Albert Bridge: Hybrid Bridge

More ornamental in large

Thank you so much for your kind attention on yesterday's milestone blip! I'm yet to respond to everyone, but am grateful for the community's help in marking 4,000 days since Lady Marchmont introduced me to this wonderful place.

I met a friend in Chelsea today, so caught the bus to Albert Bridge and walked the rest of the way.
Albert Bridge was originally built as a cable-stayed bridge (Ordish–Lefeuvre system) in 1873, with the deck supported by the stays that fan out from the octagonal towers, but the bridge was unsound, so it was re-engineered less than 10 years later by the addition of the steel chain suspension cable and suspender cables (hence the more vertical cables as well as the struts than fan out from the towers). 100 years after it was built, concrete piers were added to convert the centre span into a simple beam bridge. 
The bridge still wobbles, so has a vehicle weight limit and has signs instructing troops to break step when crossing it. Apparently "The Trembling Lady" was also commercially unsuccessful when initially operated as a toll bridge.
BUT it is a pretty bridge.

Others here (or right from House boats)