A framedcolour print of Datchet Bridge with Windsor Castle in the background.

Artist and date unknown.

Attached to the reverse of the frame is a typed sheet reading-
"Datchet Bridge.
There is now no bridge at Datchet but there was a public crossing here from first mention in 1278 of a ferry and ford until 1851.
Then a bridge - one of the wildest eccentricities with the Bucks half of wood and the Berks half of iron- was demolished on the building of the Victoria and Albert bridges, and the closing of the Home Park and the road across the park to Windsor.
The first bridge was by Queen Anne in 1706. in 1770 a new bridge of nine wooden arches on piers of brick and stone was put up- the bridge seen in the picture. Later in 1785 it was described as being in a "ruinous condition". A free ferry was later provided and the bridge rebuilt in 1812 (by the Crown again?). Its reconstruction in 1836 was by the two counties, who could not agree, and so led to the comical result. There was a substantial inn on the Berks side."