A Grade II* building The Tower was built in 1908 as an office block; it was converted to apartments in 2006. The architect was W. Aubrey Thomas, the same man that designed the Royal Liver Building.
Throwback Thursday: The Tower Building, Liverpool
Categories: England, Liverpool
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Throwback Thursday: Statue of Hans Sloane, Duke of York Square, London
Unveiled in 2007 this statue, made of Portland stone, is of Sir Hans Sloane, a doctor, naturalist and collector who left his collection of 71,000 items to the nation. These were the beginnings of the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.
Throwback Thursday: The Ramshorn, Glasgow
Designed by Thomas Rickman in the Gothic Revival style the Ramshorn was originally St David’s Parish Church and dates from 1824. It is now owned by the University of Strathclyde and houses Scotland’s National Centre for Languages and the Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools.
Categories: Glasgow, Scotland
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Throwback Thursday: The Flying Horse, Oxford Street, London
The Flying Horse is a Grade II* listed building that is the last remaining pub on Oxford Street. A red brick building with stone dressing in the Flemish Renaissance style it dates from around the end of the 19th century, redeveloped on the site of an earlier pub.
Categories: England, London
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Throwback Thursday: Doors, Amsterdam
Part of an ongoing series, these two doors are from the Rembrandt House Museum, the house where Rembrandt lived between 1639 and 1656 and so would have been used by the painter himself.
Categories: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tags: architecture, door, museum, photo post, Rembrandt, Throwback Thursday
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National COVID Memorial Wall, London
The idea for the National COVID Memorial came from members of the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign and you can read more about that here. It is a public memorial of pink and red hearts representing each person who has died of COVID in the UK. It can be found just outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite the Houses of Parliament and stretches along the South Bank of the Thames.
Throwback Thursday: R Frank Atkinson’s Waring and Gillow Building, 164-188 Oxford Street, London
This very impressive Queen Anne building on Oxford Street is the former Waring and Gillow building. Waring and Gillow were furniture makers; founded in the 1730s in Lancaster by Robert Gillow his eponymous company merged with the Waring Company of Liverpool in 1897.
Categories: England, London
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Twelve Responses to Tragedy by Angela Conner
Whilst visiting the V&A Museum I came across this sculpture on the opposite side of the street. It is a memorial to those killed after being forcibly repatriated by the Allies to the then Soviet Union at the conclusion of the Second World War.
Throwback Thursday: St Mary Abbots Church of England Primary School, London
The school was first endowed in 1645 as a free school for the children of the poor. A school was actually built about 1709 elsewhere but they moved to the current building next to St Mary Abbots Church around 1860.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, church, photo post, school, Throwback Thursday
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Faberge in London: Romance to Revolution at the V&A Museum, London
I’ve been a fan of Faberge’s work for a long time and I was delighted to get a ticket to see this exhibition at the V&A Museum in March. I’d bought the tickets in November of the previous year, not knowing then what COVID restrictions might be in place or even if I would feel up to travelling.
Categories: England, London
Tags: exhibition, faberge, museum, no photography allowed, photo post, v&a museum, victoria and albert
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