\paperw3360 \margr0\margl0\ATXph11340 \plain \fs20 \pard\tx3255\tx6525\tx9780\ATXts240\ATXbrdr0 \f1 \fs22 Not all contemporaries were favourably impressed by the new bridge, as t
he following comment in \i The Builder\i0 of 1894 reveals: "\i What strikes one at present is that the whole structure is the most monstrous and preposterous architectural sham that we have ever known of, and is in that sense a discredit to the generati
on which has erected it. Far better would it have been to have built simply the naked steelwork, and let the construction show what it really is; the effect, if somewhat bare-looking, would have been at least honest, and we should have been relieved fro
m the spectacle of many thousands spent on what is not the bridge at all, what is no part of the structure - but an elaborate and costly make-believe\i0 ö. \par
