Leonard Bentley
Waterloo Bridge
This is a Tuck's postcard from 1907 and posted in September 1911. It shows the original 1817 bridge by John Rennie, it was originally called the Strand bridge whilst being built but was then renamed in honour of the Duke of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. During the 1880s problems with subsidence of several of the piers was found and by the 1920s the bridge was reinforced and eventually closed and a temporary bridge was built just downstream. During the late 1930s and early 1940s the current bridge was built using mainly women workers, the bridge is sometimes called the "Ladies' Bridge". The building to the right on the north bank is Somerset House and just to the left of the bridge the entrance to the Kingsway Tram tunnel on Victoria Embankment can be seen.
Waterloo Bridge
This is a Tuck's postcard from 1907 and posted in September 1911. It shows the original 1817 bridge by John Rennie, it was originally called the Strand bridge whilst being built but was then renamed in honour of the Duke of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. During the 1880s problems with subsidence of several of the piers was found and by the 1920s the bridge was reinforced and eventually closed and a temporary bridge was built just downstream. During the late 1930s and early 1940s the current bridge was built using mainly women workers, the bridge is sometimes called the "Ladies' Bridge". The building to the right on the north bank is Somerset House and just to the left of the bridge the entrance to the Kingsway Tram tunnel on Victoria Embankment can be seen.