ST PAUL'S BRIDGE & TOWER BRIDGE road/rail proposals. London. TAYLOR, 1855 map
'Proposed St. Paul's and Tower Bridges referred to by George Ledwell Taylor Esq in his evidence of 17th May 1855'. Artist/engraver/cartographer: George Ledwell Taylor Esq. George Ledwell Taylor (31 March 1788 – 1 May 1873) was an architect and landowner who lived in London. He superintended the building of Montagu and Bryanston Squares (1811), and the neighbouring streets. He was the architect and joint surveyor to the Regent's Canal Railway Company, which, in 1845, proposed to fill in the Regent's Canal between Paddington and Limehouse and use its route for a railway. Provenance: "Report from the Select Committee on Metropolitan Communications; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix", order by The House of Commons, to be printed, 23 July 1855, Henry Hansard. Type: Antique map with original colour, prepared for consideration by the British Parliamentary Select Committee on Metropolitan Communication. At the time of the publication of the map, a number of improvements to London's transport infrastructure were under consideration by the Parliamentary Select Committee. This plan shows two proposed bridges, 1) Tower Bridge, a road bridge east of the Tower of London, eventually constructed under a different design between 1886–1894 and 2) "St Paul's Bridge" road and rail bridge, spanning the river between Blackfriars and Southwark Bridges. This bridge was of course never built, although the Millenium foot bridge, opened in 2000, runs close to the route proposed for "St Paul's Bridge"
Size: 7207px × 3597px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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