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Конная гвардия (здание)

Конная гвардия (англ. Horse Guards) — здание в палладианском стиле с часовой башней в историческом центре Лондона перед плацем Хорс-Гардс. Первое здание «Конной гвардии» было построено в 1664 году на месте, где с XVI века проводились рыцарские турниры при Уайтхольском дворце. В 1749 году оно было разобрано. Современное здание было построено по проекту английского архитектора Уильяма Кента в 1751—1753 годах. До 1904 года здание служило резиденцией верховного главнокомандующего вооружёнными силами британской армии. В 1906 году военное ведомство переехало в Уайтхолл, и в здании разместилось командование Лондонского военного округа и Дворцовой кавалерии. Литература Харвуд, Брайан. Рыцарство и командование = Chivalry and Command. 500 years of Horse Guards. — Osprey, 2006. — ISBN 9-781846-031090. — [Архивировано 11 марта 2016 года.]
Horse Guards

Horse Guards, eng., eg. "hästgardet", en kasernbyggnad vid Whitehall i London, där förr även inrymdes ämbetsrum för högste befälhavaren för armén. Även sedan detta ämbete avskaffats, har ibland termen "Horse Guards" begagnats för att beteckna arméns högsta militära förvaltningsmyndigheter till skillnad från den civile krigsministern (sedan 1964 försvarsministern). Se även Household Division Knightsbridge Barracks Trooping the Colour Wellington Barracks Källor Horse-guards i Nordisk familjebok (andra upplagan, 1909) Noter Externa länkar Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Horse Guards.﻿
Blackwell (historic house)

Blackwell is a large house in the English Lake District, designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Baillie Scott. It was built in 1898–1900, as a holiday home for Sir Edward Holt, a wealthy Manchester brewer. It is near the town of Bowness-on-Windermere with views looking over Windermere and across to the Coniston Fells. Blackwell has survived with almost all its original decorative features intact, and is listed Grade I as an outstanding example of British domestic architecture. The house is furnished with original furniture and objects from the period. The gardens were designed by Thomas Mawson in a series of terraces. Flowers and herbs border the terraces, which form sun traps on the south side of the house. The house has been open to visitors since 2001 and hosts regular exhibitions including work by living artists such as Edmund de Waal in 2005. It won the Small Visitor Attraction Award in the Northwest of England for 2005. The house is managed by the Lakeland Arts Trust. Description of house and contents When the architect MH Baillie Scott built a holiday home overlooking Windermere for his client Sir Edward Holt he created Blackwell, a perfect example of the Arts and Crafts movement. Blackwell retains many of its original decorative features, including a rare Hessian wall-hanging in the dining room, leaf-shaped door handles, curious window catches, distinctive plasterwork, stained glass and carved wooden panelling by Simpsons of Kendal. The rooms contain furniture and objects by many of the leading Arts and Crafts designers and studios – metalwork by WAS Benson, ceramics by Pilkingtons, and Ruskin Pottery and furniture by Morris & Co., Stanley Webb Davies, Ernest Gimson and Baillie Scott himself. Acquisitions of furniture by Baillie Scott are on display, including an oak and ebony inlaid barrel chair with slatted sides, sideboard and a set of dining chairs. Blackwell offers several rooms displaying historical exhibitions that explore different aspects of the Arts and Crafts movement. The original gardens were laid out by Arts and Crafts garden designer Thomas Mawson in a series of terraces to achieve views from the house over the lake towards the Coniston fells. Blackwell is bordered by flower beds set against a terrace of York stone paving, providing shelter for garden chairs and tables, surrounded by flowers and herbs. On the lower terrace there is a long sweep of lawn. See also Listed buildings in Windermere, Cumbria (town) Broad Leys, Arts and Crafts house on Windermere List of country houses in the United Kingdom References External links Blackwell House Website
Blagdon Hall

