Milton's Cottage

Chalfont St Giles

Milton's Cottage is a timber-framed 16th-century building in the Buckinghamshire village of Chalfont St Giles. It was the former home of writer John Milton, and is open to the public as a writer's house museum.

Morecambe Town Hall

Lancaster (Lancashire)

Morecambe Town Hall is a municipal building in Marine Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

Museum of Dartmoor Life

Devon

The Museum of Dartmoor Life is a local museum in Okehampton, Devon, southwest England. It covers life in the Dartmoor area. The museum opened in 1981. It is housed on three floors in an early 19th-century mill and there is a waterwheel at the museum. The collections concentrate on the social history of Dartmoor and Okehampton from prehistoric times to the present. The museum is run as an independent charitable trust with a board of trustees.

National Museums Liverpool

Liverpool

National Museums Liverpool, formerly National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, comprises several museums and art galleries in and around Liverpool, England. All the museums and galleries in the group have free admission. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and an exempt charity under English law.In the 1980s, local politics in Liverpool was under the control of the Militant group of the Labour Party. In 1986, Liverpool's Militant councillors discussed closing down the city's museums and selling off their contents, in particular their art collections. To prevent this from happening the Conservative government nationalised all of Liverpool's museums under the Merseyside Museums and Galleries Order 1986 which created a new national trustee body National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. It changed its name to National Museums Liverpool in 2003. It holds in trust multi-disciplinary collections of worldwide origin made up of more than one million objects and works of art. The organisation holds courses, lectures, activities and events and provides educational workshops and activities for school children, young people and adults. Its venues are open to the public seven days a week 361 days a year and all exhibitions are free. National Museums Liverpool has charitable status and is England’s only national museums group based entirely outside London. It currently comprises eight different venues, one of which is outside Liverpool itself — the Lady Lever Art Gallery, located in Port Sunlight.

Dyrham Park

Dyrham

Dyrham Park is a baroque country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England. The house, attached orangery, stable block and accompanying parish church are Grade I listed buildings, while the park is Grade II* listed on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The current house was built for William Blathwayt in stages during the 17th and early 18th centuries on the site of a previous manor house, with the final facade being designed by William Talman. It contains art works and furniture from around the world, particularly Holland, and includes a collection of Dutch Masters. The house is linked to the 13th-century church of St Peter, where many of the Blathwayt family are buried. The house is surrounded by 274 acres of formal gardens, and parkland which supports a herd of fallow deer. The grounds, which were originally laid out by George London and later developed by Charles Harcourt Masters, include water features and statuary. The house and estate are now owned by the National Trust and underwent extensive renovation in 2014 and 2015. They are open to the public on some days and host events and attractions, including open-air concerts. They have also been used as a location for film and television productions.

East Riddlesden Hall

Bradford

East Riddlesden Hall is a 17th-century manor house in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, now owned by the National Trust. The hall was built in 1642 by a wealthy Halifax clothier, James Murgatroyd. The hall is a Grade I listed building. There is a medieval tithebarn in the grounds. East Riddlesden Hall perches on a small plateau overlooking a bend in the River Aire on its way downstream from the town of Keighley. Interesting features include well-restored living accommodation on two floors, two Yorkshire Rose windows, walled garden, the ruined Starkie wing and several ghosts . A hiding place for Catholic priests was installed during the 16th century.The property was extended and re-built by James Murgatroyd and his wife Hannah, using local Yorkshire stone, in 1648. He also built other stone manor houses throughout the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the great hall, a small fireplace can be seen above the main fireplace, where the floor for the first floor accommodation was not built. James Murgatroyd was a Royalist and this can be seen in royalist symbols and graffiti on and in the building. For example, the Bothy has the heads of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France carved in the topmost stone work. According to a NODA National News feature in 2007, the Murgatroyd family are reputed to be the inspiration for the Murgatroyd Baronets in the comic opera Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan, and the opera has been performed at the Hall. W. S. Gilbert is supposed to have often stayed at the Hall. The feature comments that the Murgatroyds became notorious "for their profanity and debauchery". A legend arose that the River Aire changed its course in shame, in order to flow further away from the hall and its occupants . The feature continues "Members of the family were fined, imprisoned and excommunicated". It asserts that the character of Sir Despard Murgatroyd in Ruddigore is based on James Murgatroyd.

Isla de Brownsea

Studland

La isla de Brownsea está situada en el puerto de Poole, Dorset, Inglaterra. La isla pertenece al National Trust. La mayor parte de la isla es accesible al público. La isla tiene zonas de bosque y páramo y es hábitat de gran cantidad de aves y fauna autóctona. Actualmente, constituye una reserva natural. Desde las alturas de la isla hay vistas del puerto de Poole y la región denominada Isla de Purbeck . En cuanto a extensión, es la más grande de un archipiélago de ocho islas. Se mantiene preservada puesto que fue el emplazamiento donde tuvo lugar el primer campamento Scout en 1907, dirigido por Robert Baden-Powell con veinte muchachos de entre 10 y 16 años, lo cual daría pie al Escultismo. Para llegar a la isla hay que usar el ferry público o navío particular; en 2002 el número de visitantes a la isla fue de 105,938.

Newarke Houses Museum

Leicester

The Newarke Houses Museum is a public museum in Leicester, England. It incorporates the museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, and has a range of exhibits illustrating post-medieval and contemporary Leicester. The museum is close to the 15th century Magazine Gateway and within the precincts of the medieval 'Newarke', the 'New Work' of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. The museum stands in the middle of the De Montfort University campus.

Universidad de Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne

La Universidad de Newcastle es una universidad del Reino Unido situada en la localidad de Newcastle upon Tyne al norte de Inglaterra. Fue fundada por acuerdo del Parlamento británico en 1963. Sus antecedentes se encuentran en el Colegio de Medicina establecido en la ciudad en 1834 , formalmente convertido en College de la Universidad de Durham en 1851. En 1871 se fundó el Colegio de Ciencias Físicas y el Armstrong College . El Armstrong College y el Colegio de Medicina se unieron para formar el King's College de Durham en 1937. El progresivo crecimiento del campus de Newcastle llevó a la creación definitiva como centro independiente en 1963. En el curso 2005 - 2006 contaba con más de 17.700 estudiantes. Su Facultad de Medicina es una de las más importantes del Reino Unido y fue la primera institución europea y segunda del mundo que obtuvo autorización para trabajar con células madre procedentes de embriones humanos.