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Burgh House

Burgh House is a historic house located on New End Square in Hampstead, London, that includes the Hampstead Museum. The house is also listed as Burgh House & Hampstead Museum. Brief history Burgh House was constructed in 1704 during the reign of Queen Anne. At the time of construction the Hampstead Wells Spa was flourishing. In 1720 the Spa's physician, Dr. William Gibbons, moved to Burgh House, which he enlarged. He added the present wrought-iron gate which carries his initials. One inhabitant of the house was Israel Lewis, who was an upholsterer. He was involved in a court case in which he was found guilty of creating a nuisance by "making an inclosed Dung stall" in his garden, and was fined £5 and made to remove it. Until the 1870s the house was known as Lewis House. In 1858 Burgh House was taken over by the Royal East Middlesex Militia, and served as the headquarters and officers' mess until 1881. The house returned to domestic use in 1884. From 1906–24 the house was occupied by Dr. George Williamson, an international art expert. He commissioned Gertrude Jekyll to design the garden, although only the terrace now remains. In 1925, a director of Lloyds Bank, Captain Constantine Evelyn Benson CBE, DSO, bought the house for £4,750. He built the present music room on the site of Dr. Williamson's library. Between 1933–37, Rudyard Kipling's daughter, Elsie Bambridge lived in Burgh House with her husband, Captain George Bambridge. Rudyard Kipling's last outing in 1936 was to Burgh House, to visit his daughter. From 1937–46 Burgh House was unoccupied. It was bought and restored by Hampstead Borough Council in 1946. The barrack blocks in front of the building were pulled down and in 1947 it reopened as a community centre with a Citizen's Advice Bureau in its basement. The house was again closed indefinitely in 1977 when its new owners, Camden Council, discovered dry rot in the building. Threatened with proposals to turn the house over to a commercial use, local residents formed a charitable trust and launched a "Keep Burgh House" appeal, as a result of which Camden Council granted them a lease for the house. On 8 September 1979, the house, restored by the council and refurbished by the trust, opened to the public as the house and museum that it is today. Hampstead Museum In recent years it has been further restored with backing from The Heritage Lottery Fund, Bridge House Trust and many local benefactors. The refurbished building opened to the public on 16 July 2006. Burgh House has the world's largest archive and collection of Helen Allingham's work. The first floor houses the Hampstead Museum, with permanent exhibits on local history and culture. There are also first floor and ground galleries for temporary exhibits of art, local history and culture. A cafe occupies the basement, with outside seating in the gardens. Burgh House currently hosts exhibitions and concerts, and is hired for weddings, receptions and other private events. References External links Official website
Burgh Island Hotel

The Burgh Island Hotel is a hotel on Burgh Island, Devon in England. History In the 1890s, the music hall star George H. Chirgwin built a prefabricated wooden house on the island, which was used by guests for weekend parties. The island was sold in 1927 to the filmmaker Archibald Nettlefold of Nettlefold Studios, the heir to the Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds engineering firm, who built a more substantial hotel in the Art Deco style, which became a popular destination in the 1930s. Additions were made through the 1930s, including a room created from the captain's cabin of the warship HMS Ganges (1821). The hotel is now a Grade II listed building During World War II, the hotel was used as a recovery centre for wounded RAF personnel. The top two floors of the hotel were damaged by a bomb during the conflict. Despite being repaired, it suffered a period of post war decline after being converted to self-catering apartment accommodation. The hotel was restored during the early 1990s by Tony and Beatrice Porter. Notable visitors Burgh Island Hotel is linked to the crime novelist Agatha Christie, as it inspired the settings for both And Then There Were None and the Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun. The Beatles used the hotel when they were playing a concert in Plymouth. Other guests who have reputedly used the hotel include Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and it is said that Eisenhower and Churchill met there in the weeks leading up to the D-Day invasion. Transport The island is approximately 250 metres (270 yards) from the mainland at Bigbury-on-Sea and is a tidal island, approachable on foot at low tide via a tract of hard sand. At high tide, a sea tractor transports passengers back and forth, operated by the hotel. The first sea tractor dated to 1929. By the end of World War 2 a DUKW "duck" amphibious vehicle was being used. A new sea tractor came in 1955, and the current third generation tractor dates from 1969. The vehicle drives across the beach with its wheels underwater on the sandy bottom while its driver and passengers sit on a platform high above. Power from a Fordson tractor engine is relayed to the wheels via hydraulic motors. In 2011, the fare cost £2 per person. Media The 2001 TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun used the island as a filming location. Several scenes from the BBC’s 1987 dramatisation of Christie’s story Nemesis were filmed in the hotel. In 1994 "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", an episode of the television series Lovejoy, was set and filmed on the island. The island was the location for GMTV's Inch-loss Island slimming feature in 2008, as it was for the original series in 2001. The climactic scene of the 1965 British film Catch Us If You Can (featuring The Dave Clark Five) takes place at the island. It was also used as a setting for an episode of Dixon of Dock Green in 1973. References External links Burgh Island Hotel Burgh island hotel: plenty to know, Harriet Partridge, Architects Journal, 22 November 2013 English Ferry Wades Through Ocean Waves the original Burgh Island sea tractor, from Science and Mechanics, 1935
Portus Lemanis

