The Palace Theatre was built in 1922 by a local business woman called Emily Bragg. It sits on the site of the Chauntry House which was a former residence of Queen Anne. Originally it was opened as a cinema but also with a stage and an orchestra pit.
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Throwback Thursday: The Palace Theatre, Newark
Categories: England, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, history, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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The Garden Museum, London
I’ve walked by the Garden Museum a few times whilst in London and when I found myself with an afternoon free I decided it was the perfect time to visit. I was largely prompted by their temporary exhibit at the time – on until 19 June – called Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, church, garden, history, london, museum, photo post, statue
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Throwback Thursday: The Tower Building, Liverpool
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.
Categories: England, Liverpool
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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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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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Throwback Thursday: St Martin’s Vestry Hall and Church Schools, London
The Vestry Hall, Vicarage and National Schools in St Martin’s Place were built around 1830. The inscription around the roof reads “St Martin’s National Schools. Built by Subscription on Ground the Gift of His Majesty King George IV. MDCCCXXX”. The land was gifted for a school to educate the poor children of the parish.
Categories: England, London
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