Southwark Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 32 " N , 0 ° 5 ′ 39" W.
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | Main road A300 | |
| Crossing of | Thames | |
| place | London | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 197.5 m | |
| opening | 1st bridge - 1819 2nd bridge - 1921 |
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The Southwark Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in London . It connects the City of London on the north side with the district of Southwark in the London Borough of Southwark on the south side. The bridge is 197.5 meters long and consists of five steel arches. The tower-shaped pillars give the bridge a rather old-fashioned look. Cannon Street Station is on the north bank , Bankside Power Station ( Tate Modern ), the Globe Theater and the Financial Times building are on the south bank. The main road A300 leads over the bridge.
The Southwark Bridge Company , founded in 1813, hired civil engineer John Rennie to build a new bridge. It was the subject of heated controversy: the powerful Corporation of London was fundamentally against a toll bridge and the river boatmen feared dangerous whirlpools. Nevertheless, the cast iron bridge was opened in 1819. It had three arches, the center of which had a considerable span of 73 meters - the largest span of any arch ever made of cast iron. However, it was rarely used. In addition to the toll, the reasons were the inadequate access roads and the bumpy road surface.
The toll was lifted in 1864 when Bridge House Estates , a Corporation of London charity, took over the bridge . This led to such a strong increase in traffic that a new building was necessary. Demolition work began in 1913; however, the opening of the new bridge was delayed until 1921 due to the First World War .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ England's cast iron arched truss bridges. In: Friedrich Heinzerling: The bridges in iron . Verlag von Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1870, p. 97 ( full text in Google Book Search).
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upstream Millennium Bridge |
River crossings of the Thames |
downstream Cannon Street Railway Bridge |