For centuries, children and kindergarteners have sung and danced to the tune of London Bridge is falling down, but when engineers discovered that the London Bridge was actually falling down in the early 1900s, it was no laughing matter. The stone bridge was just over a century old, and was the busiest point in London crossed by 8,000 pedestrians and 900 vehicles every hour. Surveyors found that the bridge was slowly sinking—about one third of a centimeter every year. When measurements were taken in 1924, they found that the bridge’s east side stood some 9 cm lower than the west side. Another four decades had passed before the City Council could arrive at a decision.
Council member Ivan Luckin suggested that instead of demolishing the bridge, they should try to sell it.
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The London Bridge in Lake Havasu City. Photo credit: Adventures On Wheels/Shutterstock.com
Source: amusingplanet.com