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The embankment near Wheeleys Road, gave way on 26 May 1872 causing considerable damage to the properties nearby. By an agreement of 1873 this canal was sold to the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Co, otherwise the Sharpness Dock Co. [ 16 ] A boatyard on the Dudley Canal was established and run by the Monk family for many years.
King George V and Queen Mary visited south Yorkshire from 8 to 12 July 1912 and stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse for four days. The house party consisted of a large number of guests, including: Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, the then-Archbishop of York; the Earl of Harewood and his Countess; the Marchioness of Londonderry; the Marquess of Zetland and Lady Zetland; the Earl of Scarborough and Lady ...
This is a list of Baroque palaces and residences built in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe.
The coal board pension fund put the Watergate complex up for sale in 1989, and estimated the complex's worth at between $70 million and $100 million. [5] Several buildings were sold in the 1990s (for details, see below). [5] The property was valued at $278 million in 1991. [20]
Room rates at the time ranged between $350 and $3,000; [209] [210] in exchange, guests received such amenities as a minibar, a health club, and butler service. [199] [210] In January 1992, ITT Sheraton designated 28 of its premier hotels as the ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection, with the St. Regis in New York as the division's flagship. [211]
Bath is a city in south-west England, most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. The city was first recorded as a Roman spa , though tradition suggests an earlier foundation. The waters from its spring were considered to be a cure for many afflictions.
Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath, 1891–92 Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942. The Art Institute's American Art collection contains some of the best-known works in the American canon, including Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, Grant Wood's American Gothic, and Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath. The collection ranges from colonial silver to modern and ...
An ancient Roman restaurant (thermopolium) near the forum in Ostia Antica: all aspects of food preparation and service employed both free and slave labor In the city of Rome, working people and their slaves lived in insulae , multistory buildings with shops on the ground floor and apartments above. [ 426 ]