Chelsea Bridge

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Thames

The Chelsea Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in London. It connects the neighborhood of Chelsea in the borough of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on the north side with the district Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth on the south side. Southwest of it is the Battersea Park, about 140 m downstream the Grosvenor Bridge ( Victoria Railway Bridge ) and beyond the tracks in the southeast, the Battersea Power Station.

Today, the bridge opened in 1937, was the first self-anchored suspension bridge in Britain. Its predecessor was a 1858 Chain Bridge opened.

Suspension Bridge (1937 )

After the original chain bridge was no longer cope with the increasing traffic, the plan was to replace it with a six-lane bridge, but could not be funded during the Depression. We therefore decided to use a four-lane bridge, which was built in the years 1935-1937 on new, stronger foundations.

Because of the wider become vehicles the road is now divided into only three tracks, one of the two leading tracks into town for buses, taxis and cyclists is reserved.

The suspension bridge is 213 m long and has a wingspan of 101 m. Your road deck is 12 m wide; on both sides there is a 3.7 m wide walkway that runs outside of the ropes.

Each of the two suspension cable consists of 37 wire ropes, which are pressed together in a hexagonal profile. The hangers are made of round steel rods that can be adjusted with tightening screws. The support cables are not secured in the anchor blocks, as the London clay, the horizontal tensile forces can not absorb. Therefore, the supporting cables were anchored to the floor beams, which had to be built in a stable to withstand the horizontal forces acting on it. The Chelsea Bridge thus became the first self- anchored suspension bridge in the United Kingdom.

Your pylons are plain steel constructions. Since the Battersea Power Station dominates the whole area, it was thought to be able to dispense with a special architectural design of the bridge. Only the lamp posts at the entrances were decorated with curved cantilever arms, the arms of Chelsea and Battersea and a model ship on top.

Your reopening in 1937 was carried out by the Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, because in the bridge deck and Douglas were processed from Canada.

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Chain Bridge (1858 )

1846, a law for the construction of a bridge over the Thames was adopted, which was to connect the city parts Pimlico, Belgravia and Chelsea, with the planned Battersea Park. From several designs, which provided a stone arch bridge and a cast iron arch bridge with seven and five arches, among other things, finally, the plan for a chain bridge by Thomas Page was selected, which also includes the management of the Construction work began in 1851 was transferred.

The bridge had a total of 214.6 m (704 ft) long and 14.3 m ( 47 ft ) wide. Had span of 101.5 m ( 333 ft) into the main port and each 50.7 meters ( 166.5 feet) in the two side openings.

The foundation of the pillar consisted of deeply driven into the bottom of the Thames wood piles, which were reinforced by cast-iron piles and surrounded by cast-iron plates. On this foundation 26.8 m (88 ft) were long and 5.8 m ( 19 ft ) wide brick pillars as the basis for the towers of cast iron frame and plates stiffened multiply by transverse struts and decorated with ornamental cast iron frame and spiers were.

The chains were made of wrought iron eye bars, the trailer also made of iron rods. The chains were 30.48 m (100 ft) long and 15.24 m (50 ft) wide brick anchor boxes attached.

The roadway support consisted of two wrought iron 1.83 m (6 ft) high truss beams with cross braces and iron plates. In it, a layer of mixed with cork bitumen was applied as the basis for the pavement of blocks of ship oak.

On March 28, 1858, the then called Victoria Bridge bridge was opened along with the Battersea Park. The total cost including planning, construction supervision, arbitration costs, etc. amounted to £ 94,266. By the year 1879, the bridge was a toll road.

Others

The earthworks for the first Chelsea Bridge a number of Celtic and Roman weapons and bones were found, which led historians to believe that Caesar could have BC crossed the Thames at this point in his second invasion of Britain 54. The beutendste found object was the Battersea Shield.

The jazz musician Billy Strayhorn wrote composing Chelsea Bridge an interpreted by many musicians jazz standard.