Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Tower Bridge lift for Pelican of London


 If you go to the Tower Bridge web site, you can get a list of the times the bridge is raised to let a boat through. Often it is just the "usual suspects" i.e. tour boat regulars on the Thames. But sometimes there are the odd tall ship, like this one that arrived yesterday, the Pelican of London:

Almost as exciting as the bridge opening was it closing, as recently it got jammed in the open position.

Then it was time to go home - by Thames Clipper with its great views:


It was really busy, and at some piers waiting passengers were disappointed as the boat had reached capacity. Space opened up after Westminster:



2 comments:

Greg Wesson said...

Nice photos. I was downstream a bit at More London and got some decent views of the bridge opening and the Pelican of London coming through.

JP said...

Good location - I had thought to go to More London