The eccentric engineer [Time Out Columnist]

This made a difference of up to 2m in water height between each side of the bridge, creating deadly rapids. Adding to the bridge´s deadly reputation was the southern gatehouse, where arrivals were treated to a display of the boiled and tarred heads of traitors. Welcome to London! Something had to be done to improve transport over (and under) the bridge, but nothing was tried for another 150 years until finally an Act of Parliament decreed the removal of all the houses and the insertion of a wider central arch. What the removal of the houses did show was that London Bridge was, once again, falling down.