Westminster Bridge inspired William Wordsworth to create the famous sonnet, which is called - "Writing on Westminster Bridge 3 September 1802".

No captivating spectacle! And com
  Do not falter spirit insensitive, stubborn
  At the sight of the majestic panorama
  Where the morning - if the garments - everything around
  Dressed in the beauty ...
  (Translated by William Levik)

Wordsworth really contemplating captivating sight from the bridge opened majestic panorama of London, the distance loomed the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, no skyscrapers, and there was no trace. Beauty!

Now and type is not the same, and the other bridge .  Wordsworth admired London at the first Westminster Bridge .  Opened in 1750, it was truly spectacular structure .  It was built with difficulty - intervened harsh winter, the war with Spain, accidents, banal lack of money, and even two earthquakes .  But the result is worth the effort: pyatnadtsatiarochny of Portland stone bridge looked majestically .  Contemporaries wrote that he was inspired by each observer, whether a foreigner or an Englishman, thinking about the wealth and splendor of the British Empire .  They did not specify that it was only the second bridge across the Thames in London (the construction of crossings and sabotaged ferrymen city government gets the money for the transfer of a single London Bridge) .  People are so excited when it was built that on the opening day many referred by him to the other side, had to hire a boat to go back - the bridge was crowded .

He stood not for very long. Already in 1831, when the old London Bridge was dismantled, it changed over the Thames and many steel bridges to collapse, including Westminster. In 1862, he had to replace the present one. Now he - the oldest in London (the rest have either been built or changed later).

Design semiarochnogo metal bridge in the Gothic style, designed by Thomas Page, corresponds to the building of the Parliament - this is followed personally by Charles Berry, who revolutionized the Parliament after a fire in 1834. Bridge painted in noble green - the color of the leather seats in the House of Commons. Graceful lights, emblems Victoria and Albert, Queen Boudica statue at the western entrance and jolly stone lion on the east make the bridge one of the most beautiful in London. One of the busiest it makes the location: it connects the Big Ben and the London Eye. A sonnet of Wordsworth reminds a plaque with the text of the poem - slowed to a passerby and saw "no captivating spectacle."