Blagdon Hall (grid reference NZ21557705) is a privately owned English country house and Grade I listed building at the Blagdon estate near Cramlington in Northumberland. The estate has been in the ownership of the White Ridley family since 1698. Its present owner is the science writer and hereditary peer Matt Ridley, the 5th Viscount Ridley. The house was originally built in two phases between roughly 1720 and 1752, first by Matthew White and later by his son, Sir Matthew White, 1st Baronet. His sister Elizabeth married Matthew Ridley (1711–1778), who served four terms as Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne. Their son, Sir Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Baronet, inherited the estate after the 1st Baronet’s death in 1763. Blagdon Hall was substantially enlarged in the nineteenth century to designs by the architects John Dobson and Ignatius Bonomi. Some of these additions were removed following a fire in 1944. The gardens were extensively remodelled in the 1930s by Sir Edwin Lutyens, whose daughter Ursula was married to Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Viscount Ridley. The stable block designed by James Wyatt in Palladian style in 1791 is Grade II* listed and a 19th-century folly in the grounds is Grade II listed. The gardens also contain the only surviving bronze of John Graham Lough's gigantic statue of Milo of Croton. On the estate is Shotton Surface Mine, a large open cast coal mine and Northumberlandia (the "Lady of the North"), a huge land sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure made from mining waste. The Royal Agricultural Society of England awarded the Bledisloe Gold Medal in 2015 to Ridley as they "wanted to highlight the extensive environmental improvement work that has been undertaken across the land". References External links Official website
Blagdon Hall

Blagdon Hall est une maison de campagne anglaise privée près de Cramlington dans le Northumberland. C'est un bâtiment classé Grade I. La maison et le domaine appartiennent à la famille White Ridley depuis 1698. L'actuel vicomte Ridley est l'écrivain scientifique et pair héréditaire Matthew Ridley. Histoire La demeure a été construite en deux phases entre 1720 et 1752 par Matthew White et son fils Sir Matthew White, 1er baronnet, dont la sœur Elizabeth épouse Matthew Ridley (1711-1778), quatre fois maire de Newcastle upon Tyne. Le fils de ces derniers Matthew White Ridley hérite du domaine et succède à son oncle comme second baronnet. Blagdon Hall est considérablement agrandi au XIXe siècle selon les plans des architectes John Dobson et Ignatius Bonomi. Certains de ces ajouts sont supprimés à la suite d'un incendie en 1944. Les jardins sont largement rénovés dans les années 1930 par Edwin Lutyens, dont la fille Ursula est mariée au 3e vicomte Ridley. Le bloc stable conçu par James Wyatt dans un style palladien en 1791 est classé Grade II * et une folie du XIXe siècle dans le parc est classée Grade II. Les jardins contiennent également le seul bronze survivant de la gigantesque statue de John Graham Lough de Milon de Crotone. Sur le domaine se trouvent Shotton Surface Mine, une grande mine de charbon à ciel ouvert et Northumberlandia (la « Dame du Nord »), une immense sculpture terrestre en forme de figure féminine allongée fabriquée à partir de déchets miniers. La Royal Agricultural Society of England décernr la Bledisloe Gold Medal en 2015 à Ridley car ils « voulaient souligner les vastes travaux d'amélioration de l'environnement qui ont été entrepris à travers le pays » . Références (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Blagdon Hall » (voir la liste des auteurs). Liens externes Site officiel Ressource relative à l'architecture : National Heritage List for England Portail de l’Angleterre Portail des monuments classés au Royaume-Uni
Blaisdon Hall

Blaisdon Hall (grid reference SO698170) is a Grade II* listed building at Blaisdon. It includes a 0.07-hectare (0.17-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1995. Blaisdon Hall supports a breeding roost of Lesser horseshoe bats which consists of one fifth of the known Gloucestershire breeding population, and has been deemed by Natural England to be of national importance. The site comprises part of the roof void, roof tiles, roof timbers, the flanking walls of the Hall and the nearby workshop. Pipistrelle bats and Brown long-eared bats also are recorded using the Hall. History The hall was built in 1876 by William Crawshay. It was extended in 1907 by P. Stubbs. In 1935 it was sold and turned into an agricultural school. Architecture The two-storey Jacobean style stone building has slate roofs. At the rear are two projecting wings with a courtyard between them. On the right of the front is a four-storey tower with a porte-cochere. Location and habitat The site is one of a series of Sites of Special Scientific Interest within the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley (Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire). These sites support (between them) breeding and hibernation roosts for Lesser and Greater horseshoe bats. This is of European importance. Other sites in the group in Gloucestershire (all of which are SSSIs) include the breeding sites of Caerwood And Ashberry Goose House, Dean Hall Coach House & Cellar and Sylvan House Barn. Hibernation sites include Buckshraft Mine & Bradley Hill Railway Tunnel, Devil's Chapel Scowles, Old Bow And Old Ham Mines and Westbury Brook Ironstone Mine. The Wye Valley and Forest of Dean are one of the main locations for Lesser horseshoe bats because of the deciduous woodlands and, sheltered valleys, which provide a good feeding area, and the underground systems which provide roosting and breeding sites. The citations for the series of sites provide common information. Wye Valley and Forest of Dean Bat Sites/ Safleoedd Ystlumod Dyffryn Gwy a Fforest y Ddena are recognised as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) under the EU Habitats Directive. Conservation Natural England reports (unit of assessment report 2011) that the numbers of Lesser horseshoe bats remained the same as at citation (by chance). This was 187 (8 August 2011 count). Roof spaces were not accessed and considered to be inaccessible without causing structural damage and damage to the roost. References SSSI Source Natural England SSSI information on the citation Natural England SSSI information on the Blaisdon Hall unit External links Natural England (SSSI information)
Blaise Hamlet

