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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.
For the first century and a half of its existence, Danbury and Main Street were one and the same. The arrival of the railroads in the mid-19th century and the growth of the city's hatmaking industry began to expand it beyond Main's immediate neighborhood, and by the end of the century what had been a small village was a city with Main Street as its civic and commercial core.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
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 ...
Speke (/ ˈ s p iː k /) is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England.It is eight miles (thirteen kilometres) southeast of the city centre. Located near the widest part of the River Mersey, it is bordered by the suburbs of Garston and Hunts Cross, and nearby to Halewood, Hale Village, and Widnes.
Danbury Fair (also referred to as Danbury Fair Mall) is an upscale shopping mall located in Danbury, Connecticut. [2] As of 2011, it is the second largest shopping mall in Connecticut, [3] [better source needed] as well as the fifth largest in New England. [4] It is located off of Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 7 opposite the Danbury Municipal ...
Tuxedo Junction was a 600-capacity live music venue located at 2 Ives Street in Danbury, Connecticut.Ron and Rick Jowdy founded the club in 1985, and sold it in 1998 to Michael Roviello and Al Caccamo, who closed it in 2013.