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  • .../ref> Gypsum was extracted by hand at the Hurcott open-cast mine from the Victorian era up until it closed down in 1953.<ref name="somertonmuseum">{{cite web | ...13th century, with a major reshaping in the mid 15th century, and further restoration in 1889.
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  • ...earlier buildings are often faced or dressed with stone. Examples from the Victorian period onwards often employ distinctive brick detailing, such as brick patt From the Victorian era, brick buildings often incorporate timberwork in a mock Tudor style, an
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  • ...>Durham (County Palatine) Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Will.4 C.19)</ref> However the Restoration Parliament did confirm the right of the county's freeholders to elect two m ...habitants of Durham licence to export the produce of the mines, and by the Victorian period, the majority was shipped from the Port of Sunderland complex constr
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  • ...d simple, and have suffered particularly heavily at the hands of Victorian restoration. Important mediæval church interiors are to be found at Stoke D'Abernon, C
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  • ...ion of Manchester largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era, resulting in it becoming the world's first industrialised city.<ref na Manchester was dubbed "Cottonopolis" and "Warehouse City" during the Victorian era.<ref name="GM Arch"/> In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the t
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  • ...nts Church, Boyne Hill - geograph.org.uk - 119314.jpg||thumb|250px|Classic Victorian architecture - All Saints Church, Boyne Hill]] ...ices were installed. The High Street began to change again and substantial Victorian red brick architecture began to appear throughout the town. Maidenhead beca
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  • ...treets parallel to High Street. Between Union Street and Queensgate is the Victorian Market, which contains a large number of small shops.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht ...t with the exception of a portion of the ramparts it was demolished at the Restoration. The only surviving modern remnant is a clock tower. In 1715 the Jacobites
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  • ===Georgian and Victorian periods=== * St Michael's ("Victorian, on a fine site")
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  • ...ml About Us]. Retrieved on 1 February 2008.</ref> has undertaken extensive restoration work, which saw a long term project of a children's water play area opened ...ring the 19th century, and the built environment is a mixture of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian.
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  • ...ref name=Fxliv>Fletcher (1901) p. xliv</ref> for almost four years. At the Restoration in 1660, the man of the Inner Temple welcomed King Charles II back to Londo ...period of slow decline in the 18th century, the following 100 years saw a restoration of the Temple's fortunes, with buildings constructed or restored, such as t
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  • In April 2007, restoration work began on the Manor Farm site using funding from the Heritage Lottery F Ruislip Lido is a Victorian reservoir now transformed into a public space. It has an artificial sand b
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  • Wolverhampton grew wealthy in the Victorian age from heavy industry drawn by the abundance of coal and iron deposits in '''Wightwick Manor''' is a |Victorian manor house located on Wightwick Bank on the western side of the city and o
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  • ...ings, but some of the black-and-white buildings within the city centre are Victorian restorations.<ref>Pevsner and Hubbard, pp. 130–131.</ref> Chester is one ...ent. Chester Town Hall and the Grosvenor Museum are examples of the grand Victorian architecture of this period.
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  • ...n city. This is centred on the Diamond with a collection of late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian buildings maintaining the gridlines of the main thoroughfares ...1970s bomb damaged buildings. The Townscape Heritage Initiative has funded restoration works to key listed buildings and other older structures.
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  • '''The Guildhall''' was built shortly after the restoration of King Charles II. It is a magnificent seventeenth century building, suppo The city's '''park''' is a large Victorian park with formal gardens, children's play areas, an aviary, bowling green,
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  • ...til 1921 the castle was the home of the Cornwallis-West family, members of Victorian and Edwardian high society. It is now a luxury hotel, the ''Ruthin Castle ...ourists working at glass blowing, ceramic manufacture, painting, furniture restoration, etc. The original Craft Centre was demolished early in 2007, and a new Cra
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  • ...the Evangelist, founded in their current form in 1438 and expanded in the Victorian Era in indistinguishable mediæval style architecture. The Conduit, Hospice Sherborne House was a subject for the BBC's "Restoration" program, but failed to win its round. In September 2010 it was shrouded
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  • ...fire on 9 June 2000. The church reopened in April 2006 after a three-year restoration project. * Dyos, H J (Univ of Leicester, 1962) ''Victorian Suburb''
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  • ...170-foot<ref name="curio"/> slender spire; but it has been much altered by restoration. It possesses a fine painted reredos, and has been designated by [[English Following the restoration of the monarchy, in 1663 the non-conformist Reverend John Norman, vicar fro
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  • ...Scotland'' |accessdate=2011-06-07}}</ref> former [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] residence located in the northwest of the town, has also been converted i ...signed by architects Wheeler & Sproson, has recently undergone significant restoration.<ref name="£1.1 million in lottery funds awarded to Scottish churches">{{c
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