The Ultimate Attraction During Your Lake Havasu Vacation. The
London Bridge was purchased on April 18, 1968 for a bid of
$2,460,000 from the City of London by Robert P. McCulloch, Sr.,
founder of Lake Havasu City.ANTIQUE: To avoid taxation, the
Bridge was declared an antique and has been identified as the
world’s largest antique by the Guinness Book of Records.SHIPPED:
The 22 million pounds of granite (10,276 pieces) was shipped
from London through the Panama Canal to Long Beach, California,
and then trucked to Lake Havasu, a 10,000 mile
journey.ARCHITECTS: The architect of the Bridge (in 1824) was
John Rennie. The architect supervising reconstruction was
engineer Robert Beresford, from England. Mr. Beresford used
copies of Rennie’s original plans. He soon discovered that the
stones taken from the quarries to the London site were marked in
the same manner as he had marked them to get them from London to
Lake Havasu.CONSTRUCTION: The five arches were formed by
carefully formed sand mounds (like molds). After t