Chain Bridge closed to pedestrians during renovation from next week

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1. Chascharlie says:

   12/03/2021 at 18:40

   This is a lovely bridge, dear Hungarians!
   The finance for this bridge was raised by Count István Széchenyi – regarded as the ‘Greatest Hungarian’. (Which is not much of a compliment when you only have people like Orban to compare with!)
   However not many Hungarians that I know realise this bridge was designed by an Englishman – and built by a Scotsman (who married a Hungarian and stayed.) – and that there is a near identical bridge in England built on the river Thames at Marlow, in Oxfordshire, England.
   Count István Széchenyi – an Anglophile – met William Tierney Clark who showed him his Hammersmith Bridge on the Thames – and also his bridge at Marlow.
   Count Széchenyi said “I’ll have that one!” – pointing to Marlow bridge.
   And the bridge was built by Adam Clark – no relation to William – a Scotsman (who died in Budapest where he stayed after being in charge of building it.
   The lions on the Budapest are almost an exact copy of Landseer’s lions that ‘guard’ London’s Trafalgar Square. (There are no lions on the Marlow bridge.) Apart from their tongues (!) The Budapest lions are the same as Trafalgar Square. I think the Trafalgar lions are younger than the Budapest lions – so it’s a mystery as to who copied who!
   Anyway if any Hungarians visit England they must see the Marlow bridge! In England towns and cities are often twinned with other European towns and cities.
   The bridge at Marlow has a plaque mounted on it which reads: ‘Bridged (not twinned!) with Budapest’.
   So – if you read this is it an English ‘April Fools Joke’ or not?

2. Rosa says:

   12/03/2021 at 19:50

   Sounds dodgy to me, especially bit about being designed by a English person.