Tower of Demetrius Poliorcetes during the Siege of Rhodes in 305 BC mb-code 1239868 West Hackney Church on the

West Hackney Church on the east side of Stoke Newington Road

Later it became a chemist's delivery van

but it just goes over the bar as keeper Fred Else attempts to grab ball

'Apartment in a Mandarin's House

'Extraordinary Exploit'

Tower of Demetrius Poliorcetes during the Siege of Rhodes in 305 BC mb-code 1239868 West Hackney Church on theTower of Demetrius Poliorcetes during the Siege of Rhodes in 305 BC, (1842). Demetrius, the son of Antigonus I, besieged Rhodes in 305 BC in order to break the island's alliance with Ptolemy I of Egypt. Demetrius used a variety of great siege engines, including this 130 foot high wheeled tower, but was unable to take the city and abandoned the siege the following year. Plate from A History of the Development and Customs of Chivalry, by Dr Franz