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Tower Bridge and the Tower of London

Tuesday, 23rd August 2005 by

Often incorrectly referred to as ‘London Bridge’, this is in fact Tower Bridge. There’s a story which claims that when American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch bought the original London Bridge in 1968 and had it rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, Arizona (low-res only I’m afraid), he was under the impression that it was actually Tower Bridge that he was buying. Tower Bridge isn’t actually named for it’s own towers, but…

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Today the news is filled with stories about the opening of the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, which at 42.4km (26.3 miles)…

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