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Tower of London Tours
HM Tower of London has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

Daily London Tours.

Tower of London Ariel View

Royal Beasts
The Royal Beasts return to the Tower, London's original zoo! From Easter onwards, see sculptures of the lions, tigers, elephants and even a polar bear, discover how they came to be at the Tower and what became of them in this new fascinating permanent exhibit.  Hear the amazing tales of how the animals were fed, watered and housed as well as various unfortunate incidents when the public got a little too close! The experience will include permanent displays along the newly opened and restored north walk and Brick Tower. 

Fit for a King
A journey through 500 years of royal arms and armour created for both the battle field and the sporting field. From Henry VIII's horse armour, Japanese samurai armour presented to King James I to Prince Charles' polo helmet and knee pads, worn as protection during the princes' polo playing days, the display is a unique timeline from the Royal Armouries collections.

Centenary anniversary - Delhi Durbar
On 12 December 1911 King George V and Queen Mary received homage of Indian princes as Emperor and Empress of India in a lengthy ceremony wearing full state robes in the blazing heat. As the English coronation regalia, kept at the Tower of London could not be taken out of Britain, a new crown was created with over 6000 diamonds as well as Indian sapphires and emeralds of exceptional quality. Following the ceremony the crown was brought back to England and placed in the Jewel House at the Tower of London where it can be seen today. 

Tower of London at Night

Crown Jewels
Our nation's regalia is held in the most visible vault in the world. Thousands of glittering gem stones and yards of silver gilt create a priceless display of royal ornament. Each can tell tales of intrigue, power and majesty across the ages. The Maundy Dish and Imperial State Crown are still part of the annual traditions of monarchy, come on the right day and you'll see our own tradition - placing the ‘in use' sign on a velvet cushion in the relevant case.

Beefeater tours
Share the secrets of one thousand years of royal gossip with a body of Beefeaters (proper name ‘Yeoman Warder' but who remembers that?) that has guarded this fortress for centuries. Take one of their tours and you'll be amazed and appalled by tales that have been passed down for generations. Pain and passion, treachery and torture, all delivered with a smile and swagger.

The White Tower
The White Tower was the original Tower of London. Begun by William the Conqueror around 1080, it would have made a safe and impressive home for the newly crowned Norman invader. It is still home to original armours worn by Henry VIII and Charles I and a scary collection of historical weapons and torture instruments. For those seeking a less gory side of its life, there is the beautifully preserved 11th century Chapel of St John the Evangelist to explore.

Prisoners of the Tower
Despite its reputation there are no dungeons at the Tower of London and its doubtful there ever really were. The Tower was rather more exclusive than that, with prisoners from the higher levels of society entitled to be held here. Come and see what life was like imprisoned in the Bloody or Beauchamp Towers. Experience the sights, sounds and inscriptions left from incarceration five hundred years ago. 


City of London, Greater London EC3N 4AB
Nearest Underground: Tower HillNearest Train Station: Fenchurch Street or London Bridge
Bus Routes: 15, 42, 78, 100, RV1 

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The Clockmakers’ Museum & Library

The Museum in 1817

The Clockmakers’ Company Library was founded in 1813. It consisted at first of the ancient manuscripts of the Company on which most standard reference works about British clockmakers have since been based.

It soon grew to include many printed books, often presented by their authors, or annotated by famous clock and watchmakers. It is now celebrated for its holding of rare clockmakers’ workbooks and related documents (such as Victor Kullberg’s Records and many 18th century holograph manuscripts by John Harrison).

The Old Clock Room

In 1925, by agreement with the Corporation of London, the Clockmakers’ Library was placed in the City’s Guildhall Library (Aldermanbury, London EC2P 2EJ), so that it could be made freely available for consultation by the public. It has remained there ever since.

The Clockmakers’ Collection was begun in 1814 and is therefore the oldest collection specifically of clocks and watches in the world. It has been on permanent public display (also in Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2P 2EJ) since 1874. Entry is free – click here for directions.

"The founding of the Clockmakers' Company" in the Museum

The Collection is shown in a single room, containing at any one time some 600 English and European watches, 30 clocks and 15 marine timekeepers, together with a number of rare horological portraits. The majority of items in the Collection range from c.1600 to c.1850. The Bridgeman Art Library have images of many of them.

Perhaps the most important group within the Collection is the marine timekeepers,

The Harrison case on the left contains "H5", to the right is the work of Mudge, Arnold, Earnshaw and their contemporaries.

illustrating the importance of horology in the science of navigation. Examples are a marine timekeeper of 1724 by Henry Sully, a silver deck watch by Thomas Earnshaw (used by Captain George Vancouver in the discovery by Europeans of the Island now bearing his name) and the celebrated 5th marine timekeeper made by John Harrison and completed in 1770.

The Library and Collection are maintained by the Clockmakers’ Museum and Educational Trust(Reg. Charity No. 312876) which

The 21st Century Case with the Museum behind

employs a part-time consultant keeper. Through the generosity of the Corporation of London, they are housed and overseen on a daily basis by Guildhall Library staff.

