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Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge
	Waterloo Bridge, seen from the London Eye observation wheel
Coordinates	51°30′31″N 0°07′01″W / 51.5086°N 0.1169°W
Carries	Motor vehicles; Pedestrians
Crosses	River Thames
Locale	London, England
Characteristics
Design	Arch Bridge
Longest span	71 m
History
Opened	1945
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Waterloo Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge crossing the River Thames in London, England between Blackfriars Bridge and Hungerford Bridge. The name of the bridge is in memory of the British victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Thanks to its location at a strategic bend in the river, the views of London (Westminster, the South Bank and London Eye to the west, the City of London and Canary Wharf to the east) from the bridge are widely held to be the finest from any spot at ground level.

History

The first bridge on the site was designed in 1809-10 by John Rennie for the Strand Bridge Company and opened in 1817 as a toll bridge. The granite bridge had nine arches, each of 120 feet (36.6 m) span, separated by double Grecian-Doric stone columns and was 2,456 feet (748.6 m) long, including approaches. Before its opening it was known as 'Strand Bridge'. It was nationalised in 1878 and given to the Metropolitan Board of Works, who removed the toll from it. Serious problems were found in its construction and the new owners reinforced it. Paintings of the bridge were created by the French Impressionist Claude Monet and English Impressionist, John Constable.

By the 1920s, the problems had increased. London County Council decided to demolish it and replace it with a new structure designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The new span was partially opened in 1942 and completed in 1945.^[1] The new bridge was the only Thames bridge to have been damaged by German bombers during World War II. The building contractor was Peter Lind & Company Limited. It is frequently asserted that the work force was largely female and it is sometimes referred to as "the ladies' bridge". It is constructed in Portland stone from the South West of England; the stone cleans itself whenever it rains.^{[citation needed]}

Waterloo Bridge. Showing above the bridge (left to right) are St Paul's Cathedral, Tower 42 and 30 St Mary Axe (the "Gherkin" or the Swiss Re building)

Granite stones from the original bridge were subsequently "presented to various parts of the British world to further historic links in the British Commonwealth of Nations". Two of these stones are in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, sited between the parallel spans of the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, one of two major crossings of Lake Burley Griffin in the heart of the city. Stones from the bridge were used to build a monument in Wellington, New Zealand, to Paddy the Wanderer, a dog that roamed the wharves from 1928 to 1939 and was befriended by seamen, watersiders, Harbour Board workers and taxi drivers. The monument includes a bronze likeness of Paddy and drinking bowls for dogs.^{[citation needed]}

The south end of the bridge is the area known as The South Bank and includes the Royal Festival Hall, Waterloo station, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal National Theatre, and the National Film Theatre (directly beneath the bridge).

In the 1950s the National Film Theatre (a legacy from the Festival of Britain) was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge. In the 1980s The award winning Museum of the Moving Image was also built directly underneath the bridge and became perhaps the only museum in the world to have stalagtites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing within it.

The north end passes above the Victoria Embankment where the road joins the Strand and Aldwych alongside Somerset House.

Georgi Markov

Georgi Markov was a Bulgarian dissident assassinated on Waterloo Bridge by agents of the Bulgarian secret police assisted by the KGB. On 7 September 1978, Markov crossed Waterloo Bridge to wait at a bus stop on the other side, when he was jabbed in the leg by a man holding an umbrella. The man apologized and walked away. Markov would later tell doctors that the man had spoken in a foreign accent.

On the evening of 7 September, Markov developed a high fever. He died in agony three days later. After his death, doctors found a small platinum pellet embedded in his calf. Further examination found that two small holes had been drilled in the bullet containing traces of the poison ricin.

Miscellaneous facts

Robert E. Sherwood's 1930 play, Waterloo Bridge, about a soldier who falls in love and marries a woman he meets on the bridge, unaware that she is a prostitute, was made into films released in 1931 and 1940. The latter starred Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor.

The bridge also featured in the title of another motion picture: the comedy The Waterloo Bridge Handicap (1978) [1] starring Leonard Rossiter.

Michael Faraday tried in 1832 to measure the potential difference between each side of the bridge caused by the ebbing salt water flowing through the Earth's magnetic field. See magnetohydrodynamics.

