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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A9J_st-margaret-fish-street-hill_London-England.html
Opposite this site
stood St. Margaret
Fish Street Hill
Destroyed in the
Great Fire 1666
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27IF_wharfinger-cottage_London-England.html
There has been a cottage on this site for at least 200 years. Originally, it was the home of the Controller of the Tower Wharf, known as the Wharfinger.
Until the late 19th century, the Wharf was a busy dockside. Weapons, gunpowder and other mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27IE_the-tower-of-london-foreshore_London-England.html
William the Conqueror began the Tower of London close to the riverside, to stop invaders coming up the Thames. The foreshore was originally an open beach, but as London developed, wharves and warehouses were built to serve its growing trading econ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27ID_the-queens-stairs_London-England.html
Important visitors would have entered the castle here, at one of its three riverside entrances. Kings, queens and high ranking state visitors would have stepped off their boats and climbed the Queen's Stairs in their finery on to the wharf.
The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27IC_saluting-battery_London-England.html
Cannon have been fired in celebration from Tower Wharf for centuries. Henry VIII marked the coronation of his second wife, Anne Boleyn, with a cannon salute. On your right is the battery where modern guns are fired today to commemorate royal anniv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27IB_the-tower-wharf_London-England.html
This wharf was built in the 13th and 14th centuries to allow ships to dock next to the fortress. Where you are standing now would have been busy and bustling with people loading and unloading ships with weapons and military supplies. From the 1450…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27IA_western-entrance_London-England.html
From here you can see surviving parts of the 13th-century main entrance to the Tower. Built for Edward I by 1281, the Middle Tower and Byward Tower were linked by a drawbridge and causeway spanning a water-filled moat. The area below you is now us…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27I9_the-byward-postern_London-England.html
This area is a gateway that links the tower to the Thames waterfront on the wharf. It was a private entrance where important people and goods were brought into the Tower. Coins and bullion would also have been brought through here and into the Min…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z2Q_the-monument_London-England.html
This monument designed by Sir Christopher Wren was built to commemorate the Great Fire of London 1666 which burned for three days consuming more than 13,000 houses and devastating 436 acres of the City. The Monument is 202 ft in height, being equa…