Downstream

sky are grey, while ahead of
me the row of Victorian street
lamps that line the bridge
look suitably gloomy.
The original bridge was a
wooden construction,
completed in 1771, and by
Victorian times it was the
scene of many boating
accidents. In one incident in
the 1870s three young men
were rowing upriver and
when one stood up under the
bridge to haul in his oar the