Lambeth Bridge

Lambeth Bridge
Location info
Location	Central London
Constructed	10 November 1862 (first bridge) 19 July 1932 (second bridge)

Lambeth Bridge is a road traffic and footbridge crossing the River Thames in an east–west direction in central London. It is major site in The Dead, and is the site of the book's final battle.

History

Lambeth Bridge shares its establishment and directorial status with its real-world counterpart.

After the onset of The Great Fire, animals, children, and sickos alike travel to escape the fire -- needing to cross Lambeth Bridge as a result.

When Ed and his crew leave the museum with David's crew and the truck, they push through the streets up until they reach Lambeth Bridge where they notice a major roadblock of kids up ahead. It turns out that some kids have crashed some cars and Ed is forced to send up people to help. The cars are cleared and the truck moves onto the bridge. Shortly after making it onto the bridge, the kids notice as huge army of sickos behind them that are trying to get away from the fire. Ed notices it and tells David to escort the truck while he tries to get people together to hold off the impending sicko attack.

Battle of Lambeth Bridge

Main article: Battle of Lambeth Bridge

Ed manages to muster up a small fighting force of kids and takes the fight to the sickos in the largest scale sicko fight in the entirety of the series. More kids start to join in on the fight as Ed cuts through the army to a group of kids in danger by a church. Ed saves the group but gets surrounded by the army. Meanwhile, on the bridge, David and his group notice more cars in the way and orders a group of kids to clear the cars. One of the boys insults David which results in David shooting the kid. Brooke, who's riding in the truck with Justin tells him to leave David behind when they clear the bridge and Justin agrees.

Meanwhile, Ed's army loses momentum as some sickos break the line and take some kids with them. Ed falls over and gets attacked by Pez but a boy named Kyle kills the sicko and saves Ed. The kids stand seems hopeless but a fresh new force starts attacking the sickos from the behind. It turns out that these kids are the group from the museum led by Jordan Hordern. They meet up with Ed's group and decide to escape the battle by hopping onto a boat. It turns out in the end that Ed's distraction was a success since all the kids that were on the bridge made it across.

Real world information

Lambeth Bridge is on the site of a horse ferry between the Palace of Westminster and Lambeth Palace on the south bank. Its name lives on in Horseferry Road, which forms the approach to the bridge on the north bank.

The first modern bridge was a suspension bridge, 828 feet long, designed by Peter W. Barlow. Sanctioned by an Act of Parliament in 1860, it opened as a toll bridge on November 10th, 1862. Doubts about its safety, coupled with its awkwardly steep approaches deterring horse-drawn traffic, meant it soon became used almost solely as a pedestrian crossing. It ceased to be a toll bridge in 1879 when the Metropolitan Board of Works assumed responsibility for its upkeep -- it was by then severely corroded, and by 1910 it was closed to vehicular traffic.

The current structure, a five-span steel arch, designed by engineer Sir George Humphreys and architects Sir Reginald Blomfield and G. Topham Forrest, was built by Dorman Long and opened on July 19th, 1932, by King George V. It formerly carried four lanes of road traffic (now reduced to three lanes, one of which is a buses-only lane flowing eastbound) from a roundabout junction by the Lambeth Palace northwards to another roundabout, where the Millbank road meets Horseferry Road.

The bridge is notable at road level for the pairs of obelisks at either end of the bridge, which are surmounted by stone pinecones. However, there is a popular urban legend that they are pineapples, as a tribute to Lambeth resident John Tradescant the younger, who is said to have grown the first pineapple in Britain.

Sightings

The Enemy
1. The Enemy:	Absent	5. The Sacrifice:	Absent
2. The Dead:	Debut	6. The Fallen:	Absent
3. The Fear:	Absent	7. The Hunted:	Absent
4. Geeks vs. Zombies:	Absent	8. The End:	Absent