After the Lunch is a poem by Wendy Cope about two lovers parting on Waterloo Bridge.

Most of the stones of the demolished Waterloo Bridge were taken to Harmondsworth Moor on the western edge of London. Many of them still remain there in various places around the moor.

References

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-'''Mungo Jerry''' are an [[England|English]] folk/classic rock [[band (music)|group]] whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by [[Ray Dorset]]. They are remembered above all for their [[chart hit|hit]] "[[In the Summertime]]". Their name was inspired by the poem ''[[Mungojerrie]] and [[Rumpleteazer|Rumpelteazer]]'', from [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats]]''.
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+'''Waterloo Bridge''' is a road and foot traffic bridge crossing the [[River Thames]] in [[London]], [[England]] between [[Blackfriars Bridge]] and [[Hungerford Bridge]]. The name of the bridge is in memory of the  British victory at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] in 1815.  Thanks to its location at a strategic bend in the river, the views of London ([[Westminster]], the [[South Bank]] and [[London Eye]] to the west, the [[City of London]] and [[Canary Wharf]] to the east) from the bridge are widely held to be the finest from any spot at ground level.
-==Band members==
-* [[Singer|Vocalist]] / [[songwriter]] - [[Ray Dorset]] - born Raymond Edward Dorset, [[21 March]] [[1946]], [[Ashford, Surrey|Ashford]], [[Middlesex]].
-* [[Keyboardist]] - Colin Earl - born [[6 May]] [[1942]], at Bearsted Memorial Hospital, [[Hampton Court]], Middlesex.
-* [[keyboardist]] - Byron Contostavlos
-* [[Banjo]]/[[guitar]] player - Alan Johnson - born [[5 February]] [[1954]].
-* [[Bassist]] - Mike Cole - born Michael Maurice Cole, [[19 March]] [[1943]], at Perivale Maternity Hospital, [[Perivale]], Middlesex.
-* [[Percussionist]] - Joe Rush - born Joseph Rush, [[December]] [[1940]].
-*[[Banjo]]/[[jug (musical instrument)|jug]] - Paul King born [[9 January]] [[1948]], in [[Dagenham]], [[Essex]]
-==Career==
+== History ==
+The first bridge on the site was designed in 1809-10 by [[John Rennie (engineer)|John Rennie]] for the Strand Bridge Company and opened in 1817 as a [[toll bridge]]. The [[granite]] bridge had nine arches, each of {{convert|120|ft|m|1|lk=on}} span, separated by double Grecian-Doric stone columns and was {{convert|2456|ft|m|1}} long, including approaches. Before its opening it was known as '[[Strand, London|Strand]] Bridge'.  It was nationalised in 1878 and given to the [[Metropolitan Board of Works]], who removed the toll from it. Serious problems were found in its construction and the new owners reinforced it. Paintings of the bridge were created by the French [[Impressionist]] [[Claude Monet]] and English Impressionist, [[John Constable]].
-Dorset and Earl had previously been members of The Good Earth.  Soon after recruiting King and Cole, they made their national debut at the [[Hollywood music festival|Hollywood Festival]] at [[Newcastle-under-Lyme]], [[Staffordshire]] in May 1970, the week their first [[single (music)|single]], "[[In the Summertime]]" was released.  They stole the show and the record topped the [[UK Singles Chart]] for seven weeks, made [[Chart-topper|number one]] in almost every other country around the [[world]], and to date has sold around 30 million copies.  After [[John Godfrey]] replaced Cole, their second single "Baby Jump" also topped the [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[music chart|chart]] in March 1971. A third hit, "Lady Rose" (also in 1971), gave the group the image as a band for producing summertime based hits.
