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Blue Plaque commemorating football manager Herbert Chapman at 6 Haslemere Avenue, Hendon, London NW4 2PX, London Borough of Barnet.
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Kenwood launches new display of Rembrandt masterpiece
Kenwood House in Hampstead will host a special display to commemorate 350 years since Rembrandt’s death on 4 October 1669, English Heritage has announced. Rembrandt #nofilter will celebrate the artist’s Self-portrait with Two Circles, a painting widely acknowledged as one of Rembrandt’s defining images and regarded by some as one of the world's greatest works of art.
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Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
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History of St Catherine’s Chapel, Abbotsbury
A brief history of St Catherine’s Chapel, a largely unaltered chapel built in the 14th century by the monks of Abbotsbury Abbey. Pilgrims visited the chapel until the late 19th century.
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New blue plaque commemorates sanctuary for stranded South and East Asian women
A house in Hackney which, in the early twentieth century, sheltered hundreds of stranded and sometimes abandoned South and East Asian nannies – known as ayahs – has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque, the charity announced today (16 June).
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Directions to Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village
Directions to Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village
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Garden designer, landscape architect and campaigner for child welfare, Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood, is recognised with a blue plaque. Allen brought adventure playgrounds to the UK. The house in Chelsea that bears her plaque was the home where she lived and advocated for local children to have accessible spaces to play.