12 Facts About Tower Bridge

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 with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.

Tower Bridge was officially opened on 30 June 1894 by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Once Tower Bridge was open, the majority of foot traffic transferred to using the bridge, as there was no toll to cross.

In 1982, the Tower Bridge Exhibition opened, housed in the bridge's twin towers, the long-closed high-level walkways and the Victorian engine rooms.

Tower Bridge closed for a month in 2000 to repair the bascules and perform other maintenance.

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In 2016, Tower Bridge was closed to all road traffic from 1 October to 30 December.

Nearest London Underground tube stations to Tower Bridge are Tower Hill on the Circle and District lines, London Bridge on the Jubilee and Northern lines and Bermondsey on the Jubilee line, and the nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway.

Tower Bridge Exhibition is a display housed in the bridge's twin towers, the high-level walkways and the Victorian engine rooms.

Tower Bridge has been mistaken for the next bridge upstream, London Bridge.

Tower Bridge flew beneath the walkway, at an estimated 300 miles per hour .

Tower Bridge was placed under arrest upon landing, and discharged from the RAF on medical grounds without the chance to defend himself at a court martial.

Tower Bridge was exercising a claimed ancient permission, granted as a right to freemen, to make a point about the powers of older citizens and the way their rights were being eroded.