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English Heritage properties have some important historical highlights in 2015
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Judi Dench Backs English Heritage’s 'Plaques for Women' Campaign
Dame Judi Dench has urged the public to "nominate the women you admire" for blue plaques, English Heritage announced today (21 November) as the charity unveiled a blue plaque to Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990), star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes. The plaque celebrating the popular film actress of the 1930s and 1940s was installed at 14 Highland Road in Upper Norwood, her first home after moving to London as a child in the early 1920s.
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Fancy Dress Competition - Terms & Conditions
Terms and conditions for Fancy dress competition on Whitby Abbey and North York Moors Railway
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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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William the Conqueror and the Oath of Sarum
How William I used an ancient centre of power, Old Sarum in Wiltshire, to establish a radical new framework of loyalty, which may also have been linked to the great Domesday survey.
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English Heritage Restores 18th Century Statues Adorning the Gardens at Wrest Park
Expert conservators have begun work to restore a series of 18th century statues which can be found among the colourful flower beds in the French style parterre garden at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. The 90-acre gardens, in the care of English Heritage, showcase three centuries of garden design, and the restoration of two statues – each over 3 metres tall, marks the start of a wider conservation project restoring statues in the famous parterre gardens which make up some of the 70 plus statues in the garden estate.
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Walking Guide: Stott Park Bobbin Mill, High Dam and Lakeside
Walking guide: Stott Park Bobbin Mill, High Dam and Lakeside
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Description of Rochester Castle
A description of Rochester Castle, which is dominated by its impressive and well-preserved Norman keep, begun in the 1120s
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First World War Nurse Identified
A First World War nurse who cared for injured soldiers at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, the first wartime country house hospital, has been identified for the first time, English Heritage announced today (24 November). Researchers at the charity were contacted by Canadian Carol Jephson who recognised her grandmother Olive Buller in photographs of the hospital shown on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. English Heritage had put a call out in 2018 and colourised a selection of photographs in the hope that relatives of the nurses might come forward.
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Pride and Prejudice: The Battle for Betjeman's Britain
'Pride and Prejudice' examines how John Betjeman and others campaigned in the 1930s to protect our architectural heritage from neglect and reveals how Britain's listing system eventually emerged.