Who was the first person to have his head on the London Bridge?

Jeremy Beadle begins by reminding us that William Wallace was the first person to have his head adorn the ramparts of London Bridge as a warning to other wrongdoers. Here's the tale. “After apparently being betrayed by his own countrymen, William Wallace was captured and, on 22 August 1305, taken to London.



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By 1962, it was not sturdy enough to carry the increased load of traffic; the bridge was sold by the City of London in April 1968 to make way for its replacement. The purchaser, Robert P. McCulloch, was an entrepreneur and real estate developer who founded Lake Havasu City.

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But go back three centuries or more and the bridge was full of houses and some illustrious tenants. During the reign of Henry VIII, the court painter Holbein lived there. Two hundred years later, another artist – Hogarth – was a resident.

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In 1968, an American tycoon bought London Bridge—all 10,000 tons of it—and moved it brick-by-brick to the desert town of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. In the early 1960s, officials in England made a troubling discovery: London Bridge was falling down.

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In 1977, it was repainted the red, white and blue colours you can still see today, to celebrate Her Late Majesty The Queen's Silver Jubilee.

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