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.
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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
Tags: architecture, church, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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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
Tags: architecture, london, photo post, pub, Throwback Thursday
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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
Tags: architecture, history, london, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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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
Tags: architecture, history, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Berwick House, Oxford Street, London
Berwick House on Oxford Street dates from around 1886 and has a rather interesting spire and pillars along the front.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, history, london, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Street Art at Castlewood House, London
An old throwback from 2019 today – a cool little London skyline drawing on some boards outside the former Castlewood House building in New Oxford Street.
Categories: England, London
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Throwback Thursday: Thomas More Statue, Chelsea Embankment, London
Thomas More, advisor to Henry VIII who would eventually have him beheaded at the Tower of London, moved to Chelsea in around 1520. The house he built there no longer exists but the statue is near Chelsea Old Church where he regularly worshipped.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, photo post, statue, thomas more, Throwback Thursday
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