Tyburn he was hanged. In 1537, Henry VIII used Tyburn to execute the ringleaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace, including Sir Nicholas Tempest, one of the northern leaders of the Pilgrimage and the King's own Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland. In 1571, the Tyburn Tree was erected at the junction of today's Edgware Road, Bayswater Road and Oxford Street, near where Marble Arch is currently situated. The "Tree" or "Triple Tree" was a novel form of gallows, consisting of a horizontal wooden triangle supported by three legs (an arrangement known as a "three-legged mare" or "three-legged stool"). Several felons could
The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) is the seventeenth solo studio album by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond. The album is a collaboration with the composer John Harle and was released on Harle's Sospiro Noir label on 24 February 2014. "The Tyburn Tree (Dark London)" is a song cycle about "the macabre, supernatural history of the loved and reviled city" of London and is named after the famous Tyburn Tree gallows where many criminals were hanged. Almond and Harle had worked together before on the latter's 2013 album "Art Music", introducing Harle to what "Record Collector"