Blackfriars Bridge

| type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act for increasing the Fund for watching, lighting, cleansing, watering and repairing Blackfriars Bridge. | year = 1812 | citation = 52 Geo. 3. c. clxxxiii | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 27 June 1812 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo3/52/183/pdfs/ukla_18120183_en.pdf | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = |…

In 1774 the new bridge was mentioned in a popular song in Charles Dibdin's opera The Waterman, referring to the boatmen who used to carry fashionable folks to Vauxhall Gardens and Ranelagh Gardens. A Bailey bridge constructed over the River Rhine at Rees, Germany, in 1945 by the Royal Canadian Engineers (R.C.E.) was named "Blackfriars Bridge", and, at 558 m (1814 ft) including the ramps at each end, was the longest Bailey bridge then constructed. In Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, "Blackfriars Bridge" was named as the home of an unknown order of monks who held the key to an angelic prison. The bridge is also featured in the lyrics of the song "The Resurrectionist" by the Pet Shop Boys. In Louis…