Blaise Hamlet is a group of nine small cottages around a green in Henbury, now a district in the north of Bristol, England. All the cottages, and the sundial on the green, are Grade I listed buildings. Along with Blaise Castle, the hamlet is listed, Grade II*, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. Nikolaus Pevsner described Blaise Hamlet as "the ne plus ultra of picturesque layout and design". Blaise Hamlet was built around 1811 for retired employees of Quaker banker and philanthropist John Scandrett Harford, who owned Blaise Castle House. The hamlet was designed by John Nash, master of the Picturesque style, who had worked for Harford on other buildings. The hamlet is the first fully realised exemplar of the garden suburb and laid a pattern for virtually all garden suburbs that followed. The cottages are each unique and have brick chimneys and dormer windows, with some having thatched roofs. They are examples of the Picturesque style, an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin. An oval path links the cottages and encircles the village green, where there is a sundial. The cottage gardens are planted in a Victorian cottage garden style. Since 1943, the cottages have been owned by the National Trust. They are occupied and not open to the public, but the ensemble may be viewed from the green. Buildings See also Storybook house References External links Blaise Hamlet information at the National Trust
Blakeney Guildhall

Blakeney Guildhall is a building in the coastal village of Blakeney in the north of the county of Norfolk. The property is in the care of English Heritage but is managed by the local parish council. Blakeney is just off the A149 coast road and is nine miles west of Sheringham. The property can be found in an alley just off the quay. It is a scheduled monument. Origins The building has always traditionally been called the Guildhall but nothing is known of its early history. It is likely to have originally been built for a prosperous medieval Blakeney fish merchant, the undercroft being used for storage of his merchandise. The building later became the guildhall of Blakeney's guild of fish merchants. The Guildhall was once a two-storey building but now all that remains is the 14th-century brick-vaulted undercroft. It is divided into two aisles by a row of stone piers which support the ribbed vaults of brickwork. The doorway and the windows are all original. The bricks, no doubt, were locally made and are typical of their period, being of variable shape, quality and appearance. For this reason brickwork of this period was often plastered over. The main building was entered from higher ground on the southern land side of the building. A projection at the south-east corner contains the shute that served a garderobe or privy. Ownership It is believed that the Guildhall was once owned by the Carmelite Friary that stood nearby. It has been in the ownership of the village for over 400 years. There is a series of deeds recording the transfer of ownership from one group of trustees to the next. Each deed provides for the Guildhall to be used for the benefit of the villagers of Blakeney. The first surviving deed dates from 1627. There are other similar deeds dated 1687, 1750 and 1808. Subsequent deeds do not appear to have survived. Over the years the basement has been used for the storage of cargo, as a grain store, coal bunker, for growing mushrooms and also a worm and bait store for local fishermen. During the war years the basement was used as a mortuary for drowned sailors. Gallery See also Guild Guildhall Museum References External links Official page: English Heritage
Blakes Hotel

