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Tower Bridge

London, London History, Quirky London

The Day a London Bus Jumped Tower Bridge

Eric Patcham /

London has seen its share of moments but few events combine slapstick comedy and genuine peril quite like the morning of 30 December 1952, when a red double-decker bus — Route 78 to Dulwich — made an unplanned and entirely unsanctioned leap across Tower Bridge.

London

Dead Man’s Hole, Tower Bridge: London’s Quiet Alcove of the Dead

Eric Patcham /

Beneath Tower Bridge’s soaring gothic arches lies a whisper of Victorian melancholy—Dead Man’s Hole, a name too candid to veil

London, London History

The Forgotten Sands of Tower Bridge: When London Had Its Own Seaside Beach

Eric Patcham /

If you stand on the banks of the Thames today, squinting past the steely grandeur of Tower Bridge and the