+By the 1920s, the problems had increased. [[London County Council]] decided to demolish it and replace it with a new structure designed by Sir [[Giles Gilbert Scott]]. The new span was partially opened in 1942 and completed in 1945.<ref>[http://thames.me.uk/s00110.htm Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide]</ref> The new bridge was the only Thames bridge to have been damaged by [[Germany|German]] bombers during [[World War II]]. The building contractor was [[Peter Lind & Company]] Limited. It is frequently asserted that the work force was largely female and it is sometimes referred to as "the ladies' bridge". It is constructed in [[Portland stone]] from the South West of England; the stone cleans itself whenever it rains.{{Fact|date=April 2008}}
-Mungo Jerry was awarded from [[Melody Maker]] as "best new band" in 1970 and as one of the five best live bands 1971 worldwide. Ray Dorset himself was awarded with three [[Ivor Novello Awards]] as a composer.
+[[Image:Waterloo_Bridge_1817.jpg|thumb|350px||Crowds attend the opening of Waterloo Bridge on 18th June 1817]]
-In time Dorset found the group's good-time [[blues]] and [[jug band]] repertoire a little restricting, and in 1972 he released a [[solo (music)|solo]] [[album]] ''[[Cold Blue Excursion]]'', with his [[song]]s backed by [[String instrument|strings]] and [[brass instrument|brass]] and, in one instance, a [[jazz band]].  His intention to broaden the group's appeal by recruiting a drummer led to King and Earl trying to sack him, but the [[management]], regarding Dorset as inseparable in the public eye from Mungo Jerry, fired them both instead.  Dorset and Godfrey, the bassist, recruited new members and presented a new sound, heard on the fourth album ''Boot Power''. King and Earl went on to form the King Earl Boogie Band.
+[[Image:John Constable 001.jpg|thumb|350px||View of the old Waterloo Bridge from [[Whitehall]] stairs, [[John Constable]], [[18 June]] [[1817]]]]
+[[Image:Drapersgardens.jpg|thumb|350px|Waterloo Bridge. Showing above the bridge (left to right) are [[St Paul's Cathedral]], [[Tower 42]] and [[30 St Mary Axe]] (the "Gherkin" or the [[Swiss Re]] building)]]
+Granite stones from the original bridge were subsequently "presented to various parts of the British world to further historic links in the British [[Commonwealth of Nations]]". Two of these stones are in [[Canberra]], the capital city of [[Australia]], sited between the parallel spans of the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, one of two major crossings of [[Lake Burley Griffin]] in the heart of the city. Stones from the bridge were used to build a monument in [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]], to Paddy the Wanderer, a dog that roamed the wharves from 1928 to 1939 and was befriended by seamen, watersiders, Harbour Board workers and taxi drivers. The monument includes a bronze likeness of Paddy and drinking bowls for dogs.{{Fact|date=April 2008}}
-Mungo Jerry's hits continued through to 1976 with "Open Up" (Top Twenty in Europe and number one in [[Brazil]]); "Alright Alright Alright" (a rewrite of an old [[France|French]] hit for [[Jacques Dutronc]], and again a major hit worldwide reaching the Top 3 in the UK); "Wild Love"; "Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black"; "Hello Nadine" ([[Europe]]an hit and Top Five in [[Canada]]); and "It's a Secret" (European hit).
+The south end of the bridge is the area known as [[South Bank|The South Bank]] and includes the [[Royal Festival Hall]], [[Waterloo station]], [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]], the [[Royal National Theatre]], and the [[National Film Theatre]] (directly beneath the bridge).
-In 1975 Earl, who had played [[piano]] with [[Foghat]] in between, returned to play [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]], and [[percussion]] player Joe Rush, part-time member of the band in earlier days, also came back for a while.
+In the 1950s the National Film Theatre (a legacy from the Festival of Britain) was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge. In the 1980s The award winning [[Museum of the Moving Image]] was also built directly underneath the bridge and became perhaps the only museum in the world to have stalagtites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing within it.
