mcculloch bought london bridge thinking it was tower bridge.
mcculloch bought london bridge thinking it was tower bridge.
who bought london bridge thinking it was tower bridge?
mcculloch
architectural historian dan cruickshank selected tower bridge as one of his four choices for the 2002 bbc television documentary series "britain's best buildings".









































tower bridge is often mistaken for london bridge, the next bridge upstream. a popular urban legend is that in 1968, robert p. mcculloch, the purchaser of the old london bridge that was later shipped to lake havasu city in arizona, believed that he was in fact buying tower bridge. this was denied by mcculloch himself and has been debunked by ivan luckin, the vendor of the bridge.
tower bridge
tower bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in london, built between 1886 and 1894. the bridge crosses the river thames close to the tower of london and has become an iconic symbol of london. because of this, tower bridge is sometimes confused with london bridge, situated some upstream. tower bridge is one of five london bridges now owned and maintained by the bridge house estates, a charitable trust overseen by the city of london corporation. it is the only one of the trust's bridges not to connect the city of london directly to the southwark bank, as its northern landfall is in tower hamlets.
tower bridge