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Daily: April-Oct 10am-6.30pm; Nov-March 9.30am-6pm. Guided tour GBP6.25; www.towerbridge.org.uk; Tube: Tower Hill. Tower Bridge is just over one hundred years old, yet it ranks with Big Ben as the most famous of all London landmarks. Completed in 1894, its neo-Gothic towers are clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone, but conceal a steel frame, which, at the time, represented a considerable engineering achievement, allowing a road crossing that could be raised to give tall ships access to the upper reaches of the Thames; the raising of the bascules (from the French for "see-saw") remains an impressive sight. The elevated walkways linking the summits of the towers (intended for public use) were closed from 1909 to 1982 due to their popularity with prostitutes and the suicidal. You can only visit them now on an overpriced guided tour , dubbed the "Tower Bridge Experience", that employs videos and an animatronic chirpy Cockney to describe the history of the bridge.
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