HIDDEN SECRETS | London's Tower Bridge

Discovering the Hidden Secrets of the famous Tower Bridge in London. We head below the river, showing you parts of the bascule bridge never seen before along with how the bridge operates today.

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The City Bridge Foundation
City of London
Georgia Okure

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[vickybatchelor]

Wow!! What an incredible structure that is! Never seen inside the bridge before... such an achievement for the brave workmen. Thanks Darren, for another fantastic video 😃

[barbaraking]

Wow ! So lucky to be able to spend time there and see everything behind the scenes.😮 So lucky. Awesome video Darren . The Victorian engineering is amazing as always, love it. Many thanks for going over the glass walkway to show us the views, because there is no way I could have done that. I know it's totally irrational, but I'd be crawling along🤣 the floor at the side.

[ffrancrogowski]

I never realised that there are so many mechanical workings to this bridge, Darren. It's so impressive to see the old steam engines against the modern set up. Down in the basement is stunning, with the size it is. I didn't know that you could go across those walkways, either, The views looking down through the glass to the Thames is unbelievable. It was real good that you could show us all of this on this video, with kind permission. Many thanks.

[malcolmrichardson]

Thank you for a very enjoyable and informative tour of this iconic piece of Victorian engineering, which looks beautifully maintained.

[carljackson]

The comment about the Red bus 4:17 made me think of the London scene in Walt Disney’s It’s a small world. I wonder if it’s true 🤔 another great video

[shirleylynch]

AMAZING . Brilliant documentary. We don’t know the half. How clever were those people long ago. Well Done Darren on another masterpiece. Thank you

[JP_TaVeryMuch]

Great to have the Darren treatment of this altogether more fascinating structure once you get beneath the skin of it.
This is the first time that I've seen several areas of its innards before. The attention to detail you give it, such as the shots of the little walkway next to the braking system right up high in the bascule chamber and the ones showing the magnitude of the steel girders soaring up to the top of the tower were amazing.

The bus driver was Albert Gunter and on the 30th of December 1952, the bridge operators had forgotten to sound the alarm that it was opening to river traffic.
He had little choice other than to gun it and thankfully his no. 78 bus made it to the other side safely. He was even given a day off and a ten pound reward, although he did break his leg apparently.

There's an unbelievable 13 million rivets holding it all together and as one of those wonderful English eccentricities, the only time that the road decks are raised to the full extent of near vertical is when the Monarch is onboard a vessel passing through.

Thank you once again for proving that there's always more to learn, even about something you think you know all about.
The only thing that I still haven't been able to find out about is what they've done with the coal cellars and where the chimneys were!

The weight of each bascule is around 1200 tons and apparently is so well counterbalanced that it only takes the same power as boiling a kettle to raise.

[lezking]

Oooh - You lucky bascule!

Something for us to enjoy later - Thank you!

[shaunwest]

Great video Darren, such an Incredible piece of engineering, it's stunning.👍

[jetsons]

The Tower Bridge is a piece of industrial art having both function and beauty. The work of the Victorian designers, engineers and workers is outstanding considering there were no computers and only basic construction machinery. This is a perfect example of "Do it right the first time." There is still a cost/charge to lift the bridge, its paid by the taxpayers but well worth the price for such an important part of London/UK history.

[davegardner]

That chair in the old operating room looked like it was a commode 😂.

[MikeyFab]

Great to see another upload from you! ♥

[dandare]

I’m sure Fred Dibnah did a video on the Bridge many years ago on his Steam powered by gone years series.
Great video as always and never knew a glass walkway was installed 👍

[LeedsInAHat]

07:41 Cool how something from Leeds is/was so fundamental to the running of the bridge!

[lynnballington]

Hello Darren how are you happy new year to you and your family hope that you had a good Christmas love your vidio very interested of London tower bridge best wishes take care stay safe xx ❤😅😅

[stephenmartin]

Hi, Darren.
Did you notice that the old steam boilers were built in Leeds?
Crossthwaite Furnace Company.
After a quick Google, the company was on York Street, Leeds 9 somewhere.

[Brummie-In-The-Highlands]

That was an interesting video about this incredible structure. Thank you.

[johnharrison]

Fascinating! A great vid Darren, thanks for creating such well researched and interesting content which is much appreciated

[raymondlee]

Great video Darren I wouldn't like to walk over that glass though nice one.👍

[lezking]

Thanks for another interesting video. Is it my memory playing tricks with me, or have you been in the under regions before?
To my shame, I've never been inside the towers or across the high rise walkways - we must do that this year... I'm glad there is a lift. I don't think I could walk across the glass part, though.