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A black & white print, from a disbound book Pictorial England and Wales c1896 with another print on the reverse.

Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border.

Actual picture size approx 9" x 6.375" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.

All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

THE TOWER BRIDGE.

Further communication across the Thames at this point had been urgently needed for many years. The necessary Act was passed in 1885, the foundation-stone laid by the Prince of Wales on June 21, 1886, and the work completed, at a cost of about a million sterling, in 1894. This bridge, designed by Mr. Wolfe Barry, is of somewhat peculiar construction, the low-level passage being on the "bascule" principle: i.e. the centre span of 200 feet is divided in two, each half being pivoted and furnished with a counterpoise, and hauled upward and back against the towers when the waterway is opened. A high-level footway only is also carried across nearly at the top of the towers, access to this being afforded by lifts in the latter. The side spans are on the suspension principle.