A richly illustrated booklet The Clockmakers of London, an account of the Company and its Collection, has been published by the Company and is available from Guildhall Library shop, or apply to The Clerk of the Company, orsales@clockmakers.org.

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Today's Blue Plaque- Thomas Cubitt
CUBITT, Thomas (1788-1855)

THOMAS CUBITT 1788-1855 Master Builder lived here 3 Lyall Street, Belgravia, SW1X 8DW


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Thomas Cubitt (1788–1855), born Buxton, Norfolk, was the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and also carried out several projects in other parts of England.

The son of a Norfolk carpenter, he journeyed to India as ship's carpenter from which he earned sufficient funds to start his own building firm in 1810 on Gray's Inn Road, London where he was one of the first builders to have a 'modern' system of employing all the trades under his own management.

Belgrave Square is one of the grandest and largest 19th century squares in London, England. It is the centrepiece of Belgravia, and was laid out by the property contractor Thomas Cubitt for the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, later the 1st Marquess of Westminster, in the 1820s. Most of the houses were occupied by 1840. The square takes its name from one of the Duke of Westminster's subsidiary titles, Viscount Belgrave. The village of Belgrave, Cheshire is two miles (3 km) from the Grosvenor family's main country seat of Eaton Hall.

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Today's Blue Plaque T.E. LAWRENCE
LAWRENCE, T.E. (1888-1935  "Lawrence of Arabia" 1888-1935 lived here 14 Barton Street, Westminster,SW1P 3NE

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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was used for the 1962 film based on his World War I activities.

Lawrence was born illegitimately in Tremadog, Wales, in August 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner, a governess who was herself illegitimate. Chapman had left his wife and first family in Ireland to live with Sarah Junner, and they called themselves Mr and Mrs Lawrence. In the summer of 1896 the Lawrences moved to Oxford, where in 1907–10 young Lawrence studied history atJesus College, graduating with First Class Honours. He became a practicing archaeologist in the Middle East, working at various excavations with David George Hogarth and Leonard Woolley. In 1908 he joined the OUOTC (Oxford University Officer Training Corps), undergoing a two-year training course. In January 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Lawrence was co-opted by the British military to undertake a military survey of the Negev Desert while doing archaeological research.

Lawrence's public image was due in part to American journalist Lowell Thomas' sensationalised reportage of the revolt as well as to Lawrence's autobiographical account, Seven Pillars of Wisdom(1922).

Featured London Pubs-The George Inn
75-77 Borough High Street, London SE1 1NH
0207 407 2056

Last remaining galleried inn in London

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The George Inn is London's only remaining galleried coaching inn and has been serving thirsty Londoner's for over 300 years. Owned by the National Trust the George was a haunt of Charles Dickens and is mentioned in 'Little Dorrit'. There are two meeting areas, The Talbot Room is in a board room style and The George Room can be set to your preference. They are situated on the first and second floors of the inn, both private areas and have full meeting facilities. Whether you are planning a small meeting for five people or something on a larger scale we are happy to discuss all your requirements. The George also holds a license to host wedding ceremonies and is a fabulous venue for business meetings

Today's Blue Plaque Sir Alexander Fleming
FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881-1955)

SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING 1881-1955 
Discoverer of penicillin lived here 20a Danvers Street, Chelsea, SW3 5AT


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Sir Alexander Fleming FRSE FRS FRCS(Eng) (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

In 1999, Time magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his discovery of penicillin, and stated:

It was a discovery that would change the course of history. The active ingredient in that mould, which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency. When it was finally recognized for what it was, the most efficacious life-saving drug in the world, penicillin would alter forever the treatment of bacterial infections. By the middle of the century, Fleming's discovery had spawned a huge pharmaceutical industry, churning out synthetic penicillins that would conquer some of mankind's most ancient scourges, including syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.

What's that?  in London at Claremont Square

Every day we sit on buses and travel around London passing things that ask us what's that?

Claremont Square Reservoir

Claremont Square, Islington, London, UK

associated engineer
William Chadwell Mylne

date  1855 - 1856
era  Victorian  |  category  Dam/Reservoir  |  OS grid reference  TQ310831

This service reservoir in the centre of Claremont Square was built to boost water supplies from the New River. The 17th century New River brought fresh water to London from springs in Hertfordshire, but within a century demand was outstripping supply. The present covered reservoir replaces an 18th century open-air one, and is still in use.

New River — no longer new and more of a canal than a river — was built in 1608-13 by Sir Hugh Myddelton (1560-1631). By the beginning of the 18th century London’s burgeoning development meant that water supplies could be inadequate. To create a buffer against varying flows and to give extra head of water to the gravity supply, the New River Company constructed an Upper Pond that would supply the river’s terminus at Round Pond (TQ313827). It was built on 0.4ha of land leased from the second Earl of Clarendon, Henry Hyde (1638-1709), and was completed in 1709.

