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Molesey Lock

Das Molesey Lock ist eine Schleuse in der Themse bei Molesey, in Surrey, England. Sie liegt nahe dem Hampton Court Palace im Südwesten von London. Die Schleuse wurde 1815 von der City of London Corporation und ist mit 81,78 m die zweitlängste der Themse. Neben der Schleuse gibt es eine Bootsrutsche für kleinere Boote. Nach einem großen Wehr folgt Ash Island und ein zweites kleineres Wehr. Die Nähe zum Hampton Court und ein einfacher Zugang machten es schon in der victorianischen Zeit zu einem beliebten Ausflugsziel und auch heute kommen noch viele Besucher. Geschichte Eine Schleuse wurde zuerst 1802 vorgeschlagen, da es bei Kenton Hedge und Sunbury Flatts Untiefen gab, aber der Vorschlag wurde nicht weiter verfolgt. 1809 wurde der Vorschlag erneut vorgelegt und ein Beschluss zum Bau der Schleuse wurde 1812 vom Parlament gefasst. Die Bauarbeiten begannen 1814 und 1815 war die Eröffnung. Der erste Schleusenwärter wurde bei einem Pferderennen getötet und sein Nachfolger wurde nach Diebstählen auf Schiffen entlassen. 1853 wurden einige Veränderungen an der Schleuse vorgenommen, da man einen niedrigeren Wasserstand flussaufwärts erwartete, da dort Wasser entnommen wurde. Eine Fischtreppe wurde 1864 am Wehr gebaut und die Bootsrutsche wurde 1871 angefügt. Bootsfahrten waren damals so beliebt, dass 1877 ein Boot und eine Mannschaft am Wehr stationiert waren, die bei Unfällen helfen sollten. Die Schleuse wurde 1906 erneuert. Auf der kleinen Schleuseninsel befindet sich eine Erinnerungsplakette für Michael J. Bulleid, dessen Einsatz es den Lachsen wieder ermöglicht flussaufwärts zu wandern. Der Fluss oberhalb der Schleuse Nach dem Schleusenkanal folgen zunächst die Inseln Tagg’s Island und Garrick’s Ait. Die Hampton Ferry wird im Sommer zwischen Hampton and Moulsey Hurst betrieben. Es folgen die Inseln Benn’s Island und Platt’s Eyot. Es folgen die Grand Junction Isle und Sunbury Court Island. Bei Wheatley’s Ait mündet der River Ash in die Themse. Wasserwerke und Speicherseen Bei Platt’s Eyot liegt ein Wasserwerk und Speicherseen auf der Nordseite des Flusses, genauso wie auf der Südseite die ehemaligen Speicherseen des Moseley Reservoirs liegen. Es gibt hier Wasserspeicherseen auf beiden Seiten des Flusses, da sie nach dem 1852 verabschiedeten Metropolis Water Act gebaut wurden. Das Gesetz verbot die Entnahme von Trinkwasser unterhalb des Teddington Lock, da der Fluss zu viel Abwasser führte. Die Wasserwerke bei Hampton wurden auf der Nordseite des Flusses in den 1850er Jahren von der Grand Junction Waterworks Company, der Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company und der West Middlesex Waterworks Company gebaut. Die Stauseen auf der südlichen Flussseite bei Molesey wurden 1872 von der Lambeth Waterworks Company und drei Jahre später von der Chelsea Waterworks Company gebaut. Beide Gesellschaften hatten vorher Stauseen bei Seething Wells unterhalb des Molesey Lock aber die Zuflüsse des River Mole, des River Ember und des The Rythe brachten zu viel Schlamm ins Wasser. Der Themsepfad verläuft die gesamte Strecke bis zum Sunbury Lock auf der südlichen Seite des Flusses. Siehe auch Schleusen und Wehre der Themse Weblinks Einzelnachweise
Northfleet Urban Country Park

