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-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.
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.