Saturday, August 4, 2007

The one on Bridges...

London Bridge is Falling Down,
Falling Down, Falling Down
London Bridge is Falling Down,
My Fair Lady

While singing this song in my nursery days, I remembered picturing in my mind what I thought would be the London Bridge. It was a grand red-bricked suspension bridge built across the banks of a wide river. (Then, I had absolutely no idea that it was River Thames.) There was also a tower clock attached to each side of the bridge.

When I finally got to see the most sung-about bridge for the very first time today, I was slightly disappointed to see a boring plain grey-concrete bridge. It was nowhere near the image I had in my mind as a child.

Approximately 400 metres away from the London Bridge is the Tower Bridge. In fact, the Tower Bridge seems to be closer to what I thought London Bridge would look like!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ah! i didnt know london bridge looked like that!

RJ Neo said...

Yeah! I think the Benjamin Sheares Bridge looks better!