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Leamouth Lifting Footbridge
The Leamouth Lifting Footbridge or Leamouth North Bridge is a steel Lift bridge, lifting arch bridge for pedestrians over Bow Creek (London), Bow Creek, the estuary of the River Lea. It connects Leamouth in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to Canning Town in the London Borough of Newham. History Leaside Regeneration set up a design competition, which was won by Whitbybird in or before 2004. The bridge was budgeted at £3.5M and would have a 45m mast, that tilted and lowered the bridge at the north side of the river. The bridge was due for completion in 2007, but in 2005 the funding was withdrawn for the Thames Gateway Delivery Unit. In 2008 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, SOM designed a new bridge as part of a master plan for the area, and in 2011 it won the planning. The bridge was ordered by Ballymore Group. Bridge engineering was done by Davies Maguire, with consulting on the mechanical design by Eadon consulting In August 2014, the pre-fabrigated bridge was lifted into plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leamouth Lifting Footbridge North Abutment
Leamouth is a locality in the Blackwall, London, Blackwall area of Poplar, London, Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The area takes its name from the former ''Leamouth Wharf'' and lies on the west side of the confluence of the Bow Creek (London), Bow Creek stretch of the River Lea, Lea, at its confluence with the River Thames. The neighbourhood consists of two small peninsulas, separated from the rest of Poplar, London, Poplar by the remaining part of the East India Docks. The northern peninsula lies in a hairpin meander and is named ''Goodluck Hope'' after one of the adjacent reaches of the River Lea, Lea, while the other is known as ''Orchard Place''. The area was traditionally the easternmost part of Middlesex, with Essex on the other side of the Lea. The area was long referred to locally as ''Bog Island'', due to its inaccessibility and propensity to flood; however the building of the Thames Barrier and the artificial raising of the more vulnerable riverside l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
