Tower Bridge & vicinity

The Tower Bridge, often mistaken (by those of us not from the UK) for the London Bridge, was constructed between 1886 and 1894. The bridge gets its name from the Tower of London, nearby, which was founded in 1066 and since has been used as a prison, armory, royal mint, and is currently a museum and home of the Crown Jewels. Even older than the Bridge or the Tower, remnants of the Roman-era London Wall, built in the 2nd or 3rd century AD, still stand near Tower Hill.