London's Bridges in 1900: Hammersmith Bridge

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Arthur H. Beavan concluded his survey of London's Bridges across the Thames in Imperial London, first published in 1901, with this brief look at Hammersmith Bridge:

Hammersmith Suspension Bridge, about two miles higher up from Putney Bridge, marked roughly the limit of the Inner Circle in 1900.

It was a light and graceful bridge, but whence, with the exception of the old Mall, shaded by fine elms, there was nothing upon which the eye could rest with pleasure, saccharin works, oil-mills, and other factories, having made Hammersmith as ugly a spot as Battersea or Wandsworth.

London was still conspicuous amongst the cities of the world, by its want of a regular all-the-year-round line of pleasure steamers, the ten miles of waterway - from Tower Bridge to Hammersmith - being plied by these boats only during the summer months.

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