How the Bridges Got their Names from The Streets of London by Miss Harriet Priddis, published 1909 Improved roads naturally suggest bridges. The first way of crossing over to the “Forks” after Beverley’s Ferry, was by means of York Street Bridge, properly named Westminster Bridge. In christening its bridges, the “Forest City” first showed the tendency, which subsequently became a mania, for reproducing the nomenclature of the older metropolis on the Thames. The survivors of rebellion days tell funny tales about the blockading and manning of Westminster Bridge; though a few strong men could have carried the structure away bodily, and an invading army might have crossed the stream at either side without bothering about a bridge at all.
There is a pathetic story told by an old resident relative to Blackfriars Bridge, the building of which followed very soon after that of Westminster. In the sad cholera times of 1832 the Rev. Edward Boswell, first resident Church of England Clergyman in London, met on the bridge every traveller coming towards the town, warned him of the danger of infection, and supplied his wants — generally medicine at that time — and also gave him instruction for treatment in case he should be brought in contact with the scourge. Besides Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges, Victoria on Ridout Street, Vauxhall on Egerton Street, Kensington on Dundas Street, undoubtedly have cockney sponsors; but the names of Cove Bridge, Adelaide Street Bridge, Oxford Street Bridge, and King Street Bridge, come from natural consequence of position, and certainly the remaining two are all our own.
Victoria Bridge, 1926. Thames Park is on the right.
Victoria Bridge, August 2024.
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