When:
April 4, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
2019-04-04T18:30:00+01:00
2019-04-04T20:00:00+01:00
Where:
Benjamin Franklin House
36 Craven Street
36 Craven Street
Cost:
£6.00 + booking fee
Contact:
Dr Perry Gauci,Tutor in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford University, will speak about the stormy public debates surrounding the first Blackfriars Bridge, which opened in 1769. The bridge caused deep divisions within the metropolis, but its completion highlighted how Londoners managed to find common cause in pursuit of civic improvement in Franklin’s day.