Schlagwort: Bridge

Big Ben

The Big Ben is a big tower in middle of londen. The Tower stay on „The Palace of Westminster“. It is a Palace to people visitit often the tower. The name of the Big Ben was until 2012 „Bell tower“.The regular name is (2023) „Elizabethtower“. The „Westminster Bridge“ go strait to the tower. The first bell was to heavy and go on the first test brocken. The second bell was perfect and is since 1860 in the tower. The tower is 96 miters big. The Big Ben have 441 staps.

Lennox
Big Ben, tower, bridge,river

Towerbridge

The Towerbridge is a pretty nice bridge in London that is over a 100 years old by now.
It was origanlly open in 1894 for the public and was started building in 1886.
The actuall street that goes over it is the Street A100.
It is an bascule bridge (Klappbrücke) and not just a normal bridge.
Over one side of the bridge is the Tower on London, thats on the north side.
On the other side of it is the the big Cityhall, thats on the south side.
There are 40.000 people and cars going over ist every single day and the cars cross over in 9 m of hight.
In total the bridge is 244m long and the longest longest span is 61 m.
The bridge lays between thee coordinates 51* 30′ 20″ N and 0* 4′ 32″ W .
The one thinking of the bridge also called the planner was Horace Jones.

Marie
Bridge, Builder, Britain, London, cars, Towerbridge, oldbuildings, bascule