1761 news magazine w engraving GUILDHALL London & DUBLIN Ireland GRATTAN BRIDGE - $48 - (Oxford, MD)

1761 news magazine with engravings of GUILDHALL in London ENGLAND & GRATTAN BRIDGE in DUBLIN Ireland - inv # 2Q-248 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction. SEE PHOTO----- An ORIGINAL monthly news magazine, the Gentleman's Magazine (London, ENGLAND) dated Dec, 1761 (including the end of year supplement). This original news magazine contains a 10" x 8" blank back engraved plate showing the "View of the Inside of the GUILDHALL as it appeared on Lord Mayors Day, 1761." This also contains a 13" x 8" blank back plate showing GRATTAN BRIDGE (then called ESSEX BRIDGE) in Dublin. IRELAND. Guildhall is a Grade I-listed building in the City of London, England. It is situated off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. The building has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation. Grattan Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, and joining Capel Street to Parliament Street and the south quays. The first bridge on this site was built by Sir Humphrey Jervis as Essex Bridge (named for Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) to join several of Jervis' developments (including Capel Street and Jervis Street) to the opposite side of the river and to Dublin Castle. Essex Bridge was an arched stone structure with 7 piers, and apparently partly constructed from the ruined masonry of nearby St. Mary’s Abbey on the northside. In 1687 the bridge was damaged by a flood resulting in the loss of a hackney and two horses. The damage to the bridge was only partially repaired. In 1751 the second most northerly pier collapsed and damaged the adjacent arches. Between 1753 and 1755 the bridge was rebuilt by George Semple, to correct flood and other structural damage and as one of the first initiatives of the Wide Streets Commission. During this construction, some o…

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