Punch,  6 (1844), 180.

Hungerford Suspension Bridge

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Engineering, Human Species, Commerce


    Bemused by the claim that the bridge is 'nearly completed' when only brick buttresses can be seen. Expects the bridge will witness large (and remunerative) traffic and the mixing of people from the fashionable Lancaster Place and those from the insalubrious York Road.



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