London bridges across the river Thames: 4 Southwark bridge

 

Southwark bridge

Southwark bridge is an arch bridge for traffic linking Southwark and the City of London, it was designed by Ernest George and Basil Mott and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. and opened in 1921

A previous bridge on the site, designed by John Rennie opened in 1819, and was originally known as queen street bridge, it was known as the "iron bridge in comparison to London bridge the "stone bridge"

Southwark bridge is mentioned in the work of Charles Dickens, for example in ‘Little Dorrit’ and ‘Our Mutual Friend’


rust purists should stop reading now

last evening i went to the final concert of 'Kew the music' ( a week-long series of concerts at Kew gardens) which featured Karine Polwart, Billy Bragg (sporting a full beard and as ideological as ever he started his set with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_filOc5rk ) topping the bill was Bellowhead who must be one of the best live bands around at the moment, a truly exhilarating set of songs (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAs8vIBuSMU for a look at their Glastobury concert in 2011, i think they were better last night, although many of the songs were the same)