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Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea in Central London on the north bank to Battersea on the south. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish–Lefeuvre system modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge.
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Aerial view of Albertopolis, South Kensington. The Albert Memorial, Royal Albert Hall and Royal College of Art are visible near the top; the Victoria and Albert Museum and Natural History Museum at the lower end; Imperial College, the Royal College of Music, and Science Museum lying in between.
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English: Concrete central piers under the Albert Bridge, London, United Kingdom. 中文（繁體）： 英國倫敦阿爾伯特橋的中央混凝土橋墩 日本語: （イギリス・ロンドン）アルバート橋のコンクリート中央橋脚
The Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in West London, connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south bank. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish–Lefeuvre system modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension ...
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Much wider than the older bridge at 64 feet (20 m) wide, it has a 40-foot (12 m) wide roadway and two 12-foot (3.7 m) wide pavements cantilevered out from the sides of the bridge. [13] Uniquely in London, Chelsea Bridge is a self-anchored suspension bridge, the first of the type to be built in Britain. [29]