-The group's line-up has changed constantly over the years.  Among those who have played with them are bassist [[Bob Daisley]], drummers Dave Bidwell, Paul Hancox and [[Boris Williams]], guitarist Dick Middleton, keyboard player [[Sev Lewkowicz]], and keyboard/accordion player Steve Jones. They have remained particularly popular throughout [[Europe]]. Mungo Jerry was the first western band who had live [[television]] gigs, in all countries behind the [[Iron Curtain]]. Their ''Golden Orpheus'' gig in [[Bulgaria]], also gave them a lot of new [[aficionado|fans]].{{Fact|date=December 2007}}
+The north end passes above the [[Victoria Embankment]] where the road joins the [[Strand, London|Strand]] and [[Aldwych]] alongside [[Somerset House]].
-In 1980 another Dorset song, "[[Feels Like I'm in Love]]", originally written for [[Elvis Presley]], and recorded by the band as a [[A-side and B-side|B side]] of a single, became a British number one hit for [[Kelly Marie]]. They remained successful with overseas hits like "On A Night Like This", "[[Knockin' on Heaven's Door (song)|Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]" (first reggae-version of Bob Dylan´s song!) and "Sunshine Reggae" (British version by Mungo Jerry & Horizon).  But Dorset had to wait until 1995 for a real comeback, when "In the Summertime" was recorded by [[reggae]] vocalist [[Shaggy (artist)|Shaggy]], who topped the charts worldwide. The last UK chart entry for Mungo Jerry was "Toon Army" a song for [[Newcastle United F.C.]] in 1999.
+== Georgi Markov ==
-In 1983 Dorset was part of the blues super-group Katmandu, which recorded ''A Case For The Blues'', with guitarist [[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]], formerly of [[Fleetwood Mac]], and keyboard player [[Vincent Crane]], formerly of [[Atomic Rooster]] and [[The Crazy World of Arthur Brown]].
+[[Georgi Markov]] was a [[Bulgaria]]n [[dissident]] [[assassination|assassinated]] on Waterloo Bridge by agents of the Bulgarian [[secret police]] assisted by the [[KGB]]. On [[7 September]] [[1978]], Markov crossed Waterloo Bridge to wait at a [[bus stop]] on the other side, when he was jabbed in the leg by a man holding an [[umbrella]]. The man apologized and walked away. Markov would later tell doctors that the man had spoken in a foreign accent.
-In 2003, with [[Germany|German]] [[musician]]s, Dorset recorded ''[[Adults Only]]'' album under the name Mungo Jerry Blues Band, widely acclaimed as one of the best of his career. 2005 saw him performing with three Mungo Jerry line-ups: The British Mungo Jerry Band (pop/rock), the German Mungo Jerry Blues Band (blues/rock) and Mungo Jerry & the Goodtime Gamblers (jug/[[blues]]/[[skiffle]]).
+On the evening of 7 September, Markov developed a high fever. He died in agony three days later. After his death, doctors found a small [[platinum]] pellet embedded in his calf. Further examination found that two small holes had been drilled in the bullet containing traces of the poison [[ricin]].
-Also in June 2005, Ray Dorset had a [[concert|gig]] again as a duo with Mike Cole - the original [[double bass]] player from the early Mungo days - as a highlight of the "35 Years Of Mungo Jerry" event in both Newcastle and [[Stoke-on-Trent|Stoke]].
+== Miscellaneous facts ==
-In March 2006 Mungo Jerry released their new single "Mr Midnight" from ''Phantom of the Opera on Ice''<ref>[http://www.plazarecords.co.uk Plaza Records website notes]</ref>; produced by Roberto Danova
+{{trivia|date=June 2008}}
-- who had mixed in the past the old continental Mungo Jerry hits "Lana" and "It's a Secret" - and is well-known for his work with rock and pop music, in combination with big [[orchestra]]s.
+* [[Robert E. Sherwood]]'s 1930 play, ''Waterloo Bridge'', about a soldier who falls in love and marries a woman he meets on the bridge, unaware that she is a prostitute, was made into films released in [[Waterloo Bridge (1931 film)|1931]] and [[Waterloo Bridge (1940 film)|1940]].  The latter starred [[Vivien Leigh]] and [[Robert Taylor (actor)|Robert Taylor]].
