Track 36

Track 36.

Welcome to the Tower of London.

Before the tour starts, I would like to give you some background information about the Tower.

The Tower of London is one of the UK’s most popular tourist attractions with over 2 million visitors per year.

It was during the Victorian era, that is when Queen Victoria was on the throne, that it became a tourist attraction.

Before that, the Tower had many other functions.

It was a royal residence, a menagerie, that’s a kind of zoo, it even had lions.

And it used to house the Royal Mint, that’s where money is printed and coins made.

It also served as a storehouse for weapons, a fortress and most famously of all, a prison!