I am pleased to reproduce some aspects of my previous book because people keep asking questions about St Katharine’s, and important to me is spreading the message of the historical importance of this wonderful area which is also my home. The reason I wrote the book was only because noone else had brought the
Author: Christopher West
This important office complex is situated next to St Katharine Docks, on the site of part of the old London Docks. The owners decided to rebrand the estate and to create a new image, so have renamed it Moretown, and are investing substantially to improve and modernise the facilities. While achieving all this change, they
Lent ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday, and during this period, the alter is dressed as above. Canon Chaplain Roger Hall had the cross made shortly after his arrival at the Tower, and each year talks about the symbolism of the True Cross, as well as the purple robe of mockery, the nails, the
The Tower takes this bad weather in its stride, just as it has never cancelled the ancient Ceremony Of The Keys in the past hundreds of years. This has certainly been the coldest weather I have experienced there, yet on Sunday it was still smiles and humour from the Yeoman Warders and other staff as
Snow in this country always seems to be the height of drama one day- then suddenly it’s all gone and we wonder what the fuss was about. St Katharine Docks looks so extra beautiful covered in snow, so does nearby Tower Bridge and the Tower of London- the pictures speak for themselves. If only people
Surprisingly, the temperature was warm each day; if I had wanted, I could have sat in the the sun for at least five hours each day. I still didn’t need a jumper in the shade, and the evenings were quite mild. Staying just outside Albufeira, it was ideal for walking (though you do need a
Thrilling sight, watching this procession of veterans entering the Chapel Royal last Sunday. Inside, two of the Standards were marched to the alter for the duration of the service. This annual gathering is one of many during the year, when veterans and their families swell the ranks of the regular congregation. The Tower is a
While constructing Tower Bridge, Dead Man’s Hole was built and designed to retrieve corpses which were dumped in the Thames or washed up there. Next to the steps down to the water, is a small mortuary, which was used for post mortems and to keep the bodies, also used by police, until they could be
My daughter has recently asked me about what I love and cherish. The reason is that she is preparing a display involving the family. That same evening I came across some old photos of the children at the back of a drawer and found myself fascinated. Having recently invested in a ‘scanner,’ I’ve had the
Complicated ‘improvements’ will take three months in this narrow part of St Katharine’s Way, which feeds into St Katharine Docks, the Tower Hotel and the Tower of London. It gets extremely busy with both pedestrian and road traffic, including heavy vehicles. I often use this route to get to Tower Hill Underground Station; it’s