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London County Council decided to demolish the bridge and replace it with a new structure designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The engineers were Ernest Buckton and John Cuerel of Rendel Palmer & Tritton. (...) Shelley once prophesied that 'the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast long shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream'.
Waterloo Bridge, Betws-y-coed. The inscription on the arch reads "This arch was constructed in the same year the battle of Waterloo was fought"