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Excerpt from London and Its Sights: Being a Comprehensive Guide to All That Is Worth Seeing in the Great Metropolis Waterloo Bridge. The finest of all the bridges. Begun 1811, and finished 18th June 1817, the second anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Consists of nine arches, and is up, wards of 2000 feet long by 43 feet wide. The work of John Rennie, and cost above a million sterling. Toll a halfpenny. Bridge, is for foot passengers only. It is 1352 feet long. And has three Openings, the centre one being very wide, - 676 feet 6 inches. Begun in 1841; opened 1845. Sir J. K. Brunel, engineer. Toll a halfpenny. Cost of the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.