by walklondonadming | Oct 7, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Gerri Gray @boredpanda.com In comparison to our Victorian forebears we are able to make light of the inevitability of death using wit and humour. Up until the 1830s it was customary to remove corpses from existing graves to make way for new burials,...
by walklondonadming | Oct 7, 2020 | Blog, virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Off with his/her head! – London’s executions. The last public beheading in London took place on Tower Hill in 1747. This tradition dates back to 1381 when Simon of Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was hacked to death by...