-Whilst 2007 saw the release of two albums. ''Naked by the Heart'' was recorded in an [[analog recording|analogue]] [[recording studio|studio]] to recreate the sound of the early Mungo years. Dorset recorded the songs together with original bass player Mike Cole, and Bruce Brand playing percussion and piano. The second release in the end of the same year was the second LP from the Mungo Jerry Bluesband, called ''When She Comes, She Runs All Over Me''.<ref>[http://www.mungomania.com/ Band website notes - accessed December 2007]</ref>
+* The bridge also featured in the title of another motion picture: the comedy ''The Waterloo Bridge Handicap'' (1978) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078479/] starring [[Leonard Rossiter]].
-==Discography==
-===Albums===
-* ''Mungo Jerry'' - 1970 (No. 14, UK)
-* ''[[Electronically Tested]]'' - 1971 (No. 13, UK)
-* ''You Don't Have To Be In The Army'' - 1971
-* ''Boot Power'' - 1972
-* ''Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black'' - 1974
-* ''Impala Saga'' - 1975
-* ''Ray Dorset & Mungo Jerry'' - 1977
-* ''Lovin´ In The Alleys And Fightin' In The Streets'' - 1977
-* ''Together Again'' - 1981
-* ''Boogie Up'' - 1982
-* ''Katmandu - A Case for the Blues'' - 1984 (Mungo Jerry/[[Peter Green]]/[[Vincent Crane]])
-* ''All The Hits Plus More'' - 1987 ([[compilation album]])
-* ''Snakebite'' - 1991
-* ''Old Shoes New Jeans'' - 1997
-* ''Candy Dreams'' - 2001
-* ''Move On - The Latest and the Greatest'' - 2002 (compilation)
-* ''Adults Only'' - 2003
-* ''Naked – From the Heart'' - 2007
-* ''When She Comes, She Runs All Over Me'' - 2007
+* [[Michael Faraday]] tried in 1832 to measure the [http://www.phy6.org/earthmag/NSTA1C.htm potential difference] between each side of the bridge caused by the ebbing salt water flowing through the Earth's magnetic field.  See [[magnetohydrodynamics]].
-===UK singles chart discography===
-* "[[In the Summertime]]" - 1970 - No. 1
-* "[[Baby Jump]]" - 1971 - No. 1
-* "Lady Rose" - 1971 - No. 5
-* "You Don't Have to be in The Army To Fight in The War" - 1971 - No. 13
-* "Open Up" - 1972 - No. 21
-* "Alright Alright Alright" - 1973 - No. 3
-* "Wild Love" - 1973 - No. 32
-* "Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black" - 1974 - No. 13
-* "In the Summertime '87" - 1987 - Number 1 (Indie Charts/ as 'Mungo Jerry & Brothers Grimm')
-* "Prospects" - 1985 - No. 35 (as 'Made in England')
-* "Support The Toon - It's Your Duty" (EP incl. 'Toon Army') - 1999 - No. 57
+* ''After the Lunch'' is a poem by [[Wendy Cope]] about two lovers parting on Waterloo Bridge.
-===Single hits in other countries===
-* "Lady Rose" - [[Japan]] 1971 - No. 1
+* Most of the stones of the demolished Waterloo Bridge were taken to [[Harmondsworth]] Moor on the western edge of London. Many of them still remain there in various places around the moor.
-* "Mungo's Blues" - [[Germany]] 1971 - No. 45
-* "Open Up" - [[Brazil]] 1972 - No. 1
-* "Hello Nadine" - [[Canada]] 1975 - No. 5
-* "Can't Get Over Loving You" - [[Denmark]] - No. 5
-* "[[Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]" - [[South Africa]] 1981 - No. 1
-* "On a Night Like This" - South Africa 1981 - No. 1
 ==References==
-{{Reflist}}
+{{reflist}}
-* Beyond the Summertime - 1990 - John Van der Kiste and Derek Wadeson.
-* [[Guinness Book of British Hit Singles]] - 16th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-190-X
-* The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits - ISBN 0-85112-250-7
-* The Great Rock Discography - 5th Edition - ISBN 1-84195-017-3
-* The Book of Golden Discs - 2nd Edition - ISBN 0-214-20512-6
 ==External links==
+*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=47032 Survey of London entry]
-* [http://www.mungojerry.com Official International Homepage]
-* [http://www.mungojerry.de Official German Homepage]
+*[http://www.peterlind.co.uk/ladies_bridge.htm Peter Lind & Company]
+* {{Structurae|id=s0002224|title=Waterloo Bridge (1917)}}
-* [http://www.mungomania.com MungoMania Fan Club]
+* {{Structurae|id=s0002236|title=Waterloo Bridge (1945)}}
-* [http://www.mungojerry.nl Official Site from the Netherlands]. Includes presentation of all world-wide record-releases of Mungo Jerry
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