IMPOSITIONS AT THE TOWER.
TO THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR.
Leadenhall Street, 15th August 1934.
&Ur— As an enemy to abuses, I beg to call your attention to one that I cannot but consider a most disgraceful fraud upon the public. The other day, I took three country cousins to see the Tower of London, expecting that I should be able to treat them and come off for about 5s. (by the way, quite enough for what is shown). I soon found that I hail reckoned without my host. At the first room of the Armoury-, es. per head was demanded, and 6d. for a book, that is, 8s. 6d. ; on seeing the Jewels, 2s, per head, and Is. per company to the Warden, Ps. == 17s. 6d. On going out, 1 thought handsomely to reward the wild beast man, who had gone the round with us (to see that we touched nothing), with •2s. ; but lie told me that I was under some mistake—his fee was Is. per head, or 4s. ; making a total of 1/. Is. 6d., for what occupied about a quarter of an hour in seeing, and of which very little is worth seeing at all. If you will have the goodness to insert this, it may at least serve as a warning to those who cannot afford to spend 1/. Is. 6d. in that way. I should like to know who gets all this money for allowing the people to see their own? for I suppose the Tower, and what it contains, is national property. A CONSTANT READER.
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