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The house from where the popular British breakfast television show The Big Breakfast was broadcast during its original run from 1992 to 2002 was located at Old Ford Lock on Fish Island in Bow, East London. Built in 1947, the house was originally three separate cottages where the lock keepers, toll takers, and navigation operators of the Old Ford Locks Read more...
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The landmark tower at HM Prison Manchester, also known as Strangeways Prison, is a heating and ventilation extraction tower dating to the opening of the prison in 1868. The 234-foot (or 71-meter) minaret-style octagonal tower is built of red brick with sandstone dressings, with an arched recess in each side, a perimeter gallery with brick balustraded parapet on stone corbels, Read more...
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The dress code at The Ivy restaurant in central London is smart casual. During fine weather, tailored shorts and short-sleeved shirts are permitted, but long-sleeved shirts are required at all other times. Athletic attire of any kind is not acceptable. Ties are not required and smart dark jeans may be worn, but as dining at The Ivy is a special Read more...
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English comedian and TV personality Bob Monkhouse was cremated at Chilterns Crematorium in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on 2 January 2004, in a service attended by close friends and family. Monkhouse died on 29 December 2003, aged 75, at his home in the village of Eggington, near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, and had been diagnosed with bone and prostate cancer. Born Robert Alan Read more...
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The new Wembley Stadium in Wembley, north-west London, was built between 2003 and 2007, on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished between 2002 and 2003. Owned by England’s governing body of football, the Football Association (or FA), the new Wembley was expected to be completed in time for the FA Cup final in May 2006, but, Read more...
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Gorton Monastery is owned by The Monastery of St Francis & Gorton Trust Limited, a Building Preservation Trust and registered charity established in 1996 to acquire, restore and maintain the once-derelict former Church and Friary of St Francis in the Gorton district of east Manchester. The church, known locally as Gorton Monastery, was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Read more...
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Ewloe Castle was built by native Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd after he captured the lands forming most of modern-day Flintshire from the English Crown in 1257. It is thought that the castle may have built upon earlier fortification work by his grandfather, Llywelyn the Great, and great-grandfather, Owain Gwynedd. The castle’s life was short and it was abandoned after Read more...
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LHR is the IATA code for London Heathrow airport, located 14 miles (or 23 kilometres) west of Central London. Originally called London Airport, it was renamed Heathrow in 1966 after the rural hamlet of Heath Row that made way for the airfield and aerodrome that were precursors to the present-day airport. Heathrow is one of six airports with scheduled flights Read more...
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The Elephant and Castle district of London is named after an 18th century public house and coaching inn of the same name that became a notable landmark because of its location near a major road intersection in the area. The inn was rebuilt in 1816 and in 1898, and ultimately demolished in 1959. A new pub called the Elephant and Read more...
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Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth has a seasonal ban on dogs from 15 May to 30 September between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm daily, but is dog-friendly at all other times. Cornwall Council enforces the ban and may issue a £100 fixed penalty notice to people found in charge of a dog on the beach during prohibited periods. Read more...
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The name Roodee for Chester Racecourse in Chester, England, is a corruption of its earlier name, Rood eye, thought to mean Island of the Cross. It is derived from a combination of the Saxon word ‘rood’ for ‘cross’, and the Norse ‘eye’, meaning ‘island’. The racecourse sits on the banks of the River Dee and much of it was under Read more...
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Rutland Water is a man-made reservoir created in the 1970s by the construction of a clay dam in the Gwash Valley, near Oakham, Rutland, to store water for supply to major towns in the East Midlands region of England. The village of Nether Hambleton and most of Middle Hambleton were lost to the development and submerged by water. Originally called Read more...
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The River Mersey starts in the Portwood area of Stockport, Greater Manchester, where the River Tame and River Goyt meet. The River Goyt originates some 14 miles (or 22.5 kilometres) to the southeast on Axe Edge Moor in the Peak District, and the River Tame starts 14.5 miles (or 23.3 kilometres) to the northeast at the Readycon Dean Reservoir on Read more...
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The height of Menai Suspension Bridge’s road deck above water at high tide is approximately 30.5 metres (or 100 feet) at centre span. Built by Thomas Telford between 1819 and 1826 across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the Welsh mainland, he designed the bridge height to allow for the passage below of sailing ships of the Read more...
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The ornate cast iron gates and railings across the Whitehall and St James’s Park entrances to Downing Street were installed in 1989, at a time when the threat of terrorist attack was high, particularly by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (or IRA). The British Prime Minister’s official London residence at 10 Downing Street, with its iconic black door, is arguably Read more...
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Bank Street football ground, also known as Bank Lane, was located in the Clayton area of east Manchester on the site where the National Indoor BMX Arena now stands, next to the Manchester Velodrome. Between 1893 and 1910, Bank Street was the home ground of Manchester United Football Club (which was known as Newton Heath Football Club until 1902), before Read more...
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American singer Bing Crosby’s last public performance before he died was at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, on 10 October 1977. The concert concluded a British tour for the singer, and three days later he flew to Spain. On 14 October 1977, after playing golf at La Moraleja Golf Course in Alcobendas near Madrid, 74-year-old Crosby collapsed and died Read more...
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The Eleanor Rigby statue by musician and entertainer Tommy Steele is located on Stanley Street in Liverpool city centre. The bronze statue depicts a woman in a headscarf, sitting on a stone bench with a shopping bag at her side. On the bench is an open copy of the local Liverpool Echo newspaper on which a small bird has landed, Read more...
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On 30 January 1969, the Beatles performed live on the rooftop of the headquarters of their media company, Apple Corps, at 3 Savile Row in the Mayfair area of central London. Although pre-planned, the daytime concert was unannounced, but soon drew crowds on the street below. Their set lasted 42 minutes before London’s Metropolitan Police attended the property to request Read more...
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On December 21st, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 flying from Frankfurt to Detroit via London Heathrow and New York JFK airports, exploded some 40 minutes after taking off from London. Much of the Boeing 747’s wreckage fell on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 people aboard the aircraft died, along with 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie who Read more...