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Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Women Detectives: Meet The Victorian Female Super Sleuths

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Women Detectives: Meet The Victorian Female Super Sleuths As promised/ threatened, delving back into my Drafts archive has unearthed this po...
Monday, 2 November 2020

Planetarium planned for underground Victorian reservoir

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source - B.B.C. News Planetarium planned for underground Victorian reservoir Some welcome news coming out of the East Midlands in this next ...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Scotland beat England in unique Penny Farthing bicycle polo match

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Scotland beat England in unique Penny Farthing bicycle polo match Back in 2010 I posted about The Great Race , a Penny Farthing bicycle...
Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Work begins on Victorian-era Crystal Palace Subway restoration

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source - News Shopper Work begins on Victorian-era Crystal Palace Subway restoration The good news continues on the historic building...
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Monday, 13 July 2020

'Stunning' Doncaster Victorian landmark building saved from demolition

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source - The Demolition Register 'Stunning' Doncaster Victorian landmark building saved from demolition One of the few period...
Saturday, 4 July 2020

Sanitiser maker's links back to Victorian cough cure

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source - BBC News Sanitiser maker's links back to Victorian cough cure Perhaps unsurprisingly there has been very little in the w...
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Saturday, 27 June 2020

Coal-fired steam motorbike built by technician is a Steampunk dream

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source - Interesting Engineering This Coal-Fired Steam Motorbike Built by Technician Is a Steampunk Dream There hasn't been much ...
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Sunday, 14 June 2020

Bertie in the Middle East: online showing for first royal tour photographs

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source Bertie in the Middle East: online showing for first royal tour photographs Museums, art galleries, heritage sites and the like...
Friday, 29 November 2013

Timewarp fashion treasure trove discovered in Houghton-le-Spring house

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Timewarp fashion treasure trove discovered in Houghton-le-Spring house Ladies!  Get thee to Tyne & Wear next Saturday!! You know how...
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Saturday, 16 March 2013

Abandoned Victorian toilets turned into London café

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Source: Uploaded by user via Peter on Pinterest Abandoned Victorian Toilets Turned Into London Café Top marks to the chaps in...
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Sunday, 23 October 2011

How Victorian engineers almost built an underwater tunnel between Scotland and Ireland

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How Victorian engineers almost built an underwater tunnel between Scotland and Ireland This story has been reported by various news sites,...
Monday, 17 October 2011

Victorian kitchen found untouched at Cefn Park, Wrexham

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Victorian kitchen found untouched at Cefn Park, Wrexham This has been sitting in my draft folder for weeks (and yet I haven't seen it ...
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Victorian railway hotel restored in King's Cross

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Victorian railway hotel restored in King's Cross Just as I bemoan the lack of vintage-y things to blog about, along comes a glut of st...
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Thursday, 25 November 2010

Lady Mairi Bury's stamp collection to fetch £2.6m at auction / Half a stamp sells for £221,000

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Two postage stamp stories in one day is a pleasant surprise for us philatelists but to avoid overwhelming you, dear readers, with two conse...
Saturday, 28 August 2010

The Victorian soldier who served in World War Two

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The Victorian soldier who served in World War Two If ever there was someone who lived up to the adage "old soldiers never die" the...
Thursday, 4 February 2010

Photo exhibition shows life in China in 1870s

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Photo exhibition shows life in China in 1870s News here of a fascinating-sounding exhibition that is being run up in Liverpool. Fascinating ...