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Square greetings card - Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge, London, (N 51° 30'19"  W 0° 04'31")

 
Originally, London Bridge was the only crossing over the Thames but as the city grew, more bridges were built but to the
west of London Bridge. During the 19th century, the east end was developing into a busy port and journeys for pedestrians
and vehicles were becoming very difficult with long delays. After much pressure, the City of London Corporation agreed
to the building of a new bridge. Tower Bridge was completed in 1894, after eight years of construction using 5 major
contractors and 432 construction workers. Two huge piers were sunk into the river bed, and over 11,000 tons of steel
were used to create the framework for the Towers and Walkways. Cornish granite and Portland stone were then used to
complete the bridge. Tower Bridge is the only London Bridge to be able to be raised and is called a bascule bridge (French
for ‘see-saw’). Enormous hydraulic pumping engines used steam to raise the bridge to a maximum of 86 degrees in about
a minute and today the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power but now use oil and electricity.
Photograph copyright of Jason Hawkes

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