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Keep Left:-
Don’t forget, the bridge was the only way into and out of the city to the south. Everything had to use the bridge, carts, wagons, carriages & livestock going to the city’s markets. Also remember, the road width had been reduced by the buildings from 20m to a mere 12m. The traffic congestion was always considerable, by 1722 the Lord Mayor and Common Council had had enough, and in order to control the flow issued a decree that ‘All Carts, Coaches & Carriages entering the city from Southwark do keep on the west side of the bridge; all Carts, Coaches & Carriages leaving the
city to keep to the east side of the bridge’. In other words, all traffic had to ‘Keep Left’, Traffic Wardens were employed to enforce the new rules and bring offenders before ‘His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace to be dealt with in accordance with the law’. Thus the new rule was enforced by law and became the rule of the road.
LIBRARY OF PAST WEBINARS
Operation Colour Scheme
Covering the top-secret arrangements put in place by the National Fire Service to protect the invasion infrastructure prior to, during and after D-Day.
Bridge and the Ward of Bridge
Without:
As covered in this article
A photographiv record of the FRS Part I:
A photographic record of the FRS Part II:
A visual record Fire Fighting Appliances both nationaly and internationally
Sir Eyre Massey Shaw:
Covering the life of Sir Eyre Massey Shaw.
Fireboats of the Blitz:
Covering the role of fire boats used by the fire service and the background to them
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