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 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