Portus Lemanis (en grec antic Καινὸς λιμήν) era un dels principals ports de la província romana de Britànnia. Era situat al país dels cantis (cantii) a la moderna Lymne, al comtat de Kent. La primera menció del lloc la fa l'Itinerari d'Antoní quan descriu la via que va de Durovernum Cantiacorum al port de Lemanis. Actualment es conserva en quasi tota la seva longitud. El port ja no existeix, cegat per les aportacions del mar. Segons unes inscripcions, va ser un dels llocs d'estacionament de la Classis Britannica, la flota naval estacionada a Britànnia. El nom el recull també la Taula de Peutinger. El port estava situat al vessant d'un turó i tenia muralles només per tres costats, ja que el quart aprofitava les defenses rocoses naturals. En algun moment se li van afegir dues torres de defensa i en un període tardà, un esllavissament de la muntanya va malmetre una part de les defenses, que ja no es van reconstruir. Referències
Stutfall Castle

Stutfall Castle (ook: Studfall Castle of the fort at Lympne) is de ruïne van een Romeins kustfort in het Engelse graafschap Kent, daterend uit de 3e eeuw n.Chr. De ruïne ligt op een heuvel en beschermde de haven van Portus Lemanis. De naam is afkomstig van de Saksische benaming 'Stout Wall'. Het fort is waarschijnlijk rond 270 gebouwd als onderdeel van de Litus Saxonicum. In de Romeinse tijd lag de kustlijn dichter bij de heuvel. Waar nu de Romney Marsh ligt, was destijds de natuurlijke haven van Portus Lemanis, een van de beginpunten van de hoofdweg naar Canterbury. Deze haven werd begin 3e eeuw genoemd in de Itinerarium Antonini en mogelijk was er in de omgeving toen ook al sprake van een militaire aanwezigheid, hetgeen onder andere blijkt uit de spolia in de muren van Stutfall Castle. Uit vondsten van munten en potten komt naar voren dat het fort rond 350 door het Romeinse leger is verlaten. De Notitia Dignitatum vermeldt nog wel de aanwezigheid van een legereenheid in 395, maar er wordt getwijfeld aan de juistheid van deze vermelding. Het fort had last van erosie door de nabijgelegen zee, en dat kan verklaren waarom het fort later niet is hergebruikt door de Angelsaksen. Stutfall Castle kent een zevenhoekig grondplan. Op de hoeken stonden halfronde torens. De muren waren circa 4,5 meter dik en 8 meter hoog. In de 15e eeuw raakten de restanten van het fort ernstig beschadigd door een aardverschuiving. Bij opgravingen in 1850 zijn de resten van een badhuis gevonden. Ruim zeshonderd meter naar het noordoosten staat het middeleeuwse kasteel Lympne Castle.
Портус Леманис

