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Western Star, 22 August 1924, Page 4

One million pounds, the estimated cost of the reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge, is almost doable the amount the bridge cost to build. That sum was £565,000, but, with the approaches and the making of the now road to the Obelisk, the total, sum was £1,050,000. The bridge was 'begun in 1811, when-it, was known a»s the Strand Bridge. It was opened ±o foot pas- ; seiigors, who then paid 3d for the privilege'of crossing it, a few years later But its, official opening was not until June 18, 1817, the second aniP- ! versarv of the Battle of Waterloo, i Hence its name. Canova, the great Italian sculptor, called Waterloo | Bridge “the. noblest bridge! in the I world,” and said it was worth coming ifrom Home to London just to see it.