Northfleet Urban Country Park is in Northfleet, in Kent, England. The site is land encompassed by Springhead Road, Thames Way, west of Vale Road and (on its northern boundary) the railway (the Dartford to London railway). The site is owned by and managed by Gravesham Borough Council. History The site was used for orchards / farming until the 1940s, when it (and others along the railway) was used as a chalk pit. This went down to about 8‐10m deep. On 7 May 1957, planning was given for a refuse tip on the site, and on 10 December 1992, landfill gas venting trenches were installed. Gravesend Council permitted the formation of an urban country park containing a lake, woodlands, meadows, wetlands and trim trail, play area and toilets/kiosk/seating area in August 1996. The site was landscaped with the importing of 130,000m3 of cleaned topsoil, to raise the level of the land between two and four metres. New resurfaced footpath and cycle routes were then constructed on the 2 plateaued land. Later the site was further landscaped by extensive native tree, shrub and wildflower plantings, creating various wildlife habitats including a wetland swale. Location The park lies to the west of Gravesend and can be accessed on its eastern side from Vale Road and on its western side from Springhead Road. References External links Kent Council Page
Odell Great Wood

Odell Great Wood is an ancient woodland and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Odell in Bedfordshire. Located around the centre of the parish of Odell, the site was described by Natural England as "in many respects the best example in Bedfordshire" of wet ash-maple woodland, and in historical sources as "the noblest wood in this county". Being one of the largest of Bedfordshire's ancient woodlands, the wood hosts a wide variety of flora and fauna in its ash, oak and hazel coppice habitat. History What is now Odell Great Wood was once just a small part of a much larger forest. It was a source of employment for woodsmen that reached The Fens. Sheep also grazed in a large sheep-wold, that was enclosed in 1776, and sheep still graze in adjoining meadows today along with game birds being reared in wired compounds inside Odell Great Wood. A 1765 map by Thomas Jefferys shows formal drives through Odell Great Wood, arranged on the design of the wheel. In 1844, Joseph Mason of Felmersham was convicted of larceny ("unlawful taking of the personal property of another person") and sentenced to three months hard labour and imprisonment, after stealing an axe from under a stump of ash in the wood. Site of Special Scientific Interest Natural England described Odell Great Wood as "in many respects the best example in Bedfordshire" of wet ash-maple woodland, having notified the site under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 in 1970 and under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in 1984. The wood is dominated by oak (Quercus robur) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior) trees, which grow over a well-developed layer of shrub plants, including privet (Ligustrum vulgare), dogwood (Cornus sanguinea), field maple (Acer campestre) and coppiced hazel (Corylus avellana). A high diversity of woodland species exists, which mirrors the variation in soil types across the wood, with the northern areas of the site growing on a neutral boulder clay, as well as more calcareous soils derived from the Great Oolite being found in the rest of the wood. This diverse ground flora includes species that are considered rare in Odell Great Wood's locality, such as herb paris (Paris quadrifolia) and wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus). A key feature of the wood that Natural England cites as enhancing the sites value for flowering plants, butterflies and other invertebrates is the "extensive and well-developed system of [woodland] rides". There is access by a footpath from Odell high Street. See also List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire References
Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico

Our Lady Help of Christians Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Portico area of Prescot, Merseyside. It was founded in 1790 by the Society of Jesus. History The Jesuits were present in the area from 1716 and lived in a house on Scoles Lane. After the building of a Catholic church in the area was permitted, George Marsh a local architect was contracted to design the new church. In 1790, a small presbytery and chapel was built for the local Catholics in the area. The chapel was built as an extension to the back of the presbytery. As there was no other Catholic church in the area, when it was built, if the local Catholics wanted to attend Mass, they had to come to the church. This lasted until 1856, when Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church was built in the centre of the town. At some point in the 20th century, the parish was handed over by the Jesuits to the Archdiocese of Liverpool who continue to serve the church. In 2005, the Pope John Paul II Blessed Sacrament chapel was opened in the church. Parish The church has two Sunday Masses, one at 5:30pm on Saturday and at 11:00am on Sunday. Both the Our Lady of Help of Christians and Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph churches have a relationship with Our Lady's Primary School in Prescot, whose mission statement states ' What we hoped to achieve in all that we do is as a living community of God'. See also Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot Society of Jesus Prescot References External links Our Lady Help of Christians Parish site Our Lady's Catholic Primary School site
Ridley Railway Bridge

