Launceston Castle

Launceston (Cornwall)

Launceston Castle in Launceston in England war eine normannische Festung der Earls of Cornwall und ist heute eine Ruine. Die Burgruine steht heute unter der Verwaltung der English Heritage. Zur Besichtigung wird ein Eintrittsgeld erhoben. In der Burg befand sich auch der Kerker der Stadt. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war innerhalb der Mauern der Burg ein Hospital untergebracht.

Erasmus Darwin House

Lichfield

Erasmus Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher beginning his journals on Galapagos Islands, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He turned down an invitation of George III's to become a physician to the King.

Erewash Museum

Erewash

The Erewash Museum is a museum in the town of Ilkeston, Erewash, in Derbyshire, England. The building that houses the museum is named the Dalby House after one of the families who inhabited it, and has served as a school and a private dwelling. The museum opened in the 1980s, and focuses on the history of the Erewash area, with exhibits covering the Second World War, archaeology, and the Stanton Ironworks.

Essex Record Office

Chelmsford

The Essex Record Office is the repository for records about the county of Essex in England. The office is run by Essex County Council. A searchable database of the records held at the office is available on a system called Seax.

Essex Regiment

Brentwood (Essex)

The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 44th Regiment of Foot and the 56th Regiment of Foot. In 1958, the Essex Regiment was amalgamated with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment . However, the existence was short-lived and, in 1964, was amalgamated again with the 1st East Anglian Regiment , the 2nd East Anglian Regiment and the Royal Leicestershire Regiment to form the Royal Anglian Regiment. The lineage of the Essex Regiment is continued by 'C' Company of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment.

Eton College

Eton College

Das Eton College ist eine unabhängige, durch Schulgebühren finanzierte weiterführende Schule für Jungen in Eton in der englischen Grafschaft Berkshire. Am Eton College gehen etwa 1300 Jungen im Alter von 13 bis 18 Jahren zur Schule. Mit Schulgebühren von 13.556 £ pro half oder term ist die Schule eines der teuersten Internate weltweit. Hinzu kommen weitere Gebühren für den Musikunterricht, Ausflüge usw. sowie die Kosten für die vorgeschriebene Schulkleidung.Das College ist für den Einfluss seiner früheren Schüler sowie seine altertümlichen Traditionen und ureigenen Mannschaftssportarten bekannt. Dazu gehört auch die schwarze Schuluniform. Die Schule wurde von mehreren Vertretern des britischen Königshauses besucht, zudem befinden sich unter ihren ehemaligen Schülern auch 20 britische Premierminister.

Kathedrale St. Peter (Exeter)

Exeter

Die Kathedrale St. Peter, offiziell: The Cathedral Church of St Peter, von Exeter in Devon gilt als das „Hauptbeispiel wuchtig rauschender, gemessener Pracht ohnegleichen“. Begonnen wurde die Kirche 1112 im normannisch-romanischen Stil. Von diesem Bau sind noch die Außenmauern des Langhauses und die beiden kolossalen, heute als Querschiff dienenden, quadratischen Türme erhalten. Der Baumeister des romanischen Vorgängerbaus hatte zu dieser ungewöhnlichen Lösung gegriffen, weil die zuvor entsprechend der englischen Tradition errichteten Vierungstürme eingestürzt waren. Der gotische Neubau erfolgte ab 1224. Man begann mit der niedrigen Ostkapelle, der sog. Lady Chapel , einem einschiffigen Bau von drei Jochen und Flankenkapellen am Westjoch. Danach folgten um 1280/90 der gleich hohe Retrochor und das Langhaus in den Maßen der romanischen Kirche. Zur gleichen Zeit wurde am Südquerhaus das Chapter-House angebaut .

Exhall Grange School

Nuneaton and Bedworth

Exhall Grange Specialist School is a special school located in Ash Green just outside Coventry in Warwickshire, England. The school meets the needs of children and young people age from 2 to 19 years with physical disability, visual impairment, complex medical needs, and social, communication and interaction difficulties. Opened in 1951 as a school for visually impaired pupils, Exhall Grange was the first school to cater exclusively for partially sighted children. It later widened its remit to include pupils with other disabilities, and became a grammar school in 1960. The school was a boarding school for many years, but significantly reduced its boarding facilities during the 1990s and 2000s as its role as a special school changed, and it is now a day school. In 2001 Exhall Grange began to share its campus with RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning , an RNIB school which relocated there from Northamptonshire. A children's hospice also occupies part of the site. Exhall Grange was the first special school to be awarded science college status in 2003, and celebrated its Diamond Jubilee year in 2011.

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

Oxford

The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards. It is housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St. Aldate's. The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment. The current curator is Andy Lamb, a former NCO who served in the Royal Artillery and was a trumpeter in their Junior Leaders band during his training as a Boy Soldier. There are frequent gallery events and special exhibitions. More than a thousand instruments by important English, French and German makers, are on display, showing the musical and mechanical development of wind and percussion instruments from the Renaissance to the current day.The collection is named after Philip Bate who gave his collection of musical instruments to the University of Oxford in 1968, on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it. The collection also houses an archive of his papers. The Bate Collection is additionally the home of the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns and other Brass and Woodwind Instruments; the Anthony Baines Collection; the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders and other instruments; the Jean Henry Collection, the Taphouse Keyboard Loans; the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection; the Michael Thomas Keyboard Collection; a number of instruments from the Jeremy Montagu Collection; a complete workshop of the English bow-maker William C Retford, as well as a small collection of Bows formed in his memory, the Wally Horwood Collection of books and recordings, and other instruments acquired by purchase and gift. An album, 'Voices From The Past, Vol. 2: Instruments of The Bate Collection' was released in 2015.