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 Dancing o'er The Lady-Lee. </poem> The oldest extant version could be that recalled by a correspondent to the "Gentleman's Magazine" in 1823, which he claimed to have heard from a woman who was a child in the reign of Charles II (r. 1660–85) and had the lyrics: <poem>London Bridge is broken down, London Bridge is broken down, The earliest printed English version is in the oldest extant collection of nursery rhymes, "Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book", printed by John Newbery in London (c. 1744), beginning with the following text: <poem> London Bridge Is Broken down, Dance over my Lady Lee.