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The Quilters' Guild Museum Collection, which opened in St Anthony's Hall, York, on 7 June 2008 but closed on 31 October 2015, was Britain's first museum dedicated to the history of British quilt making and textile arts. The museum was founded and operated by the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. The guild was formed in 1979 and is the ...
Of the 18 factories which were owned by the British Sugar Corporation, only four still process beet - Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk), Cantley (in Norfolk, the second and first successful British sugar factory in 1912), Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire) and Wissington (western Norfolk and the largest in Europe). The Bury site is also a major ...
The Great British Bake Off’s sophomore season was filmed at Valentines Mansion, a 1696 home in London’s Redbridge borough within Valentines Park, a 128-acre property featuring gardens, a lake ...
This target was probably erected during World War II for use by SOE agents training at nearby Glasnacardoch House.. The following is an incomplete list of training centres, research and development sites, administrative sites and other establishments used by the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.
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The guild was a craft co-operative modelled on the medieval guilds and intended to give working men satisfaction in their craftsmanship. Many of the members were socialists . Skilled craftsmen, working on the principles of John Ruskin and William Morris , were to produce hand-crafted goods and manage a school for apprentices.
Tudor Monastery Farm is a British factual television series, first broadcast on BBC Two on 13 November 2013. The series, the fifth in the historic farm series, following the original, Tales from the Green Valley, stars archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold, and historian Ruth Goodman.
The earliest mention of a guildhall here was in 1359, where it used to be the meeting place of the powerful trade guilds. [2] [3] The medieval guildhall (situated behind the modern building) was mentioned by Elizabeth Holland in 1602 as a timber-framed building with a tiled roof and stone floors strewn with rushes. [3]