London Bridge Fun Facts

There are many interesting 'fun facts' about the world-famous London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona!

The London Bridge, 2014

Did you know?

Kaboom! The vintage lamps on the bridge are made from the melted-down cannons of Napoleon Bonaparte's army.
The London Bridge is rumored to be haunted. For years, visitors have claimed sightings of a British police bobby patrolling the bridge and a woman in black roaming the night.
The inside of the bridge is hollow because it was rebuilt in order to accommodate auto traffic. During the London Bridge's reassembly, a steel framework was faced in granite, rather than using solid granite blocks, which reduced its weight from 130,000 tons to 30,000 tons while strengthening the structure. The London Bridge is NOT falling down!
The London Bridge is a movie star! It's been featured in such horror films as "Bridge Across Time, aka Terror on the London Bridge" (1985) and "Day of the Wolves" (1971).

When dismantled in London, England, each stone of the London Bridge was numbered for reassembly in Lake Havasu City. The bridge was shipped overseas to the Port of Long Beach, California and then transported overland to Lake Havasu City, where reassembly began in 1968. If you look carefully, you can see the numbering on many of the stones.
Can you say guano? The London Bridge is home to hundreds of bats, which inhabit the nooks and crannies of its hollow interior.

Also calling the London Bridge home are thousands of swallows who, on the underside of the bridge, have built their nests out of mud pellets gathered from the shoreline of the Bridgewater Channel.
The London Bridge has gone green! The white-yellow tints of the recently installed LED lights that line the bridge lend a vintage look, similar to the original gaslights, and the energy saving bulbs make the bridge environmentally efficient.
The London Bridge is known as the world's largest antique, and with the opening of the bridge in October 1971, Lake Havasu City was permanently put on the map as a world-famous attraction.

As the second-largest tourist attraction in Arizona, topped only by the Grand Canyon, the London Bridge continues to draw tens of thousands of sightseers to Lake Havasu City annually.
A top new sneaker release for 2018, the Concepts x New Balance Made in U.K. 991.5 "Lake Havasu" athletic shoe was inspired by the story of the London Bridge's relocation to Lake Havasu City. New Balance presented two pairs of this limited-edition shoe to the city.