A Talk by Mr. Trevor Clark on the Historical Ceremonies at the Tower of London, illustrated at 9.55 by the Ceremony of the Keys relayed from the Tower of London.
Every night for the last six hundred years, the Head Warder of the Tower of London has made a formal progress round the historic building, performing the ceremony of locking up for the night - a very important one now, when the Crown Jewels are housed there, and even more important in the days when the Tower might at any time contain prisoners of State whose escape might have brought down the reigning dynasty from the throne and plunged the nation into civil war.