Is Tower Bridge the famous London Bridge in the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down?
London Bridge and Tower Bridge are two different bridges. Tower Bridge is the iconic bridge with that everybody recongnises as being in London. London Bridge is the next bridge along the Thames from Tower Bridge as you come in from Essex and the North Sea. London Bridge was sold to some rich American thinking he was actually buying Tower Bridge. The London Bridge he bought now spand Lake Havasu on the Arizona/California border in the US. London Bridge was one, if not the first, bridge to be built to cross the river connecting the north and south. During the original construction, London Bridge did collapse on numerous occasions killing a good few people. The nursery rhyme stems from this.
