28 August 2020

Falkirk Wheel

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The Forth and Clyde Canal (built 1768 to 1790) and the Union Canal (built 1818 to 1822) were once linked by a flight of 11 locks at Camelon,...
01 August 2020

Verity

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At 66' 5" tall, the statue Verity , which dominates the harbour entrance in Ilfracombe, Devon, is...
10 May 2020

Two Mile House, Cheshire

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Two Mile House, Rough Hill, near Dodleston, lies close to the junction of the A483 and the A55. The original part of the farmhouse, symm...
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04 March 2020

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: Studland, Dorset, with Bridget Rogers and Heather Todd, February 1993.
17 February 2020

Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest

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Construction of what was originally called the Palace of the Republic began in 1983, the cornerstone laid on 25 June 1984. Romanian Communis...
12 February 2020

Regal Cinema, Oswestry

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In the 1930s Oswestry boasted three cinemas. The King's Theatre, later renamed the Granada, then later still the Century Cinema, in ...
19 December 2019

Deflated Gas Holders

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Gas holders, also incorrectly referred to as gasometers - they don't measure anything - were once a common sight in UK towns and cit...
11 November 2019

Foel Ortho

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Foel translates from the Welsh as bald, or bare, hill. But the hillside at Foel Ortho is anything but bald. ...
28 October 2019

Freetown Christiania

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Christiania, now covering about 19 acres of the military barracks of Bådsmandsstræd (abandoned from 1967),...