Showing posts with label barge. Show all posts
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Sunday, 21 October 2018

Albert bridge London

Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the Tideway of the River Thames connecting Chelsea in Central London on the north, left bank to Battersea in South/South-West London. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish–Lefeuvre system modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge. In 1973 the Greater London Council added two concrete piers, which transformed the central span into a simple beam bridge. As a result, today the bridge is an unusual hybrid of three different design styles. It is an English Heritage Grade II listed building.






View from Albert bridge






Thursday, 13 September 2018

Tuesday, 10 July 2018

Batchwood lock

The line of this canal goes up towards Birmingham and the Midlands and the side lock, Chess Lock goes towards Rickmansworth Wharf it doesn't go that far nowadays it stops at the residential moorings in Chess Basin, but the lock is still in working order and in use.