The Old London Bridge and a view to The City

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Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge

Descripcion foto: London Bridge is the oldest crossing location on the River Thames, and from ancient times until the 1720s was the only bridge on the river. It is possible that Roman military engineers built a pontoon-type bridge at the site during the conquest period (AD 43), and on the relatively high, dry ground at the northern end of the bridge, a small, opportunistic trading and shipping settlement took root and grew into the town of Londinium, which became the administrative and mercantile capital of Roman Britain. King Henry II commissioned the new stone bridge in the picture in 1176, and construction finished in 1209. There were houses (or shops) on the bridge from the start, reaching their maximum in the late fourteenth century, when there were 140, and in the seventeenth century, almost all had four or five storeys. The severed heads of traitors were exhibited in the drawbridge tower, with the head of William Wallace being the first recorded, in 1305, starting a long tradition that would last until 1661. In 1756, the London Bridge Act gave the City Corporation the power to purchase all the properties on the bridge so that they could be demolished and the bridge improved. The demolition of the houses was completed in 1761. The bridge would stand until 1831 when it would be replaced by a more modern one.

Website: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/London_Prospect_1710.jpg

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Fecha: 1710

Copyright: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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