Портус Леманис (лат. Portus Lemanis) — древнеримская крепость, поселение и порт на юге современного графства Кент, Англия. Название деревни Лимпн произошло от этого древнеримского поселения. Первое документальное упоминание данной местности относится к концу III века. В Итинерарии Антонина упоминается поселение Портус Леманис, лежащее в 68000 (68 римских миль) шагов от Лондиниума и в 16000 шагов от Кентербери. Однако археологические находки свидетельствуют о наличии римского поселения, основанного в данном месте гораздо ранее III века. Фортификационные укрепления находились на холме в прямой видимости с моря. Гражданское поселение возникло возле форта по обе стороны дороги, ведущей к современному Кентербери. Источники Fields, Nic. Rome's Saxon Shore - Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500 (Fortress 56) (англ.). — Osprey Publishing, 2006. — ISBN 978-1-84603-094-9. Johnston, David E.; et als. The Saxon Shore // CBA Research Report. — 1977. — № 18.
Kirkby Slate Quarries

Kirkby Slate Quarries, formally known as Burlington Slate Quarries, are located near Kirkby-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. The quarries have produced a characteristic blue-grey slate for over 450 years, with large-scale production starting in the early 19th century, when the Cavendish family organised small-scale quarrying activities by local farmers into a larger group of quarries, which then attracted others into the area to live and work in the quarries from the 1820s onwards. The slates were formed during the Early Devonian when a slaty cleavage was imposed on the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the area. The best quality slate with the most even and regular cleavage was formed from the lithologically uniform mudstone successions. The quarrying at Burlington can be directly related to the development of Kirkby, which merged from six smaller farming hamlets: Soutergate, Wall End, Beck Side, Sand Side, Marshside and Chapels. The opening of the slate quarry helped merge these, the name Kirkby dating from the construction of the Cumbrian Coast railway line to the village. The quarry does not have a galleries system, as many quarries are, but as an enormous pit several hundred feet in depth. The quarry operations have spread throughout and under Kirkby Moor, but now production only takes place at the very bottom of the quarry, with the rock being removed via a cutting from a shallower part of the pit. The slate blocks were initially removed from the large open pits by blasting and then reduced to a manageable size using a mell (sledge hammer) and tully (long-handled wedge-shaped hammer) before being transported to the cutting sheds, sawn to size and riven into thin slates. Typical of many Welsh slate quarries, such as Dinorwig, Penrhyn and Rhiw-Bach, Burlington adopted the use of a long series of inclined trackways and water balance lifts to provide material transport from the quarries. The lowest of the series was the Sandside, which connected Burlington with the port and mainline railway at Sandside on the Duddon Estuary. References External links - Burlington Stone - Rigg Family History in and around the Burlington Quarries
Burnby Hall Gardens

Burnby Hall Gardens, also known as Stewart's Burnby Hall Gardens and Museum, are located close to the centre of Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They are home to the United Kingdom's national collection of hardy water lilies, and contain the largest such collection to be found in a natural setting in Europe. The 8 acres (3.2 ha) of gardens with two lakes planted with naturalized water lilies were bequeathed to Pocklington by Major Percy Marlborough Stewart. The lakes, originally created for fishing, are stocked with ornamental roach and carp that visitors can hand feed. In 2024, Burnby Hall Gardens was awarded the prestigious Gold Award from Yorkshire in Bloom. Stewart Museum The estate's house contains the Stewart Museum, which features the personal collections of Major Percy Marlborough Stewart (1871–1962). The collections include sporting trophies of animal heads and artefacts from Stewart's travels around the world. References External links Official web site
Burneside Hall

Burneside Hall er et ombygget peel tower fra middelalderen, der ligger i Burneside, Cumbria, England. Burneside Hall kan dateres tilbage til 1290, hvor en ejendom på stedet var ejet af Gilbert Burneshead, Under-Sheriff af Westmorland. Richard Bellingham, der var en del af en infdflydelsesrig familie fra Northumberland giftede sig med Burnesheads datter og fik derigennem ejendommen. Den nuværende bygning er oprindeligt opført i sidste halvdelen af 1300-tallet af Bellingham-familien. Det er en listed building af anden grad og et scheduled monument. Siden 2014 har Historic England (tidligere kendt som English Heritage) formelt betragte Burneside Hall som en bygning der har risiko for langsomt forfald. Se også Liste over borge og slotte i England Referencer Litteratur Emery, Anthony. (1996) Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Northern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-49723-7. Jones, Thomas. (1912) The History of Burneside. Kendal, UK: Atkinson and Politt. Eksterne henvisninger
Burnham Beeches Golf Club

