Putney Bridge is a road bridge over the river Themse in London. It connects the quarter Fulham in the urban district London Borough OF Hammersmith and Fulham on the north side with the quarter Putney in the urban district London Borough OF Wandsworth on the south side. Of concrete existing and with granite the disguised bridge is 213 meters long and 13 meters wide, over it leads the main street A219.

The building of the bridge was approved to 1726 by the parliament, despite violent opposition of the and the corporation OF London, which feared a attractions reduction London Bridge. The construction work began in March 1729 and the bridge could in the November of the same yearly be opened. The timber bridge sketched by the architect Sir Jacob Ackworth developed under the line of the Carpenters' Thomas's Philipps. The use of the bridge was duty requiring, at both ends of the bridge stood for duty little houses.

In October 1795 the authoress Mary Wollstonecraft tried to take itself the life by a jump into the river. William Turner created a painting with the bridge as main motive. Since 1845 the Boat Race begins, the steeped in tradition duel of the rudder crews of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to the Putney Bridge.

1870 arranged a load punt substantial damage to property, when he collided with the bridge and brought three the column nearly to the collapse. This event led to the fact that one began with the planning of a new building. Metropolitan the board OF Works acquired 1879 the bridge, created 1880 the duty off and assigned Joseph Bazalgette the line of the construction work; the construction costses amounted to approximately To 29. May 1886 takes place the official opening via the prince from Wales, the later king Eduard VII. and its wife Alexandra.

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