04 March 2021

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: 'The Happy House', Pengenffordd, February 1996.
08 October 2020

Ekco B38

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The battery-operated B38 was launched in 1937. It was available in walnut and in black and chrome cabinets. The set was also available as ...
12 September 2020

The Shard

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The Shard, at 1,016 feet, is at the time of writing the tallest building in Western Europe. (The tallest in Europe is the Lakhta Center, Sai...
11 September 2020

New Southgate Gas Works

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New Southgate is a largely residential suburb of North London that has portions in each of three London boroughs - Barnet, Enfield and Harin...
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...