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Speke Hall by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1870). Speke Hall is a wood-framed wattle-and-daub Tudor manor house in Speke, Liverpool, England. It is one of the finest surviving examples of its kind. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building. [1]
A priest hole is a hiding place for a priest built in England or Wales during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law. Following the accession of Queen Elizabeth I to the throne in 1558, there were several Catholic plots designed to remove her, [1] and severe measures, including torture and execution, were taken against Catholic priests.
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Another priest hole made by Nicholas Owen in the library in Harvington Hall The same priest hole inside. For many years, Owen worked in the service of the Jesuit priest Henry Garnet and was admitted into the Society of Jesus as a lay brother. [7] He was arrested in 1594 and tortured at the Poultry Compter but revealed nothing. He was released ...
Some of the best golfers can go their entire lives without scoring a hole in one. Evan Koehn, a 13-year-old from Hesston, had the experience of a lifetime on Monday when he made two holes-in-one ...
Patrick Reed had a moment to remember on Friday as he hit a hole-in-one on the famed party hole at the LIV Golf Adelaide event in Australia.. On just his second hole of the day, the 2018 Masters ...
The preserved Jetstream can be seen, as can the famous terraces. The building was constructed in the 1930s, as the terminal building for the airport, then known as Speke Aerodrome. It is still sometimes seen on early television news footage, with its terraces packed with fans waiting to greet the Beatles on their return from tour.