Bascule Lifting Bridge carrying Creek Road over Deptford Creek
Grid Ref: TQ 3785 7767. Thames Sailing barges coming through the raised bridge. Tram waiting to cross on the right-hand side. Gasometer of Thames Street Gas Works (South Metropolitan Gas Works) in the background. The original fixed bridge (https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/deptford-creek-bridge-1896) was heavily damaged during WWII, closing it to river traffic and at some time after May 1947 a temporary single leaf bascule bridge with its counterweight above the roadway was built 25m to the south (https://www.facebook.com/groups/6143110432467287/posts/7443509629094021/). The bridge shown was built in 1954 but that makes the presence of the tram interesting as tram services in London reportedly ceased in 1952.
ROMA ID: 040129E