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| London's Bridges |
| There are about 30 bridges across the Thames from Kingston down to the Tower. We are trying to find old postcards of all of them, although of course there are a couple of bridges which aren't that old !! There will be some cards here which also appear on other pages. |
| Two more views of London Bridge - that on the left is from 1905. This bridge was dismantled in the early 1970s and shipped to Arizona in the USA where it is now a tourist attraction. I remember taking a boat trip on the Thames in the early 1960s and going under London Bridge - you could see quite clearly from the line of the water against the stonework how it had slipped from the vertical and was tilting slightly. |
| (Z) Two early views of a very busy London Bridge. |
| (Z) There are two bridges at Blackfriar's - a road and a rail. Both can be seen in these two old postcards - that on the left was mailed in 1907. (Z) |
| A nice, early view of Tower Bridge. (Z) |
| Hammersmith Bridge in a 1907 postcard. (Z) |
| Westminster Bridge. |
| Putney Bridge about 1910. |
| "Blackfriars Bridge - Opened by Queen Victoria in 1869, and widened in 1909, making it one of the widest bridges in London. It has cost altogether over half a million pounds." (Z) |
| The old Waterloo Bridge - an undated "Oilette" by Raphael Tuck. |
| This "Moonlight" postcard of London Bridge was mailed in 1907. (Z) |
| Waterloo Bridge by Moonlight. (Z) |
| A 1918 postcard of Westminster Bridge. |
| Another view of the old Waterloo Bridge. |
| An undated view of Southwark Bridge. |
| A 1921 postcard of Kew Bridge. (Z) |
| A 1950s postcard of Lambeth Bridge. |
| Another good view of Lambeth Bridge. (Z) |
| Battersea Bridge - a postcard mailed in 1911. (Z) |
| An undated aerial view of the Tower and Tower Bridge. |
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| The Old Waterloo Bridge, with Somerset House in the Background. |
| A fine view of Tower Bridge from 1905. (Z) |
| Putney Bridge in the early 1920s. |
| An excellent old postcard of London Bridge. |
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