From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extract text : " WATERLOO BRIDGE is considered the finest stone bridge in the world. It was built by John Rennie, 1811-17, and was to have been called Strand Bridge, but the Of Waterloo happening just as the bridge was finished it was called Waterloo, and opened on the second anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. It cost the company who owned it one million, but was sold to the Metropolitan Board of Works in '1878 for "75,000, when tolls were no longer charged. It consists of arches. each "O feet across and 35 feet high, and is 4
From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extract text : " WATERLOO BRIDGE is considered the finest stone bridge in the world. It was built by John Rennie, 1811-17, and was to have been called Strand Bridge, but the Of Waterloo happening just as the bridge was finished it was called Waterloo, and opened on the second anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. It cost the company who owned it one million, but was sold to the Metropolitan Board of Works in '1878 for "75,000, when tolls were no longer charged. It consists of arches. each "O feet across and 35 feet high, and is 460 yards long and 42 yards broad. From the bridge is a capital view of the Thames Embankment and House. "
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