Go to London!!

This is a blog made for Chaymae, Anna, Oliver, Arunas, in this blog we gona planing a travel to London, and we go to explain, how to go to london with what, where we go to go, and where we go to stay, we hope you like our blog.

First day journey .....

Bridge history

The construction of the bridge was ended in 1894, later of 8 years of job. The people doesn’t know why it was built and it’s different from others in London.

Necessity of a new bridge

Originally, the bridge was the only way to pass the river Tamesis.

How was chosen this project

Most architects showed their projects, more than 50 projects to the contest. We can see some of them in the ride of tower bridge exposition.

October of 1884, Horace Jones, the architect of the city with John Wolfe Barry , he decide the final project for the tower bridge.

The bridge building

It was needed 8 years, 432 workers to build the bridge, 11 tones of steel and lot of products to make the support base.

His Function before and after

When it was built, the bridge could open and close at middle .It was accioned by hydraulic functions of some machines.

Actually the hands of support are working like before , by hydraulic function , but in 1976 was used oil and electricity to the energy.

How to arrive

Open all days >from Tower Hill to London Bridge, we can catch buses with number: 15, 25,40,42,47.

The price is 6 pounds for adults and 4.5 pounds for students with a card.