Detail InformationEdit St Mark’s Church, Kennington is an Anglican church in Kennington, London, United Kingdom. The church is a Commissioners’ church, receiving a grant from the Church Building Commission towards its cost. The architect was David R. Roper. The total cost of the church, including the land and other expenses, was £22,720. This was paid […]
Detail InformationEdit St Anne’s Limehouse is a Hawksmoor Anglican Church in Limehouse, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was consecrated in 1730, one of the twelve churches built through the 1711 Act of Parliament. The church was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, as one of twelve churches built to serve the needs of the […]
Detail InformationEdit The statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. Originally proposed to Mandela by Donald Woods in 2001, a fund was set up and led by Woods’s wife and Lord Richard Attenborough after the death of Woods. The […]
Detail InformationEdit Bassenfell Manor is a manor house in Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, overlooking Bassenthwaite Lake in England’s Lake District. It is presently used as a residential centre hosting school groups, youth groups, church groups and holidays for individuals and families. It is situated in over 3 acres (12,000 m2) of grounds and the manor has 19 […]
Kingston upon Hull, usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial County of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on The River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of 263,900 […]
Detail InformationEdit Warwick Castle is a medieval castle in Warwick, the county town of Warwickshire, England. It sits on a bend on the River Avon. The castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1068 within or adjacent to the Anglo-Saxon burh of Warwick. It was used as a fortification until the early 17th century, […]
Detail InformationEdit The Buxton Memorial Fountain is a memorial and drinking fountain in London, the United Kingdom, that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834.It was commissioned by Charles Buxton MP, and was dedicated to his father Thomas Fowell Buxton along with William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Henry Brougham […]
There’s a wealth of heritage and innovation dotted along the Thames at South Bank. Just across the river from the Houses of Parliament, the South Bank area of London was energised during the 1951 Festival of Britain by the iconic modern architecture of the Southbank Centre, featuring the Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, the Purcell […]
Detail InformationEdit The Fortune Playhouse was an historic theatre in London. It was located between Whitecross Street and the modern Golden Lane, just outside the City of London. It was founded about 1600, and suppressed by the Puritan Parliament in 1642. The Fortune Theatre was contemporary with Shakespeare’s Globe, The Swan and others; it stood […]
Greasby is a large village on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It is part of the Greasby, Frankby & Irby Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and is situated in the parliamentary constituency of Wirral West. At the 2001 Census, Greasby had 9,830 inhabitants, with the total population of the ward at 14,667. The earliest […]