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Does anyone here live in the Tower of London?!

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SuzieBishop · 21/08/2019 19:21

I’m a proper history geek - did it at University and I’m obsessed with the Royals and London and especially the Tower of London. The new series of Inside the Tower of London is on and I just love that the Yeoman Warders live there!!! Just wondering if anyone here has lived there/knows someone who does?!

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MaureenSowerbutts · 21/08/2019 20:51

Glad the process has improved since we went, i imagined it would have.

Can't believe the wait is that long though, i think we waited a month or two.

HundredMilesAnHour · 21/08/2019 20:52

This is the booking site for Ceremony of the Keys. No more tickets released until this November (so put that date in your diary) for visits from April 2020 onwards:

www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/whats-on/ceremony-of-the-keys/#gs.xch5zv

MaureenSowerbutts · 21/08/2019 20:55

Thanks for that link, I'm going to book again in November.

I know DD1 would love to go again.

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TheDisillusionedAnarchist · 21/08/2019 20:57

We visited a few months ago and met another women with a toddler and new baby, got chatting over the difficulties of having two and turned out her husband was a Yeoman warder. Seemed there was an unusual number of small children at the time among the residents. I thought it must be a great location to live with kids.

Hoped to follow up with her but she didn’t respond to my Facebook request, if you’re out there hi.

Pinkdoor · 21/08/2019 20:59

What's this TV programme - where's it on?

megletthesecond · 21/08/2019 21:02

I think so.
When we went we could see a micro scooter parked outside one of the houses. My dc's were dead jealous of the kids that live there.

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SuzieBishop · 21/08/2019 21:02

@HundredMilesAnHour thanks for the link! I’m definitely booking for the future!!!
@Pinkdoor it’s called Inside the Tower of London and on channel 5! See if you can get series 1 on catch up as this is series 2!

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HundredMilesAnHour · 21/08/2019 21:08

I live walking distance from the Tower of London and I find it fascinating. I love walking past late at night. It's like you can literally feel the history in the air. It's so atmospheric. Such an amazing place. As a Tower Hamlets resident I get heavily discounted entrance fees so I'm lucky to be able to go as often as I want. My ex used to live on a boat at St Katherine's Dock so I was constantly walking past the Tower and it's just mesmorising. My love for the Tower of London has definitely lasted longer than my feelings for my ex Wink although I do miss sitting on his deck drinking gin and tonics with a Tower view.

MaureenSowerbutts · 21/08/2019 21:13

@HundredMilesAnHour I am so jealous. I walk across London Bridge twice a day and I never get sick of that view!

LunaTheCat · 21/08/2019 21:15

I couldn’t think of anything worse than living in the tower ! It would give me nightmares. All that torture and people’s heads being chopped off! It was bad enough visiting!

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SuzieBishop · 21/08/2019 21:23

@HundredMilesAnHour you are so lucky! And I’m so glad you appreciate it and talk about it so lovingly! I can imagine that so many people in London walk by every day and don’t even notice it 😓
@LunaTheCat sorry you didn’t enjoy it!

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Cinammoncake · 21/08/2019 21:24

What a great thread. It must be amazing to live there, but possibly a bit spooky at night.

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SuzieBishop · 21/08/2019 21:26

@Cinammoncake I don’t think I’d ever want to see a random ghost but a ghost from a prisoner/beheaded royal would be something else!!

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ChinookPilotsGoVertical · 21/08/2019 21:38

As a young recruit my platoon serjeant's father was raven master at the Tower. I now work almost next to the Tower.

MrsSchadenfreude · 21/08/2019 21:38

I have a friend who lives there. He has the most amazing view of Tower Bridge from his bathroom window! He took a few of us on an out of hours tour, which included the key ceremony. They have to be back by a certain time at night, otherwise they are locked out.

HundredMilesAnHour · 21/08/2019 21:50

And I’m so glad you appreciate it and talk about it so lovingly! I can imagine that so many people in London walk by every day and don’t even notice it

I totally love it! I used to row on the Thames and my rowing club is/was one of the very few that get to train on the stretch of water up to Tower Bridge. Sitting in a tiny boat floating by the Tower of London and seeing it from the river is such a special experience. Something I will never forget. Admittedly it does feel like you're dicing with death due to all the river buses so it's pretty hairy getting there and back but it was worth it!

All this talk about the Tower means I am itching to go and visit again. But best to wait until the school holidays are over so it's not entirely horrendous. (I went to the Sky Garden one day last week and the queue was so long that I wanted to slash my wrists....argh, it was awful!)

MaureenSowerbutts · 21/08/2019 22:27

For not much money you can walk across the high level walk ways of Tower Bridge, that's worth doing.

Greenteawhisky · 21/08/2019 22:31

Brilliant thread. Thanks OP!

squee123 · 21/08/2019 22:32

another vote for the Keeping of the Keys. You have to book a very long way in advance, but it is free. Best done on a cold dark night.

peachgreen · 21/08/2019 22:35

Living there is my dream, I'm almost in tears reading this thread! What a nerd I am.

Morgan · 21/08/2019 22:41

My DH’s grandfather was chief warden at the Tower in the late 70s early 80s and he used to go and visit him in his flat there and play hide and seek etc . We have some fab pictures of the wardens and beefeaters with the Queen . His grandfather became a Chelsea pensioner and I did visit him at the Chelsea Hospital for Sunday lunch.

anguauberwaldironfoundersson · 21/08/2019 22:44

I was lucky enough to not only witness the ceremony of the keys one night but I've been invited to the night tour and spent and evening in the beefeaters own pub in the tower!

It was through a friend of a friend as a lot of the guys I work with are ex military and friend t with military pals who are now beefeaters.

We got a private tour of the chapel and everywhere except the actually white tower and where they keep the jewels.

Then off to the beefeaters pub. Cheap drinks, amazing memorabilia on the walls and the guards wives made curry dinner for everyone with a lovely dessert.

Let out in the early hours... it's easier to get out than in Grin

anguauberwaldironfoundersson · 21/08/2019 22:48

I was also told only royalty, current or past beefeaters and their children were allowed to marry in the chapel. Not sure how accurate that is.

CampfireZen · 21/08/2019 22:51

Does anyone here live in the Tower of London?!

Yes.

Does anyone here live in the Tower of London?!
OtraCosaMariposa · 21/08/2019 22:53

When we visited we saw a yeoman warder coming out of one of the little houses by the entrance, near where they have the old coins and mint museum.

Very cool place to live.

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