3-028-178 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

London's bridges - are they too far apart?, 1909. 'The Roads By Which Londoners Cross The Thames; And The Position Of The Proposed New Bridge. As we note elsewhere in this issue, it is suggested that a new bridge shall be built across the Thames between Southwark and Blackfriars Bridges, at a cost of some £1,648,983. The structure would have "an approach commencing at the junction of Southwark Street and Southwark Bridge Road, ascending in a north-westerly direction, the bridge crossing the river in three spans, and the road then being continued by a viaduct over Upper Thames Street and Queen Victoria Street, terminating in Cannon Street." It would be 80 feet wide, and would carry a double line of trams. At Queen Victoria Street the approach would be widened to 105 feet, and the tramway would run underground, rising to the surface in Goswell Road. In our Drawing we give the existing London bridges and the distances that separate them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.