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You can email the Tower Bridge if you'd like

You can email the Tower Bridge if you'd like.
Moreover, it (they) will even reply. Possibly.

How many times your likeness is being captured per day? I have never tried to count all sorts of cameras pointing at me whenever I leave the flat I live in.

This summer, my husband had a traffic incident while crossing the Tower Bridge on his bike in the morning. Thankfully, minor: the vehicle suffered more damage than the body of its owner, but the dignity of the latter suffered the most.
Partially because of this, my husband started working on the paperwork for the police. As a part of this enterprise, he, as it was already foreshadowed, emailed to the Tower Bridge, having carefully crafted his phrasings, -- and they replied.

They sent him a flashcard: four short videoclips of the traffic incident. Four views from slightly different angles. No close-ups, obviously, but still: they recorded it, they stored it, and they keep on recording it: we just had a tiny glimpse.