Waterloo Bridge builders union meeting August 1939 Theodore Lane the whistling of drovers

the whistling of drovers

Sale proceeds from the exhibition went into the union's suffrage campaign fund

deep pits and trenches dug in the ground

Unidentified suffragettes preparing and counting tickets at the Women's Exhibition May 1909

The Pool of London

Waterloo Bridge builders union meeting August 1939 Theodore Lane the whistling of droversWaterloo Bridge builders union meeting, August 1939. Disputes over the development of Waterloo Bridge had lasted ten years from the old bridge's closure in 1927. Work began to demolish the old bridge in 1937 and a foundation stone taken from it was laid for the new bridge in 1939. The government paid 60% of the cost of building the replacement, which was designed by George Gilbert Scott. Work on the new Waterloo Bridge started just before the outbreak