sandstone.
		The Grosvenor Bridge was built at a cost of £50,000 and until 1864 was the greatest single span- at 200 feet across and 60 feet high- of any stone arch anywhere in the world.
		The bridge's great height was necessary to allow the masts of those sailing ships which were still able to travel this far up river to pass underneath.
	www.bwpics.co.uk /grosvenor.bridge.html (3370 words)

	Lambeth Bridge - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lambeth Bridge is a road traffic and foot bridge crossing the River Thames in an east-west direction in central London; the river flows north at the crossing point.
		Sanctioned by an Act of Parliament in 1860, it opened as a toll bridge in 1862 but doubts about its safety, coupled with its awkwardly steep approaches deterring horse-drawn traffic, meant it soon became used almost solely as a pedestrian crossing.
		It ceased to be a toll bridge in 1879 when the Metropolitan Board of Works assumed responsibility for its upkeep — it was by then severely corroded.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Lambeth_Bridge (313 words)

	Aerial view of Grosvenor Bridge 1855
		The bridge was designed by Thomas Harrison, architect of many of Chester's finest buildings, and proved to be his final work- at the time of the commission he was 82 years old.
		The road leading to it, Grosvenor Street, was created at the same time, cutting diagonally through the city's ancient grid of streets and necessitating the destruction of hundreds of houses and the 1,000-year-old Church of St.Bridget.
		At the bottom of the picture, the line of Lower Bridge Street may be traced from St.Michael's Church in the bottom right-hand corner to the Bridgegate and mills on the Old Dee Bridge.
	www.bwpics.co.uk /gallery/oldmaps/grosbridge.mcgahey.html (350 words)

	Topography 900-1914: Early modern and georgian, 1550-1840 \| British History Online
		The handsome timbered façades of the new buildings, well exemplified by those of the Falcon (no. 6 Lower Bridge Street) and Bishop Lloyd's House with its carved frieze, added to the attractions of the city, the streets of which were deemed 'very fair and beautiful' in the 1620s.
		In the Groves lay the ecclesiastical property known as the Archdeacon's House, leased by Bishop People to his daughter in 1741 and rebuilt a few years later with a main south front of five bays and three storeys in style resembling houses shortly to be built on the north side of Abbey Square.
		Gamul House in Lower Bridge Street, for example, had ceased to be a private residence by the 1760s and was occupied by a dancing academy and a boarding school; by 1831 the house and its outbuildings were divided into inferior dwellings.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=19218 (6875 words)

	Digitation
		My first bridge was that in the tale: Three Billy Goats Gruff, in which a troll or an ogre hid under the bridge and menaced each of the goats as they attempted to cross the bridge.
		The suspension footbridge that spans the river from Grosvenor Park and the Groves to Queens Park and the Meadows is a holiday to walk across.
		Kingsgate Bridge (designed and built by Ove Arup) and the new Pennyfeather Bridge are both footbridges that are lovely to cross.
	digitation.blogspot.com (4066 words)

	Historic Chester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The new Northgate was designed by Thomas Harrison and commissioned by the Earl of Grosvenor, the Mayor, in 1807.
		The Old Dee Bridge was built in the 14th Century and was the only crossing point of the Dee at Chester until 1832.
		In 1773 the Old Dee Bridge was described as 'very narrow and dangerous' as the volume of traffic continued to rise, yet no other bridge was built for almost 60 years.
	www.prodo.com /historic-chester/tour/attractions.htm (1556 words)

	TNC On Tour 2004 Page 12
		Just down stream of the Iron Bridge a strange tidal effect was noted, 5 large amplitude waves hit us travelling upstream, the shunt of the flood tide over the weir.
		That night we really wanted to be moored to a floating pontoon seeing as the tide over the weir would be the one before the highest of the year, that we would be using travelling back over the weir the next day.
		The surge through the bridge was no problem, using a fair bit of power to ensure a clean passage.
	www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /Tour_04/Tour04_12.html (1318 words)

	San Francisco Airport Hotel - Best Western Grosvenor
		The Grosvenor is one of the most sophisticated San Francisco International Airport hotels with an array of amenities to fit your every need while visiting the Bay area.
		Whether you are in town for business or pleasure, the luxurious San Francisco accommodations at the Grosvenor combine elegant design and style with one of the most experienced and hospitable staffs in the Bay Area.
		We offer a location convenient to both the Golden Gate Bridge and many other sites and sounds of one of the most exciting cities on the West Coast.
	www.grosvenorsfo.com (474 words)

	Location of water companies
		The railroad bridge is now shown as the Victoria Bridge, to the east of the Chelsea Suspension Bridge.
		The Chelsea Bridge is still there, as is the rail bridge, but the latter is now the Grosvenor Bridge.
		Finally, a current photo shows where the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company had been (see left), with the Grosvenor Bridge appearing in the background to the right.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/snow/southwarkvauxhall2.html (192 words)

	UCLE: Articles
		Bridges across the Thames in London are, in order from the east:
		Kingston Bridge is the last one that's in Greater London.
		Until the Dartford bridge was built a few years ago (previously there was a tunnel, which is still used for northbound traffic), Tower Bridge was the
	www.alt-usage-english.org /ucle/ucle8.html (1913 words)

	Bridges and aqueducts - from the Newcomen Society's Transactions
		Laminated Timber Arch Railway Bridges in England and Scotland
		The Contribution of William Froude to the Development of the Oblique Bridge with Mechanically Correct Spiral Tapered Courses
		The Evolution of Iron Truss Bridges to 1850
	www.newcomen.com /transactions/bridges.htm (175 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » The Tain
		He stopped in the shadows below the arc of Grosvenor Bridge, and clambered up its girdered underside.
		Where it should have been a curve of shadows, the bridge was punctured, broken by thick rays of light.
		Months ago, perhaps in the moment of that interruption, a train had stalled on the bridge.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /show.html?fn,tain,1 (371 words)

	Chelsea Introduction
		Battersea Bridge, the first road to cross the Thames from Chelsea, was built after an Act was obtained in 1766 under John, Earl Spencer.
		The new self-anchoring steel suspension bridge, 83 ft wide, opened in 1937, a plain design engineered by Rendel, Palmer, and Tritton, with the LCC architect G. Topham Forrest (succeeded by E.P. Wheeler in 1935); the Royal Fine Art Commission was also consulted.
		In 1836 the vestry suggested improving the route from Battersea Bridge via the riverside and Royal Hospital to Westminster, as communication from lower Chelsea was inconvenient and lowered property values, and also suggested a new riverside route between Chelsea and Fulham, proposals which had local support.
	www.middlesexpast.net /cintro.html (7643 words)

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