Burnham Beeches Golf Club is a golf club, located in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England. Established in 1891, it is the oldest golf club in Buckinghamshire. Burnham Beeches' 18-hole golf course was built on land owned by the City of London Corporation. In 1909 the land was bought by Lord Burnham and leased to the club. It continued to be leased from the Burnham Trust until 2014, when the club purchased the land outright. Early in the twentieth century, J.H. Taylor was consulted on changes to the course. In 1984, Burnham Beeches hosted the White Horse Whisky Challenge, a tournament on the WPGA circuit, which later became known as the Ladies European Tour. The winner of the tournament was Federica Dassù of Italy. References External links Official website
Burnham Grammar School

Burnham Grammar School (BGS) is a co-educational grammar school in Burnham, Buckinghamshire. In October 2011 the school became an academy. It takes students aged 11–18, with approximately 1250 on roll (as of 2021/2022). In September 2004 the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) awarded the school specialist school status as a science college. In May 2011 the school applied for academy status in order to be released from local education authority (LEA) control. The current headteacher is Andrew Gillespie, who took over from Catherine Long in January 2008. Notable alumni Mike Ashley, entrepreneur Jimmy Carr, comedian Ulrika Jonsson, television presenter and model References External links Department for Education Performance Tables 2011
Burnhope Burn

Burnhope Burn is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of north County Durham, England. It consists of a 12.6-acre (5.1 ha) area of woodland, carr, fen and mire in the valley of Burnhope Burn, just below the dam of the Derwent Reservoir, a mile (1.6 km) north-east of the village of Edmundbyers. It contains a range of habitats that are characteristic of poorly drained soils and that are rare or local in County Durham; such as smooth-stalked sedge (Carex levigata), bogbean (Menyanthes) and globeflower (Trollius). In a small basin-mire in the northern part of the site, there are abundant communities of a number of species that have a localised distribution elsewhere in the county. References
Burnley bus station

Burnley bus station serves the town of Burnley, Lancashire, England. The bus station was funded by both the Lancashire County Council and Burnley Borough Council. The station was opened in October 2002, at a total cost of £3M and consists of 11 stands, a travel centre and electronic passenger boards. It was designed by SBS Architects. Services The main operators from the bus station are Blackburn Bus Company, Burnley Bus Company, First West Yorkshire, Rosso, and Holmeswood Bus, as well as National Express. Gallery References External links Burnley bus station - Lancashire County Council
Burnside College

Burnside College is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Wallsend, North Tyneside, England. History The school was opened on 15 July 1960 by the chairman of Parsons under the name, Wallsend County Technical School. It cost approximately £280,000 for the building work, the furniture and the equipment. On 3 September 1969, the school was renamed as Burnside High School. The school took its current name when it moved into its new buildings in September 2004 that were later inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II. These new buildings cost around £15 million. In 2009, The Wallsend Sports Centre began moving into the school grounds, and another new building is currently under construction costing £7 million. Subsequently, the school facilities will improve - the fitness suite in the centre will be larger and a swimming pool will also feature inside the centre. In the Summer of 2010, the building was complete, creating a large swimming pool and fitness suite available for use of local people and students. Notable former pupils Michael Carrick, manager of Middlesbrough F.C. and former midfielder for Manchester United and England Vicky Pattison, former Geordie Shore star, and current broadcaster Robin Peers, former rugby league player Chris Thorman, former rugby league player and current coach of Newcastle Thunderr Micky Ward Steve Watson, footballer Wallsend Grammar School Maurice Benn, 1500m runner at the 1968 Olympics Richard Gaddes, opera manager Brian Laws, professional footballer for Burnley, Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest; Manager of Grimsby Town, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield Wednesday and Burnley Sir George Leitch, CB, OBE, Permanent Secretary from 1974 to 1975 of the British Ministry of Defence Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn, musician William Fieldhouse CBE, Chairman from 1973 to 1981 of Letraset, and from 1980 to 1983 of Carrington Viyella George Rochester FRS, Professor of Physics from 1955 to 1973 at Durham University, discovered the V particles and the kaon or K meson, with Sir Clifford Charles Butler in the 1940s at the University of Manchester Group Captain Ivan Whittaker OBE DFC (9 September 1921 - 22 Aug 1979, from Sherburn, County Durham), who flew on the Dambusters Raid as a Flight Engineer with Lancaster AJ-P, with pilot Australian Air Marshal Sir Harold Martin; it was the third to hit the Möhne Dam (he was a Pilot Officer at the time); the mine veered to the left, and exploded at the side of the dam, with the aircraft returning safely; he left the RAF in 1974, being Station Commander from September 1965 to February 1968 of RAF Aldergrove References
Burntwood School

