The Bird Gallery is interesting because it has intentionally been created to mimic the style of a 1930s museum, with displays of taxidermy and birds collected in Africa by the Victorian explorer Mansfield Parkyns, a native of Nottinghamshire. And speaking of Africa, there's a special gallery fe...
Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Sophie Morgan’s guide to accessible city breaks in Nottingham Check out Sophie Morgan's top tips for a historical accessible city break in Nottingham. More from us More cities to visit Birmingham Explore streets lined with Victorian redbrick houses leading to he...
Then in 1873, Mrs Margaret Mellish brought in George Devey to rebuild Hodsock. Devey's speciality was designing modern country houses that looked as if they had sprung organically from ancient roots, and what he created at Hodsock was a Victorian mansion that looks like it has been lost in a...
1899 plans for further extension, begun 1901, included pretty isolation hospital, farm buildings stores, bakehouse, boiler house, butchers shop, attractive house for the medical superintendent, lodges and staff houses. Extract from the 6-inch OS map, revised 1902-3. Reproduced by permission of the...
As convalescent homes were not strictly speaking medical buildings, and most of the patients sent to convalescence were able to get up during the day, many were established in private houses which required little alteration to fit them to their purpose. If they proved popular and were well sup...
1. Scrooby, Nottinghamshire The Separatists were Protestants, many of whom lived in or around the village of Scrooby and in the adjoining counties of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Archive postcard of theGrade II ListedScrooby Manor House, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, thought to be the site where the ...
Welbeck Abbey, one of Nottinghamshire’s ‘dukeries’ is an extraordinary estate, boasting Gothick interiors by Henrietta Cavendish Harley and a network of underground chambers excavated by the eccentric fifth Duke of Portland. In such a setting Outram’s set of craft workshops for the Harley Found...
Very unusually, the chapter that administered the Minster survived the Reformation and was not dissolved until 1840. Many of the elegant historic houses that surround the Minster were once residences for members of the chapter. The Pulpitum Screen ...
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houses, rather than the large rambling pile that survives today. It was designed to make the patients feel at home, rather than in an institution or a prison. This was, in a large part, possible by catering primarily for paying patients, and the well-to-do at that. In this manner it...