London

London college: from top left to right
The Ashes, Lord’s Museum; Regent Street; Eros and Trocadero, Piccadilly Circus; Diagon Alley (Leadenhall Market); Tower Bridge; Big Ben; Houses of Parliament; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

The Tower of London was said to be the most fearsome of all of the fortifications built by William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings. Its primary function was to provide a base for royal power in the City of London, and a stronghold to which the Royal Family could retreat in times of civil disorder. Henry VIII of course used it as a prison for religious and political prisoners.

London Tower collage: from top left to right
Tower of London from the Thames; Wakefield Tower, throne room; Fusilier’s museum; Waterloo Barracks – Jewel House (where the Crown Jewels are kept - MY GOD!); the next two speak for themselves!; Bloody Tower – Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned here for 13 years, and the two princes were allegedly murdered here; Traitor’s Gate – Prisoners accused of treason, such as Ann Boleyn, passed through here; White Tower – the oldest medieval tower.