tower of london

The Tower Hill Execution Memorial

15/07/2026 donbrown 0

Walk through Trinity Gardens from Tower Hill tube, towards the ticket offices for the Tower, and you will pass through the memorial to the merchant […]

Stumbling Across the ‘Tudor Pull’

27/04/2026 donbrown 0

Now I don’t generally work on London Marathon day (“the noise! and the people!”), but this year found me doing a tour of an almost […]

The Tower of London Bombings

12/04/2023 donbrown 0

A couple of months ago I got to look in the crypt of St Peter ad Vincula (“St Peter in chains”) the Chapel Royal within […]

The crypt museum in All Hallows by the Tower

22/06/2022 donbrown 0

Fight your way through the crowds surrounding the Tower of London and you might just make it through to one of London’s oldest churches. All […]

The Opening Ceremony at the Tower of London

15/03/2022 donbrown 1

You’ve probably heard of the Tower of London’s ‘Ceremony of the Keys’ that takes place just before 10pm every day. This is when the Tower […]

An Elizabethan Prisoner’s Graffiti

07/02/2022 donbrown 0

The Tower of London, famous though it is for prisoners, had no dungeons as such: the incarcerated would be held in rooms in different buildings […]

The Chapel of St John the Evangelist

28/12/2021 donbrown 0

One of the loveliest and most peaceful spaces in London is literally in the centre of one of the busiest. The Tower of London gets […]

The Myth of the Tower of London Ravens

04/02/2018 donbrown 0

Just about everyone knows the legend of the Tower of London ravens; that should they leave the fortress then it and, by extension, the entire […]

Swimming in the Thames

18/05/2015 donbrown 0

Over on Kickstarter, the Thames Baths Project is within a whisker of getting its first stage of funding together to build a swimming pool on […]

The Tower Hill Merchant Marine Memorial

07/03/2012 donbrown 0

Directly across the road by the Tower of London, hard by the tube station is the Tower Hill Memorial to sailors of the merchant navy […]