Talk:Tower Bridge

message: The article is completely silent about access to the walkways (now closed, used only for exhibits?). Are there elevators? Or stairs only? Stair count? What is current pedestrian route? Right straight across same as vehicles? When the bridge is open, can pedestrians still cross by going over the upper route? I'm surprised at the silence given to the pedestrian aspect.
63.194.45.199 (talk) 18:15, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing? Access to elevated walkways? Current pedestrian pathway? 

message: Here you go; they're clearly out of copyright: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertypicturegalleries/8923147/Photographs-of-Tower-Bridge-being-constructed-are-found-in-a-skip.html Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos of construction - found in a skip! 

message: Tower Bridge does not connect with 'The Borough' on the south side of the Thames (that's London Bridge) it connects to Bermondsey, a different part of the London Borough of Southwark.
90.200.226.102 (talk) 17:09, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image: London Thames Sunset panorama - Feb 2008.jpg = incorrect description 

message: There reads: "The bridge's present colour scheme dates from 1977, when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee." So, where is the red? I can see white and blue but not red. 85.217.36.130 (talk) 03:07, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  colors 

message: Wasn't the Tower Bridge also featured as a Secret Service Headquarter in a James Bond movie (or maybe a similar movie)? -- megA (talk) 10:43, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  James Bond? 

message: Is there a definitive list of the people killed during the construction of Tower Bridge?  So far I can find
:: John Church 1887
:: William Carnegie 1893
:: Edward Burns 1894
:The Evening Telegraph says there were ten fatalities. jmb (talk) 14:44, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fatalities during construction 

message: No information about the replica in Suzhou?
 
This collection includes even the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Alexandre III Bridge and, of course, the Tower Bridge from London.
 
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2012/07/24/chinas-builds-tower-bridge/ http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/07/05/tower-bridge-replica-china/ http://www.nadernazemi.org/2012/07/tower-bridge-in-china-suzhou-builds-its.html#!/2012/07/tower-bridge-in-china-suzhou-builds-its.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.204.102.130 (talk) 22:55, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  replica in Suzhou 

message: Was the bridge powered by steam pumps right from the start? I remember being told that it was originally connected to the hydraulic mains and the steam engines were installed later, when the mains closed down? --Roly (talk) 13:51, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original hydraulic power source 

message: The date in the text was altered from 1886 to 1887 but no authority has been cited,  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GeoffreyBH (talk • contribs) 20:55, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commencement of Construction 

message: In the incidents section: "At the time, the building contractor Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd. was in the midst of constructing a new office tower known as "K2""
This doesn't seem relevant to the closure of the bridge.. Philipwhiuk (talk) 16:56, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  K2 relevance 

message: I've always assumed Tower Bridge to be named after the two towers at either end of the bridge.  What evidence is there that it was actually named after the Tower of London? — Smjg (talk) 01:32, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Most bridges in London are named after the area they are in, but a fair question. I can't find a definitive source, but a look round the area also yields "Tower Hill", "Tower Gateway" and "Tower Hamlets" for e.g. Paulbrock (talk) 13:47, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I know about those locations in the vicinity.  But this doesn't really tell us what was named after what.... — Smjg (talk) 23:07, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  https://londonist.com/2015/01/how-londons-thames-bridges-got-their-names  Andy Dingley (talk) 23:35, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Named after the Tower? 

message: I suppose the best thing to be said for this is the caption 'Time lapse video of Tower Bridge', because that is just what it is. It isn't a time lapse video of Tower Bridge doing anything interesting (like opening), but just of it continuing to exist. Nice time lapse of the clouds going by, admittedly, but that isn't very relevant to this article. Am I missing something?. Does this video actually add anything useful to the story this article tells that isn't already told by all the still pictures?. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 14:32, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, gone. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:07, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Am I missing something in the time lapse video 

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message: Here is an earlier 1899 construction photo.  If anyone is interested, then you might want to follow up to determine if the B&W version isn't copyrighted for use on Wikipedia. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 16:51, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colorized construction photo 

message: An editor has added  a gallery repeatedly, despite it being promptly removed by other editors.  Should we keep it?
I find galleries to be a poor way of using images and rarely appropriate. They show images that are too small and crowded to be a useful use of such images; if you want to see what's there, show the image, don't hide it.   This gallery is also a poorly chosen set of images, with half of them unrelated to the others and simply too small to make out.  The gallery is justified on the basis of being a sequence of the bridge opening (4 images, plus a mismatched one that is important to show the final position, but taken from another sequence) - this might be justified as a gallery, but only if the images were big enough to see.
Overall, I just don't see this article as needing a great many images - Tower Bridge is iconic, but doesn't take many images to show it. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:59, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery or not? 

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message: Currently, mentions of tonnes are converted to short tons but mentions of tons, presumably long tons, are not converted at all.  Given that long and short tons and tonnes are all fairly similar, I don't know if changing over 70,000 tons of concrete to over  would add much but the current approach does seem inconsistent. Cavrdg (talk) 13:16, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Weight conversions

message: Hi, the "street signage" photograph in the article in clearly for London Bridge. I don't know what should be done, remove the photo or find an correct one, but obviously, this makes little sense, especially as the article claims how well advised it is earlier
 
Anyway,  Shadowssettle(talk) 16:24, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The sign "LONDON BRIDGE" quite clearly must have been photographed on London Bridge, the next crossing upstream.  It is a common mistake. Geoffrey BH 17:23, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Street signage 

message: Why is there no mention of the bascule operation in the lead? Jprw (talk) 11:37, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've dropped a bit in. The lead was out of sync with the body, with claims in the former not in the latter. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:55, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bascule operation 

message: The article states that Tower Bridge is sometimes mistaken for London Bridge although this is not attributed to any source. Should the article continue to propagate a view that some people that presumably don't know anything about Tower Bridge mistake it for another bridge that, presumably, they also don't know anything about? It would seem this apparent mistaking of Tower Bridge for another bridge should be removed? PSCMol (talk) 11:01, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sometimes mistaken for London Bridge"? Should be removed?