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Description of Silchester Roman City Walls and Amphitheatre
A brief description of Silchester, where the walls – some of the best-preserved Roman town defences in England – and remains of the amphitheatre still stand.
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Traditionally a monarch and his courtiers petrified by a witch, the Rollright Stones consist of three groups: the King's Men stone circle; the Whispering Knights burial chamber; and the single King Stone. They span nearly 2,000 years of Neolithic and Bronze Age development.
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One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.
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A rare early plaque honouring Alice in Wonderland illustrator and political cartoonist Sir John Tenniel has been conserved and reinstalled at a new London location.
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Piano legend Winifred Atwell honoured with English Heritage blue plaque
Internationally renowned pianist, television personality and trailblazing entrepreneur Winifred Atwell has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque marks 18 Bourdon Street, Mayfair, where Atwell lived close to the height of her extraordinary career in the 1950s and 60s with her husband and manager, Lew Levisohn.
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Blue plaque for lesbian landmark, the Gateways Club
A new blue plaque at 239 King’s Road, Chelsea, marks the building that was once home to the Gateways Club. For over fifty years (c.1931–1985), this basement club was London’s best-known and longest-lived lesbian social venue, becoming a vital haven and discreet landmark for generations of LGBTQ+ women.
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Description of Corbridge Roman Town
The exposed English Heritage site (about 1.8 hectares) represents only a tiny fraction – the central nucleus – of the Roman town built around the site of successive forts.
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Meet artist Alan Kitching, one of the world’s leading practitioners of letterpress typographic design and printmaking.
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ARCHER, John Richard (1863-1932)
Blue Plaque commemorating civic leader and pan-Africanist John Richard Archer at 55 Brynmaer Road, Battersea, London SW11 4EN, London Borough of Wandsworth
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Blue Plaque commemorating artist and London Underground map designer Harry Beck at 14 Wesley Road, Leyton, London E10 6JF, London Borough of Waltham Forest.