The Three Bridges - Blackfriars, Oxford and C.P.R.

In 1826 Levi Merrick built the first bridge over the Thames into London. The second bridge was that of Blackfriars, erected in 1831 and rebuilt twenty years later. The bridge at the foot of Wellington street was built in 1840. The Ridout street bridge in 1848. In 1875 the erection of the present iron structures began, Blackfriars being the first erected, and Victoria bridge the second. King street bridge was erected in 1898.