On Dec. 30, 1952, a London city bus found itself in a precarious position: driving over the Tower Bridge as it opened to allow passage of a boat below. Today, the story is popular in meme form ...

Tower Bridge is one of the great achievements of Victorian engineering, not to mention one of the best-recognised (and most misnomered crossings) anywhere. Constructed to help the flow of river ...

On 30 December 1952, a double-decker bus drove on to Tower Bridge on its usual route between Shoreditch and Dulwich. It was late in the evening, dark and the temperature had dipped below freezing.