Dorney Court (Bucks) near Eton (Berks) is seen here in this 19th century capture and is the unlikely source of the exotic pineapple here...

From an age when retail therapy demanded money and ahem manners. the new Exeter ‘Change (Exchange) on the Strand in London boasted the...

Here at scanning HQ we love an old inn! And this one, the Old Blue Boar at High Holborn, London brings that passion to provocative life....

For #InternationalDanceDay2024, here’s the home of English ballet...when a board was first trod, a Plié Plié first made. Old Sadler’s...

Sir John Soane, born 1753 in Goring Berkshire, emerged as one of Britain’s most celebrated architects. Son of a bricklayer, no doubt...

Can you ever have too much Dickens? The Portsmouth-born story-teller (1812) still keeps audiences transfixed one-and-a-half centuries...

The Land of Edom is shared today between Israel & South Jordan & has a written heritage going back to Bronze Age references. I don’t...

Dacre Bridge, named after the delightful Dacre Beck and meaning 'trickling stream', has stood for nearly 300 years. Constructed in the...

The medieval Star Chamber in the old Palace of Westminster heard cases of national import and personal gain, often with the monarch...

Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (1751) contemplates life & death, worldly status and natural order, & envisages the...

The Cowper & Newton Museum in Olney, Bucks celebrates all things William Cowper (d1800), poet, translator of Homer & literatus, and his...

Strawberry Hill House, described as ‘Horace Walpole’s little Gothic castle’, harbours triumph upon triumph. The mid to late C18...

Love these before and after images of Shakespeare’s home, Stratford upon Avon. Born 1564, he lived here with his parents, John & Mary,...

The burning of Newgate Gaol in June 1780 epitomised the grave violence of the Gordon Riots that year. Erupting in London on 2 June, tens...

The closest to a Bank Holiday theme – 2nd Earl Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson (groan!). Described as a ‘liberal tory’, he can perhaps...

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, predates Prince William by more than a century. Born in Hanover 26 March 1819, he was both Queen...

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, only daughter of the future George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, died after suffering a still-birth...

From Charge of the Light Brigade to the humble cardie