Tag: Marble Arch
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Marble Arch: London’s Misplaced Monument
Marble Arch, a structure both impressive and curiously underwhelming, sits at the western end of Oxford Street, guarding the entrance to Hyde Park with the air of something that’s been forgotten about, but still insists on standing proudly. It is, in essence, London’s equivalent of that grand armchair your grandmother bought in the ‘70s: originally…
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The Tyburn Tree: London’s Notorious Gallows of Death and Spectacle
For over six centuries, Tyburn was the grim theatre of London’s most infamous executions. This wasn’t some discreet back-alley affair. No, the gallows at Tyburn—particularly the notorious ‘Tyburn Tree’—became an institution of death, justice, and grotesque public entertainment. Executions here were brutal, bloody, and, disturbingly, something of a city-wide social event. A Death Sentence with…