Tower Bridge
About Tower Bridge
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.
On the show — 21 mentions total
If you've ever seen the movie Speed, where they have to jump the gap of a bridge, that happened on Tower Bridge with a bus driver in 1952. His name was Albert Gunter and he was driving the number 78 bus, and the person who would usually ring the bell to say that the bridge was going up forgot to ring it. He noticed that the bridge was bending upwards as he was driving towards it and he didn't have enough time to slam on the brakes because that would have been disaster.
from 327: No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 at 00:27:26 · read transcript
Other times Tower Bridge came up
It was that. Did you see that Boeing issued a statement after the film came out, and they said, the MD80 cannot sustain inverted flight? The MD80, as with all commercial airliners, was designed to fly upright. That was a bit, you know. Do you remember that plane that flew under Tower Bridge? Oh, yeah, when was that? No. Yeah, you must remember it. I remember the Arcter Triumph one.
No Such Thing As A 164ft Tall Gorilla-Whale, 2014-05-23 · listen
Let's put that up. It's amazing. The guy who flew under Tower Bridge, I was talking about, this guy was called Hawker Hunter. He flew under Tower Bridge on the 5th of April 1968. He flew across the Thames as a demonstration against Harold Wilson's government. He was struck off from the RAF for it, I think. Weirdly, there was a quote from him when they asked him about it.
12: No Such Thing As A 164ft Tall Gorilla-Whale, 2014-05-24 · listen
Yeah, basically, so that London Bridge is now in Haversu, which is in Arizona, because this crazy millionaire in... It was in 1968, wasn't it, that it was put up for sale and this millionaire in America bought it. There's always been a rumour that he meant to buy Tower Bridge and got the wrong one. I think he likes that because it drummed up even more publicity for the fact that he was moving London Bridge to the desert, which everyone thought was insane.
327: No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 · listen
That it was put up for sale. This millionaire in America bought it. There's always been a rumor that he meant to buy Tower Bridge and got the wrong one. I think he likes that because it drummed up even more publicity for the fact that he was moving London Bridge to the desert, which everyone thought was insane. It's amazing because they installed it in a dry bit of the desert and then they redirected the nearby stream to go under it.
No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 · listen
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327: No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree put 4 places on the map.
- University of the Negev · Israel
- University of California, Berkeley · United States
- London Bridge · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51.5056, -0.0753