the towers of London Bridge

[MagicalSilverKey]

What is inside the towers of London Bridge (or is it called Tower Bridge?)

From the outside it appears to be "livable." Are there apartments inside? offices? a museum? shops? I have always wanted to know. Anyone have an answer?

[Eve]

Ask and ye shall receive:

http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/

. . . I am becoming The Empress of All the Links . . .

[Rodd Hill]

It's where they keep that Royal cousin that no-one likes to talk about...

It is Tower Bridge, and it has quite the interpretive display inside: Tower Bridge Experience (http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/). (I loved their first album, "The Swinging Bridges," back in '72, by the way.)

It doesn't say so explicitly, but I think the machinery is inside the towers (http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/).

[MagicalSilverKey]

Originally posted by Eve
Ask and ye shall receive:

http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/

. . . I am becoming The Empress of All the Links . . .

Thankyou, that was interesting and slightly informative. I still have to wonder what ORIGINALLY was inside the towers though.

[kabbes]

The little rooms in Tower Bridge contain the gears and mechanisms needed to raise the bridge. There is a Tower Bridge Tour available which is usually pretty popular with tourists.

See

http://www.lettingsdirectory.co.uk/Touristinformation/towerbridge.htm

for details.

London Bridge is a whole different structure. Admittedly I've only ever driven over it (as fast as London traffic allows), but I don't recall little appartments, just big offices. It must have been Tower Bridge that you were thinking of.

Regards,

pan

[Tapioca Dextrin]

If anyone out there has seen the film version of "Biggles", then you'll know that Peter Cushing lives there.

[fredicus]

BTW, the current London bridge is a comparatively new structure, the previous bridge was bought by an American that thought it was Tower Bridge :)

It seems there's a perceptual problem endemic in American architectural veiwpoints, LOL

[Tapioca Dextrin]

If it's London Bridge (the one in Arizona), then isn't it haunted by the spirit of Jack the Ripper in a really bad 70's movie?