6/2 Greenwich and London

The morning was spent at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the home of the prime meridian and Harrison’s Clocks that the class read about in Longitude by Dava Sobel. A small group walked to the Tower of London but only two actually went in, because of the £9 ($14) cost of the ticket. The others were saving their money, it would have been the Tower or go to the theater to see a musical. While in the White Tower the cannons went off, from what we overheard inside, for the anniversary of the Queen’s coronation.


Bethany, Amie, and Erinn outside the National Maritime Museum with the Royal Observatory in the back.


The Group at the prime meridian.


The National Maritime museum taken from the hill coming down from the observatory.


The small group that walked to the Tower of London; the Tower Bridge is in the background.


The drained moat and part of the fortress of the Tower of London.


Traitor’s Gate in the Tower of London.


One of the ravens at the Tower of London.


A replica of the one of the crowns that we saw later, this one was located in the White Tower, no pictures are allowed to be taken of the real ones.


A model of what the Tower looked like in 1547.


Owen in front of Henry XIII’s armor in the White Tower.


Bethany in front of a large cache of weapons also in the White Tower.


The Chopping Block once used for executions in the tower greens at the Tower of London.


A Royal guard at the Tower.

Math May Seminar, Pictures 2003