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Find out how the famous view from Richmond Hill has changed since Marble Hill House was built, and how its importance as part of this view saved Marble Hill Park from development.
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Rievaulx Abbey Collection Highlights
Highlights from the Rievaulx Abbey collections, which form a unique insight into the workings of the medieval abbey and a snapshot of its development until the Suppression.
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Marble Hill: History and Stories
Find out all about Marble Hill’s history, and how English Heritage is bringing the house and Henrietta Howard’s lost garden back to life.
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LYELL, Sir Charles (1797–1875) & GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809–1898)
73 Harley Street, Marylebone, was home to geologist Sir Charles Lyell and later to statesman William Ewart Gladstone. Both are commemorated there with a blue plaque.
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Tommy Flowers was an electrical engineer who designed, and led the team that built, the pioneering Colossus computer used to decipher German codes at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. English Heritage have commemorated him with a blue plaque at the former Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.
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Tommy Flowers was an electrical engineer who designed, and led the team that built, the pioneering Colossus computer used to decipher German codes at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. English Heritage have commemorated him with a blue plaque at the former Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.
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LYELL, Sir Charles (1797–1875) & GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809–1898)
73 Harley Street, Marylebone, was home to geologist Sir Charles Lyell and later to statesman William Ewart Gladstone. Both are commemorated there with a blue plaque.
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Seventy years ago the Trinity weapon test set into motion a series of events which made York Cold War Bunker necessary. In this post, Rachael Bowers explores the events of 1945 and how this prompted governments to invest in nuclear bunkers.
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GREENE, Sir Hugh Carleton (1910-1987)
Blue Plaque commemorating broadcaster & journalist Hugh Carleton Greene at 25 Addison Avenue, Holland Park, London W11 4QS, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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WOLFE BARRY, Sir John (1836-1918)
Blue plaque commemorating the civil engineer, Sir John Wolfe Barry, at his former home at Delahay House, 15 Chelsea Embankment, London, SW3 4LA, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.