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Unidentified Bridge in, or near, London, Ontario

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Posted by John Groom, 7 May 2012 at 13:47

my guess is that it is a picture of the backfires bridge looking south taken from the east bank...

Thanks for sharing your guess.
Posted by [Name Withheld], 23 July 2012 at 19:26

My guess is the old Boler Rd bridge. It has the same truss structure in this photo. http://images.ourontario.ca/london/2419138/image/1234206?n=71 One taken 1937 and the other in 1940.

Thanks for sharing this. They do look similar.
Posted by Kyle, 23 September 2012 at 22:29

Definitely isn't Blackfriars bridge. Looking at the embankments and the area around it, it could be the old version of Meadowlily bridge... It does look very similar to it.

Thank you for sharing this.
Posted by Richard S, 24 October 2012 at 16:07

It would not be Blackfriar's, as that is a bowstring bridge (see http://images.ourontario.ca/london/2419127/data?n=20 )

It is also not Meadowlily bridge, which is of the same construction (see http://www.panoramio.com/photo/42010402 ) but we might infer that this bridge is of twice the width as Meadowlily since it has 6 diagonals instead of 3.

For the size I would guess it to be at bridge crossing since replaced, such as Richmond c.1934 or Horton. (Not York, since this photo shows it in a built up area in 1940 http://images.ourontario.ca/london/2416872/data )

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Posted by Gary S, 29 January 2014 at 11:35

Richard S above is right! It is not Blackfriars Bridge and it is not Meadowlily Bridge. Not only does Meadowlily Bridge only have 3 sets of diagonal trusses, the bridge in this photo does not have the VERTICAL trusses that are characteristic of Meadowlily Bridge. Meadowlily has five vertical trusses.

Thanks for joining this discussion.
Posted by Kim A, 13 March 2014 at 22:23

This bridge looks very much like the one in the photo of the Queen Alexandria Sanatorium in 1940. I am not from London so I do not know what the local name for this bridge may have been.

Thanks, I think "the old Boler Road bridge" worked for a name.
Posted by David McKelvey, 19 November 2015 at 12:15

I would say that it is the Byron Bridge that connects Byron to the Sanatorium.

Yes, we think you may be right.
Posted by Eddie H, 29 May 2018 at 17:51

It's possibly the bridge that crossed over into Gibbons Park from Wharncliffe Rd North at Cedar Ave. That bridge was very close to the water surface, like this one. I drove my car over that bridge in the late 1970's. There was an old leather mill at the end of Beaufort St., pretty much at the edge of the Thames River. It was still in operation in the 70's and I used to go there at times and collect leather to patch my jeans. I think the bridge may have been there for the Petersville area.

Thanks for mentioning this additional possibility.
Posted by Marianne, 18 July 2019 at 16:00

This is Byron Bridge, by Byron Mill, in Byron Village. This photo shows the flood waters up to the bridge, well over the dam.

Here are more historic photos of this bridge:

docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9a2f52_bb6467edb6a545c5a00b878f5a68fe71.pdf

From the London and Middlesex Historian, Autumn 2014, Volume 23. Enjoy!

Posted by ¬WillowTrees¬, 23 February 2020 at 20:07

I think its the Thames River Bridge we went in the bridge today and it was marked on the wall "Flood of 1937"!

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS.

Posted by Scott Moore, 29 November 2023 at 20:48

This is the train track bridge and in the background looking south you can just make out the oxford street bridge. To the right is Alabi Roadhouse restaurant. To the left is The Form, gentlemen's club.

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