Nvermind@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agoTIL In 1968 a man in Arizona bought the London Bridge and had it shipped to the USen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down12
arrow-up183arrow-down1external-linkTIL In 1968 a man in Arizona bought the London Bridge and had it shipped to the USen.wikipedia.orgNvermind@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·5 hours agoThe old new London Bridge. Not the old London bridge, or the current London Bridge, but the bridge that replaced the old London Bridge and the current London Bridge replaced. Secondhand bridge.
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 minutes agoWas the old old London bridge the cool Tudor one that the burnt down in the nursery rhyme?
minus-squareOhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·edit-25 hours agoAlso not to be confused with tower bridge which is the one everyone that doesn’t live in London calls London bridge.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_London In a sense, I suppose that all of those are London bridges.
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 hours agoThere’s also a common (and completely untrue) urban legend that the guy thought he was buying tower bridge, not London bridge.
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoThere’s a fun video on the history of old/medium/new London bridge in Jay Foreman’s Unfinished London series: https://youtu.be/u5CguqywlBk
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours ago old/medium/new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(disambiguation) London Bridge, one of several bridges over the River Thames in central London, England London Bridge (Roman times) London Bridge (Early medieval times) London Bridge (1209) (or “Old London Bridge”) London Bridge (1831) (or “New London Bridge”), the replacement for the 1209 London Bridge (see also Lake Havasu City entry below) London Bridge (1973), the present-day London Bridge and replacement for the 1831 bridge It sounds like there’s the old, the very old, the very very old, the new-but-now-old, and the new.
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoI’m not really counting the first two, as they were more temporary wooden bridges. The 1209 London Bridge was the first, proper, permanent bridge across the Thames.
The old new London Bridge.
Not the old London bridge, or the current London Bridge, but the bridge that replaced the old London Bridge and the current London Bridge replaced.
Secondhand bridge.
Was the old old London bridge the cool Tudor one that the burnt down in the nursery rhyme?
Also not to be confused with tower bridge which is the one everyone that doesn’t live in London calls London bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_London
In a sense, I suppose that all of those are London bridges.
There’s also a common (and completely untrue) urban legend that the guy thought he was buying tower bridge, not London bridge.
There’s a fun video on the history of old/medium/new London bridge in Jay Foreman’s Unfinished London series:
https://youtu.be/u5CguqywlBk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(disambiguation)
It sounds like there’s the old, the very old, the very very old, the new-but-now-old, and the new.
I’m not really counting the first two, as they were more temporary wooden bridges. The 1209 London Bridge was the first, proper, permanent bridge across the Thames.