难以置信！伦敦桥的建设历程竟是如此曲折！

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本文讲述了蜚声全世界的伦敦桥的曲折建设历程。

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Around AD 80, the first London Bridge was built over the river Thames from the Southwark settlement and at its northern end a large town grew up, which was to become London. Two other wood bridges followed, but one was blown away in 1091. A third was built in 1163 by Peter de Colechurch, who said that his next bridge would be of stones.
William Rufus levied a tax for building a stone bridge. The bridge took thirty-three years to build. It was finished in 1209 and lasted over 600 years. It had a road 20 feet wide and had a gatehouses. People began building houses and shops on the bridge and this continued in the years to come. The song “London Bridge is Falling Down—My Fair Lady” was based on the bridge in the 13th century when Queen Eleanor was given the tolls from the bridge as a present from her husband, Henry III. But she didn’t spend the money on the bridge. So the bridge was broken. People became angry and sang “London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady”. The bridge finally returned to the City of London in 1281, but that winter the ice was so heavy that a part of the bridge did fall down into the water, and a wood bridge had to be built for that part. Later, people were ordered to keep to the left, which soon became the rule of the road.
In 1824, John Rennie began to build a new bridge. The bridge was built 180 feet west of the old bridge and for a time Londoners could see both the old bridge and the new one side-by-side. The new wide bridge was busy at once and even more when the railways came to London, and London Bridge Station opened just south of London Bridge. However, John Rennie’s bridge was not to survive as long as Peter de Colechurch’s and a new modern bridge appeared in the 1960s. An American named Robert McCulloch learned that the British Government would sell the old bridge. He paid $2,460,000 for it and rebuilt the bridge in his own country.