Mapperley Hall was built by Ichabod Wright, a banker, in 1792. The Wright’s were a prominent family in Nottingham and many of them have plaques erected in St Mary’s Church. It was their home until the end of the 19th century when it became part of University College Nottingham. As best as I can make out it has now been split into separate flats.
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Throwback Thursday: Mapperley Hall, Nottingham
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: history, local history, Mapperley Hall, photo post
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The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
The International Slavery Museum opened in 2007, the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Britain and is the only museum of its kind to look at both historical and contemporary slavery. It is housed on the first floor of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, and therefore has free entry.
Categories: England, Liverpool
Tags: black history, history, international slavery museum, museum, photo post, slavery
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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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Throwback Thursday: Wollaton Village Dovecote Museum
Wollaton Village’s Dovecote Museum is a little tricky to find though just a short walk from the village and at the end of a cul-de-sac. It’s a small building dating from the 16th century, having been built around 1565 by Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton Hall.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: costumes, dovecote, history, museum, Wollaton, Wollaton Village Dovecote Museum
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Alice in Wonderland Trail, Llandudno
Recently for my birthday we spent a week in Llandudno, Wales (and there will be lots of posts coming up about the many things we did whilst based there). On our first day of wandering around the town we came across the below sculpture of the Queen of Hearts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was here that I learned that Alice Liddell – the real life inspiration for Carroll’s heroine – spent many summers with her family in Llandudno and her adventures there served as inspiration for many aspects of the books.
Categories: Llandudno, Wales
Tags: Alice, Alice in Wonderland, history, photo post, Queen of Hearts, statue, The Mad Hatter, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, walking trail
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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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National Civil War Centre
One weekend in April we headed on the train to the National Civil War Centre in Newark. We’ve meant to visit since it first opened in 2015 but a recent feature on the local news spurred us on to finalise our plans. The museum is a quick 5 to 10 minute walk from Newark Castle Railway station in a somewhat unprepossessing building next to the Palace Theatre.
Categories: England, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Tags: armour, Charles I, civil war, history, medical equipment, museum, photo post, Suffragettes, war
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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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The Shambles, York
The Shambles is a medieval street in York, though these days the description encompasses the whole general area. Mentioned in the Domesday Book the name comes from the word “shamel” meaning the stalls or benches where meat would have been displayed – the Shambles itself was a street of butcher’s shops and houses with often a slaughterhouse at the back to provide fresh meat. You can see one of those surviving shelves on the left hand side of the below picture.
Categories: England, York, Yorkshire
Tags: harry potter, history, Margaret Clitherow, photo post, The Shambles, the shop that must not be named, York
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London Plaques – Part 3
Here’s another post about some of the plaques to be found around London. The first is on the site of the Westminster office of the Penny Post, on Gerrard Street, the first building to operate as a post office in Westminster in 1794. The London Penny Post itself was established in 1680 to deliver mail around London for, you guessed it, one penny. The Two Penny Post was established in 1801.
Categories: England, London
Tags: blue plaque, history, penny post, photo post, plaque, sir david low, sir osbert sitwell, sybil thorndike, william makepeace thackerey
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