Blakes Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, and considered one of the world's first boutique hotels. It is at 33 Roland Gardens in South Kensington. It was established by London hotelier and designer Anouska Hempel, and contains eclectic artifacts collected by Hempel during her international travels. Known for protecting its clients' privacy from the paparazzi, it often accommodates celebrities. Regular guests have included Princess Margaret; Sarah Ferguson; actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Lindsay Lohan; and supermodel Kate Moss.. The hotel is also home to a Mediterranean-style restaurant and an exclusive lounge named Blakes Below, which debuted in 2016. The hotel was mentioned as a plot point in Sofia Coppola's 2020 film On the Rocks. The hotel has been closed since May 31, 2022. Interior The hotel's 45 rooms were designed with varied influences; Asian, Moroccan and Colonial styles are conspicuous. The single rooms contain French double beds with blacks and whites in an eclectic style. The double rooms are styled as Indenture or Provençal design, including antique swan beds. The Director's Double has European king-sized beds which are either French gilded antique swan or four-poster. The Luxury Suites, decorated in various styles, have European king-sized four-poster beds with extra high ceilings and their own balconies with French windows. The Library Suite has hidden cupboards behind fake bookshelves, silk wall hangings, and a double-height four-poster bed. See also Hotels portal References External links Official site
Blaydon Bridge

Blaydon Bridge je jedním z hlavních mostů vedoucích přes řeku Tyne v severovýchodní Anglii. Spojuje Scotswood ve městě Newcastle upon Tyne a Blaydon ve městě Gateshead. Most byl navržen společností Bullen and Partners, postaven pak byl mezi lety 1987 a 1990 společností Edmund Nuttall Ltd. Jedná se o předpjatý betonový most se dvěma betonovými pilíři umístěními v řece. Po dokončení tvořil most spojnici mezi západním obchvatem Gateshead a nově vybudovaným západním obchvatem Newcastle upon Tyne. Od otevření byl určen jako část trasy silnice A1. Před jeho dokončením vedla silnice A1 na východ od Newcastlu a Gateshead přes Tyne Tunnel. Oficiálně byl otevřen královnou Alžbětou II. 1. prosince 1990. Odkazy Reference V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku Blaydon Bridge na anglické Wikipedii. Externí odkazy Obrázky, zvuky či videa k tématu Blaydon Bridge na Wikimedia Commons
Blaydon Bridge

Blaydon Bridge is one of the main bridges crossing the River Tyne in North East England linking Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne and Blaydon in Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The bridge was designed by Bullen and Partners and built by Edmund Nuttall Ltd between 1987 and 1990. It is a concrete bridge with two concrete piers in the river. When completed, it formed the link between the existing Gateshead Western By-pass and the newly constructed Newcastle-upon-Tyne Western By-pass. From the opening, it was designated as the A1 road: before the Blaydon Bridge was built the A1 crossed the Tyne to the east of Newcastle and Gateshead via the Tyne Tunnel. It was officially opened by the Queen on 1 December 1990. References Blaydon Bridge at Structurae Bridges on the Tyne: Blaydon Bridge
Blaydon RFC

Blaydon Rugby Club is an English semi-professional rugby union team. The first team currently plays in the fifth tier of the English rugby union system Regional 1 North East and the 2nd XV participates in Counties 2 Durham & Northumberland North. Their home ground is at Crow Trees, Swalwell, Tyne and Wear. Youth rugby Blaydon run various youth teams, ranging from under-7 to under-19. Best results Under-19 (2008): National semi-final [v Harrogate, 16 March, Crow Trees] Under-17 (2009–10): National Plate semi-final [v Sheffield, 23 March, Crow Trees] Under-17 (2013–14): National Shield winners (v Dartfordians, 4 May, AJ Bell Stadium) Honours Durham Senior Cup winners (5): 1996, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2013 North East 1 champions: 1994–95 North 1 v Midlands 1 promotion play-off winner: 2000–01 National League 3 North champions: 2006–07 North Premier champions: 2019−20 International players Mark Wilson (rugby union) Michael Skinner (rugby union) Steve Bainbridge Trevor Davison Selwyn St. Bernard Matthew Cook Notable former players Andrew Baggett – fly-half who became the all-time National League 1 points scorer with over 1,700 points, the majority whilst playing for Blaydon. He also represented Yorkshire and Durham and was part of the Yorkshire side that won the 2008 Bill Beamont Cup. References External links Official website
Blea Moor Tunnel

