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• Deansgate Station Manchester
  on Dec 2, 2016 in Deansgate Greater Manchester Manchester Metrolink station transport
  Deansgate Station in Manchester is on both the Manchester to Preston and Manchester to Liverpool lines. The adjacent Deansgate-Castlefield Station, connected by footbridge, is on the Manchester metrolink.The original Knott Mill & Deansgate S...
• Jane Austen's House Museum
  on Jul 24, 2016 in Hampshire Jane Austen Winchester
  Jane Austen's House Museum is located in the village of Chawton near Alton in Hampshire. The museum occupies the 18th-century house (also known as Chawton Cottage) in which novelist Jane Austen spent most of the last eight years of her life. Jane Aus...
• Bela Bartok Statue in Onslow Square
  on Jul 11, 2016 in classical music Kensington London Underground music statue
  A life-size statue of the Hungarian composer Bela Bartok (1881-1945) stands in Onslow Square a short walk from South Kensington underground stationin London. The bronze statue on a granite base is the work of Hungarian sculptor, Imre Varga.Bartok vis...
• Walmer Castle
  on Jun 22, 2016 in Beach Castle Cinque Ports Deal English Heritage history Kent Walmer Castle
  Walmer Castle in East Kent in the south east of England makes for a pleasant half-day tour along with nearby Deal Castle.Walmer Castle, like Deal Castle and Sandown Castle, was built by Henry VIII between 1539 and 1540 as an artillery fortress to pro...
• The Manchester Museum
  on Jun 19, 2016 in Manchester Manchester University Museum
  The Manchester Museum is on Oxford Road in the university area of Manchester.The Manchester Museum is housed in an historic red brick building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) in 1890. Waterhouse was also the architect of Manchester's Town...
• Scuttler's Wine Bar
  on Jun 8, 2016 in bar Greater Manchester Manchester Wine bar
  Next door to the The Lower Turk's Head pub in the Northern Quarter of central Manchester is Scuttler's Wine Bar.Scuttler's Wine Bar offers a wide range of excellent wines as well as several cask ales and decent food. Despite the narrow shop front the...
• The Lower Turk's Head Pub
  on May 23, 2016 in Ale bed and breakfast Manchester Northern Quarter pub real ale
  The Lower Turk's Head pub in central Manchester, close to the Arndale Centre in the Northern Quarter, is one of the city's oldest pubs dating back to 1745.After being closed for a period, the pub reopened in 2013 and is located right next door t...
• Hayfield
  on May 22, 2016 in Derbyshire Hayfield Peak District
  Hayfield is a pretty village at the foot of Kinder Scout in the Peak District. Hayfield is 18 miles south east of Manchester and about 10 miles north of Buxton.Hayfield is in the pretty Sett Valley between the towns of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Glossop and...
• Ardvreck Castle
  on Apr 25, 2016 in architecture Castle Ghosts Lake Scotland
  Ardvreck Castle is a ruined fortress on a small promontory of land jutting out into Loch Assynt in Sutherland, Scotland.Located under the brooding bulk of Quinag, Ardvreck Castle was the traditional seat of the MacLeods of Assynt.Ardvreck Castle was...
• Shandy Hall & Laurence Sterne
  on Apr 22, 2016 in Laurence Sterne literature novel Shandy Hall York Yorkshire
  Laurence Sterne was born in 1713. He was an Irish clergyman and novelist best known for his novels "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" and "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy". Laurence Sterne died in 1768 in L...

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