Hammersmith Bridge

51.488333333333 - 0.23055555555556Koordinaten: 51 ° 29 ' 18 "N, 0 ° 13' 50 " W

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Main road A306

Thames

The Hammersmith Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in London. It connects Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in the north with Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in the south. The wrought iron suspension bridge is 213.36 m (700 ft. ) long and 13.11 m (43 ft. ) wide, also leads the main road A306. Existing today, the second bridge at this location.

History

1824, the Parliament passed a law that allowed the construction of a bridge. William Tierney Clark designed the first suspension bridge over the River Thames at all, and construction began the following year. After the opening in 1827 was the use of a toll road; at both ends of the bridge there were small toll booth. During the 1870s, the replacement was planned by a new building because the existing bridge for the ever- increasing traffic was no longer viable enough.

The construction began in 1884. Order not to affect traffic during the construction period too much, was parallel to a temporary bridge. The new, designed by Joseph Bazalgette chain bridge rests on the same foundations as the first. The official opening took place on 11 June 1887 by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, the cost was £ 82,117.

From February 1997 to July 1998, the bridge was closed for motorized traffic to urgently carry out necessary repairs. Three times was the bridge target of bombings by the IRA respectively their factions. A passerby prevented worse in 1939 when he discovered the briefcase with the bomb and threw it into the river. The attack in 1996 failed because the Semtex used is not lit. The bomb from 1 June 2000, however, taught at major property damage. After repair work has a weight limit of 7.5 tonnes was imposed.