Jubilee Bridge (India)

[1] The Bridge was designed by Sir Bradford Leslie, Chief Engineer in India and Alexander Meadows Rendel.

Its steel was manufactured by Hawks Crawshay of Gateshead in England and James Goodwin of Motherwell in Scotland.

He was the son of the American painter Charles Robert Leslie, ultimately Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy in London.

Jubilee Bridge served the people for 129 years, and several generations used the service to cross the River Hooghly.

The bridge has the distinction of being the first permanent crossing over the Hooghly, which had been considered unbridgeable owing to difficult foundation conditions at that time.