Most interesting London bridge (that is in London)

No tunnels then.

Or rail bridges.

As agonizing as it was, I ultimately determined that tunnels aren't bridges.

i voted hammersmith bridge because it is

1 - beautiful
2 - kind of rococo, not a word i usually associate with bridges
2 - has a plaque on it detailing how a young man in 1919 (i think) dove off it to save a drowning woman, and the plaque is affixed at exactly the place where he dove off. in the dive he injured his head and died shortly afterwards :(

yep, 1919! and...!!

jeff said...

My uncle Chic Knight jumprd off the bridge on two different occasions to save people from drowning. He was well known in the Chiswick area as a proffessional wrestler.
22 April 2008 11:56

http://slightlyintrepid.blogspot.com/2007/04/heroes-of-hammersmith-bridge.html

Millennium bridge is pretty interesting as an inverted suspension bridge, with the deck above the cables. Southwark bridge is always lovely and quiet, great to cycle over.

@I'mLondonBridge has the best twitter, hands down.

Waterloo Bridge aka the Ladies Bridge, built largely by women during WWII. Best view in London (looking east).

With the exception of Tower Bridge, the central London roadbridges are not particularly interesting. The two modern footbridges though - Millennium and Hungerford, are fantastic, although I keep expecting the Hungerford footbridge to just drop into the river one day.

The really interesting ones are out through Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith - Chelsea/Battersea/Hammersmith/Albert all lovely. Further out west they tend to drift into largely interchangeable neoclassical stone structures don't they? That said Richmond footbridge is pretty nice.

Torn between Tower, Hammersmith and Chelsea though. Leaning towards Hammersmith for all the reasons Tracer outlines.

Which is the one with the pineapples on it again?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/137988420_4a216c15ba.jpg

xxpost waterloo has good views west of parliament and the eye too. plus it has the ricin umbrella assassination.

That's exactly how I feel, Ledge. My new route to work takes me over Westminster Bridge and it always feels like a bit of a letdown by comparison so I tend to cycle home the long way via Waterloo when I've had a tough day. Very uplifting 40 seconds or so that seems to make all the difference to my mood.

the hungerford bridge is one of my favourite places in the world: it never fails to make me feel better.

View-wise it's pretty difficult to beat Waterloo and Hungerford actually, although the view from Tower Bridge is getting better.

Going under Tower Bridge on a boat so big they have to actually raise the bridge is a terrific experience. It's difficult to realise quite what a feat of engineering it is until you see it from below.

Waterloo South Bank bit is also nice on night buses when hammered.

Vauxhall Bridge is very under-rated.

Hammersmith also for this great scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_4dumHeeNU&feature=related

The view from Vauxhall Bridge is surely the ugliest view from any bridge in London? Actually, Wandsworth is pretty horrific as well, there are some spectacularly ugly flats going up round there.

(considers being the inevitable smartarse to post photos of the Thames crossings of London, Ontario)

With the exception of Tower Bridge, the central London roadbridges are not particularly interesting

If by "interesting" you mean "gauche and OTT" :P

I love the clean modernist style of Waterloo. Lambeth, Westminster, Blackfriars, and Southwark, all have an understated elegance.

Vauxhall Bridge has some great views towards parliament and the centre of town.

the hungerford bridge is one of my favourite places in the world: it never fails to make me feel better.

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I'd have to say Waterloo Bridge for the views. It's a real privilege to roll across on the top deck of a bus, never fails to uplift me. Hungerford and Richmond Bridges also wonderful for this. There's a railway bridge between (I think) Chelsea and Wandsworth Bridges that has tower blocks around either end, which I found walking the long way home one evening, and it looked really cool to see long goods trains crossing when both ends were invisible and you could imagine they went on forever.

I crossed the Millennium Bridge on the night before it was closed down - it was hilarious and I was gutted that they dampened it, but I guess that would be quite an eccentric thing for a city to keep. I do wish that at least some of ye olde London Bridge had survived though, that would've been something to see.

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Is there a mnemonic to remember the London Bridges in order?

voted London Bridge because I am a bridge rockist

Was on Waterloo Bridge earlier but was singularly displeased by the experience, realising I could have gotten off the number 4 bus 20 minutes beforehand near Cannon Street and already been on a train home

Is there a mnemonic to remember the London Bridges in order?

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rockist by location and historical importance, that is; i well know the actual bridge is *goddamn* new, as its predecessor was recently (within past 40 years) relocated to america o_O

oh my god ledge

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lol westminster bridge: http://twitpic.com/y60qr

I think I missed this poll; not sure I could have easily made a choice, perhaps because I find all bridges interesting.

I disagree with Matt DC's comments above about the views from Vauxhall Bridge. The view towards Westminster is nice enough, but it's the other view, towards Battersea, that I really enjoy. There's something about the way the river curves around to the right, drawing the eye towards the Power Station, that I really love.

Happy 125th birthday, @TowerBridge, which opened OTD 30 June 1894.
Between 2012 - 2019 a sort-of-replica version of the bridge was built in Suzhou, east China. It has twice the number of towers as London's original but the bridge doesn't lift. It has recently been closed down. pic.twitter.com/gQDo3ROd4r

— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) June 30, 2019

The view from Vauxhall Bridge looking towards Batttersea has changed considerably since 2010.

This year's @LondonTopSoc book is to be published next month - 'London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761' by Dorian Gerhold whose research enables for the first time a description of the houses and their occupants. pic.twitter.com/o6FLy60PuU

— Sheila O'Connell (@SOCSheila) June 20, 2019

for fans of the old towering bridge houses of London.

John Greygoose, drowned in a river after falling from a bridge in 1302. His body was found by his brother Robert

— Medieval Death Bot (@DeathMedieval) July 4, 2019