What a morning bagged tickets for
@deafhavana@president_band@GoodCharlotte
Not that seeing them all at @SlamDunkMusic South & North wasn’t enough at the weekend 🙌🏻
Next time can you stagger your releases nearly fell of chair getting all them 😂
@LiamCromby this friday 😎
Can't come to London without paying a visit to a Huddersfield Town legend Herbert Chapman.... I still don't understand why we don't have our own statue of him #htafc
Britain had a wonder of the world. ⚔️🇬🇧
For 600 years, London Bridge wasn't a bridge.
It was a street. A town. A city floating on the Thames.
Construction began in 1176 and took 33 years.
When it was finished it had 19 stone arches, a drawbridge to let ships through, and a chapel dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket at its heart. The starting point for every pilgrim walking to Canterbury.
Then people started building on it.
At its peak: 200 buildings. 500 residents. 🏘️
Haberdashers, booksellers, apothecaries, taverns and alehouses open from dawn.
The longest inhabited bridge in Europe.
You could walk halfway across and never know you were over a river.
In 1212, three years after completion, a fire killed thousands on the bridge itself. 🔥
In 1282, five arches collapsed under winter ice.
The arches slowed the Thames so much that in hard winters the river froze solid. Londoners held frost fairs on the ice. Bull-baiting. Pop-up taverns. A printing press operating on a frozen river. 🧊
Every time something went wrong, they rebuilt.
London Bridge stood for 622 years.
Then in 1831 they demolished it.
The Victorian replacement lasted barely a century. By the 1960s it was sinking into the Thames.
So the City of London sold it to an American for $2.46 million. 💰
He had it dismantled stone by stone and shipped to the Arizona desert.
Where it still stands today. 🏜️
Britain had a wonder of the world on the Thames for six hundred years.
We sold what replaced it to Arizona.
Did they teach you that?
We will. 🇬🇧
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