David Coleman

Yeoman Warder, Tower of London, always interested in exploring and researching Yeoman warder and Tower history

[The History Press @TheHistoryPress]

This enthralling history gives an insight into #engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette's achievements and the era in which he worked and lived, including his battles with politicians and bureaucrats, to transform the face and health of #London: https://t.co/K7VBlgzvbb #history

[David Coleman @BeefeaterDavid]

Yeoman Warder Patrick Penrose

[Julian Woodford @HistoryLondon]

A Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Member of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary. Or ‘Beefeater’ to his friends.

[fill your boots @MilitaryBanter]

RAF went the wrong way on the corrination rehursals last night

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

Do many pubs still produce postcards of their premises? The wonderful Prospect of Whitby pub on Wapping Wall used to... The pub is still in existence today, and is still very popular… #eastend #history #pubs

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

Tempers boil over on Chrisp Street, Poplar with crowds attacking a tobacconist shop owned by a German, Aldolf Shoenfeld following the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat on 7th May 1915, which killed 1195 people… #history #WWI #eastend

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

During WWII allotments sprang up on every available piece of land - including the moat of the Tower of London, but allotments have been around for an awful lot longer. The earliest allotments existed around Birmingham since 1732! https://t.co/ze3tlgyUpo #eastend #History

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

Men in an East End workhouse picking oakum with their bare hands - oakum was the fibres picked from old rope which was then mixed with tar or grease and used as caulking to fill in the gaps between the wooden planks of ships to make them watertight… #eastend #poverty #History

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

A contemporary print of the cottage in Nova Scotia Gardens, Bethnal Green where the London Burkers lured their victims to their deaths - after which, a medical profession with a rapacious appetite for fresh cadavers waited... https://t.co/KOWQFMJYgm… #eastend #history

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

If you woke up refreshed his morning, think what it must have been like for the occupants of Victorian 'Coffin Beds' in a doss house. These ranged from a tuppenny bed (for bed only) or a fourpenny bed (which included food) - the alternative was the penny sit up - or tuppenny rope

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

Many outside the East End won’t know of the name Altab Ali - he was a 24 year old Bangladeshi textile worker who was stabbed to death in a racial attack by 3 teenagers in 1978 in St Mary’s Park, Whitechapel - the park was renamed in his memory… #Eastend #History #crime

[Lee Jackson @VictorianLondon]

reading Melman's 'The Culure of History' ... apparently torture-focused tours of the Tower of London were partly the result of popularity of Ainsworth's 1840 historical novel; I'm assuming they don't get the thumbscrews & axe out so easily these days? health and safety gawn mad.

[Lee Jackson @VictorianLondon]

Tower of London

[David Coleman @BeefeaterDavid]

@ZipcarUK one of your cars blocking the Tower of London

[A London Inheritance @VanishedLondon]

The Disappearing Cannon at the Tower of London - photographed by my father in 1947, from my post exploring the cannons and view of the river at https://t.co/Pq78tSmY96

[A London Inheritance @VanishedLondon]

1947, and a boy looks at the memorial to executions carried out in Trinity Square Gardens, from my post on the memorial, gardens and memorial to those lost in the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets during the war at https://t.co/pdiA2XuEhW

[A London Inheritance @VanishedLondon]

The Tower Hill Escapologist. Johnny Eagle photographed by my father in the early 1950s from my post at https://t.co/KcTHrUC6Gf

[Emma Mawdsley @CuratorEmma]

I really do have the best job! Last week I viewed the 14th century paintings in the Byward Tower. Here the Archangel Michael weighs souls on a scale of judgement. It must have provided a great anti-corruption lesson for workers ⁦@RoyalMintUK⁩ ⁦@TowerOfLondon⁩

[Historic Royal Palaces @HRP_palaces]

To mark the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, at 1pm BST today a 96-round gun salute began firing from the @TowerOfLondon and @HillsCastle. One round fired for each year of The Queen's life.

[David Coleman @BeefeaterDavid]

On this day 30 August 1896, William Battman (319) became a Yeoman Warder here at the Tower replacing John Farrow (139), he had been a Sergeant Major (Warrant Officer) Army Service Corp. He had seen service in the Zulu wars and Egypt.

[David Coleman @BeefeaterDavid]

13 Sept 1960, a Raven called "Grog", came to the Tower, from North Wales. In 1981, the Governor instructed that Grog & Merry be allowed to grow their feathers. After 21 years Grog decide to leave and go a pub called the "Rose and Punchbowl" pub.