Tower Bridge

Last weekend my brood (me, hubby, three teenagers) together with my Mother and her Godson, who is 23 and very very autistic, went to London for the Marathon weekend. We were staying near to Tower Bridge so found ourselves wandering over this famous London landmark once or twice! Gerard, who is, as mentioned above, autistic, wanted to go inside the bridge, so we decided to do the "Tower Bridge Experience". Gerard and my Mother were able to get in for free - there is no charge for disabled visitors and their carers, and I bought a family ticket for the five of us, that cost £17.50, so it was not an overly expensive visit. Mum had to queue ...  Read the complete review

Tower Bridge isnt really what I would call a tourist attraction, as all it is is a bridge, but for some reason, there is always people lining the road taking pictures. For tourists, it amazes them that this bridge can break it two. It seems to me, that this attraction is more than it is worth. Everyone has seen it, the four big towers, which some people dont know that you can actually go inside and have look, and the metal lines that connect them. I have never seen this bridge actually split in two for myself, but has done on TV, and it does look amazing. I dont know how they do it, but it is brilliant mechanics. It is a great landmark for London, and the river wouldnt ...  Read the complete review

There are a host of monuments to the excellence of the Victorian engineers and one example is Tower Bridge over the Thames in London. Often overlooked by those visiting the Tower itself next door it is well worth adding to your itinerary in London. It is easily reached by the London Underground its station of Tower Hill being on both the Circle and District Lines. When I first visited the bridge many years ago there was not much to see. The presentation information then was quite limited though it was possible to see the workings of the bridge. Nowadays though there is a series of exhibitions and models which tell the story of the bridge from its building ...  Read the complete review

Completed in 1894, Tower Bridge is an excellent example of Victorian engineering. Not to be mistaken for London Bridge, which is the rather artless and featureless bridge just down river, Tower Bridge was constructed to fulfill a requirement that had arisen for a new permanent crossing for the Thames river. In fact, the booming success of London at the time, due largely to it's expansion as a major world trading port, meant that a bridge on that part of the Thames had to be unique, in that it could both cope with the increased river traffic and the 50% increase in London's population that occured under Queen Victoria's reign during the latter half of the 18th ...  Read the complete review

Tower Bridge is one of the nice examples of the architecture of Victorian Period. It was built in 1894. It is the symbol of London. Owing to special mechanism, it can lift its main road for the ship when necessary. If you want, you can join the special activity called Tower Bridge Experience. In this experience, firstly you will watch a film about the Tower Bridge History, which is extremely boring. You may look forward to going up on the top of the bridge. There is nothing interesting in this experience is the London and river view at the top of the bridge. You will climb up 300 hundred steps in order to go to the top of the bridge. But if you think the top of ...  Read the complete review