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Tower Bridge

The blue-and-white Victorian bascule bridge you can walk inside, with glass-floored high-level walkways about 42 metres above the Thames and the original steam engines in its Victorian engine rooms.

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Tower Bridge, landmark in London
Photo: The Cosmonaut, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca, via Wikimedia Commons

Did you know

On 30 December 1952 the bridge began to rise while a number 78 double-decker bus was crossing, and driver Albert Gunter accelerated to jump a 1.8 metre gap onto the far side.

Local tip

The exhibition is open daily 9:30am to 6pm, with last entry at 5pm. Tickets can be booked up to eight weeks ahead but do not give fast-track entry, so allow spare time for security checks; bridge lifts can occasionally cause delays.

Finding it

Address
Tower Bridge Road, London SE1 2UP
Nearest station
Tower Hill (Tube), 563 m away

Details change, so check with the place before you set off.

More places nearby

  • St Katharine DocksHidden gem · 250 m awayCentral London's only marina, just east of Tower Bridge, built in 1828 to a Thomas Telford design and converted from a working commercial dock into a yacht-filled waterside quarter of shops, pubs and restaurants.
  • Tower of LondonLandmark · 250 m awayThe Norman fortress that grew into a royal palace and prison, still patrolled by Yeoman Warders and holding the Crown Jewels behind the White Tower.
  • Electric Shuffle (London Bridge)Nightlife · 600 m awayA shuffleboard and cocktail bar built into the railway arches beneath London Bridge station.
  • St Dunstan in the EastLandmark · 650 m awayA church gutted in the Blitz and left as a ruin, now a public garden with ivy climbing through the Gothic window frames.

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