Chinese Bridge in a pond of the Biddulph Grange Gardens, Staffordshire, England (United Kingdom)

"One who plants a garden plants happiness,"

Chinese proverb

Tower Bridge crossing the Thames River in London, England (United Kingdom)

"Three unique and valuable institutions the British have that we in America have not: Magna Carta, the Tower Bridge and Alfred Hitchcock."

Benjamin Crisler

Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London (United Kingdom)

 

“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.”

Thomas Moore

Bridges over the Tweed river in Berwick upon Tweed, England (United Kingdom)

 
Oh Berwick for me,
Oh Berwick for me,
Sits like a jewel down by the sea,
The pride o’ the North,
So ancient and braw,

Frae the Tyne to the Tweed the best of them all.

Now Berwick’s tradition is ancient and long,
Come sit you a while and I’ll sing you my song,
Every Bounds Day when it comes around,
It’s up on horseback and Riding the Bounds.

Lyrics of Oh Berwick for me

Bridge over the Skipton Canal Basin in Skipton, England (United Kingdom)

Chugging along, singing a song,

What's round the next bend I'll know before long

My hand on the tiller, I'll whistle and sing

Canals of Old England Carry Me On

My boat is a beauty all seventy feet

Straight as an arrow and painted so neat

Her name on the side, a cratch of bright red

Roses and Castles all round my head

At the end of the day, we tie up to rest

Go up to the pub for a pint of the best

I'll get out me squeezebox, sing you this song

Canals of Old England Carry Me On

Song Canals of Old England

Phil Underwood

Tyne Bridge over the Tyne River in Newcastle, England (United Kingdom)

 
“It will help to bring back to your city the full tide of prosperity”.

King George V

in the bridge inauguration

Paine's Bridge over the Derwent River in Chastworth House, Derbyshare Dales, England (United Kingdom)

Chatsworth! thy stately mansion and the pride
Of thy domain, strange contrast do present
To house and home in many a craggy rent
Of the wild Peak; where new-born waters glide
Through fields whose thrifty occupants abide
As in a dear and chosen banishment,
With every semblance of entire content;
So kind is simple Nature, fairly tried!
Yet he whose heart in childhood gave her troth
To pastoral dales, thin set with modest farms,
May learn, if judgement strengthen with his growth,
That not for Fancy only pomp hath charms;
And, strenuous to protect from lawless harms
The extremes of favoured life, may honour both.

Poem by William Wordworth

Adam Bridge over the Compton Pools in Compton Verney, England (United Kingdom)

"Campaign launched to save iconic 250-year-old bridge at Compton Verney in WarwickshireThe beautiful Grade II listed bridge has been the venue for many wedding photos...

...Installed in the 1770s as part of major changes to the park’s landscape by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, the beautiful bridge is an important example of 18th-century architecture and is now Grade II listed."

Banbury Guardian,

4th Nov 2022

Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London (United Kingdom)

London, dodging the rain with broken umbrellas
London, readind the Times on Saturday picnics
London, counting stars 'till the stars
All were gone

London, so many plans and nothing but time in
London, nothing to fear 'cause nothing could last in London, we grew close we grew scared
I moved on

Exceprt from London,

song by Manilow

Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London (United Kingdom)

Here`s fine rosemary, sage and thyme.

Come buy my ground ivy.

Here`s fetherfew, gilliflowers and rue.

Come buy my knotted majorum, ho!

Come buy my mint, my fine greenmint.

Here`s fine lavender for your cloaths.

Here`s parsley and winter=savory,

And hearts-ease, which all do choose.

Here`s balm and hissop, and cinquefoil,

All fine herbs, it is well known.

Let none despise the merry, merry cries

Of famous London-town!

Old poem

Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the Thames River between Dartford and Thurrock, England (United Kingdom)

"The Dartford Crossing is a feat of engineering that has played a crucial role in almost every aspect of our daily lives, from delivering essential goods to our shelves and our doorsteps, to visiting friends and family or getting to work."

Mark Bottomley, Lower Thames 

Crossing Programme Director

Millenium Bridge across the Thames River in London (United Kingdom)

"I dedicate this bridge as a symbol of the new millennium to the people of Southwark and of the City of London and to all who shall pass over it from all over the world."

Queen Elizabeth

in the inauguration of the bridge

Blackfriars Bridge over the Irwell River in Manchester, England (United Kingdom)

“Manchester is in the south of the north of England. Its spirit has a contrariness in it – a south and north bound up together – at once untamed and unmetropolitan; at the same time, connected and wordly.”

Jeanette Winterson

Clapper Bridge crossing the river Dart in Postbridge, Devon (United Kingdom)

Clappers: quarried flats

laid like tableboards

over stacked supports,

colonised by lichens, moss.

You love the coppery run

of the stream, its scatter of insects

ringed in brightness

the single, slate-finned fish

...

From the Poem Clapper Bridge 
by Fiona Benson

Clapper Bridge over the East Dart River in Postbridge, Dartmoor (United Kingdom)

Too long have I dwelt

In the valley beneath ;

Too long have I felt

The soft summer wind's breath ;

Too long have I lingered

In evergreen bowers,

And drank the air laden

With fragrance of flowers.

They felt the gale smiting

Their brows in its motion ;

They heard the stream fighting

Its way to the ocean.

They saw the rough granite

By thunderbolts riven,

And deemed that the mountains

Were nearest to heaven.

Dartmoor

Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton