Comments on: The Tower of London on Virtual-Tripping, Part 2. http://www.virtualtripping.com/the-tower-of-london-on-virtual-tripping-part-2/ Tripping Around the Virtual World with Google Earth Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Heather http://www.virtualtripping.com/the-tower-of-london-on-virtual-tripping-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1394 Heather Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:42:00 +0000 http://www.virtualtripping.com/?p=5075#comment-1394 I'm American, but my family (through my maternal grandmother) is descended from the Greys. When I visited the Chapel of St. John in the Tower of London in 1983, as a young woman, I had a sense of oppression, almost desperation. I loved the space, and found it peaceful to the eye, but the sense of pent-up urgency was rather overpowering. I was told by the guide that Lady Jane Grey had spent a great deal of her time here, pacing and reading the Bible, prior to her execution. Strangely, I can find no other account online of this emotional effect, except for the story of the yeoman warder (Arthur Crick) who during his rounds of the White Tower sat down on a ledge in the chapel of St. John to ease his right shoe. He had the shoe off and was massaging his foot, when a voice behind him whispered, “There’s only you and I here”. Arthur's immediate response was, “Just let me get this bloody shoe on and there’ll be only you!" No word as to whether the whisper was male or female... I’m American, but my family (through my maternal grandmother) is descended from the Greys. When I visited the Chapel of St. John in the Tower of London in 1983, as a young woman, I had a sense of oppression, almost desperation. I loved the space, and found it peaceful to the eye, but the sense of pent-up urgency was rather overpowering. I was told by the guide that Lady Jane Grey had spent a great deal of her time here, pacing and reading the Bible, prior to her execution.

Strangely, I can find no other account online of this emotional effect, except for the story of the yeoman warder (Arthur Crick) who during his rounds of the White Tower sat down on a ledge in the chapel of St. John to ease his right shoe. He had the shoe off and was massaging his foot, when a voice behind him whispered, “There’s only you and I here”. Arthur’s immediate response was, “Just let me get this bloody shoe on and there’ll be only you!” No word as to whether the whisper was male or female…

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