Hungerford Suspension Bridge Seat - Rotherhithe, London, UK
N 51° 30.108 W 000° 03.173
30U E 704539 N 5709747
This bench seat is in the shape of the Hungerford Suspension Bridge.
Waymark Code: WMDKDA
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/25/2012
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To the north of the Brunel Museum, in Rotherhithe, is a
small paved seating area that has some bench seats that are different to the
norm. This seat is fashioned after the Hungerford Suspension Bridge that used to
span the River Thames a few miles further west.
"Hungerford Suspension Bridge
Where Charing Cross railway station is now in central London there used to be
Hungerford Market. The market's owners decided to build a crossing to bring
people into the market and Brunel designed a spectacular suspension bridge .When
the market was sold for redevelopment as Charing Cross railway station, the
bridge was knocked down but the brick piers were retained as part of the current
railway bridge. The suspension chains were eventually reused on the Clifton
suspension bridge in Bristol."
Source Brunel
Musuem website.