look. that’s right look. what am i on about? well let me tell you. this week on the better photo project annie is talking about looking and finding inspiration by looking through other peoples blogs & tumblr accounts, which i can confirm i do lots & often. actually more time than i care to divulge! i also spend an incredible amount of time, verging on rude, gazing and drooling at delicious photography on pinterest & instagram too.  View Post

for quite some time we have been meaning to “head” (sorry) over to the tower of london, her majesty’s royal palace and fortress. actually if the truth be known only a very few, (the a-list celebrities of their time i guess) have been executed actually on the green inside the tower of london. only seven in total were recorded, three of them queens, anne boleyn, catherine howard and jane grey.

outside on tower hill, is where the main executions happened. 125 “unfortunates” were beheaded here, until the last in 1747. dukes, knights, earls and nobles all came to their end outside the tower walls. an execution could draw a crowed of 100,000 spectators. this was considered entertainment, the whole family would go, with a picnic to boot! possibly the x factor of the day. the first being simon sudbury in 1381 and the last simon fraser in 1747. so if your names simon, i’d give tower hill a wide berth!

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