Ridley Railway Bridge is a railway bridge carrying the Tyne Valley line between Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle across the River South Tyne near Ridley Hall in Northumberland. History The first bridge near Ridley Hall for the railway between Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle was designed by the railway company's engineer, John Blackmore, and originally built of timber; it was completed in 1838 but as the condition of the wood deteriorated it was replaced by the current iron-girder structure constructed by Sir William Arrol & Co. in 1907. It was one of three bridges across the River Tyne and River Allen completed in 1838. Such was the influence of the owner of Ridley Hall, Sir Matthew White Ridley, 4th Baronet, that a small station was built nearby for the benefit of the local community travelling on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Cast iron railings from the original bridge, built in 1838, were recovered and retained by the Science Museum in London. The current bridge is approximately 137 metres (449 ft) long. References
Rutherford School

Rutherford School is an independent special school for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) aged 3–19 that aims to provide inclusive education to learners whose very special needs are compounded by a high degree of dependency. Rutherford School is part of The Garwood Foundation, a charity based in Croydon. The school is located on Melville Avenue, South Croydon, Greater London. The school facilitates learning that is supported and managed by a specialist range of therapies which address physical disabilities, sensory impairments and complex medical needs. The school has on-site medical and therapy provisions including nurses, physiotherapists and creative arts therapists. Sources Rutherford School official website The Garwood Foundation official website External links grid reference TQ 337 640
The Colmore Building

The Colmore Building, formerly known as Colmore Plaza, is a 14-storey office building in the Colmore Business District of Birmingham City Centre. The building The Colmore Building is a Grade A office building of 14 storeys. It can accommodate lettings of up to 104,000 sq ft across 23,000 sq ft floor plates and has a BREEAM environmental and sustainability rating of 'Excellent'. Major tenants AECOM Aedas Allianz Amey plc Department for Transport Grant Thornton International Investec Lendlease Marsh & McLennan Companies Teneo Zurich Insurance Group Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Location The Colmore Building is located in the Colmore Business District, which is Birmingham's main business area. There are around 500 companies located in the Colmore Business District, employing up to 35,000 people and occupying approximately 5.6m sq ft of office space. Ownership Colmore Plaza was purchased from The Carlyle Group by real estate investment advisory company, AshbyCapital LLP, for £140m in August 2015, in what was one of the largest single-asset regional deals of 2015. AshbyCapital secured an £80m loan with AgFe to fund the deal. AshbyCapital's other investments include 200 Aldersgate, a 434,005 sq ft office building in the City of London and The Avenue, an office and retail building on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Tottenham Court Road in London’s West End. Enhancement programme In January 2016, AshbyCapital announced a £3.5m enhancement programme and relaunched the building under the new name, The Colmore Building. As part of this programme, a coffee house, gym, treatment rooms and cycling facilities, including bicycle parking, changing rooms and a drying room were announced, along with an enlarged and refurbished reception area. References External links The Colmore Building website AshbyCapital website Colmore Business District website
Southwell railway station

Southwell railway station served the town of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England, from 1847 to 1959. It was a stop on the Rolleston Junction-Mansfield line. History The station at Southwell opened on 1 July 1847 as a branch line from the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway at Rolleston Junction. In its early years, the passenger service was horse-worked. In 1862 gas lighting was introduced. In 1871 the line was extended to Mansfield by the contractors Eckersley and Baylis (using cast iron bridges built by Andrew Handyside and Company of Derby). The Midland Railway took the opportunity to rebuild the station building and stationmaster's house in stone and the platform shelters, and dismantle the original wooden station building, which was re-erected at Beeston railway station. The Mansfield to Southwell section, which passed through a mining area subject to subsidence, was closed to passengers by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1929, the same year in which a north to south-west curve at Rolleston was opened to give direct access to the Fiskerton direction from the branch. The Southwell to Rolleston Junction section remained open to passengers until 1959, normally worked by a push–pull train. Freight services ended in 1964. Stationmasters J. Bailey, to 1860 Samuel Whitehouse, 1860–1863 I. Kilby, 1863–1865 William Yeomans, from 1865 Samuel Jacques, c. 1868 – c. 1876, former station master at Derby Nottingham Road George Cherry, c. 1877–1878 George Peck, 1878–1886, former station master at Tewkesbury and Ashchurch Walter Scott, 1886–1903 William Clapham, 1903–1910 Thomas Maidens, c. 1914–1917, then stationmaster at Coalville Frank Porter, c. 1918–1928 Walter Scott, 1936–1939, former station master at Appleby Arthur G. Sperry from 1939, former station master at South Witham Present day The station building is now in use both as a private residence and a bed & breakfast called Southwell Station House. The old level crossing gate is still visible by the station building. A pub called The Final Whistle lies nearby; it contains railway memorabilia and relics. The westbound trackbed back towards Mansfield forms a shared-use path called the Southwell Trail. The trackbed immediately to the east is now occupied by housing developments; beyond this, the route of the old railway to Rolleston has become Racecourse Road. Rolleston Junction station remains open, now renamed Rolleston, as a stop on the Nottingham-Lincoln line; it is close to Southwell Racecourse, about three miles (4.8 km) south-east of the town itself. Fiskerton station is also an equal distance from Southwell, one stop further along the line to the south-west of Rolleston. References
St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon

