Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
#1
This morning saw the installation of Brigadier David Southall as the 213th Deputy Constable of Dover Castle, the cerimony was presided over by the Constable of the Castle Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce, and took place in the great hall of the Constables Tower. Brigadier Southall will not live in the tower as others have done as the tower is being decommissioned by the MOD and will be soon be handed over to English Heritage thus ending more then 800 years of miliary involvement at the castle.
Brigadier Southall is currently Comandant of the school of engineers at Chatham.
The tower will continue to be used for cerimonies and events which relate to the roles of both Constable and the Deputy, maybe four or five times a year.
Constables Tower is so named as it was built by and lived in by one of the castles' greatest constables - Hubert de Burgh who had it built following the seige of 1216.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#2
Cannot see why we have one now we have no troops .