Tower Bridge Gunter made a split-second decision to accelerate, clearing a gap to drop onto the north bascule, which had not yet started to rise. There were no serious injuries. Gunter was given £10 (equivalent to £ in ) by the City Corporation to honour his act of bravery. The Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident occurred on 5 April 1968 when a Royal Air Force Hawker Hunter FGA.9 jet fighter from No. 1 Squadron, flown by Flt Lt Alan Pollock, flew through Tower Bridge. Unimpressed that senior staff were not going to celebrate the RAF's 50th birthday with a fly-past, Pollock decided
London Bridge Is Falling Down popular culture. There is considerable variation in the lyrics of the rhyme. The most frequently used first verse is: <poem>London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady.</poem> In the version quoted by Iona and Peter Opie in 1951 the first verse is: <poem>London Bridge is broken down, Broken down, broken down. London Bridge is broken down, My fair lady.</poem> The rhyme is constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic, (each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables, with the stress falling on the first syllable in a pair;