London Bridge Mosaic

LONDON

BRIDGE

MOSAIC

a collaborative project to build a symbolic bridge of learning

 “Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.”

CONNECTION to DICKENS = Red Strips

I personally connect to Dickens because/when/through…

“Quote"

A question I have… I’m wondering

Inspired by BRIDGES=Golden Squares

(related words connection, journey, destiny)

I need a bridge between __ and ___

I am dreaming of a bridge that can …

A World without BRIDGES=Golden Squares

(isolation, loss, alienation)

Without a bridge, I…

I feel disconnected from…

BACKGROUND

The Romans built the first version of what was to become London Bridge. Apontoon style crossing. It linked Stane Street and Watling Street with the Camulodnum settlement.

Old London Bridge was built upon 19 arches in the 14th century. It had a drawbridge at each end to allow tall ships to pass through it and there were over 100 shops on the bridge along with a public latrine.

John Rennie designed New London Bridge. All of the buildings on the bridge where taken down and a large central arch was constructed to make it easier for ships to pass under the bridge on 1758. It was located about 30 meters upstream of Old London Bridge and was officially opened on 1st August 1831.

In 1896 it was estimated that more than 8000 pedestrians and nearly 1000 vehicles crossed the bridge every hour.

Lord Holford designed the current London Bridge. Building work started in 1967 and was completed in 1972.

The bridge is featured in the traditional nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down.

How many scenes did Dickens set on the Bridge? Why might he have done so? What mood and ideas would this setting evoke?