The gory history of Temple Bar
Temple Bar used to be the entry from Westminster to the City of London and on the top of it were severed heads of those executed for treason
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Taking a dead man’s head to the pub
Londoners do some very odd things but taking a dead man’s head to the pub is probably one of the more unusual. Read on! There’s a monument that many office workers pass under every day that they’d never realise has a ghoulish past. It’s an innocuous old gateway that leads from the front of St…
The Knights Templar, a feudal lord and the Nazis
Geoffrey de Mandeville was a very violent medieval warrior buried by the Knights Templar whose tomb was bombed much later by the Nazis