In message , Al
writes
Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Al
writes
Do you know what, they did. London Bridge at Lake Havasu City in Arizona,
the one some daft Yank had shipped over thinking it was Tower Bridge.
That, I have to tell you is a Great Urban Myth. The property
developers who bought the bridge knew *exactly* what they were getting.

Uhuh. Unless there's a signed picture of the bridge in the contract, I've
got to say that if *I* got the bridge wrong, I would want to claim I didn't
too!

Many staff from Lake Havasu City were taken around the bridge, prior to
its deconstruction by staff of the Bridge House Estates Committee of the
City Corporation. The relocation was following a *very* long lead time
and was the culmination of a huge project. They didn't buy the Bridge
by mail order!

Individual members of the American public might have mixed up the two
bridges but then so do many Britons.

I do my little bit when I can too. "No, it's St Stephen's Tower"
Indeed.

That reminds me of one of my favourite US visitor stories, the veracity
of which I can confirm, as it happened to me! Two trouser-suited
American ladies were eyeing the statue of Achilles at Hyde Park Corner
(a very well-endowed statue indeed, for those whop don't know it). One
of them remarked to the other in a delightfully-cynical way "And I
thought Big Ben was a clock."
--
Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk