Hellow, today I am going to speak about a special places for me, the Tower Bridge. It is special for me because I went to London for see it, and I knew a very good friend there.
Tower Bridge consist in a bascule and suspension bridge that are on
top of the River Thames, London. It was designed to easing road traffic while
preserving access to a main stretch of the River Thames and it belong to the
Bridge House Estates.
Frequently this bridge is confused with the London Bridge, because it is
near of London Tower. However, that two monuments are completely distinct, and
they belong to different periods.
The Tower Bridge turned into a famous symbol of London, the reason was
that in 1876 the city of London Corporation created a competition with the
purpose of the architect did designs, and it was a tremendous success, the
Corporation got 50 designs. The winners were Sir Horace Jones and Sir John
Wolfe Barry.
The process of construction was very long, it has the duration of 8
years, from 1886 to 1894 and there was necessary the need of 432 workers each
day. This construction was expensive, it costed £ 1.184 million.
The material used was steel (more than 11.000 tons), concrete (more than 70.000
tons), Cornish granite and Portland stone.
About the lengths, the towers have 65
meters of tall each one, there are 61 meters of central distance between the two,
the central span has 61 meters and it is divided in two drafts for raise their
83 degrees and allow the fluvial traffic.
The first time that the Bridge Tower
opened her doors was on June 30th, 1894, with the Prince and the
Princess of Wales.
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