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Grove House is a former inn, school, house and orphanage on Skipton Road, Harrogate in North Yorkshire. Built in 1745–54 as World's End Inn, it was later greatly expanded as the home of the prominent inventor Samson Fox. It was the first house in Yorkshire to have lighting by water gas.
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Simpson was born on 5 January 1860 in John Street, Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, [2] [1] [nb 1] and baptised at Christ Church, High Harrogate on 12 February 1860. [3] He was the eldest of the seven children of Alderman James Simpson (1824–1895), a master mason and builder, and Ellen Simpson née Robinson (1828 – 6 December 1885 ...
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The old Town Hall in Swan Road. The council offices were commissioned to replace the old town hall in Swan Road which had been built in 1805. [1] [a] After finding that the old town hall was too cramped, civic leaders at Harrogate Borough Council decided to procure new council offices: the site they selected had been occupied by the old Victoria Baths which had been dismantled by the engineer ...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. . Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United Stat
The White City, an "ideal city" constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois White City (Indianapolis) , an amusement in Indiana, 1906–1908 White City (New Orleans) , an amusement park in Louisiana, 1907–1913
White City of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893). The enormously successful 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago attracted 26 million visitors and featured a section that is now commonly considered the first amusement park: a midway (the mile-long Midway Plaisance), the world's first Ferris wheel (constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.), a forerunner of the modern roller ...