London Bridge
About London Bridge
The name "London Bridge" refers to several historic crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark in central London since Roman times. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It replaced a 19th-century stone-arched bridge, which in turn superseded a 600-year-old stone-built medieval structure. In addition to the roadway, for much of its history, the broad medieval bridge supported an extensive built up area of homes and businesses, part of the City's Bridge ward, and its southern end in Southwark was guarded by a large stone City gateway. The medieval bridge was preceded by a succession of timber bridges, the first of which was built by the Roman founders of London (Londinium) around AD 50.
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Lots of the previous London Bridge got sold off as souvenirs. There are bits of various British country houses which are made of old London Bridge. The foundation stone got turned into a chair.
from 327: No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 at 00:24:36 · read transcript
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We thought there was only one copy that was left, which was held, I think, in the British Library. One went up for auction a few years ago. There might be a couple more out there. It had 40 nursery rhymes in it. All the classics, Ba Ba Blacksheep, Hickory Dickory Dock, London Bridge is Falling Down, Mary Mary's Quite Contrary, Sing a Song of Sixpence, and then Pissabed. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Songbook. They were actually all about Pretty Patel, weren't they? That was...
338: No Such Thing As Carthaginian YouTube, 2020-09-11 · listen
Precursor to this London Bridge, which is much debated, but a lot of serious journals do think that sides on the fact that it did exist. It's off the back of something that we know from Nordic law, which was, there was a period in 1014 when Ethel the Unready had been trying to reclaim England. Is Ethel the Unready related to Ethel Red the Unready? It was his mum.
327: No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 · listen
We can't leave London Bridge alone without talking about what happened to that new 1831 version, which is now in America. The idea was that it was sold to an American and he got conned, right? That's... Oh, well, people claim that, but he insists he didn't. I suspect he didn't. Yeah, basically, so that London Bridge is now in Haversu, which is in Arizona, because this crazy millionaire in...
327: No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 · listen
That is a tiny rasher of bacon. I think they're attracting them to them, and once you've got 10 or 11 on your bacon, you reel it in, I suppose, don't you? If you think it's like fishing, I'm not coming to your restaurant in the middle of London Bridge. The maggot sandwich flies off the shelves. They're a kind of blowfly, and I was wondering why we call blowflies.
327: No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 · listen
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