Pontefract Museum

Уэйкфилд (город)

Pontefract Museum is a local museum in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The collections cover archaeology, archives, decorative and applied art, fine art, photographs and social history.

County Hall, Llandrindod Wells

Llandrindod Wells

County Hall is a municipal building in Llandrindod Wells, Wales.

Raby Castle

Staindrop

Raby Castle is a medieval castle located near Staindrop in County Durham, England, among 200 acres of deer park. It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of the Kings Edward IV and Richard III, was born here. After Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, led the failed Rising of the North in favour of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1569 Raby Castle was taken into royal custody. Sir Henry Vane the Elder purchased Raby Castle in 1626 and neighbouring Barnard Castle from the Crown, and the Earls of Darlington and Dukes of Cleveland added a Gothic-style entrance hall and octagonal drawing room. From 1833 to 1891 they were the Dukes of Cleveland and they retain the title of Lord Barnard. Extensive alterations were carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is famed for both its size and its art, including works by old masters and portraits. After 1733 it was frequented from his young age of eleven by the poet Christopher Smart, who eloped briefly at the age of thirteen with Anne Vane, daughter of Henry Vane, who succeeded to the Barnard title. It is a Grade I listed building and open to the public on a seasonal basis. The castle is still a private home and remains the seat of the Vane family, the Barons Barnard. Due to the 11th Baron's dedication to the extensive renovation and restoration works, much of the castle's rare interior architectural features have been preserved.

Ричмонд-апон-Темс

Лондон

Лондонский боро Ричмонд-апон-Темс — один из 32 лондонских боро, находится во внешнем Лондоне, в 13 км на юго-запад от центра, на пересечении трёх линий железных дорог. Это единственный район Лондона, расположенный на обоих берегах реки Темзы. Ричмонд считается одним из самых престижных районов Лондона, однако, с точки зрения цен на недвижимость, Ричмонд заметно уступает таким дорогим районам Лондона, как Белгравия, Найтсбридж, Челси, Кенсингтон и Хампстед.

Burns Cottage

Alloway

Burns Cottage, the first home of Robert Burns is located in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was built by his father, William Burness in 1757. Burns, Scotland's national poet, was born there on 25 January 1759. It is a simple two-roomed clay and thatch cottage and has been fully restored to become part of Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. The museum has a bust of Burns by Patric Park.

Rochdale Town Hall

Рочдейл

Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The Town Hall functions as the ceremonial headquarters of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council and houses local government departments, including the borough's civil registration office. Built in the Gothic Revival style at a cost of £160,000 , it was inaugurated for the governance of the Municipal Borough of Rochdale on 27 September 1871. The architect, William Henry Crossland, was the winner of a competition held in 1864 to design a new Town Hall. It had a 240-foot clock tower topped by a wooden spire with a gilded statue of Saint George and the Dragon, both of which were destroyed by fire on 10 April 1883, leaving the building without a spire for four years. A new 190-foot stone clock tower and spire in the style of Manchester Town Hall was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and erected in 1887. Art critic Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as possessing a "rare picturesque beauty". Its stained glass windows are credited as "the finest modern examples of their kind". The building came to the attention of Adolf Hitler, who was said to have admired it so much that he wished to ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.

Музей королевских военно-воздушных сил

Лондон

Королевские военно-воздушные силы ) — один из видов сил Вооружённых сил Великобритании. RAF участвует во многих миротворческих операциях Организации Объединённых Наций.

Королевский судный двор

Вестминстер

Короле́вский суд Ло́ндона — монументальный комплекс зданий в неоготическом стиле на улице Стрэнд в центре Лондона, который был возведён в 1873—1882 годах по проекту бывшего адвоката Джорджа Эдмунда Стрита и находится под государственной охраной как яркий пример викторианской архитектуры. Здание занимают Высокий суд правосудия и Апелляционный суд Англии и Уэльса. В этом здании рассматриваются гражданские дела, некоторые из которых имеют широкий общественный резонанс, например, такие как бракоразводный процесс Пола Маккартни, тянувшийся целых три года. В связи с этим у входа в суд можно часто увидеть журналистов и телевизионщиков, поджидающих героев скандальных новостей.

Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum

Уинчестер (Англия)

The Royal Green Jackets was an infantry regiment of the British Army, one of two "large regiments" within the Light Division .