Tower of London June 2004 - page 2
So our visit to the Tower of London continued with a
look around the fascinating White Tower including the awesome
armoury. Then it was off to the grisly torture room followed by a
short stroll along the Tower's wall walk overlooking the Thames.
This is page two of two.
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The White Tower was our next port of call on our Tower of London visit,
which was much like a museum inside with plenty of exciting exhibits to
see.
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On the way to the White Tower we saw these two colourful characters
bravely fighting with swords swishing wildly around, and looking very
realistic! While they were fighting it out they explained to the
gathered audience all the moves and counter moves used by warriors of
old. Wonderful stuff.
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Inside the White Tower now, which would have been alright if it wasn't
for all the other tourists! The White Tower marks the start of
the Tower of London's history, of which it's got a lot to tell.
There were...
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...plenty of exhibits, this one showed a model of the Tower of
London as it was in 1547, and no, Mike doesn't remember that far
back. Tower of London websites are in our tourist resources.
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Here's an amazing mounted suit of armour on an armoured horse - it's
surprising they ever managed to move let alone gallop! Now we
hope it didn't rain or neither would be able to move, it'll all rust
up. How on earth did they ever manage to fight?
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It looks like someone's pointing a gun at Mike's head here, while
Belinda looks on in amusement. All the olden guns, armour and
stuff was amazingly interesting and we spent ages in the White Tower's
intriguing Armoury area studying it all.
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In a rare moment when no one else was around we managed to read the
many interesting exhibits on the wall. In actual fact the White
Tower was very popular with tons of tourists milling about. Next
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...for us was the Armoury with its large collection of fearsome guns
hanging up on the wall. Now here's a historic fact we found out:
the White Tower was begun during William the Conqueror's reign.
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We moved on to the torture room, displaying plenty of gruesome
implements. Hmmm, that rack looks like it could it be used to
s-t-r-e-t-c-h Mike out a bit!
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Well we managed to escape the Tower without getting locked up so we
finished up with the wall walk, our enjoyable visit to the Tower of
London almost over.
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Yes, that looks suspiciously like Tower Bridge again over
there. We had a great day out at the Tower of London and can
highly recommend this attraction.
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Just as we were leaving the Tower we spotted this enormous luxury yacht
moored up alongside HMS Belfast,
how the other half live, eh!
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