DAMAGE TO THAMES BRIDGES
NOT ONE DESTROYED IN FIVE YEARS (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) London, June 13. Of 20 Thames bridges in the metropolitan area only three were not damaged in five years of attacks by Luftwaffe bombs, flying-bombs and rockets, but not one was destroyed or damaged seriously enough to warrant the permanent use of any of the three emergency wooden bridges built at the cost of £133,000. One was used last June, when Hungerford Bridge was hit by a flying-bomb. All three will be pulled down as soon as labour is available. At Waterloo the temporary bridge which has been used from 1934 while the new bridge was being built was hit three times, but not closed for more than a month. The Tower Bridge was hit three times. Blackfriars and London Bridges escaped. An unexploded landmine alongside Blackfriars railbridge caused two months’ hold-up.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 14 June 1945, Page 2
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