The Martins Bank building below, as of taking the picture a bar, was the first of two branches to open in Nottingham in 1931.
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Throwback Thursday: Martins Bank
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, Martins bank, photo post
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Tate Britain
Tate Britain is the oldest gallery in the Tate network of galleries (Tate Modern being one of the others), dating from 1897. It houses British art from 1500 to the present day including the largest collection of works by J M W Turner, for whom the Turner Prize was named.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, art gallery, artwork, J M W Turner, Jacob Epstein, photo post, statue, Tate Britain
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Throwback Thursday: The Birkin Building, Nottingham
The Birkin Building in the Lace Market in Nottingham was designed by Thomas Chambers Hine another architect who, like Watson Fothergill, made a big impact on the city. It was, of course, a lace warehouse made for Richard Birkin, a lace manufacturer, in 1855.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architect, architecture, Broadway, lace market, photo post, Thomas Chambers Hine
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Liverpool Parish Church
On my final day in Liverpool I decided to take a walk down from my hotel towards the Albert Dock in order to visit the museums there but the first building I actually stepped inside was the Liverpool Parish Church.
Categories: England, Liverpool
Tags: architecture, church, cross, history, Liverpool Parish Church, Second World War, stained glass window
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Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
Liverpool Cathedral is the largest cathedral in Britain and fifth largest in the world, built between 1904 and 1978. It was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, perhaps most famous for designing the iconic red telephone box.
Categories: England, Liverpool
Tags: architecture, cathedral, photo post, stained glass, stained glass window, statue
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The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is another place that was on my must visit list (also included in the I amsterdam card) and I ended up visiting it straight after the Van Gogh Museum (they are located very close together). Originally I’d planned to visit the Rijksmuseum later in the day as the museum states that lunchtime is the busiest time of day but seeing as it was very hot but raining buckets I decided to go in at lunchtime anyways so as to be out of the rain and found that I could walk straight in without having to queue after all.
Categories: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tags: architecture, art gallery, flower pyramid, library, museum, photo post, Pierre Cuypers, stained glass window
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Throwback Thursday: The Nottingham Industrial Museum
The Nottingham Industrial Museum is based in part of the 17th century stable block at Wollaton Hall and as it’s only open on weekends and Bank Holidays it took quite a while before I got around to visiting. It focuses on a wide range of Nottingham industries including lace, bicycles and mining.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, Black Boy Hotel, framework knitters, industrial museum, photo post, watson fothergill, Wollaton Hall
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Merchant Adventurer’s Hall, York
The Merchant Adventurer’s Hall is a Grade I listed timber framed building built in around 1357 by a fraternity of York citizens as a charity and business that became the Company of Merchant Adventurers of York in the 16th century.
Categories: England, York, Yorkshire
Tags: architecture, history, Merchant Adventurers, stained glass, stained glass window, timber framed building
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Throwback Thursday: The Royal Masonic Trust for Boys and Girls
This building in London used to house the Royal Masonic Trust for Boys and Girls, a charitable children’s organisation that still has offices further down the street.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, building, london, Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys, william blake
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Throwback Thursday: St Leonard’s Church, Wollaton
St Leonard’s Church in Wollaton, Nottingham, has been around since the 1200s and it would have fallen under the care of the Mortein and then the Willoughby families, owners of the nearby Wollaton Hall.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, church, history, monument, photo post, stained glass, Wollaton, wollaton antiphonal, Wollaton Hall
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