tower bridge

Find out how to take part in one of London’s biggest fundraising races this year.

4,200 bricks and 11 hours later, a scale model of London’s most recognisable river crossing.

A group called the 9/11 London Project Foundation is hoping to build a memorial to honour the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks, using steel girders taken from Ground Zero.

Those seeking to enjoy an impressive and thoughtfully chosen range of quality beer (draft, cask and bottle) will find the latest of three Draft House pubs (this one at Tower Bridge), a fine setting for a sampling. On our invited visit, Londonist enjoyed a few …

Photo / Big Rock Cat Whatever the pros and cons of intrusive advertising campaigns, there are some icons that shouldn’t be messed with. So the news that the bascules (the lifting sections for non-architectural folk) of Tower Bridge might become a huge billboard is of …

Fans of arcane London byelaws in historic places should get to Tower Bridge to see a dangling bundle of straw – a warning to mariners that headroom has been reduced while repainting goes ahead. Port of London Authority River Byelaws 1978 (as amended) Part 5 …

Last week’s key numbers on Londonist collated and compiled into a pretty picture… 40 lamp posts tell Southwark’s history 21 pianos to be dotted around London, to be played by the public as they wish 1 pound daily charge for motorbikes in Westminster prove deeply …

Image by RachelH, with permission More London are the people who run the Scoop, the outdoor amphitheatre space by Tower Bridge, and their More London Free Festival opens today and goes on until 1 October. That’s four months of free music, theatre, film and opera …

With confirmed sightings of a bright, radioactive ball in the sky, we find our minds wandering toward UFOs. How exciting is the idea that grammar-school rocker Chris Martin has left Gwyneth Paltrow nude and unattended in Crouch End, given up the guitar and moved to …

Sit here, press big red button, watch bridge go up. Ever wanted to raise Tower Bridge? A new competition gives you the chance to sit in the control chair and push that big red button (and it really is a big red button; we’ve been). …