Tower Bridge
Victorian Gothic bascule bridge with high-level glass walkways and original steam-powered lifting machinery.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Tower Bridge centers on one incident: the morning of 30 December 1952, when bus driver Albert Gunter drove his number 78 onto the bascule just as it began to rise beneath his wheels. You'll hear what thirty years on London's buses had taught him, and the decision facing him in that instant with twenty passengers aboard. It's the story of an ordinary crossing that turned into anything but.
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