Protestors gathered on Putney Embankment last weekend to highlight the loss of the Boat Race and “inaction” over Hammersmith Bridge.
Residents, rowing club members and school children joined Putney MP Fleur Anderson on Saturday (April 3) to call on the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to fund the bridge’s restoration.
Hundreds turned out on the Embankment to add their signatures to a banner that read: “Putney says reopen Hammersmith Bridge.”
Protestors sign Hammersmith Bridge banner
The annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge universities has been held on the River Thames almost every year since 1856—apart from in wartime due to dangers from v1 rockets.