This really will be an unforgettable school trip and memorable lesson we can offer students hot food and beverages with our in-house restaurant The Bermondsey Bierkeller. Join us for a multi-sensory experience, you will see, hear and even smell what London Bridge was really like through its 2,000-year history. Moving through the experience you will encounter some of London Bridges gruesome characters from its past including William Wallace, Jack the Ripper, the tales from the Great Fire of London and join the Romans over Londoniun. Travelling back in time to an age of adventure, uncovering the dark secrets that lie beneath the world’s most famous and haunted Bridge. ![]() Its funny, historical and educational making learning easy because of this it welcomes many groups every year, it really is an invaluable lesson in history and covers a number of curriculum topics making it a great attraction for school kids and educational Groups ![]() The Victorian Engine rooms are at the southern end of the bridge.The London Bridge Experience an historical educational attraction for schools based at London Bridge it is an immersive walk-through experience you step down in to the vaults of the original London Bridge with live guides that will take you on a journey to relive and meet all the characters from the past 2000 years of its history. The main entrance is near the north side of the bridge, best-reached from Tower Hill tube station or Tower Gateway DLR. Getting Thereīe warned that the Tower Bridge Experience is extremely popular and there can be long lineups, especially during the busy summer months. Even more impressive are a pair of accumulators, huge iron-clad cylinders for building pressure, weighing over 100 tons each. You can see the huge boilers that fed power to the neighbouring engines used to raise and lower the drawbridges. In 1982, the high-level walkways were covered and are now part of the exhibition of the Tower Bridge Museum. You can see perfectly well, but taking decent photos through the plexiglass is rather difficult.īy contrast to the very popular walkway part of the experience, the Victorian Engine Rooms are relatively quiet and don't get nearly so many visitors, though I, for one, found them perhaps more interesting than the walkway views. Though it certainly is interesting, the sheer number of visitors walking over the plexiglass floor panels have left them rather less than crystal clear. Most visitors, however, come to take advantage of the newest addition to the Tower Bridge Experience the chance to look through a clear plexiglass floor of the walkway for views of the bridge surface beneath and the possibility of watching boats travel under the drawbridge. You can descend to see the Victorian Engine Room, with the original steam engines still in working order, and climb to the covered walkway high above the road surface for panoramic views across London. There was a high-level walkway for pedestrian traffic. The stone finish served a dual purpose of protecting the underlying steel frame and giving the bridge a more pleasing visual impact. The steel framework was encased in a mix of Portland stone and Cornish granite. Bridge construction took 8 years, and the hard work of 432 construction labourers to complete and used 11,000 tons of steel for the framework of the towers and walkways. To create the bridge, two huge piers were sunk into the mud of the riverbed to support the new bridge. The original engines and accumulators are still in place, in the Victorian Engine Room area of the Tower Bridge Exhibition. The original steam engines have been replaced by oil and electric engines, but the hydraulic-driven bascule system is still original. From start to finish the bascules can raise the bridge from 0 degrees angle to a maximum of 86 degrees in about 1 minute. Because the energy was 'stored', there was minimal delay in raising the bridge it could be manipulated up or down at a moment's notice. ![]() The energy created by the steam engines was stored in 6 large containers called accumulators, ready to be used at a moment's notice to raise and lower the bridge.
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