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 ...

Tower Bridge is one of the most famous river crossings in the world, but at 130 years, it isn't actually that old. Still, the fact that it lifts up in the middle when large vessels are passing ...

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.