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Detail of end section of suspension bridge

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Green and gilded heraldic ornamentation on Hammersmith suspension bridge, Hammersmith, Middlesex, now within Greater London. Built 1884-7. Linking Hammersmith on north of River Thames with Barnes on south bank. Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works. Royal arms of Queen Victoria surrounded by 6 shields representing municipalities within the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Note: English counties were not legal corporations/entities until 1889 with the creation of the County Council as an administrative entity. Until then counties were represented heraldically by the arms of their principal borough (town) (where the quarter-session courts were held which administered the county) or by the personal arms of their principal nobleman, e.g. Cornwall by the arms of the Duke of Cornwall and Devon by the arms of Courtenay, Earls of Devon. From top clockwise (Source: http://www.skydive.ru/en/londons-bridges/265-hammersmith-bridge-part-four.html):

  • 1: Coat of arms of the Borough of Guildford in Surrey: Sable on a Mount Vert between two Woolpacks Argent a Castle with three Towers Argent the central one triple-towered and charged with a Shield of the Royal Arms of France and England quarterly the outer towers each surmounted by a Spire under the battlements two Roses in fesse and within the open port beneath a Portcullis a Key all Or on the mount before the port a Lion chouchant guardant also Or the base barry wavy Argent and Azure (Source: https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/wiki/Guildford)
  • 2: Coat of arms of the City of Westminster
  • 3: Coat of arms of the Borough of Colchester in Essex: Gules, four pieces of wood raguly conjoined in a cross proper each side arm transfixed with a nail palewise sable ensigned by an ancient crown or and that in base enfiling a like crown and transfixed by a like nail in bend
  • 4: Coat of arms of Middlesex (in its original form without the crown, identical to that of Essex County Council)
  • 5: Coat of arms of the City of London
  • 6: Attributed arms of the Kingdom of Kent in the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy (later adopted by Kent County Council, created in 1889)
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