Londoners Magazine Fancy a private showing of the crown jewels?
By Lydia Mossahebi • May 19th, 2008 • Category: NewsLondoners with a bit of extra cash in their pockets can pay to see some of the most elusive areas of the capital.
Private tours behind the velvet rope of the capital’s top heritage sites are being auctioned off on Ebay. The money raised will go on the restoration of the sites.
So if you have always wanted to have a snoop at the crown jewels or see the hidden nooks and crannies of the Tower of London, you better scrape together your pennies, and get bidding on Ebay.
On offer is also a candle-lit dinner party at Dr Johnson’s house , where you will be shown a first edition of the dictionary, while sipping Champagne.
But Londoners favourite has to be the “Attack the Tower of London with TV’s Dan Snow” experience. You and Dan will get the opportunity to prepare and fire newly-created replicas of two medieval siege weapons: the springald and the perrier, best described as a giant arrow and catapult.
So if you have always dreamed of attacking London with medieval weapons, look no further.
The auction is part of TopLots and runs 15 May – 15 June.
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