WHAT HAPPENED to London Bridge?

[Music] thank you [Music] so this entrance gate is a part of Whitley Court in Worcestershire England and the original mansion burnt it is still in Ruins and I think it's now part of the Historic Society in the UK that they actually purchased this gate and brought it over to the entrance of London Bridge [Music] the boundary of the city of London in England was established in Roman times and it's marked by these dragons at each entry point and it's also the same here at Lake Havasu City [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now if you ever go to England and you take a trip to Trafalgar Square in London you'll see the Lions now these Lions stand for diversity opportunity courage and ambition now obviously these London 25 boxes weren't just in London they were all over England and I remember in the day we used to pick up the phone for a trumpet in or a 1010 fee for your phone call now they're just an icon thank you this New London Bridge started sinking in England because it couldn't keep up with the amount of weight of the traffic it wasn't designed to cope with it so in 1967 it was placed on the market and Robert P McCulloch founder of Lake Havasu bought it for two million four hundred and sixty thousand dollars it was dismantled Brick by Brick and shipped through the Panama Canal to Long Beach California and then trucked here and reassembled the total cost was 5.1 million [Music] these lamp posts are made of the iron which was melted down from Napoleon bonapartes cannons [Music] thank you did you know that this bridge isn't fixed it actually floats and that's to help just in case there's an earthquake when these Stones were moved in the 60s 80 human skeletons were found bricked up in the pillars London Bridge has a thousand foot span and even survived World War II's London Blitz unfortunately it started sinking which is why it was sold in fact two American first Infantry Division servicemen carve their names into one of the old Stones back in 1942 and we have found the graffiti from the soldiers look at that now that is pretty neat [Music] so in October in 1971 when they had the opening of the London Bridge debut there was hot air balloons fireworks marching bands and there was a banquet of lobster and roast beef which was exactly the same banquet that was given to King William IV on the original opening of London Bridge oh wow I bet the beefeaters enjoyed eating the roast beef it's one of those things you look at the old photos the original when it had like the the structures that was the old London Bridge which is what I was going to say if he'd let me finish this one was built in its place just next door to it down down river from it but just even the fact the history of you know this wasn't England just like this across River Thames and now it's here across the Colorado and Lake Havasu it's pretty it's pretty cool I mean it's a little bit of English History and Nostalgia absolutely now the old London Bridge the one that you were referring to that had all of those buildings on top yes that lasted 600 years and unfortunately that did actually start sinking slightly and that's where the nursery rhyme came from London Bridge is Falling Down and another thing I was gonna say but you should get away from me you are so facetious but there was also a saying or there was also a story that that old London Bridge had a fire at each end and over 3 000 people died in that fire oh that old London Bridge started sinking they actually took all of those buildings away all the shops all the apartments to try and stop it and it still didn't work which is why this one was replaced this one replaced it yeah this one replaced that one yeah and a lot of people get mistaken and they think the London Bridge is the one with the big towers that's actually the Tower of London which we've been to yep I've taken you there was a great experience we even saw the beefeaters we did [Music] but they also would guard the prisoners of the Tower of London as well as the crown jewels in Tudor times and you know what they still do today guarding the crack the crown jewels yep and we even got to see the crown rules we even got to see the crown jewels that was a an incredible trip let's see what else we can see London Bridge was built in 1831 and replaced the old London Bridge that had been up for 600 years and it spanned the River Thames the old London Bridge the one that was 600 years replaced a wooden bridge now back in the day what they used to do any traitor they would behead them off with his head and put their heads on spikes along the bridge and this was to discourage other people to be a traitor to the crown thank you [Music] foreign [Music] Lake Havasu has over 400 miles of Shoreline and has 28 scaled down Lighthouse replicas and they're all fully functional which makes Lake Havasu City home to more lighthouses than any other city in the whole of the USA [Music] look [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign thank you thank you thank you cuperti governor people in England actually don't speak like that so stop it [Music]