![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
London’s Tower Bridge took its name from its proxmity to the Tower of London. Originally chocolate brown, it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen’s SIlver Jubilee in 1977.
Construction of Tower Bridge
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It looks almost as good as the one in “Sherlock Holmes”
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