London in Black and White
Fri 01 Jul 2011 to Sat 31 Dec 2011
Tower Bridge
London
SE1 2UP
T: 020 7407 9222
E: enquiries@towerbridge.org.uk
Visitor Information
1 Apr-30 Sep: 10am-5.30pm
1 Oct-31 Mar: 9.30am-5pm
Admission included in the ticket price for Tower Bridge Exhibition (adults £8; children £3.40; concs £5.60)
Visitors to the Tower Bridge Exhibition this summer will have the chance to see a collection of rare images from London’s past, all taken from the Images from the London Metropolitan Archives. The 54 black and white images show London life from the area surrounding the bridge from the mid-1800s to early 1940s and have been chosen to represent five categories of London life: Tower Bridge, waterways, working life, buildings and boats.
Among the images is a shot of St Paul’s Cathedral seen behind a river frontage that is very different to the present day structures (today, the newest river crossing, Millennium Bridge, crosses the Thames here). Also included is a shot of the original Waterloo Bridge, a huge subsidence-induced crack clearly visible, on the last day that it was open to traffic in 1924 prior to being replaced with the present day bridge.