Speakers Corner Marble Arch Medieval Executions and Hyde Park

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Speakers Corner, Marble Arch, Executions and Violence in Hyde Park • Subscribe on Youtube ➜ / joolzguides • Joolz Guides website to book a private tour ➜ http://joolzguides.com/ • 10 Hyde Park Place • One of the smallest houses in London. • Just over 3 feet wide. • Alleyway behind the door led to the church so grave robbers used it as a passageway to escape. • Now part of Tyburn Convent. • • Marble Arch used to form the gateway to Buckingham Palace but didn’t look right after they enlarged the palace. John Nash designed it. • Only members of royal troop can drive through. • They moved it here in time for the great exhibition in 1850 and it formed a grand entrance which everyone passed through. • 1908 and then in 1960s the roads were built isolating it from the park. • Three women are England Ireland and Scotland. • Marble Arch isn’t a police station but sometimes used as an outpost during demonstrations. Mixed up with Wellington Arch which was a police Station. • Speakers Corner • People had met here to talk and interact for centuries but the reform bill in 1872 designated this area for public speaking. • 1999 Lord Justice Sedley said freedom of speech can’t be limited to things which don’t cause offence. • As long as it doesn’t provoke violence. • Karl Marx, Lenin, George Orwell all came here. • Tyburn Gallows • First recorded hanging was 1196 • Tyburn river passed under here and down to Pimlico from Hampstead. • Triangular gallows meant 24 people could hang at once. • 20 000 people came to se Jack Shepard highwayman hanged. • 1664 Pepys describes seeing a man he knew hang and 14000 people here. • Condemned would make speeches criticising the church or monarchy. This led to speakers corner. • SUPPORT MY CHANNEL ON PATREON ➜ / joolzguides • DONATE TO MY CHANNEL WITH PAYPAL ➜ https://www.paypal.me/julianmcdonnell

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