Tower Bridge with bascules open, London Finish:Rolled a waitress hands a chop

a waitress hands a chop on a dish to an alderman on the left

one of them balanced on her head

Below the allegorical figure is an inset view of Westminster and Tothill Fields from Lambeth

showing an election fair in Copenhagen Fields

Tower Bridge with bascules open, London Finish:Rolled a waitress hands a chopTower Bridge with bascules open, London, c1905. View of the bridge from Tower Gun Wharf. The construction of Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 to designs by Sir Horace Jones and it opened in 1894. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London.