Blea Moor Tunnel is a 1+1⁄2-mile (2.4 km) railway tunnel located between Ribblehead Viaduct and Dent railway station in England. It is the longest tunnel on the Settle-Carlisle Line, being almost twice as long as the second longest tunnel, Rise Hill Tunnel. History Built by the Midland Railway, it took more than four years to complete. Construction started in 1872, with dynamite transported from Carlisle and Newcastle in carts to the construction site. The wages on offer to the miners who dug the tunnel were 5s (equivalent to £24.44 in 2025) to 5s 6d (equivalent to £26.5 in 2025) per day. It was completed in 1875 at a cost of £109,000 (equivalent to £10,870,000 in 2025). It passes some 500 feet (150 m) below the moor after which it was named, and was built with the aid of seven separate construction shafts sunk from the moor above. This permitted sixteen separate gangs of workers to be used during construction (one from each open end and two from the foot of each of the shafts). Four of these were subsequently filled in but three were retained for ventilation purposes and are still used as such today (with occasional ice accumulation problems). At one point of the track's history, steam locomotives were tested for their worthiness by driving them through this tunnel. The line from the south enters the tunnel on a rising 1% (1 in 100) gradient (the "Long Drag" beginning back at Settle Junction), but an initial summit is reached at the 1100 ft contour just under half a mile from the southern portal. From there, the rest of the tunnel is on a shallow descending gradient of 1 in 440 towards Dent Head. In April 1952 a passenger train derailed shortly after exiting the tunnel due to a broken brake rod on the locomotive tender fouling the points. The use of rolling stock with Buckeye couplings and welded underframes was praised in preventing telescoping of the coaches and thus there were no deaths. Traffic Any train that goes the full length of the Settle & Carlisle line goes through the Blea Moor Tunnel. This includes passenger trains, all run by Northern (eight each way per day in the 2023-24 timetable), various special excursions (some hauled by steam locomotives) and the many goods trains. A short distance south of the tunnel is Blea Moor Sidings signal box, which supervises the line through the tunnel and also over the adjacent Ribblehead viaduct. Since 2016, the goods loop there has also been used several times a day by stone trains from the quarries at Arcow and Horton (both of which now have siding connections to the northbound main line) to reverse direction before returning south via Settle and Hellifield to various stone distribution terminals in the Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool areas. Train simulators You can go through the Blea Moor Tunnel either with Microsoft Train Simulator, Trainz Classics 3 or Train Simulator Classic. Location Southern portal: 54.2319°N 2.3673°W﻿ / 54.2319; -2.3673﻿ (Blea Moor Tunnel (southern portal)) Northern portal: 54.2497°N 2.3465°W﻿ / 54.2497; -2.3465﻿ (Blea Moor Tunnel (northern portal)) See also Rise Hill Tunnel Whitehaven Tunnel References
Blea Tarn (Eskdale)

Der Blea Tarn ist ein kleiner See oder Tarn an der Nordseite des Tals Eskdale im Lake District, Cumbria, England oberhalb des Haltepunktes Beckfoot der Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. Der See hat keinen erkennbaren oberirdischen Zufluss, sein Abfluss mündet im Fluss Esk. In unmittelbarer Nähe westlich des Sees liegen der Siney Tarn und der Blind Tarn. Siehe auch Seen im Lake District Weblinks Blea Tarn (Eskdale) auf Lakes, Meres, Tarns and Waters
Blea Tarn (Eskdale)

Blea Tarn is a lake in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the English Lake District, located about half a mile north of Beckfoot. Located at an elevation of 217 m (712 ft), the lake has an area of 3.3 hectares (8.2 acres) and measures 277 m × 150 m (909 ft × 492 ft), with a maximum depth of 11 m (36 ft). There are other lakes called "Blea Tarn" in the Lake District (in Borrowdale and Little Langdale). John Taylor commented in 1905 that in the ... days when place-names were being given, the inhabitants of one of our secluded valleys were so cut off from their fellows that they would call a rock Eagle Crag or a small sheet of water Blea Tarn, quite unaware that on the other side of the hill the same titles were being afiixed to other cliffs and waters. References
Bleak Hill Park

Bleak Hill Park (formerly known as Short Heath Recreational Ground) is a public park in Erdington, Birmingham, UK. It is identified by Birmingham City Council as a "green corridor". History The park is named after the topographical name of the nearby area; referring to either "bleak hills" or "black hills". Like the origin of Blakesley Hall in Yardley, three Old English words could provide the root of the word "Bleak" – one meaning "black", one meaning "to shine", and one meaning "shining, pale, or bleak". The area was first recorded as Blakhilles in 1461. Renovation In 2008, the park underwent a £100,000 transformation to remove graffiti and litter and to install sports pitches. References