London - Tower of London Bloody Tower Traitor's Gate - Minstry of Works postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Tower of London - The Traitor's Gate
• Publisher:  Ministry of Works c.1940s
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Many prisoners of the Tudors entered the Tower of London through the Traitors' Gate. The gate was built by Edward I, to provide a water gate entrance to the Tower, part of St. Thomas's Tower, which was designed to provide additional accommodation for the royal family.

In the pool behind Traitors' Gate was an engine that was used for raising water to a cistern on the roof of the White Tower. The engine worked originally by the force of the tide or by horsepower and eventually by steam. In 1724–6, it was adapted to drive machinery for boring gun barrels. It was removed in the 1860s.^{[citation needed]}

The name Traitors' Gate has been used since before 1544, when that name is used on Anthonis van den Wyngaerde's panorama of London.^[1] Prisoners were brought by barge along the Thames, passing under London Bridge, where the heads of recently executed prisoners were displayed on pikes. Queen Anne Boleyn and Sir Thomas More entered the Tower by Traitors' Gate.^[2]

type=real photographic (rp)

london borough=tower hamlets

period=post-war (1945-present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)