Bow Bridge, Poplar, London demolition Scene showing a stout man

Scene showing a stout man crowned with barley and poppies and bound in a sheaf of barley

passengers and boatmen in the foreground

Shows men sitting at desks in red coats and men at a large table in green coats sorting letters

Men sit and stand beside a pool smoking and fishing

this was a massive engineering project to improve London's water supply by collecting clean water from 40 miles away and bringing it to large cisterns at Finsbury

Bow Bridge, Poplar, London demolition Scene showing a stout manBow Bridge, Poplar, London, 1834. The bridge over the River Lea at Bow; two men pass under an arch in a rowing boat, a boy fishes from the bank, pedestrians and a carriage cross the bridge.