61 --- Tower Bridge

Here are a few of our photos of Tower Bridge, the world's most famous bascule bridge. There was much discussion among the students in the group concerning the number of times the bridge is raised each year. Wikipedia says about 1000 times a year. Other sources say less often. Certainly, it is raised less frequently than in the past! If you are curious, go to the Official Tower Bridge Website :
http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE/EN/
There you can see a photo of the bridge being raised and you have all the dates and times of the scheduled bridge lifts. Start counting for this year!!

From here, our bus driver drove us to Harrods, the extraordinary department store, to do some shopping!

As you can see, many of us took the same picture!

Jane