CLIFFORD'S TOWER..........AGAIN!

You can't visit York & not take a snap or two of Clifford Tower, every tourist does it & I'm afraid I succumbed today, to make up for such a popular view I thought a little bit of lesser known history about this magnificent monument from the past might earn me some brownie points.

The Tower stands on the site of a horrific massacre of York's Jewish population in 1190. A large group had taken refuge from a violent mob in the then wooden tower. Rather than perish at the hands of the mob that awaited them outside, many of the Jews took their own lives, others died in the flames, and those who finally surrendered were murdered.

Today, Clifford's Tower stands as a potent reminder of religious and racial intolerance - an educative force in an unstable world.