Ancient City Trust pays £4million for three-year-long Tower Bridge facelift 22,000 litres of paint will be used on Tower Bridge 44,000 man hours to complete the Tower Bridge job over a three- year period Tower Bridge will retain its traditional blue and white colour dating back to 1894 1,500 tonnes of expendable abrasive will be used to blast Tower Bridge back to its metal framework before repainting 40,000... 

Harris Digital Productions has started recording the planting of London’s first vineyard since Middle Ages. Volunteers with Bacchus vines Volunteers gathered at Forty Hall Organic Farm in Enfield on Tuesday 5th May to plant the first acre of a groundbreaking new project – to plant London’s first commercial vineyard since medieval times. Forty Hall Vineyard is a new social enterprise led... 

New viewing platform On Saturday 11 October the streets around the Monument were closed for an exciting landmark event in the Monument restoration project. A massive 100 tonne crane winched a new balustrade and platform cage on to the viewing platform. The balustrade was lifted in two sections before workmen welded it together. The operation took five hours to complete. The platform cage has been constructed... 

Monument, London The Monument, one of the City of London’s most outstanding landmarks and visitor attractions, will close on 30 July for an 18-month programme of improvements and repairs. The £4.5 million project, funded by the City of London Corporation, will involve the cleaning and repair of the Monument’s stonework and the re-gilding of it’s famous golden orb. A range of new and improved...