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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...