Tower Bridge after a lift fell inside the north tower. Citations Sources 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
London Bridge Is Falling Down of Norway in 1014 (or 1009). The nineteenth-century translation of the Norse saga the "Heimskringla", published by Samuel Laing in 1844, included a verse by Óttarr svarti, that looks very similar to the nursery rhyme: <poem>London Bridge is broken down. — Gold is won, and bright renown. Hild is shouting in the din! Odin makes our Olaf win!</poem> However, modern translations make it clear that Laing was using the nursery rhyme as a model for his very free translation, and the reference to London Bridge does not appear at the start of the verse and it is unlikely that this