Old Battersea Bridge (1874)


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Old Battersea Bridge, Walter Greaves (oil on canvas, 1874)

Old Battersea Bridge, seen from upstream, on Lindsey Row (now Cheyne Walk), with Battersea on the far shore. The boatyard belonging to the Greaves family is in the foreground. On the extreme left is the wall surrounding the garden of the artist William Bell Scott. In the far distance Crystal Palace is just visible.

Battersea Bridge was demolished in 1881, and replaced with the present bridge. Before the alterations Greaves recalled the danger to shipping and the difficulty of steering through the arches unless the ‘set of the tide was known'.

On the horizon, Crystal Palace can be seen


Attribution: Tate Gallery

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