See inside a five-bedroom house formerly part of Berkeley Castle, Boars Hill. Built in 1906 this unique home boasts a swimming pool, manicured gardens, and offices in a separate building. This luxury does not come cheaply as it is on the market for £3m. The original part of the house was designed for Lord Berkeley by the renowned architect, Sir Ernest George. The Boars Hill house stands in a sizable plot of 1.2 acres. There are three reception rooms with cloakroom, bathroom and a kitchen breakfast room which lead from an entrance hall, with a utility room on the ground floor. There are five bedrooms on the first floor with two en suites, and a family bathroom.
And some are bought at auction, with museum experts waiting up until the early hours to out-bid rival collectors. Julia Bradshaw, senior curator of human history at Canterbury Museum, says they monitor international auctions to see what items are coming up for sale. If objects have a connection to Christchurch, Canterbury or Antarctica, staff put together a proposal to purchase them.
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Shackleton received medals from around the world in recognition of his achievements in Antarctica. “We bought these medals at auction in 2016 because Shackleton has such an important Antarctic story,” Bradshaw says. Most of the medals were awarded before the ill-fated Endurance expedition (1914–1917) and recognised the success of the Nimrod party (1907-1909).
It was a source of grievance for nationalists - and for unionists it was the least worst compromise arrangement. Alvin Jackson on how unionists came around to the idea of Northern Ireland
The partition of Ireland, which was established through the Government of Ireland Act (1920), created controversy when it was first widely discussed, from about 1912 onwards; and it remains a central difficult issue in the public life of the two Irish polities.
The historical narrative of the theme tends conventionally to emphasise the history of English and Scottish migration and colonisation in the north of Ireland, whether informally or through private settlement in Antrim and Down (and Monaghan), or through the formal British plantation scheme pursued in western and southern Ulster from 1609 onwards.
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Heavy snow is very rarely a problem for drivers in the UK, which is probably why gritting machines feel like they’re in such short supply whenever a few inches of the white stuff appears.
When there’s significant snowfall, transport disruption almost always follows, and when your travel is essential it’d be handy to have a vehicle that’s up to the task.
As it happens, some car manufacturers have put a lot of thought into what their vehicles would look like if they were built to survive in the harshest winter conditions. Some of their ideas never went further than concept stage, though a few designs actually made it to the real world.