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Significance of Farleigh Hungerford Castle
Farleigh Hungerford Castle is valued as a late 14th-century quadrangular castle, and for its well-preserved chapel and association with the Hungerfords
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The Invention of the Wellington Boot
How the Duke of Wellington, victor at the Battle of Waterloo and fashion icon, gave his name to the humble welly.
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Blue plaque commemorating children's writer Enid Blyton at 207 Hook Road, Chessington KT9 1EA, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London.
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PANKHURST, Emmeline (1858-1928) & PANKHURST, Dame Christabel (1880-1958)
Blue Plaque commemorating Suffragette leaders Dame Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst at 50 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill, London W11 3AD, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Blue plaque to the creator of The Muppets, Jim Henson. The plaque marks his former home 50 Downshire Hill in Hampstead, London, NW3 1PA, London Borough of Camden.
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LUTYENS, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) & PEARSON, John Loughborough (1817-1897)
Blue Plaque commemorating architects John Borough Pearson and Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens at 13 Mansfield Street, Marylebone, London W1G 9NZ, City of Westminster.
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LUTYENS, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) & PEARSON, John Loughborough (1817-1897)
Blue Plaque commemorating architects John Borough Pearson and Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens at 13 Mansfield Street, Marylebone, London W1G 9NZ, City of Westminster.
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Blue plaque to the creator of The Muppets, Jim Henson. The plaque marks his former home 50 Downshire Hill in Hampstead, London, NW3 1PA, London Borough of Camden.
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Jim Henson, the creative genius behind The Muppets and Fraggle Rock, has today been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque, in the lead up to what would have been his 85th birthday. The plaque marks 50 Downshire Hill in Hampstead, Henson’s London home from 1979 onwards. The property lies opposite the former ‘Jim Henson’s Creature Shop’, where the creatures of Henson’s many fantasy classics including The Dark Crystal, The Storyteller and Labyrinth were created.
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As Whitby Abbey is illuminated for Whitby Goth Weekend, we take a look at how far back gothic subculture can be traced through the centuries.