A tour of the Tower of London

Project is presented by the 6th form pupils

from Baskakovo School, Gagarin district, Smolensk region

Russia

2012

Warm up for the games!Welcome the World to London and the UK

1. What can Tower Ravens tell us about?

2. The founder of Tower

3. The White Tower

4. A major royal residence

5. A prison

7. The Tower of London

6. Crown Jewels

The aim of our project is to answer the question: what can Tower Ravens tell us about?

The Tower Ravens

Nobody knows when ravens first came to the Tower of London, but they've been associated with the Tower for centuries. Charles II decreed that there must always be at least six ravens at the Tower. That tradition has been honoured for more than 300 years.

....if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London the White Tower will crumble and a great disaster shall befall England

The Legend of The Ravens

The Tower Ravens

There are currently nine ravens, whose wings are clipped to prevent them from flying away, and they are cared for by the Ravenmaster, a duty given to one of the Yeomen Warders. Three are females ; four are males . The two newest birds, Bran and Branwen, joined the team in August, 2003.The ravens' names/gender/age are (as of November 2006):

Gwylum (male, 18 years old)

Thor (male, 15 years old)

Hugin (female, 11 years old)

Munin (female, 11 years old)

Branwen (female, 3 years old)

Bran (male, 3 years old)

Gundulf (male, 1 year old)

Baldrick (male, 1 year old)

Fleur (female, 4 years old)

Ravens can live to a ripe old age. The oldest raven to live at the Tower was Jim Crow, who died at the age of 44. The oldest raven currently living at the Tower is Hardey, who is 26 years old.

Ravens have escaped occasionally . Grog was last seen outside an East End pub called the Rose and Punchbowl in 198 after living at the tower for 21 years.

Occasionally, birds are dismissed for bad behaviour . George was exiled to the Welsh Mountain Zoo in 1986 after developing an unhealthy taste за for TV antennas.

Ravens are well fed: each bird's daily ration includes 6 ounces of meat and bird-formula biscuits soaked in blood . Once a week the birds enjoy an egg, and they're occasionally given a rabbit . The ravens also enjoy scraps from the Tower's mess kitchen.

The Tower of London was originally built by William the Conqueror in 1066

The founder of Tower

The White Tower

In the centre of the Tower of London is the famous White Tower. It dates back to the 11th century. In 1240 this part of the Tower was whitewashed and since it called as White Tower. The White Tower is 90 feet high and the walls vary from 15 feet thick at the base to almost 11 feet in the upper parts.

A Major Royal Residence

In the early thirteenth century Henry III transformed the Tower into a major royal residence

A prison Many people have been

locked in the Tower. Famous prisoners have included Elizabeth I.

In 1483 King Edward IV's two sons were murdered in the so-called Bloody Tower. Over two centuries later the skeletons of two little boys were found buried beneath steps in the White Tower.

The Crown Jewels

Today the Tower of London houses the Crown Jewels and is open to the public as a museum

The Crown Jewels

The Tower of London

The Tower of London is one of the most popular of London's historical sites. It comprises not one, but 20

towers.

The Tower of London

It is the oldest building in Great Britain.

Now theTower of London is the historical site and museum

1. Tower of London

2. The Tower of London

3. Tower of London. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

4. Camelot International > Tower of London

5. Project Britain website. Tower of London

6. The ravens at the Tower of London- the guardians of the Tower.flv

Would you like to learn more about the Tower of London? – Visit these pages in the Internet

LinksPictures• EE 5-5 http://goo.gl/KKpOY• Clipart http://goo.gl/TfE40• The Tower of London http://goo.gl/KKpOY• Tower and Tower Bridge http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg• Plan of the Tower of London, 1597 http://goo.gl/nt8OA• The Tower of London http://goo.gl/UYTpt• The Tower of London http://i026.radikal.ru/0806/e7/774f400dbc03.jpg• William the Conqueror http://www.webspinners.org.uk/weddingtoncastle2/william_i.htm• The White Tower, Tower of London, http://goo.gl/rQrCd• The White Tower http://goo.gl/xUXkL• The White Tower http://goo.gl/keZnO• The above late 15th-century image http://goo.gl/YIf9A• Elizabeth I http://goo.gl/2JJXM• The Bloody Tower http://goo.gl/NUwys• Princes in the Tower http://goo.gl/NqB36• The ravens http://goo.gl/VaUan• The ravens http://goo.gl/L7djJ• London http://goo.gl/fue5M• The Crown Jewels of England http://goo.gl/3VRHV• The Crown Jewels of England http://goo.gl/QLh8O• The Crown Jewels of England http://goo.gl/eJRDt• The Crown Jewels of England http://goo.gl/E5Tzn

Information• Tower of London. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London• Tower of London. Official Site http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/• The Tower of London http://www.castles.me.uk/the-tower-of-london.htm#• Camelot International: Tower of London http://www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/index.html

Music• Средневековая музыка Green Sleeves ("Зеленые рукава")http://goo.gl/DWFKa•  

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