Millions of Londoners cross these bridges every week. Most of them hardly give it a second thought. But bridges are much more than merely a means of transport ways of getting from one place to another. They are also ways of linking the present to the past. London's Bridges are not just functional objects they're also symbols, metaphors, which transform, connect and inspire. Some of them have vanished or been replaced ghostcrossings of the past but each of them is a clue to the city's hidden history in some ways they are that history: a history that has lasted nearly four thousand years.

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