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Description: | This view of London Bridge looks out across the river. The bridge is crowded with traffic and pedestrians. This photo was taken by Topical Press between 1918 and 1920.
The northern bank of the river is scarcely visible through the fog. This smog, or fog with soot from coal burning in it, continued to affect London intermittently until the 1956 Clean Air Act.
Smog often made transport difficult by obscuring visibility on the roads. It also affected Londoners' health, especially by aggravating lung and respiratory conditions.
This incarnation of London Bridge was built in 1823-31 by Sir John Rennie. When it began to sink under its own weight in the 1960s, Rennie's bridge was sold to an American, and erected at Lake Havasu in the middle of the Arizona desert, where it remains a tourist attraction.
The present concrete London Bridge was built in 1967-72. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Cityscape | Temporal: | 1918-28 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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