Nice Custom House Design photos

Tower Bridge - River Thames from London Bridge - Old Billingsgate Market to the Tower of London

Image by ell brown
When we got off the tube at London Bridge I expected to see the bridge, and Tower Bridge. Finally we made it to the Modern London Bridge!

Seems like as soon as you get to it from Southwark, you are in the City of London.

I only went halfway up the bridge, before returning to Southwark and London Bridge Underground Station to go back to our hotel.

Now to the side of the river with Tower Bridge.

The view of Tower Bridge from London Bridge with HMS Belfast and London Bridge City Pier in front of it.

Tower Bridge is Grade I listed.

Tower Bridge (that Part That Lies Within the Borough of Southwark)

SOUTHWARK

TQ3380 TOWER BRIDGE ROAD
636-1/2/793 Tower Bridge (that part that lies
06/12/49 within the Borough of Southwark)

I

Bridge. 1886-94. By Sir John Wolfe Barry, engineer and Sir
Horace Jones, architect. For the City Corporation.
Low level bascule bridge with wider side spans hung from
curved lattice girders; central narrower opening section.
Steel structure with twin Gothic towers rising from 21.3m
(70ft) broad piers which support the bascules and house their
counter balances.
Towers clad in rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; high
pitched slate roofs behind stone battlemented parapet. High
level footbridges between the towers, incorporating ties
between the 2 suspended spans and linking whole bridge
together as continuous structure. Tower of 4 stages with
corner turrets surmounted by pinnacles. Some architectural
detailing added after Jones's death.
Above archway, elaborate Gothic-style windows on each level
surmounted by dormer feature in roof; moulded string courses
between floors. Lower approach tower (with twin on north
side), in similar Gothic style and with a large elliptical
archway spanning the road.
Although the bascules were electrified in 1976, some of the
hydraulic machinery by Armstrong Mitchell & Co., and the steam
pumping engines, are preserved under the south approach
viaduct.
Built onto east side of southern approach are accumulator
tower and chimney stack (qv).
See also London Borough of Tower Hamlets.


Tower Bridge (that Part in London Borough of Tower Hamlets), Stepney

1. TOWER BRIDGE EC3 & E1
4431 Tower Bridge
(That part in London Borough
of Tower Hamlets)
TQ 3380 21/722
I GV
2.
Opened 1894. Designed by Sir John Wolfe Barry with architectural features by
Sir Horace Jones.
Bascule bridge with suspended bridge approach and high level footbridges between
twin stone towers. French chateau influence. Massive cast iron balustrades.
Hydraulic machinery still used to open bridge. The rest of the bridge is in Southwark
LB.

Tower Bridge and its approach form a group with the London Hydraulic Power Co
Subways Entrance, 8 Bollards outside the main entrance to The Tower of London,
the Tower itself, the Queens Stairs, Tower Hill.



Listing NGR: TQ3369780338


One last look at Tower Bridge, with Old Billingsgate Market, The Custom House and the Tower of London on the left.

Alex Jordan's custom-designed car

Image by firepile
It reminded me of the car Homer designed that put his brother out of business on the Simpsons

Famine Memorial - Custom House Quay

Image by infomatique
'Famine' (1997) was commissioned by Norma Smurfit and presented to the City of Dublin in 1997. The sculpture is a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands.

This location is a particularly appropriate and historic as one of the first voyages of the Famine period was on the 'Perserverance' which sailed from Custom House Quay on St. Patrick's Day 1846. Captain William Scott, a native of the Shetland Isles, was a veteran of the Atlantic crossing, gave up his office job in New Brunswick to take the 'Perserverance' out of Dublin. He was 74 years old. The Steerage fare on the ship was £3 and 210 passengers made the historical journey. They landed in New York on the 18th May 1846. All passengers and crew survived the journey.

In June 2007, a second series of famine sculptures by Rowan Gillespie, was unveiled by President Mary McAleese on the quayside in Toronto's Ireland Park to remember the arrival of these refugees in Canada.

Famine Memorial - Custom House Quay

Image by infomatique
'Famine' (1997) was commissioned by Norma Smurfit and presented to the City of Dublin in 1997. The sculpture is a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands.

This location is a particularly appropriate and historic as one of the first voyages of the Famine period was on the 'Perserverance' which sailed from Custom House Quay on St. Patrick's Day 1846. Captain William Scott, a native of the Shetland Isles, was a veteran of the Atlantic crossing, gave up his office job in New Brunswick to take the 'Perserverance' out of Dublin. He was 74 years old. The Steerage fare on the ship was £3 and 210 passengers made the historical journey. They landed in New York on the 18th May 1846. All passengers and crew survived the journey.

In June 2007, a second series of famine sculptures by Rowan Gillespie, was unveiled by President Mary McAleese on the quayside in Toronto's Ireland Park to remember the arrival of these refugees in Canada.

Famine Memorial - Custom House Quay

Image by infomatique
'Famine' (1997) was commissioned by Norma Smurfit and presented to the City of Dublin in 1997. The sculpture is a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands.

This location is a particularly appropriate and historic as one of the first voyages of the Famine period was on the 'Perserverance' which sailed from Custom House Quay on St. Patrick's Day 1846. Captain William Scott, a native of the Shetland Isles, was a veteran of the Atlantic crossing, gave up his office job in New Brunswick to take the 'Perserverance' out of Dublin. He was 74 years old. The Steerage fare on the ship was £3 and 210 passengers made the historical journey. They landed in New York on the 18th May 1846. All passengers and crew survived the journey.

In June 2007, a second series of famine sculptures by Rowan Gillespie, was unveiled by President Mary McAleese on the quayside in Toronto's Ireland Park to remember the arrival of these refugees in Canada.