Tower Bridge bridge's upper walkways. The pedestrian walkways are above the river at high tide. The main bridge deck carries two lanes of road traffic between two low-level pedestrian walkways across both suspension spans and the opening bascule section of the bridge, with the walkways separated from the roadway by fences. The roadway passes through each of the two towers, whereas the low-level walkways pass around the outside of the towers. One of the chimneys on the bridge, which are often mistaken for lamp posts, connects up to an old fireplace in a guardroom of the Tower of London. It is long-disused.
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