Rosebury Avenue Viaduct, Clerkenwell, London

Rosebury Avenue was the second new highway planned for Clerkenwell by the Metropolitan Board of Works. The first was Clerkenwell Road in 1878.

Rosebury Avenue was opened in 1892 and runs from Holborn, north east to Angel. The Sadlers Wells theatre is at the top end.

The lower section is a viaduct crossing the Fleet River and a bridge crossing Warner Street - which is in this picture.

The bridge was built by James Dickson of St Albans. It is made of white brick arches and cast iron parapets. The ironwork was made by Westwood, Baillie & Co, a well known ironworks who had also built the British naval ships HMS Resistance and HMS Valiant in the 1860s.

At the Farringdon Road end of Rosebury Avenue, in 2007 there was a piece of street art by Banksy showing a girl being grabbed by a mechancial arm coming out of the ATM.