Every so often when George is walking me near the Tower of London area tourists see him with me and realise he's local because he's with a dog (try finding the British around there!) and ask him 'where is London bridge?'
He looks at them and asks 'are you sure you don't mean Tower Bridge?' and the answer is always yes.
London bridge is the next bridge upstream, it has been there since the Romans built one, well...many times replaced of course, there's even a song about it falling down. See more here.
The current London bridge was built in the late 1960's, the one before it was purchased by American millionaire Robert McCulloch and taken in bits to Lake Havasu in Arizona, where it was reassembled around a new steel frame. Word has it even he thought he was buying my Tower Bridge, but he ardently denied this, he knows the truth, fact is the mistake is so common it even occurs on manufactured goods like the Horse brass pictured above, it's from Georges own collection, so I got him to type this post for me!
My beautiful, unique Tower Bridge is the bridge in London the world knows and people come to see, and even pay to tour it's engine rooms and walkways, but that has this assumption it's London bridge.
Now you know!
You tell 'em Yogi!
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