If you walk down Whitehall about half way along you will see the entrance to Horse Guards Parade, above the gateway there's a clock tower and on the clock-face there's a strange black blob against the II (2) on the dial, you can just about make it out on the picture above. The story goes that after the civil war in 1649 the disastrous king Charles the first was executed. The dirty deed was performed on a scaffold outside a building called the "Banqueting House" part of the old Palace of Whitehall which happens to be directly opposite the entrance to Horse Guards, the hour of the execution was 2pm.
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