Find out how to explore the City		London Bridge A site of exhilarating mass The first London Bridge to be built of stone was built in 1176. It was not replaced until 1831, quite a tribute to its original engineers. The present London Bridge, a pre-stressed concrete cantilever bridge, dates from 1972.
				This is London Bridge the river subdued by stone. Gaining Hungerford Bridge from Victoria Embankment And here's the bridge; the black, endemoned road below has given way to sky and firm embanked and deep and steady in its course the curvilinear Thames flows to the gaze. Take in this long horizon let noise and pollution ebb for the free-form, water world of boats orderly as they give or gather way or go about to land precise as toys. A train rolls in, its passengers breathe 'London'. To the east, financial towers, Canary Wharf, St Paul's, stand, as do the living, shrouded in traffic fog.
				© Sally Crawford, 1999. All rights reserved.