28/10/2023
Tower Bridge is one of London’s most famous landmarks – but how much do you really know about this architectural oddity? 🤔🌉🇬🇧
Here are 6 interesting facts about Tower Bridge I’ll bet you never knew.
1. Over 50 designs were submitted but none were approved. That’s until 1884 when the final design by architect Sir Horace Jones and civil engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry was picked.
2. Tower Bridge was built between 1886 and 1894.
3. It has two towers linked by two walkways and suspended sections to either side of the towers, stretching towards the banks of the Thames.
4. It took the efforts of 432 workers to help build the bridge and over 70,000 tons of concrete sunk to the bed of River Thames to support the bridge.And over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the towers and walkways.
5. Tower Bridge is 244 metres (800 feet) long and each tower is 65 meters (213 feet) high.
6. Over 40,000 people use Tower Bridge every day.
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