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An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
Horsham Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world and represents the Sussex market town of Horsham in the Sussex Cricket League, along with Roffey Cricket Club. Although cricket was played in Horsham before 1768, the first recorded game of a town side was on 8 August 1771, and Horsham Cricket Club was created soon after 1806. The club has played various locations over the years, before settling at their present ground in 1851.
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
The first location of the eventual video game giant.
As of 2019, the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Oahu has been replaced with Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Aleutian Islands...
Blackwall Point's prominent positioning on the River Thames that is no doubt to thank for it’s most gruesome claim to…
Execution Dock in Wapping, London is the location where pirates were once hanged over the River Thames.
Clare Castle is a medieval motte and bailey castle. The wooden structure was replaced with a stone keep in the 13th century. The motte is prominent at 100 feet high with a base that is 850 feet across.
Located a few miles from London, Bletchley Park, an English country house and grounds in Milton Keynes has a gripping history with tales of war, espionage, and courage in the face of uncertainty.
Anne Frank’s house was the site where German Jewish teenager and Holocaust victim Anne Frank, her family, the van Pels family and later a man...
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also known as the A-Bomb Dome or the Genbaku Dome, in Hiroshima in Japan was the only building in the city which...
Secreted beneath the streets of Westminster, the Cabinet War Rooms are part of the underground bunker complex now known as the Churchill War Rooms in...
This is an alley in Bankside that's charmingly cobbled, but has a bloody history.
The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, also known as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, is an installation commemorating the genocide of the...
HMS Belfast is a Royal Navy light cruiser ship that played a role in both World War Two and the Korean War. It is now open to the public in London...
Yad Vashem in Jerusalem is a museum and Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. History of Yad Vashem Beginning with the...
The German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin, Germany, is a monument and museum to those who fought against the National Socialist government led...
Kranji War Memorial (Tanah Perkuburan Perang Kranji) is a monument in the northern Singapore region of Kranji in honour of the men and women who lost...
The Castell d’Eivissa – Ibiza Castle – is an iconic landmark that stands atop the Dalt Vila, the historic Old Town of Ibiza. This...
Churchill’s Secret Bunker – also known as Paddock – was designed to be used as the nerve centre of the British government during WW2 in...
The Red Fort (Lal Quila) remains one of the most popular tourist sites in Delhi and is on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage historic sites. History...
St Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), surrounded by numerous magnificent historic buildings, is the beautiful principal public square of Venice....
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.
Florence has long been a diamond in the Italian peninsula, giving birth to the Renaissance and thereby to the modern world. With its magnificent...
One of the most important fortresses along the Danube now lies in ruins.
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
This neglected gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.
The most eye-catching building along Southwark Street is the Hop Exchange and it has a fascinating history...
Tourist attraction, sure. But also home to a London community. And what community doesn't have a local boozer?! Look inside The Tower of London's Secret Pub
41 Cloth Fair is the oldest house in the City of London and survived the Great Fire of London in…
Besieged three times during the English Civil War, Basing House was strategically important as it commanded the road from London through Salisbury to the west. John Paulet, 5th Marquis of Winchester owned the House and as a committed Royalist, garrisoned it in support of King Charles I...
Having recently celebrated our 85th Anniversary, let's take a look back through the years at how our venue has played its role in the history of Horsham's
On 2 September 1898 at Wellingborough railway station a postman brought a mailcart to the station with mail which he was to see onto a train due at 20:22. The mail should then have been brought to the down platform through a passageway (normally closed by a gate kept locked from the inside) between the station yard and the platform. The postman went into the station, collected a luggage trolley, and took it along the platform to the platform side of the gate. Whilst the platform itself sloped towards the railway tracks quite noticeably, the passageway did not. The postman put down the handle by which he was drawing the trolley and unlocked the gate. He then reached round for the trolley handle only to see the trolley running off the edge of the platform and onto the down main line. He and the station foreman tried frantically to clear the trolley off the line as the signals were already set for the 19:15 London St Pancras to Manchester express to pass through the station non-stop. A train at the up platform prevented them simply moving the trolley onto the up-line, and it was not possible to lift the c 4+1⁄2 hundredweight (230kg) trolley 2 ft to get it back onto the platform. They attempted to get the trolley on its side in the "six-foot" between the two lines, but did not succeed and had to jump for their lives as the express neared. The leading bogie of the locomotive derailed on hitting the trolley, but the driving wheels did not; the engine continued onwards until it hit a diamond crossover at the north end of the station when it became completely derailed, detached from its tender and ended up facing backwards. The second passenger coach was completely wrecked. Both enginemen and five passengers were killed. The subsequent Board of Trade accident investigation showed that the down platform sloped unnecessarily steeply (1 in 24) towards the track, and that whilst the passageway was not so fiercely graded it still sloped at about 1 in 80 to the track. Practical experiment showed that this was quite sufficient to allow a luggage trolley to roll away unless the greatest care was taken. The Board of Trade Inspector recommended That station platforms should either be level or slope away from the railway lines That 3-wheeled and 4-wheeled trolleys used on railway station platforms (especially those sloping towards the railway) should have brakes which were normally applied, but which would be released by pushing or pulling the trolley
This breathtakingly beautiful botanical garden is home to a mob of wonderful wallabies.
The Flying Pig was a public house in Hills Road, Cambridge. It was first recorded as The Engineer in 1844 and then renamed The Crown Inn in 1860. It was renamed "The Flying Pig" by landlord Mick Clelford in the 1980s as he was a pilot and nicknamed "The Pig". Customers have included Pink Floyd members Syd Barrett and David Gilmour, who met there, and mathematician Michael Guy. In 2008, the local council approved plans to demolish The Flying Pig, but petitions and protests kept the pub open until October 2021, when The Pig closed its doors. Since its closure in 2021, the Flying Pig pub in Cambridge has been the focus of significant planning activity. Initially, Pace Ltd's proposal to build new office blocks behind the pub was refused by Cambridge City Council, but this decision was overturned on appeal. Railway Pension Nominees Limited, with Socius as development manager, later amended the plans, reducing car parking spaces and increasing office space, which were approved by the city council in 2023. Developers have assured the pub's return, with messages like "pigs do fly, the flying pig pub will be back" displayed on site hoardings.
The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.
10 Downing Street in London is the traditional residence of the British Prime Minister, and in its 300-year-old history has witnessed some of the...
Provides an overview of Gibraltar, and key facts about this UK territory - also claimed by Spain.
Amberley Castle stands in the village of Amberley, West Sussex (grid reference TQ027132). The castle was erected as a 12th-century manor house and fortified in 1377, giving it a rhomboid shaped stonework enclosure with high curtain walls, internal towers in each corner, a hall and a gateway. It was used as a fortress by the bishops of Chichester. The walls, gateway and two of the towers remain as a Grade I listed building and are now in use as a privately owned hotel.
Arundel Castle is a restored and remodelled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established by Roger de Montgomery in the 11th century. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and early 19th centuries by Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Further restoration and embellishment was undertaken from the 1890s by Charles Alban Buckler for the 15th Duke. Since the 11th century, the castle has been the seat of the Earls of Arundel and the Dukes of Norfolk. It is a Grade I listed building.
Arundel Castle has been the family seat of the Dukes of Norfolk and their ancestors for over 850 years...
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