Nvermind@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTIL In 1968 a man in Arizona bought the London Bridge and had it shipped to the USen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down13
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-linkTIL In 1968 a man in Arizona bought the London Bridge and had it shipped to the USen.wikipedia.orgNvermind@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·1 day agoThe old new London Bridge. Not the old London bridge, or the current London Bridge, but the bridge that replaced the old London Bridge and the current London Bridge replaced. Secondhand bridge.
minus-squareOhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoAlso not to be confused with tower bridge which is the one everyone that doesn’t live in London calls London bridge.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 day agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_London In a sense, I suppose that all of those are London bridges.
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 day agoThere’s also a common (and completely untrue) urban legend that the guy thought he was buying tower bridge, not London bridge.
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoWas the old old London bridge the cool Tudor one that the burnt down in the nursery rhyme?
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoThere’s a fun video on the history of old/medium/new London bridge in Jay Foreman’s Unfinished London series: https://youtu.be/u5CguqywlBk
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day ago old/medium/new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(disambiguation) London Bridge, one of several bridges over the River Thames in central London, England London Bridge (Roman times) London Bridge (Early medieval times) London Bridge (1209) (or “Old London Bridge”) London Bridge (1831) (or “New London Bridge”), the replacement for the 1209 London Bridge (see also Lake Havasu City entry below) London Bridge (1973), the present-day London Bridge and replacement for the 1831 bridge It sounds like there’s the old, the very old, the very very old, the new-but-now-old, and the new.
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI’m not really counting the first two, as they were more temporary wooden bridges. The 1209 London Bridge was the first, proper, permanent bridge across the Thames.
The old new London Bridge.
Not the old London bridge, or the current London Bridge, but the bridge that replaced the old London Bridge and the current London Bridge replaced.
Secondhand bridge.
Also not to be confused with tower bridge which is the one everyone that doesn’t live in London calls London bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_London
In a sense, I suppose that all of those are London bridges.
There’s also a common (and completely untrue) urban legend that the guy thought he was buying tower bridge, not London bridge.
Was the old old London bridge the cool Tudor one that the burnt down in the nursery rhyme?
There’s a fun video on the history of old/medium/new London bridge in Jay Foreman’s Unfinished London series:
https://youtu.be/u5CguqywlBk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(disambiguation)
It sounds like there’s the old, the very old, the very very old, the new-but-now-old, and the new.
I’m not really counting the first two, as they were more temporary wooden bridges. The 1209 London Bridge was the first, proper, permanent bridge across the Thames.