12 April 2019

Singapore - Gardens by the Bay

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Covering 250 acres, the Gardens by the Bay is a principal element of Singapore's plans to move from being the Garden City to being a...
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Singapore - Flyer

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The Singapore Flyer is the second tallest Ferris wheel in the world, with a wheel diameter of 492 feet and an overall height of 541 fe...
10 April 2019

Singapore - National Orchid Garden

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The National Orchid Garden is located within the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The latter dates to 1859 at its present site, was founded by...

Singapore - Shangri-La

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The Shangri-La, rightly named for the tranquil and beautiful lamasery of James Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon", is the flagshi...
07 April 2019

April Fools' Car Show 2019

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The seventh running of the show was held, for the second time, at Whittington Castle, the weather such this year as to enable the show v...
14 March 2019

Green Ekco AD65

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Very nearly the holy grail. Four of Ekco's round radios of the 1930s and 1940s - not the AD75 - were available for special order in a...
04 March 2019

Forton Services, M6

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Forton Services, now called Lancaster Services, between junctions 32 and 33, was the second service station to be opened on the M6 motorwa...

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: Roseberry Topping, Cleveland Way, September 1992.
01 March 2019

Broadway Tower

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Broadway Tower stands atop Beacon Hill, at 1,024 feet the second highest point in the Cotswolds. It was bu...
19 February 2019

Azulejos

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Azulejos are Spanish and Portuguese ceramic tiles, painted and tin-glazed. The Museu Nacional do Azulejo, the National Tile Museum, in L...
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15 December 2018

Putting on a Pedal-Stool

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YMGW's partner's sister says "pedal-stool" in place of "pedestal," as in The I...
08 October 2018

Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight

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Billy Butlin, a funfair entrepreneur - he introduced dodgems from the USA to the UK in 1923 - founded his ...
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11 July 2018

Kingsand, Rame Peninsula, Cornwall

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The Maker with Rame Institute provides the iconic image of Kingsand, on the Rame peninsula. It is the th...
03 July 2018

I, Ekco Robot

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At 21" high, the AC97 is Ekco's tallest Bakelite-cased radio. It is also the company's most s...