
#74 Virtual Tour of London
The Level Up English Podcast
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The Tower of London
A huge needle marks the area where traitors heads were impaled on spears along the city wall. Guy Fawkes, who was the person who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, also dealt with in this way and his head was also put on a spike. The next one is much more common, I'm sure you will see this anyway. And this is like a huge castle in the centre of London. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman conquest of England. So there's a lot of history that even affected my ancestors as well.
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