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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.
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
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 White Hart is a hotel, conference centre and grade II* listed building located in the Montpelier Quarter of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. It has served visitors to the spa town for over 250 years. It has served visitors to the spa town for over 250 years.
Hollins' Handbook for Harrogate stated that an Act of Parliament governed the price of the water from the Pump Room. For an individual it would cost 1 shilling to drink sulphur water at the Pump Room for a week. A family could drink the waters at the Pump Room for the same duration at a cost of 4 shillings. [17]
[5] [9] The White City depot is the closest depot to Central London of any tube line. [10] Since the 1990s, all trains stabled at the depot are 1992 Stock . See also
Harris and Walz come from vastly different worlds. Harris is the biracial daughter of immigrants whose career was forged by the rough-and-tumble Democratic politics of the Bay Area — a place ...
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 ...