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Tower of London - Tower Green

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Antique Postcard, circa early 20th Century 
Part of a set

Site of the scaffold on which multiple famous personages were beheaded, including Queen Anne Boleyn, Queen Katherine Howard and Lady Jane Grey — the latter on 12th February 1554. 

The last execution in the Tower of London took place on 14th August 1941, when Josef Jakobs, a German spy, was shot by a firing squad.

During WW2, the Tower was used as a Prisoner Of War camp. Rudolf Hess, Deputy Chancellor of Nazi Germany, was imprisoned in the Tower after he attempted to parachute into Scotland. He was found by a Farmer and his mother, where he was looked after before capture. He was placed in what was the King’s House but is now the Queen’s House. He was free to roam the Tower grounds.

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Image size
2809x1749px 1.86 MB
Make
Apple
Model
iPad mini 4
Shutter Speed
1/15 second
Aperture
F/2.4
Focal Length
3 mm
ISO Speed
250
Date Taken
Jan 4, 2017 2:23:12 PM -05:00
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