Bridges and More: How London's Bridges Came to Span a River and a City

An engaging and accessible history of City Bridge Foundation, the extraordinary charity behind London’s bridges and one of the capital’s oldest civic institutions.

City Bridge Foundation is the oldest charity in London still operating under its original purpose. Established over 700 years ago to maintain London Bridge, it now cares for five of the Thames’s great crossings while distributing surplus income to charities across the capital. Worth £1.5 billion, it remains managed by the City of ...