Visited Lake Havasu with the primary goal to visit The London Bridge.
We made it to town in time for the Walking London Bridge tour. It was 90 walking tour around the bridge with a lot of interesting stories.
The bridge was purchased for 2.4 million. Only the outside skin of this bridge is actually from the London Bridge.
Here is a picture of the outer shell to show the thickness. All the stones were numbered and shipped.
They left some of the numbers.
Part of the drawing to track the stones.
What looks like stone under the bridge is actually concrete colored to match the original stone on the sides.
The goal was to give the town a tourist draw and help raise property prices in hopes the town would continue to grow. The bridge was purchased for 2.4 million and the granite which was not sent to Lake Havasu was sold in Europe for 2.4 million to people who wanted a piece of the bridge.
This is the original color of the bridge after several hundred years of London’s pollution, the bridge was cleaned and sun bleached.
We stopped at Parker Dam, this is the sun lighting up the power transmission lines,
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