Comments on: The Tower Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458646 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:55:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458646 Wonderful images, even if the Yeoman Warders do appear rather ‘jaundiced’ looking!

]]> By: gkbowood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458164 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:25:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458164 Loved those veggie plots in the moat!

]]> By: Boudicca Fawkes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458157 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 14:49:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458157 Great pics yes lots of ghosts in thee tower but in 2014 my husband guy Fawkes and Thomas wintour and Jack kit Wright and Chris kit Wright and Robert wintour left thee tower and live wyth me don’t forget you can see our book as we have donated along wyth a calendar to raise funds for president vododymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine

]]> By: Alison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458149 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:40:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458149 Really interesting. My Great Great Grandfather was a Yeoman warder from 1868 to 1891 and they lived in the Salt Tower where he raised his young family. My Great Grandfather who was baptised in the Tower enlisted into the army there in 1895.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458145 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:00:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458145 … And within a few years of the 1910 photos, The Great War had begun and the Tower was once again hosting executions, Death by firing squad was the fate awaiting captured spies.
It’s a wonderful place, having visited several times. My 11 year old follows in many others footsteps in June.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458132 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:59:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458132 Thanks for the special pictures of the Tower. The Beating the Bounds ritual will probably take place again soon, won’t it?

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458128 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:32:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458128 Great photographs of the Tower.
Those young lads beating the bounds look as if they are enjoying themselves!

]]> By: JIll Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458118 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 07:06:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458118 Great to see pictures of the Tower without it being overshadowed by massive office blocks!

]]> By: Susan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458112 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 05:47:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458112 Oooops, I may be wrong about the Byward Tower – I see Joanna Moore’s 2012 drawings resemble the 1910 photos…

]]> By: Susan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/23/the-tower-of-old-london-x/#comment-1458111 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 05:45:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191413#comment-1458111 These photos are wonderful; thank you so much for finding them! Aside from the ghastliness of the tinted uniform – which makes it look a bit like a clown suit – the Byward Tower doesn’t look like that anymore, does it?

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