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It was sold in 2014 for $685 million to Market Tech PLC, a UK AIM listed public company, later named LabTech. [4] The market is located in the historic former Pickfords stables and Grade II listed [14] horse hospital which served the horses pulling Pickford's distribution vans and barges along the canal. Many of the stalls and shops are set in ...
Royal Mews. Coordinates: 51°29′55″N 0°08′37″W. Entrance to the Royal Mews. The Royal Mews is a mews, or collection of equestrian stables, of the British royal family. In London these stables and stable-hands' quarters have occupied two main sites in turn, being located at first on the north side of Charing Cross, and then (since the ...
Godolphin Stables, also known as Stanley House Stables, is a thoroughbred racehorse ownership, training and breeding operation in Newmarket, Suffolk, which has produced many notable horses. It is one of the most famous racing establishments in the world and is currently owned and operated by Godolphin Racing, the UK's largest flat racing ...
Manor House Stables is a thoroughbred horse racing establishment situated in Cheshire, England from where racehorse trainer Hugo Palmer currently operates. [ 1 ] The stable, converted from a cattle barn by Michael Owen and his wife Louise, began operating as a training establishment in March 2007 with 30 horses in training.
The known history of the horse in Britain starts with horse remains found in Pakefield, Suffolk, dating from 700,000 BC, and in Boxgrove, West Sussex, dating from 500,000 BC. Early humans were active hunters of horses, and finds from the Ice Age have been recovered from many sites. At that time, land which now forms the British Isles was part ...
Horses of Elizabeth II. Statue of Elizabeth II aboard her favorite horse Burmese on the grounds of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in Regina. From an early age, Queen Elizabeth II took a keen interest in horses. Into her reign, this developed into one of her main leisure time activities with a particular emphasis on the breeding of ...
Amy Winehouse (1983–2011) was a British singer and songwriter who had become strongly associated with Camden Town until her death in 2011. Winehouse died at her nearby Camden Square home of alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011. The 1.75-metre (5 ft 9 in) tall statue depicts Winehouse with her hand on her hip, wearing high heels, and with her ...
Eastbourne Downland Estate. The Eastbourne Downland Estate is an area of downland at the easternmost end of the South Downs National Park in East Sussex, England. It was bought by the public, following threats to the beauty spots of Beachy Head and the surrounding farmland, which led to a public campaign and Act of Parliament in 1926. [1]