St Winefride Church is Roman Catholic Parish church in South Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton. It was founded as a chapel of ease of Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon by the Society of Jesus in 1905. It is Grade II listed building and was designed by Frederick Walters. History In 1877, The Jesuits came to Wimbledon at the request of Edith Arendrup, a member of the Courtauld family, from Roehampton where they had their novitiate, Manresa House. She asked that Mass be said in her house until a church was built. The Jesuits also went to South Wimbledon for the Catholics there and said Mass in St Mary's School. In 1884, Edith Arendrup commissioned the construction of Sacred Heart Church in the area. It was finished in 1887 and designed by Frederick Walters. By 1903, the number of Catholics were growing in South Wimbledon and it was decided to build another church in the parish to accommodate to increasing congregation. The same architect of Sacred Heart Church, Frederick Walters, was asked to design the church. Construction started in 1904 and finished in 1905. The Jesuit influence on the church is shown by there being a statue of Saint Ignatius close to a statue of the parish patron, Saint Winefride. In 1961, the Jesuits handed over administration of the church to the Archdiocese of Southwark who continue to serve the parish. In the 1980s the church was reordered with the altar being brought forward. Stained glass was added to some of the windows and a central heating system was installed at this time. The church has a hall on Bridges Road, this continues as parish hall and was renovated in 2004. Parish There are three Sunday Masses in the church, one at 6:00pm on Saturday evening, and then at 9:00am and 11:00am on Sunday morning. There are weekday Masses at 9:30am from Monday to Friday and another at 10:00am on Saturday. Within the parish is St Mary's Catholic Primary School which a relationship with the church. It openly states that 'The education that the children receive at St Mary's has Gospel Values at its very core.' The school is a feeder of the Jesuit secondary school Wimbledon College. Interior See also List of Jesuit sites Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon References External links St Winefride Parish site St Mary's Catholic Primary School site
Stansted Mountfitchet Castle

Stansted Mountfitchet Castle, auch Mountfitchet Castle genannt, ist ein normannisches Ringwerk und eine Motte in Stansted Mountfitchet in der englischen Grafschaft Essex. Heute ist das Gelände ein Living-History-Museum komplett mit dem Vieh, das die Leute zur Zeit der Nutzung der Burg gehalten hatten. Geschichte Die Burg ließ nach der normannischen Eroberung Englands die Familie Mountfitchet errichten. Die Kernburg wurde auf einer Erhöhung mit einem Ringwerk als Verteidigungsanlage erbaut; ihre Grundfläche betrug etwa 0,2 Hektar. Dazu gab es eine Vorburg, die etwa 0,4 Hektar umschloss und etwas tiefer stand. Innerhalb des Ringwerkes gab es einen Donjon in einer kleinen, runden Einfriedung. In den 1980er-Jahren wurde die Burg als Touristenattraktion wieder aufgebaut. Auch wenn man sich während der Rekonstruktion um den Schutz der originalen Teile der Burg bemühte, haben doch der Umbau und die folgende große Zahl an Besuchern das Gelände beschädigt. Einzelnachweise
Stansted Mountfitchet Castle

