The Hammersmith Bridge

Hammersmith Bridge is an elegant building that crosses the Thames in the west of the city between the neighborhoods of Hammersmith and Barnes. It is a suspension bridge painted in a very peculiar bottle green. The bridge is not very long or wide (210 m long and 13 m wide) and is in fact the second bridge raised at this point of the river on the foundations of old which had to be closed, has to stay small while respecting the heavy traffic that crosses it. The current bridge dates from 1887 and was designed by Joseph Bazalgette, a famous British civil engineer, who amongst other wonders of Victorian-engineering, built the London sewerage system.