Why is there a giant spike at one end of London Bridge? 👀

[jack]

Nah, that's obviously there for the villain to land on after fighting with the main character on a nearby roof.

[KHTimeProtecter]

I know “less is more”, but people should really put a plaque on monuments if they don’t want them misinterpreted.

[omerciftci]

Here is a more catchy intro: “Parachuters hate this monument…”

[kiratsuPH]

I thought it functions as a sundial but I remembered sun doesn't exist in England

[echo]

I hadn’t noticed it before.

Nowadays, one could consider it a monument to a man called Darryn Frost who, in 2019, used a narwhal tusk to duel a terrorist on London Bridge.

[captainsensiblejr.]

It's the memorial to the Unknown Heroin Addict.

[gart]

Wallace wasn't classed as a traitor. He wasn't English. He was killed as an enemy of the English Crown.

[DavesEmpire]

Nah, it's a Splinter for Godzilla to step on

[jocularpaddy]

I had to listen to this twice to check....it stood for 600 years?? That's a pretty impressive structure. I wonder how much of present day London will still be there in 600 years.

[CarpeNoctum]

The old medieval London Bridge was amazing, and truly a marvel of the time. The modern bridge is crap. I know it's a necessity construction, but how can 900 years of technological improvement, be so vastly overshadowed by it's former. They didn't put any effort into it, nothing at all to homologate the previous bridge. I mean, even the second bridge was more ornate than the current one. Imagine bringing Peter Colechurch to the 21st century and showing him what replaced his masterpiece.

[SovietReunionYT]

I'm in love with that picture of the houses on the old bridge! 10/10 aesthetic, would love to see it in city builder games.

[SkipsenPB]

That building beside the spike is the most depressing thing I've seen in a while.

[tattyshoesshigure]

There is an interesting William Wallace memorial plaque on the outer wall of St. Bartholomew Hospital in Smithfield which regularly attracts floral tributes & Saltire flags.

[skypiratecaptain]

St Thomas Moore and William Wallace weren’t traitors. The British crown became heretical, and St Thomas Moore held fast to the church, and Scotland was being taken over by England, which William Wallace was defending.

[abbottone]

Its so uninspiring, I've walked past that billions of times and never even given it any thought.

[ulischmidt]

RIP the old London Bridge, it may have had flaws, but at least it looked nice.

[markgoddard]

There is something amiss if an monument requires an explanation. And it points upward, not to the meaning of its very existence, and thus rather a waste of time, not to mention thinking and application.

[loreman]

St. Magnus was a viking saint, he was killed in Saxon times.

[imperialleather]

It is there for a very unlucky person gliding down on a parachute

[CrniWuk]

Rather dangerous. What if someone trips and falls on the spike?