Tower Bridge London 4K Tour
Interesting Facts about Tower Bridge London
4K Tower Bridge London 2023
Top facts you should know about Tower Bridge
1. It’s newer than you think
Tower Bridge was opened to the public in 1894. Compared with its neighbor – the Tower of London (built in the 11th century) – it is relatively young!
2. It was built after a public competition
Over 50 designs were submitted to a competition to win the contract for designing the Bridge.
3. It took immense skill to build
Building the Bridge took eight years to complete and ran to a cost of over £1 million.
4. It is not a drawbridge
Drawbridges require ropes or chains to pull up the road, but Tower Bridge’s roads are too heavy to be opened like this.
5. It used to be brown
Its original colour was ‘bright chocolate’ brown, rumoured to be Queen Victoria’s favourite colour. You can still see the original paint colour when visiting inside Tower Bridge.
6. It used steam power until 1976
When first built, Tower Bridge was the most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed. The bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines.
7. It opens for free
The Bridge is bound by an Act of Parliament to give river traffic priority over road traffic, which can sometimes be frustrating to car drivers stuck in rush hour traffic!
8. It has Glass Floors
The Walkways that span the two towers were installed with Glass Floors in 2014, so that visitors can look down to the road and river below!
9. It is often mistaken for London Bridge
London Bridge used to be the sole river crossing in London in Roman times. It has been rebuilt and changed many times since then. The modern concrete and steel structure we know today was opened to traffic in 1973.
10. It’s listed in two London boroughs
Tower Bridge’s Towers are listed within two different London boroughs.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry.
London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, is a 21st-century city with history stretching back to Roman times. At its centre stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. Across the Thames River, the London Eye observation wheel provides panoramic views of the South Bank cultural complex, and the entire city.
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The United Kingdom, made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is an island nation in northwestern Europe. England – birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles – is home to the capital, London, a globally influential centre of finance and culture. England is also site of Neolithic Stonehenge, Bath’s Roman spa and centuries-old universities at Oxford and Cambridge.
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