Somerset House`1860-2011
Incredible Old photo my earliest ever old n new in my stream 151 years difference!..Somerset House was built between 1776-1796 designed by Sir William Chambers... A building of the same name was first built on the site more than two centuries earlier....I am unable to get in the same position due to the fact i am standing on a different bridge!...The first Waterloo Bridge was still a toll bridge when the top photo was taken,you can just make out one of the doric entrances to the river stairs,the bridge was demolished between 1934-1939 in way way or another!..The new bridge was oficially opened in 1945....Incredible to think the River Thames once brushed up against Somerset House,The Victoria Embankment's construction started in 1865. It was completed in 1870 under the direction of Joseph Bazalgette.....
Somerset House`1860-2011
Incredible Old photo my earliest ever old n new in my stream 151 years difference!..Somerset House was built between 1776-1796 designed by Sir William Chambers... A building of the same name was first built on the site more than two centuries earlier....I am unable to get in the same position due to the fact i am standing on a different bridge!...The first Waterloo Bridge was still a toll bridge when the top photo was taken,you can just make out one of the doric entrances to the river stairs,the bridge was demolished between 1934-1939 in way way or another!..The new bridge was oficially opened in 1945....Incredible to think the River Thames once brushed up against Somerset House,The Victoria Embankment's construction started in 1865. It was completed in 1870 under the direction of Joseph Bazalgette.....