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A follow up from Post #210

One of the glass panes that make up Tower Bridge's new 140ft-high transparent walkway has shattered after a visitor dropped a bottle of beer on it.

The bottle is believed to have caused an initial crack in the 3in thick glass, which was then made worse when a woman walked over it in stiletto heels.

The £1million attraction only opened two weeks ago and runs for 36ft between the north and south towers of the bridge.

Each pane of glass is reported to weigh nearly 1,200lb.

On December 1 a parallel walk will open alongside it.

Posting up a picture of the shattered glass, Twitter user Peter Gordon wrote: "Was in tower bridge walkway today, someone dropped a beer bottle; this happened."

Tower Bridge business manager Chris Earlie told ITV: "We are gutted it's happened in the first couple of weeks when it's been open to the public but it's completely safe.

"We should have said no glass on the glass section of the floor. It was a bit shortsighted of us."

Daily Telegraph