- Detail of Old London Bridge on the 1632 oil painting View of London Bridge by Claude de Jongh, in the Yale Center for British Art.
- Walking across the old London Bridge must have felt like walking along a village high street with views to die for.
- Seeing as it had no competition, this bridge was called London Bridge, and in spite of being the inspiration for the nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is falling...
- Old London Bridge was built with a chapel dedicated to Thomas Becket, the archbishop who was made a patron saint of London after his murder in 1170.
- The old London Bridge was not straight, with slight kinks between its three sections.
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- The unfortunate Archbishop of Canterbury had been slaughtered in his own cathedral just 6 years before the construction of Old London Bridge began.
- Old London Bridge is one of the most popular paintings in the Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood, north London.
- The current London Bridge, built between 1968 and 1972, replaced Rennie’s stone arches with beams of prestressed concrete reaching 104 metres (340 feet)...
- The trust is committed to researching and safeguarding the bridge’s colourful past that has shaped London, providing access to its history and artefacts to all.
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- Tamamlanma tarihi:16 Mart 1973