Pinboard extra: Cilla Black singing, “They’ve taken London Bridge Away!”

We loved Travis Elborough’s brilliantly bizarre Wednesday Picture story yesterday about the sale, in the 1960s, of London Bridge to an Arizona oilman. Yep. Our 1831 John Rennie-built SE1 river crossing now stands in a desert resort. What we hadn’t heard, yesterday, was Cilla Black’s 1969 B-side recording of London Bridge. A lament about lost love – and a lost bridge. Sob. Click to listen to it above…

“Now they’ve taken London Bridge away
We found love there
They’ve taken London Bridge away
Now it’s not there
But I will keep a place in my heart
For London Bridge was there at the start of our looooovvveee…”