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01/05/2012 02:33:08 PM · #1 |
In London, UK, there's a certain world-famous landmark. It's a large bridge with towers either side, with two halves that swing up and down to allow large vessels to pass underneath and between the two raised halves.
It's best seen from an elevated position, so that its full architectural beauty can be fully appreciated.
Well, my point is I'd like to point out the real name of this bridge is NOT (and never has been) "London Bridge"! :-) It is called "Tower Bridge"
Thank You.
P.S. a "London Bridge" does exist. It is a rather boring-looking flat stone bridge and was sold to an American billionaire who transplanted it stone-by-stone to Texas, USA, probably thinking he was purchasing Tower Bridge.
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01/05/2012 02:34:46 PM · #2 |
Arizona, actually. Lake Havasu City, to be exact.
R.
Message edited by author 2012-01-05 14:35:23.
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01/05/2012 02:45:57 PM · #3 |
I heard a rumor that London Bridge was falling down. Falling down.
I recently bought the Brooklyn bridge and plan on moving it to my beachfront property in Idaho. |
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01/05/2012 02:49:57 PM · #4 |
| walked across the tower bridge once, strolled, actually. fed the pigeons under Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. Seems a lifetime ago. |
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01/05/2012 02:53:42 PM · #5 |
| would have loved to see the look on his face when london bridge arived......some assembly required.......o crap |
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01/05/2012 02:57:34 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by m_a_r_c:
... P.S. a "London Bridge" does exist. It is a rather boring-looking flat stone bridge and was sold to an American billionaire who transplanted it stone-by-stone... |
If I were a billionaire, I'd do stupid stuff like this all the time!
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01/05/2012 03:00:21 PM · #7 |
Read the wiki on it both stated it was the bridge they wanted its more recent folklore the wrong bridge myth after that bad film,
Though never let the truth get in the way of a good story!!! |
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01/05/2012 03:07:35 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Giles_uk:
Though never let the truth get in the way of a good story!!! |
Yeah! Myths are so much easier to believe. |
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01/05/2012 03:13:40 PM · #9 |
Me too...Originally posted by Strikeslip:
If I were a billionaire, I'd do stupid stuff like this all the time! |
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01/05/2012 03:15:47 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Carlo21:
Me too...Originally posted by Strikeslip:
If I were a billionaire, I'd do stupid stuff like this all the time! |
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agreed i'd love to do some stupid stuff and not worry bout it |
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01/05/2012 03:16:03 PM · #11 |
Sydney harbor bridge would make a nice gangway to my front door :P
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01/05/2012 03:24:14 PM · #12 |
London Bridge is/was somewhat more than just a bridge as we ordinarily think of one ...
Originally posted by Mark Twain:
This structure, which had stood for six hundred years, and had
been a noisy and populous thoroughfare all that time, was a curious
affair, for a closely packed rank of stores and shops, with family
quarters overhead, stretched along both sides of it, from one bank of the
river to the other. The Bridge was a sort of town to itself; it had its
inn, its beer-houses, its bakeries, its haberdasheries, its food markets,
its manufacturing industries, and even its church. It looked upon the
two neighbours which it linked together--London and Southwark--as being
well enough as suburbs, but not otherwise particularly important. It was
a close corporation, so to speak; it was a narrow town, of a single
street a fifth of a mile long, its population was but a village
population and everybody in it knew all his fellow-townsmen intimately,
and had known their fathers and mothers before them--and all their little
family affairs into the bargain. It had its aristocracy, of course--its
fine old families of butchers, and bakers, and what-not, who had occupied
the same old premises for five or six hundred years, and knew the great
history of the Bridge from beginning to end, and all its strange legends;
and who always talked bridgy talk, and thought bridgy thoughts, and lied
in a long, level, direct, substantial bridgy way. It was just the sort
of population to be narrow and ignorant and self-conceited. Children were
born on the Bridge, were reared there, grew to old age, and finally died
without ever having set a foot upon any part of the world but London
Bridge alone. |
From Prince and the Pauper |
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01/05/2012 04:11:18 PM · #13 |
We stopped in Lake Havasu City, AZ quite a few years ago on our way to Phoenix. A little tourist town was created around the London Bridge and seems to be a fairly popular stop for a lot of "snowbirds" in the winter.
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01/05/2012 05:09:29 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by blindjustice:
....fed the pigeons under Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. Seems a lifetime ago. |
That's a relative of mine on mum's side up there :-) |
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01/05/2012 05:36:56 PM · #15 |
| I`ve seen a great aerial poster of tower bridge somewhere ;-) |
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01/05/2012 06:07:22 PM · #16 |
I was there in 1988 and that's when I found out it was not, in fact, the London Bridge.
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01/05/2012 06:20:03 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by CJinCA:
We stopped in Lake Havasu City, AZ quite a few years ago ...
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You know, it seems to me a pretty darned impressive feat that they were able to take it apart and rebuild it elsewhere, though maybe not quite so much so as moving the temples at Karnak(?) in Egypt.
Interestingly, my parents' house near Santa Rosa turned out to be sited on unstable land, and was disassembled and rebuilt in Cotati, but it was primarily redwood, not stone ... |
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01/05/2012 06:23:25 PM · #18 |
Actually, old-school stonework is pretty easy to take down and reassemble. It's solid stuff, the pieces are big, and they are easy to label. It's just a 3-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces are of manageable size. I don't know if it's still done, but there used to be quite a lot of castle-buying-and-moving being done by the absurdly wealthy.
R.
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01/05/2012 06:30:41 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Actually, old-school stonework is pretty easy to take down and reassemble. It's solid stuff, the pieces are big, and they are easy to label. It's just a 3-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces are of manageable size. I don't know if it's still done, but there used to be quite a lot of castle-buying-and-moving being done by the absurdly wealthy.
R. |
I think the remainder of the castles are probably protected, so now they just buy them and leave them where they are! |
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01/05/2012 06:34:16 PM · #20 |
the new bridge is concrete with the old stones cut down to about an inch thick and stuck on facading it
was sliced up down river before being shipped state side |
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01/05/2012 06:41:19 PM · #21 |
This gives me an idea...
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01/05/2012 06:53:16 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
This gives me an idea...
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.... for a garden fence? :-) |
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01/05/2012 07:11:25 PM · #23 |
| Is that the bridge in the picture that won a ribbon in a recent challenge? |
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01/05/2012 07:15:28 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by senor_kasper:
Is that the bridge in the picture that won a ribbon in a recent challenge? |
Technically that's the bridge that was in the poster that was in the picture that won a ribbon. ;-) |
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01/05/2012 07:33:00 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by m_a_r_c:
P.S. a "London Bridge" does exist. It is a rather boring-looking flat stone bridge and was sold to an American billionaire who transplanted it stone-by-stone to Texas, USA, probably thinking he was purchasing Tower Bridge. |
Speaking of stones... |
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