Apart from continuing supply problems, a cholera epidemic in 1846 prompted safety concerns and led to the Metropolis Water Act of 1852. This stipulated that all water, other than from pumped wells, should be filtered and that all filtered water reservoirs within an 8km radius of St Paul’s Cathedral should be covered.

The Upper Pond was demolished in 1855 and replaced by a brick structure 38.6m above high water in the River Thames, which also delivers water by gravity flow. Some of the original timber supply pipes were found during excavations for the new service reservoir.

The reservoir is about 55m square with rounded corners. Inside it is divided into 12 north-south bays separated by partition walls, which support the barrel-vaulted roof. Each partition wall has 10 narrow openings under segmental arches along its length to allow water to circulate. There are also two east-west cross walls with arched openings into each bay. The brick floors in each bay are slightly concave. The structure is about 8m deep and contains water up to 6.4m deep, with has a capacity of 16 million litres.

The 610mm diameter cast iron inlet pipe is on the south side, and is opened by a gate valve with a control rod that rises through the roof. There are similar arrangements for the three outlets (south west, north east and north west corners). All four control mechanisms are set on shallow plinths of York stone. There is a 2m wide channel along the south side, sloping to a drain at the west wall, which also has York stone floor slabs. Two additional outlets were set into the west wall at a later date.

All the bricks in the structure — reputedly 4 million of them — are mortared together with hydraulic lime. The outer wall is battered at a slight angle, and is kept watertight by an external layer of puddled clay. However, little of the reservoir is visible externally as it is concealed within a grass-covered earth embankment some 4m above ground level. A low brick parapet wall with stone capping rises above the mound and surrounds the grassed roof, which has eight round equipment hatches with metal covers.

Access to the interior is through a stone roofed entrance on the east side, leading down two flights of stone stairs with iron handrails. It is not open to the public. The embankment is still ringed with the original iron railings at street level. The structure cost £21,000 to build — a price that reflects the fact that water supplies to customers had to be maintained throughout construction.

The reservoir is now owned and operated by Thames Water, and is supplied with treated water from the Thames Water Ring Main (completed in 1994 and extended in 2010). It was Grade II listed in June 2000.

William Chadwell Mylne was the second son of Robert Mylne, surveyor for the New River and designer of the first Blackfriars Bridge (River Thames, now demolished). William succeeded his father as surveyor to the New River Company in 1811.

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Today's Blue Plaque- T.S.Elliot
ELIOT, T.S., O.M. (1888-1965)


T.S. ELIOT, O.M. 1888-1965 Poet lived and died here 3 Kensington Court Gardens, Kensington, W8 5QE


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Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a playwright, literary critic, and an important English-language poet of the 20th century.^[3] Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.

The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. He followed this with what have become some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945).^[4] He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948

Featured London Pubs -The Jerusalem Tavern

55 Britton Street
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 5UQ
Tel. 0207 490 4281
Fax. 0207 250 3780 

Email: thejerusalemtavern@gmail.com 

Tube/Rail: Farringdon 

 
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The Jerusalem Tavern is located in Britton Street, Clerkenwell, London and is named after the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem; founded in 1140.

The Tavern has occupied several sites in the area since the 14th century and the current building dates from 1720. It is one of the finest pubs in London and is open every weekday for meals, coffee and, of course, the full range of St. Peter's beers and ales. 

Jerusalem Tavern - Town Pub of the Year. The 'JT' has been voted 2009 Town Pub of the Year by the Good Pub Guide which is published by Ebury Press.

London Tube- Great Portland Street, see London on Streetview.


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Great Portland Street is a London Underground station near Regent's Park. It is between Baker Street and Euston Square on the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between "Bishop's Road" (now Paddington) on the Hammersmith & City line and "Farringdon Street" (close to the present-day Farringdon station). It was opened on 10 January 1863 as "Portland Road", and was given its present name on 1 March 1917.

Local points of interest include Regent's Park, and the Post Office Tower. The station is very close to Regent's Park station, which is on the Bakerloo line.

The station is across the street from the main building of International Student House, a student residence and hostel and is also near Harley Street, famous for its doctors and surgeons.

The station is within easy walking distance of Regent's Park and Warren Street tube stations.

Featured London Pubs- The Holly Bush Hampstead

22 Holly Mount
London NW3 6SG
Area: Hampstead Village

020 7435 2892  Fullers Pubs

Now this is a real London pub! After a brisk walk in Hampstead there is nothing
better that a swift half at the Holly Bush. It has a great atmosphere with a cosy feel with an open fire blazing in the winter and the Sunday roast is excellent. 

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London Tube- Mornington Crescent see London on Streetview


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Mornington Crescent is a London Underground station in Camden Town in north west London, named after the nearby street. The station is on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line, between Eustonand Camden Town. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station was opened as part of the original route of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line) on 22 June 1907. Prior to the station's opening, the name of "Seymour Street" had been proposed. After opening, it was little used, and for many years it was open only on weekdays, and before 1966 Edgware-bound trains passed through without stopping.