Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I

214 ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD. interred them in a huge common grave, just as the plague victims of London had been buried nearly two centuries earlier. A small mound and a cross marked their A Grace- jag^. resting-place, which the . Jt workmen, rough as they were, Workmen were careful not to desecrate. Their active kindness of heart revealed itself in a desire to rear a more suit- able monument. They moved a granite boulder, weighing some 30 tons, placed it on a pedestal, and cut on it an inscription setting forth that it had been erected by the workmen of Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts engaged in the con- struction of the Victoria Bridge. The tubes that they built are gone; the monument remains. The new bridge, named the Victoria Jubilee Bridge, was commenced in October 1897 and finished before the end of 1898. The original piers were lengthened to accommodate an open-work steel superstructure with double railway tracks, carriage ways, and footwalks for pedestrians. The replacement was made without interfering in any way with train traffic, the lattice girders being cleverly built round the old tubes, which were not removed until their successors were ready for use. RAFTS COLLIDING WITH THE PIERS. Note.—The. illustration on page 206 is reproduced from a photograph kindly supplied by the Grand Trunk Railway Company.