St John Zachary

Detail InformationEdit St John Zachary was a church, first mentioned in official records in 1181, within the City of London, England, on the north side of Gresham Street, Aldersgate. Its vicar from May 25, 1424 to an unknown date was William Byngham, the founder of England’s first teacher training college It was destroyed in the […]

Chatteris

Chatteris is a civil parish and one of four market towns in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in The Fens between Huntingdon, March and Ely. The town is in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency.Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, the town has evidence of continuous settlement from the Neolithic period and […]

Band on The Wall

Detail InformationEdit Band on the Wall is a live music venue at 25 Swan Street in the Northern Quarter area of Manchester city centre.The building dates back to around 1862 when a local brewery, the McKenna Brothers, built it as the flagship pub of their operation. It was called the George and Dragon; the first […]

Sandys Row Synagogue

Detail InformationEdit The building was constructed in 1766 by refugee French Huguenots as a community church, named L’Eglise de l’Artillerie (the Artillery Church), on a small street called Parliament Court, Artillery Street, in Bishopsgate. The church took its name from the street, which in turn took its name from the fact that in the time […]

Lotherton Hall

Detail InformationEdit Lotherton Hall is a country house near Aberford, West Yorkshire, England. It lies a short distance from the A1 motorway, 200 miles equidistant between London and Edinburgh.The building was home to a number of families through history including the Nevilles (notably Archbishop George Neville, younger brother of Warwick the Kingmaker), the de Hothams, […]

Shardeloes

Detail InformationEdit Shardeloes is a large 18th century country house located one mile northwest of Amersham in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. A previous manor house on the site was demolished and the present building constructed between 1758 and 1766 for William Drake, the Member of Parliament for Amersham. HistoryEdit N.A. Must SeeEdit N.A. Visiting TimeEdit N.A. […]

Clapton Square

Detail InformationEdit The Clapton Square Conservation Area, Hackney, was designated in 1969 and extended in 1991 & 2000. It is protected by Acts of Parliament as a London Square.It is dominated by the Church of St John-at-Hackney built in 1792-97, and St John’s Gardens. Its made up of listed late Georgian terraces on Clapton Square. […]

Wembley United Synagogue

Detail InformationEdit Wembley Synagogue is a synagogue in Wembley, London in England. It is part of the United Synagogue family of synagogues and offers an extensive range of religious, spiritual and social activities.Wembley United Synagogue is a member of the United Synagogue, an organisation of London Jews that was founded with the sanction of an […]

Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

Detail InformationEdit The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre is a conference centre in the City of Westminster, London. It is located in the heart of the city, a minute’s walk from the Palace of Westminster, seat of the United Kingdom’s Parliament. Due to its location it attracts many high profile meetings. The site now occupied […]

City Of London Cemetery And Crematorium

Detail InformationEdit The City of London Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium in the north east of London. It is the largest such municipal facility in the UK and probably in Europe . It is owned and operated by the City of London Corporation. It is designated Grade I on the English Heritage […]