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BARING, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841–1917)
Blue Plaque commemorating Evelyn Baring, Earl of Cromer.
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Tim Etchells: Wait Here (Double Line)
For Berwick Barracks’ the temporary installation Wait Here (Double Line) comprises a new version of Etchells’ 2008 neon work, the full text for which reads ‘Wait Here I Have Gone to Get Help’. Visible above the gatehouse entrance of the town’s former military barracks, Etchells’ work makes a playful intervention into the site invoking an imaginary situation of peril and a fictitious mission to gather support. Long a home for troops on call for missions further North or abroad – the Barracks is recast by Etchells as the location for another kind of story about danger and the need for caution or defence.
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Description of Tintagel Castle
A description of Tintagel Castle, the ruins of which lie on both sides of an eroded neck of land dividing Tintagel island from the mainland.
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What the atmospheric, evocative long barrows of the Cotswold Hills and Marlborough Downs reveal about burial practices and attitudes to death in the early Neolithic period.
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Get historic cheese back on the menu this Christmas, says English Heritage
With shortages at supermarkets in the run-up to Christmas a growing possibility, English Heritage has today (15 December) called for the return of historic cheese to the Christmas dining table as the charity reveals its ultimate English cheese board with delectable suggestions from medieval monks’ cheese to pre-Second Word War Wensleydale. The charity is also encouraging the public to support local cheese makers this Christmas, many hard hit during the pandemic, who are keeping history alive through the traditions of cheese making.
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Blue Plaque commemorating footballer Bobby Moore at 43 Waverley Gardens, Barking, London IG11 0BH, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
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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.