Tower Bridge: A beautiful Architecture in UK.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension and until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the City Bridge Foundation, a charitable trust founded in 1282. The bridge was completed in 1894. It is about 240metres (800 feet) in length and provides an opening 76metres (250 feet) wide. Its twin towers rise 61metres (200 feet) above the Thames. Between the towers stretch a pair of glass-covered walkways that are popular among tourists. The walkways were originally designed to allow pedestrians to cross even while the bridge was raised, but they became hangouts for prostitutes and thieves and so were closed from 1909 to 1982. The Tower Bridge was operated by hydraulic pumps driven by steam until 1976, when electric motors were put into operation the steam power system is still kept (in good repair) as a tourist display. Because of the reduction in shipping at the London Docklands, however, the leaves are now seldom raised.
It is one of the main symbols of the capital of the United Kingdom- particularly England and London. The bridge crosses the river Thames and is close to the London Tower. It has two towers connected to each other at the upper level. It is color in red, white and blue, which was designed for the bridge in 1977, when it was painted for Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee.
The views from the bridge are amazing. You can look all you want but you still won’t feel satisfied and you’ll want to look and look and look and never get out of there. You can’t even get tired of looking, if you want to know the truth. And then you’ll look up and see those wonderful details of Tower Bridge and wonder, how could someone do that. You just have no words to describe it. It’s a must-see structure.
