THE TOLLS OF WALTON

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 9

THE TOLLS OF WALTON

. Probably few persons now living ia. the district, remarks the "Surrey Ad* vertiser," can remember when tolls were paid for cossing Walton Bridge over the Thames. The freeing of ths bridge'took place on'lst August, 1870, when, tho occasion was' signalised by a ceremonial celebration, the programme of which bore the heading, "Waltonj Bridge Free for Ever." Bands played, guns were fired, and bells rang long anj nterrily.-! A diverting" hitch in the pro-* cecdings occurred when the processiqn' reached the Surrey end of the bridge. The organisers'■ were -ready to receive! the representatives of'the:, local author* ity, but the latter were ntft to be seen. Good-naturecl 'badinage;- i?as indulged in and the toll collector, who w4s about to find' his occupation* gone, got "mora than his share of "chaff;" He, however,' soon turned the: tables on thosa in the procession when a long filo o£ vehicles passed,over"tho bridge to tlja Middlesex side 'of ;the 'river. Tho drivers thought ttfat the bridge was free, having overlooked the fact that this could not be accomplished until tho representatives of • the , governing authority arrived. There was no rooni to turn at the'end of the bridge, and there was ■ no alternative "t"o continuing past the_ -tollhouse— whgjM.-the collector By this tiin|i"was-ata*iionptl^and paying the usußl'toUs—for theilaß.time. They; had no sooner paid the tolls than the joint committee of the local bodies con« ccnied arrived to complete, the cere-i mony of freeing the bridge. i

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