Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

When I get to Chelsea
Bridge, nearly a mile
downstream, the entrance is
blocked by builders and a
small forklift truck; on the
southern side loom the
chimneys of Battersea Power
Station. The original bridge
opened in 1858, with four
cast-iron towers topped with
lamps that were to be lit only
when Queen Victoria was
staying in London. Long
before the bridge was built, in

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