Millennium Bridge

...prudent and collectively disastrous. On June 10, 2000, Queen Elizabeth II opened the high-tech Millennium Bridge, which traverses the River Thames from the Tate Modern to St. Paul's Cathedral. Thousands of people lined up to walk across...

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Blackfriars Railway Bridge Blackfriars Railway Bridge is a railway bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and the Millennium Bridge . There have been two structures with the name. The first bridge was opened...

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Tate acts as blank canvas for street art One of the giant pieces of street art takes aim at people crossing the Millennium Bridge over the river Thames in front of the Tate Modern gallery yesterday The Tate Modern's facade has been...

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...is often confused with it, with further attractions, especially in the arts. The Millennium Bridge makes Bankside very accessible from the north bank by foot. It is possible to walk along most of the bank next to the river, with many...

In this article: Bishop of Winchester, London Bridge, Southwark Cathedral, River Thames, Blackfriars Bridge, Southwark Bridge, and Domesday Book

...havoc only in the wizarding world: His Death Eaters take his campaign of violent mayhem into the Muggle realm by destroying the Millennium Bridge in the film's dramatic opening sequence. The establishing shot of the 1241-foot steel...

In this article: Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Thames, London, Death Eaters, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and Maya

...cut through the moody overhead dome, race through the streets and wobble the pedestrian-only Millennium Bridge that slings across the Thames, snapping cables, fatally upending human bodies and further unnerving the wizardly world. If you...

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...a ferry service that took campers to the stages. Previously festival-goers had to walk two miles or catch the boat from their fields. It is the first new Thames bridge since the Millennium Bridge near St Paul's cathedral opened in 2000.

In this article: Reading festival, Thames, Dehydration, Manic Street Preachers, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Leeds, and St Paul's Cathedral

...it will actually work this time. " Millennium Bridge The pedestrian bridge over the Thames, costing GBP18.2 million, closed three days after opening in 2000 because it swayed excessively. Another GBP5 million was spent to make it...

In this article: Tate Modern, Tate Gallery, The Guardian, Siamese twin, Zhu Yu, The Daily Telegraph, and Britain

...wobble factor. Lord Norman Foster took care of the task at hand personally and designed a jellied version of The Millennium Bridge, better known by Londoners as The Wobbly Bridge that he created across the Thames in 2000. The nickname took...

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