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Nonsuch House was a four-storey house on London Bridge, completed in 1579. It is the earliest documented prefabricated building . [ 1 ] Originally constructed in the Netherlands, it was taken apart and shipped to London in pieces in 1578, where it was reassembled, with each timber being marked so that it could be reconstructed correctly. [ 2 ]
All the houses were shops, and the bridge was one of the City of London's four or five main shopping streets. The three major buildings on the bridge were the chapel, the drawbridge tower and the stone gate. The drawbridge tower was where the severed heads of traitors were exhibited. “Old” Newcastle Bridge
Views of Old London Bridge ca. 1440, BBC London; Southwark Council page with more info about the bridge; Virtual reality tour of Old London Bridge; Old London Bridge, Mechanics Magazine No. 318, September 1829; The London Bridge Experience; The bridge that crossed an ocean (And the man who moved it) BBC News, 23 September 2018
The Bridge House Estates took its name from Bridge House, which was the administrative and maintenance centre of Old London Bridge located on the south bank of the River Thames, near the site of St Olave's Church (since replaced by St Olaf House in Tooley Street). The site, now covered by the London Bridge Hospital and the Cotton's Centre, was ...
Old London Bridge: 12th–17th century: 1758–1831: River Thames: Houses on the bridge were demolished in 1758–1762, the rest after the completion of a new bridge by John Rennie in 1831. Old Mansion House: 1668: 1929: Cheapside: Built by Sir Christopher Wren for Sir William Turner, Lord Mayor of London from 1668 to 1669. Old Queen's Head ...
Old London Bridge (1209) complete with its own street of houses is on the right with Southwark Cathedral next to its southern gatehouse. Old St Paul's Cathedral dominates the skyline. Little remains of London's medieval architecture due to the city's near-complete destruction in The Great Fire of 1666 but a few scattered survivors, as well as ...
A new London Bridge was eventually built alongside the old and was opened with great ceremony on 1 August 1831; the demolition of the old bridge commenced straight away. During the first half of 1832, the arches and then the piers were dismantled, exposing the vaults and columns of the Lower Chapel, an event that was recorded by Edward William ...
Up until 1750, London Bridge was the only crossing over the Thames, but in that year Westminster Bridge was opened and, for the first time in history, London Bridge, in a sense, had a rival. In 1798, Frankfurt banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild arrived in London and set up a banking house in the city, with a large sum of money given to him by his ...