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|title=London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing

|author=Travis Elborough

|publisher=Vintage

|date=February 2014

|website=http://traviselborough.co.uk/

|summary=How old London Bridge crossed the Atlantic to a new home in the Arizona Desert

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The concept of people from overseas countries buying and owning old and long-established British industries and works of art is not new. Yet one of the most unusual sales of this kind occurred in March 1968. It was a time of British economic crisis (where and when have we heard that before) and the ‘I’m Backing Britain’ campaign, and a time when the concept of heritage was unfashionable and the authorities seemed to attach more value to modernity than to relics of the Regency and the Victorian age.

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