Burntwood School is a girls' secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Wandsworth, London, England, opened in September 1986. It is one of the largest state schools for girls at the secondary level in the country. History The school opened in September 1986, replacing Garratt Green Comprehensive Girls' School, which had formerly occupied the site, and nearby Mayfield School for Girls. The first headmistress of Burntwood was Brigid Beattie-Moriarty. Her obituary in The Guardian called the school "an outstanding centre of multi-cultural education". The school converted to academy status on 1 July 2013. Burntwood School is recognised as a Science Specialist School and has the 'Sportsmark' and 'Artsmark Gold' awards. It has also received the Rights Respecting UNICEF Gold Award. Enrolment For the 2008–09 school year, there were 1,733 pupils enrolled at the school. In September 2009, the school admitted 283 new students: 71 places are offered to the girls who scored highest in the Wandsworth Year 6 Test; the remaining 212 places are offered to siblings of current students and then to those girls living closest to the school. While nominally an all-girls school, Burntwood has a small number of male students in the sixth form. In 2002, for example, two per cent of the pupils were male. Buildings For the school year beginning September 2012, students moved into the new buildings which had been under construction for the last two years. Fully complete in 2014, the project that cost £40.9 million saw the opening of six new buildings (four four-storey teaching pavilions, a new sports hall and a new performing arts buildings) to create a new-look campus. In October 2015, Burntwood School won the RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK's leading architecture award. Notable former pupils Clara Amfo, BBC Radio 1 presenter and DJ. Amplify Dot (Ashley Charles), Rapper and Radio DJ. Pearl Mackie, actress, Doctor Who companion. Jessica Plummer, singer in Neon Jungle (2013-2015) and actress, EastEnders. External links Official Website Ofsted inspection reports for Burntwood School References
Burrator Reservoir

Burrator Reservoir is a reservoir situated on the southern side of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It is part of a number of reservoirs and dams that were built over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in the area now covered by Dartmoor National Park to supply drinking water to the city of Plymouth and other rapidly growing towns in the surrounding lowlands. Burrator Reservoir was completed in 1898 and later expanded in 1929. The reservoir was built under the supervision of Edward Sandeman (1862-1959), the Water Engineer for Plymouth. The reservoir has two dams, the Burrator Dam, which is built across the River Meavy at Burrator Gorge at the south-western end, and the Sheepstor Dam built on a dividing ridge between the Meavy and Sheepstor Brook at the south-eastern end. The Burrator Dam was the first of the two to be built, with construction starting on 9 August 1893. It is the more massive of the two dams, constructed of concrete faced with granite blocks. The Sheepstor Dam was built in 1894 and is an earth embankment with a core wall of puddled clay above the original ground level, with a concrete section below ground. The reservoir was officially opened on 21 September 1898. In 1923 plans were made to enlarge the reservoir's capacity from 668 million gallons to 1,026 million by raising the height of both dams by 10 feet. Work began in December 1923, including the construction of a temporary suspension bridge near Burrator Dam to maintain traffic flow during the project. The reservoir was officially re-opened on 12 September 1928. By the 1930s the watershed on Dartmoor for the reservoir was stated to be 5,360 acres. The present-day area of the reservoir at overflow level is about 150 acres. The reservoir's edges are planted with commercial forests. Today, Burrator Reservoir is managed by the South West Lakes Trust and serves as a popular destination for leisure activities such as walking, cycling, and fishing. The reservoir in popular culture The reservoir featured in the first episode of the second series of James May's Man Lab, broadcast on BBC Two in October 2011, when Oz Clarke and James May travelled along the reservoir's edge while attempting to stage an escape from Dartmoor Prison to the village of Meavy. The reservoir also features in Steven Spielberg's 2011 film, War Horse. References External links Burrator Reservoir page at South West Lakes Trust website