PHOTOS: Budapest’s emblematic Chain Bridge’s twin found in England
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The designer of the bridge in the charming English town of Marlow in Buckinghamshire was the same William Tierney Clark who connected Buda and Pest in the 1840s with a significantly longer and more decorated but similar suspension bridge.
English sibling of Budapest’s iconic Chain Bridge
According to origo.hu, when Count István Széchenyi, the originator of the building of the Chain Bridge, was on route to find a pattern for the future bridge, he saw the Hammersmith Bridge in London overpassing River Thames and fell in love with it.
The designer was William Tierney Clark, and the bridge was inaugurated in 1827. Clark received the Hungarian project in 1838. However, he could not move to Hungary. Therefore, the Scottish Adam Clark won the project. The Scottish architect came to Hungary and remained here even after the Chain Bridge’s completion, marrying a Hungarian.
Currently, a plaque on the Thames bridge informs passers-by that the overpass they are looking at has an identical twin in Budapest.