Stansted Mountfitchet Castle, also termed simply Mountfitchet Castle, is a Norman ringwork and bailey fortification in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. The site is currently in use as a Living history museum. History The castle was built following the Norman Conquest of England by the Montfitchet family. It was constructed on high ground with a ringwork defence, enclosing around 0.5 acres (0.20 ha), and a bailey complex, enclosing 1 acre (0.40 ha) on slightly lower ground. Within the ringwork was a keep, within a small, round enclosure. It is believed to have been an early Iron Age fort and Roman, Saxon and Viking settlement. Artefacts found on the site from these periods support this belief. In 1066 the site was attacked by the Normans and Robert Gernon built his castle here, making it his chief seat and the head of his Barony. Robert Gernon (or Robert Greno as he is referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086) came over from France with William the Conqueror, and was rewarded with this lordship and several others in the county. The male line of the Gernon family continued for only five generations. Conservation Mountfitchet Castle is a scheduled monument. In the 1980s the castle was reconstructed as a tourist attraction. The grounds were cleared to reveal the original earthworks and mounds and after years of battling with planners, in 1980 the work began to reconstruct Mountfitchet Castle. After many years of work the restoration of Mountfitchet Castle was complete, and it was opened to the public in 1985. It is unique in being the only wooden Motte and Bailey reconstruction on its original site anywhere in the world. Livestock The castle is the home of livestock, that would have been kept by people during the period when the castle was in use. In 2013, one of the castle's cockerels, a Light Brahma named 'Little John', was nominated for the world record for tallest chicken, standing at 26 inches (660 mm) tall. See also Castles in Great Britain and Ireland List of castles in England References Bibliography Blockley, Marion (1999). "Archaeological Reconstructions and the Community in the UK". In Planel, Philippe; Stone, Peter G. (eds.). The Constructed Past: Experimental Archaeology, Education and the Public. London, UK: Routledge. pp. 15–32. ISBN 978-0-203-20582-2. Pettifer, Adrian (1995). English Castles: a Guide by Counties. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-782-5.
Stansted Mountfitchet Castle

Stansted Mountfitchet Castle är ett slott i Storbritannien. Det ligger i grevskapet Essex och riksdelen England, i den sydöstra delen av landet, 50 km nordost om huvudstaden London. Stansted Mountfitchet Castle ligger 78 meter över havet. Terrängen runt Stansted Mountfitchet Castle är platt. Närmaste större samhälle är Harlow, 15,3 km söder om Stansted Mountfitchet Castle. Trakten runt Stansted Mountfitchet Castle består till största delen av jordbruksmark. Kommentarer Källor
The Canal Museum

The Canal Museum, formerly known as the National Waterways Museum at Stoke Bruerne and The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne, is a canal museum located next to the Grand Union Canal just south of the Blisworth Tunnel, near the village of Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire. It is about 10 miles (16 km) north of Milton Keynes and 7 miles (11 km) south of Northampton near junction 15 of the M1 motorway. History The museum was established in 1963, as "The Canal Museum". It was founded by two canal workers and enthusiasts, Charles N. Hadlow, the first curator, and Jack James, its first caretaker, whose personal collections formed the main part of its initial exhibits. It was subsequently known as the "National Waterways Museum Stoke Bruerne", one of three museums operated by The Waterways Trust that focused on the history of canals in Britain. After the creation of the Canal & River Trust in 2010, the Stoke Bruerne museum was rebranded to its original name. Museum The museum is housed in a restored Grade II listed corn mill at the top of a flight of canal locks, and is one of several museums and attractions operated by the Canal & River Trust, the successor to The Waterways Trust. The museum tells the story of Britain's inland waterways and the people who worked on them. It provides an insight into the transport system which was fundamental to the Industrial Revolution in Britain. There are working models and 3-D displays including a model of the short-lived inclined-plane mechanical lift at Foxton in Leicestershire. Exhibits include models of working boats including narrow boats, barges, butties and tugs, painted ware and canal crafts, traditional clothing, canal-side signs and specialist tools. The museum has a shop and café, and a school/activity room available for educational visits. See also London Canal Museum National Waterways Museum Gloucester Waterways Museum References External links The Canal Museum - Canal & River Trust The Friends of The Canal Museum July 1963 episode of Look Around, featuring Charles N. Hadlow at the newly-opened museum Map sources for The Canal Museum