Freedom Park

Detail InformationEdit Freedom Park is situated on Salvokop in Pretoria. It includes a memorial with a list of the names of those killed in the Boer Wars, World War I, World War II as well as apartheid. Construction of the monument was by Stefanutti Stocks overseen by Mongane Wally Serote. In March 2009, twenty-four deceased […]

Durban cenotaph

Detail InformationEdit The Durban cenotaph was erected in Farewell Square, Durban, South Africa, as a memorial to fallen soldiers of World War I. Standing about 11 metres (36 feet) high, the monument is built of granite decorated with glazed ceramic tiles depicting two angels raising the soul of a dead soldier. The vivid colour of […]

Ljungby

Ljungby was originally a köping (instituted in 1829), which did not become a municipality of its own when the first local government acts took effect in 1863, but retained part of the surrounding rural municipality with the same name. In 1936 Ljungby got the title of a city. It is since 1971 the seat of […]

Adolf Fredriks kyrka

Detail InformationEdit Adolf Fredriks kyrka (“The Church of Adolf Frederick”) is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden. It was built in 1768-1774, replacing a wooden chapel from 1674, which was dedicated to Saint Olof. Its cemetery is where René Descartes was first buried in 1650, before his remains were moved to France. Inside the church […]

McGregor Museum

Detail InformationEdit The McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, originally known as the Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, is a province-aided museum established in 1907. Housed at first in a purpose-built museum building in Chapel Street, Kimberley, the museum was, and still is, governed by a Board of Trustees, aided financially by the municipality (up to […]

King’s Chapel

Detail InformationEdit King’s Chapel is a small chapel in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located at The Southern end of Main Street and adjoins the Governor of Gibraltar’s residence, The Convent. What nowadays is King’s Chapel was the first purpose built church to be constructed in Gibraltar. Originally part of a Franciscan […]

Holy Trinity Sloane Street

Detail InformationEdit Holy Trinity Sloane Street (The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity with Saint Jude, Upper Chelsea, sometimes known as Holy Trinity Sloane Square) is a London Anglican parish church, built 1888-90 at the south-eastern side of Sloane Street to a striking Arts & Crafts design by the architect John Dando Sedding at […]

Stonehenge Landscape

Detail InformationEdit The Stonehenge Landscape is a property of The National Trust, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The estate (formerly known as Stonehenge Historic Landscape and before that as Stonehenge Down) covers 2,100 acres (850 ha) surrounding the neolithic monument of Stonehenge which is administered by English Heritage. Much of the land is […]

Pankhurst Centre

Detail InformationEdit The Pankhurst Centre, 60-62 Nelson Street, Manchester is a pair of Victorian villas, of which No. 62 was the home of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Sylvia, Christabel and Adela and the birthplace of the suffragette movement. The villas now form a centre that is a women only space which creates a unique […]

Chandos Mausoleum

Detail InformationEdit The Chandos Mausoleum is attached to the north side of the church of St Lawrence Whitchurch, which is sited at the southeast corner of Canons Park in the London Borough of Harrow, England. It was built for the 1st Duke of Chandos in 1735, and designed by James Gibbs. The church is an […]