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Inside the engine room
From the Behind-the-Scenes Tour around Tower Bridge: Towers, high-level Walkways and Victorian Engine Rooms down to its hidden depths, normally out of bounds to the public...views from the Glass Floor and high-level Walkway, then the original steam engines, accumulators and boilers in the Victorian Engine Rooms...the Bridge’s operational areas including the Control Cabin, Machinery Room and the immense Bascule Chambers, which house the 422-ton counterweights.
Built between 1886 and 1894, the Bridge has spent more than a century as London's defining landmark, an icon of London and the United Kingdom.
A huge challenge faced the City of London Corporation - how to build a bridge downstream from London Bridge without disrupting river traffic activities. To generate ideas, the Special Bridge or Subway Committee was formed in 1876, and a public competition was launched to find a design for the new crossing.
Over 50 designs were submitted to the Committee for consideration, some of which are on display at Tower Bridge. It wasn't until October 1884 however, that Sir Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry, offered the chosen design for Tower Bridge as a solution.
It took eight years, five major contractors and the relentless labour of 432 construction workers each day to build Tower Bridge under the watchful eye of Sir John Wolfe Barry.
Two massive piers were built on foundations sunk into the riverbed to support the construction, and over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the Towers and Walkways. This framework was clad in Cornish Granite and Portland Stone to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the Bridge a more pleasing appearance.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ('bascule' comes from the French word for 'seesaw'). These bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six massive accumulators, meaning that as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees. Find out more about this process.
Today, the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power, but since 1976 they have been driven by oil and electricity rather than steam. The original pumping engines, accumulators and boilers are now on display within Tower Bridge’s Engine Rooms.
[TowerBridge.org.uk]
My favourite Christmas image. I took this a few years ago on a very foggy morning. It was something of a Sherlock Holmes tale where the fog was so thick that you could only see 50 feet (yes thats imperial) in front of you. It was probably my best every morning of bird watching as I saw everything from Robins, Stonechats, Mute Swans and even Snipe on the Levels - they were all too afraid to fly too far as they couldn't see and kept flying around in circles. This little chap settled on a teasel and was polite enough to stay still for a while - perhaps he didn't see me as I was dressed in camo gear - or perhaps he was watching me... perhaps he was Santa's little messenger.
The pebbles that build up on the beach at the Stade in Hastings has to be levelled before the fishing boats are launched.
The spice levels here range from a kid-friendly -1 to an unadvised 10. I went for 3 to see what the curry actually tasted like. It was good. Spiciness doesn't really suit Japanese curry.
Summer Wine Christmas Outing
Lincoln, December 9th, 2021
Due to an unfortunate timing mix-up Steve, David and Roger had arrived an hour earlier than Terry, who was on a train from Newark. He took a pic from the train of the level crossing as it approached Lincoln Station, little knowing that they were stood at the barriers waiting to cross.
Flying round Ely in Cambridgeshire. Lots of railway lines, there are 3 level crossings close together here.
The outdoor patio section at Level Beer.
We elected to eat in the car since neither of us drink anymore and it also just seemed way safer inside being surrounded by twenty or thirty other people.
Drove down to the Somerset Levels on Tealham Moor in the hope of a nice sunrise and frozen water. It was well worth the effort!
Beckley Court. New student accommodation block under construction in Plymouth, Devon. 16 April 2016.
2019-05-16: A delegate during the High Level Consultation at the AfDB headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
A high-level stakeholder dialogue on illegal wildlife trade was held in the WCS Central Park Zoo, New York on 3 March 2015 to mark the World Wildlife Day.
Photo credit: UNDP
2019-04-05: Mr. Mateus Magala, Vice President for Corporate Services and Human Resources with a staff member during the meeting with High-Level Bank delegation in Maputo, Mozambique.
poster, 50x70, laser cutting.
Identity for a fictional arcade museum, made as a final project in branding course.
Shenkar 2012, mentor: Noy Neiman.
Malcolm X. Park Drum & Dance Circle at Meridian Hill (Malcolm X. Park) between 15th and 16th and W and Euclid Streets, NW, Washington DC on Easter Sunday evening, 8 April 2012 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Sundays At Meridian Hill (Malcolm X. Park) / Washington DC Project
Visit Elvert Barnes Easter Sunday, 8 April 2012 Malcolm X. Park Drum & Dance Circle docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/MXPDDC-8April2012