The Tower of London

London Day 5

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December 22nd 2010
On the tube to Tower Hill today to visit the Tower of London. I love London in the winter, we were able to walk straight into the Tower and join a Yeoman Warder who entertained us with stories of beheadings, murders and folk being hanged, drawn and quartered. What a boys paradise, the White Tower containing the Royal Armouries, and every building seeming to have some gruesome tale from its med ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more