- urbanest Tower Bridge accommodation has the best rooms and common areas for students and is great student accommodation near London Bridge.
- When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed (‘bascule‘ comes from the French word for ‘seesaw’).
- Tower Bridge is 240 metres (800 feet) long and 76 metres (250 feet) wide. It is made up of two 61-metre-tall towers (200 feet) connected by horizontal walkways.
- Below the approaches at each end of Tower Bridge are two massive steel anchor girders, deep underground and with a great mass of concrete holding them in place.
- Tower Bridge Facts for Kids
- Tower Bridge was built between 1886 and 1894
- Steam-driven hydraulic pumps operated the bridge until 1976
- Historian and photofgrapher David Ross visits Tower Bridge, London, with beautiful photos of the iconic bridge, history, and visiting information.
- However, if you would like to visit the glass walkways or steam engine room inside Tower Bridge, tickets to the Tower Bridge Exhibition are required.
- Today visitors can see Tower Bridge and its inner workings up close and personal, or elect to snap a photo of the impressive bridge from a nearby viewpoint.
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- One of the most famous river crossings in the world, Tower Bridge isn’t actually that old, at over 125 years.