Tower of London
About Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded toward the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest. The White Tower, which gives the castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was initially a resented symbol of oppression. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. The Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under kings Richard I, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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He drained the moat because lots of people were getting cholera, basically, because it was so stagnant. He also closed the Royal Menagerie, which used to be based at the Tower of London. He closed it because people kept being killed by the animals.
from 233: No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark, 2018-09-07 at 00:10:58 · read transcript
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Do you know who it's named after? Hasselhoff, I would say. The car? No, obviously not. No, it was because it was the route that knights used to take from the Tower of London to Smithfield where jails were held. Knights would ride across that street. They're talking carriages, wouldn't they? I was reading about Nicaragua's capital city of Managua. I was trying to find out, based on this fact about street names, I was trying to find out if there was any way where the streets have no name, like in the South.
307: No Such Thing As EastEnders, The Opera, 2020-02-07 · listen
Do you know who it's named after? Hustlehoff, I would say. The car? No, obviously not. No, it was because it was the route that Knights used to take from the Tower of London to Smithfield where Jouse were held. Knights would ride across that street. In their talking carriages, wouldn't they? I was reading about Nicaragua's capital city of Managua. I was trying to find out, based on this fact about street names, I was trying to find out if there was anywhere where the streets have no name, like in the song.
No Such Thing As EastEnders, The Opera, 2020-02-07 · listen
Where are they now? They'd failed to report for national service, and they'd been on the run for ages, and then they'd been caught by a policeman who was like, you didn't report for national service, and I think they punched him. Yeah. I think their regiment... Was based at the Tower of London. Was based at the Tower of London. Yeah. Which is bizarre. Cray brothers, for any overseas listeners, they're the very famous mob London gangsters.
233: No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark, 2018-09-07 · listen
What a nightmare to organise. Fortunately, pretty much every village in England had a flock of geese just hanging around the village pond. In 1417, King Henry V ordered that his sheriffs take six feathers from every goose of the land and deliver them to the Tower of London. This was a way that... Did they send all those sheriffs out to all the towns just plucking...
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