London Docks
is really Tower Bridge, London, Greater London
Real place, still recognisable
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The multiplayer map London Docks is set on the bombed wharves of the Thames during the Blitz, with Tower Bridge standing over the burning river on its loading screen. The game puts the fight among the warehouses, cranes and red buses of the East End docks.
The real place
Tower Bridge opened in 1894 as a combined bascule and suspension bridge, with two Gothic towers linked by high-level walkways. During the Blitz of 1940 and 1941 the docks around it were bombed night after night, but the bridge survived and stayed open to traffic.
Visiting
The Tower Bridge Exhibition lets you cross the high walkways, which have glass floors, and see the Victorian engine rooms. Bridge lift times are published online if you want to watch the bascules rise. St Katharine Docks next door gives a sense of the old riverside wharves.
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