Dorian Gerhold - London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761

Detail from Anthonis van den Wyngaerdes panorama of London in about 1544, showing London Bridge from the south-east.

DORIAN GERHOLD

New revised edition

Originally published in 2019 by the London Topographical Society

Published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by

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Hardback Edition: ISBN 978-1-78925-751-9

Digital Edition: ISBN 978-1-78925-752-6

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I am grateful to the Council of the London Topographical Society for agreeing to publish this book. Sheila OConnell, as LTS editor, has been extremely helpful, as have Linda Fisher and Steve Hartley of Scorpion Creative. The Comptroller and City Solicitors Department, especially Tina Armstrong and Ann Harrison, made it possible for me to examine the leases of the bridge houses. Caroline Barron kindly read and commented on the text, as did Peter Cross-Rudkin for sections with engineering content. Staff at London Metropolitan Archives have as usual been unfailingly helpful. Staff of many other organisations were helpful in providing images. John Goodall of Country Life magazine commissioned the reconstruction drawings that form , and I am fortunate to be able to use the excellent drawings by both Stephen Conlin and Pete Urmston. Others who have helped in various ways have included Jeremy Ashbee, Stewart Brown, David Harrison, Derek Keene, James Nye, Robert Peberdy, Andrew Roberts and Timothy Walker. My wife Lis has been sympathetic towards my sudden obsession with London Bridge and provided much encouragement throughout.

It has been a pleasure working with Oxbow Books on this new edition. Only minor changes have been made to the text. All the original illustrations are included, and three have been added.

BHJ LMA, Journals of the bridge estates committee (e.g. COL/CC/BHC/01/001 becomes BHJ, 001; BHJ, A, is LMA, CLA/007/EM/05/01/001)

BHP LMA, Papers of the bridge estates committee (e.g. COL/CC/BHC/03/001 becomes BHP, 001)

BHR LMA, Bridge House rentals and accounts (e.g. LMA,CLA/007/FN/02/001 becomes BHR, 001)

BHV 1 Bridge House views 164767, LMA, COL/CCS/CO/06/003

BHV 2 Bridge House views 167582, LMA, CLA/007/EM/06/04

CCLD City Corporation, Comptrollers City Lands deeds, Bridge House (e.g. COL/CCS/RM11/02699 becomes CCLD, 02699)

Harding Vanessa Harding and Laura Wright (eds), London Bridge: selected accounts and rentals, 1381