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Wallsend Hall is located on The Green in Wallsend. The house was built in the early 19th century and had significant grounds. The Hall was originally owned by William Clark, then by his son-in-law, John Wright, both of whom served as Mayors of Wallsend. In 1897, Robert Richardson Dees, who owned the Hall at that time, donated 18 acres of the grounds for use as a public park for the growing population of Wallsend. The Hall was purchased by Sir George Burton Hunter in 1914. He donated the Hall and its remaining grounds to the Wallsend Corporation (council) in 1919. From the 1920's the Hall was used as a hospital; later named the Sir G.B. Hunter Memorial Hospital (aka 'Wallsend infirmary'). It originally included a maternity ward. In 1940, a Health Centre was built in the grounds close to the east side of the Hall, as part of the hospital.
During the Second World War the Hall temporarily served as quarters for the army. In the 1950s, part of the Hall changed use and was extended to create a Civic Hall with function rooms for use by the Council and for hire. After almost a century of use as a hospital, the NHS, which had been paying a peppercorn rent to the council, relocated services to a more central location. The building was once again known as Wallsend Hall and is currently used as a wedding, conference and events venue. It is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England. The grounds of the Hall remain a significant green space for Wallsend.
Wallsend Parks
Landscape In Wallsend, Tyne And Wear
A series of linked public parks in Wallsend comprising Richardson Dees Park, the Hall Grounds and Arboretum.
Wallsend Parks consist of 3 adjacent areas of public open space and parkland comprising Richardson Dees Park, Wallsend Hall grounds (the Hall grounds) and an area known as the Arboretum. All three spaces are closely linked to the social and physical heritage of Wallsend. The parks are located to the north of Wallsend town centre providing large areas of public open space and woodlands in the urban core of the Borough.
Just adjacent to the Parks lies "The Green" which was the location of the original Wallsend Village which was founded as a medieval settlement in the form of two rows of houses either side of a wide green. This village plan was largely unaltered until the 19th Century!
In 1856, solicitor Robert Richardson Dees bought the Hall and in 1897, he gave 14 acres of land (the site of a disused mine) to the Urban District Council for use as a park. The park opened on 4th June 1900 with the name Wallsend Park; this has since changed to Richardson Dees Park. It was opened by G. B. Hunter, managing partner of Swan Hunter Shipyard and one time Mayor of Wallsend. In 1914 Hunter bought Wallsend Hall and donated a further 9.75 acres of its land to the council for use of the public. This became the area known as the Hall Grounds.
Richardson Dees Park contains two natural burns (one from the west, one from the north-west) that meet in a small man-made lake with island. The burn from the west delineates the character of the park, to the north a more natural wooded area and to the south more formal parkland and facilities typical of a Victorian Park. These include 3 bowling greens, 8 tennis courts and built structures such as lodge, pavilion, bandstand and bothy. The south east corner of the park also marks the site of the former Wallsend C Pit which was used during rescue operations in the 1835 Church Pit disaster, the worst in Tyneside's history. C Pit operated between 1786 and 1854. The area around the shaft has been landscaped now and all that is visible is a slight mound.
Within the Hall grounds is Wallsend Hall, which was part Sir G.B. Hunter Memorial Hospital and part Civic Hall, used for civic events and special functions. The building was listed as Grade II on 18th August 1947. There has been a 'Hall' for around 400 years on this site and the current building dates from the early 19th century.
There is a designed relationship between the Hall and the Hall Grounds, and they still appear to be linked today. Sir G.B. Hunter presented the whole property to the Borough and it was transferred to the Mayor and Corporation on 11th January 1916 under the agreement that it be used for public purposes (museum, picture gallery, library, lecture hall, classrooms, municipal committee rooms and reception rooms). A new agreement was reached in 1925 that the Hall could be used as a hospital. The Hall has had many important residents over the years including a number of Mayors of Wallsend. It is now a privately owned wedding venue and conference location.
The Arboretum to the north west of Richardson Dees Park was built on land also donated by Robert Richardson Dees to provide a public park for the community of Wallsend and was opened in 1937. The Arboretum is the most informal area within the parks and is managed with wildlife in mind.
Richardson Dees Park and the Hall Grounds are important because of their close association with the social history of Tyneside and the industries of shipbuilding and mining and their local heritage, age and close links to the local community and important people.
The parks have served and continue to serve the needs of local people following a restoration funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This saw large areas of the parks restored and previously lost features reinstated such as the Duffy Memorial Fountain. A new play area was built on the site of one of the disused bowling greens, the bandstand was restored and a new café created in Richardson Dees Park while in the Hall Grounds a section of the culverted watercourse was opened up, an orchard was planted and the wall to the former vinery was restored. This is a rare example of a Georgian flued, hot wall which would have been heated with fires to support vines and soft fruits. A Victorian Fernery is also incorporated in its construction.
One interesting element now found in the Hall Grounds are the columns that used to stand at the entrance to nearby Burnside School, which were purchased from a local architectural salvage yard to create a feature along the promenade to the frontage of the Hall.
Wallsend is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. It has a population of 43,842 and lies 4 miles (6.5 kilometres) east of Newcastle upon Tyne.
In Roman times, this was the site of the fort of Segedunum. This fort protected the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall, which did not terminate at the western wall of the fort, but continued from its south-eastern corner down to the shore of the River Tyne. As David Breeze writes, "In the early nineteenth century, as recorded by Bruce, John Buddle the Younger had often seen the Wall foundations extending far into the river when swimming there as a boy."
The withdrawal of the Romans from the Wall immediately brought the Picts from the north and shortly afterwards the Angles, sailing from near the mouth of the River Elbe with frequent raids both from sea and from land. Ida the Saxon laid waste to the whole of the north in 547 and Wallsend doubtless suffered in the general devastation. It was not until the golden age of Northumberland under Edwin of Northumbria, and the subsequent introduction of the Christian faith by King Oswald of Northumbria (635-642) and St Aidan, that Wallsend enjoyed a time of peace and progress. This time of peace came to an abrupt end in 794 when the Danes (or Vikings) swarmed up the Tyne in great numbers. In the years before the Norman conquest there was a struggle for mastery between Danes and Angles
Several urban sanitary districts were formed in the parish in the late 19th century: Willington Quay, Howdon and Wallsend itself. The first two joined to form the Willington Quay urban district under the Local Government Act 1894, with the portion of the parish outside any urban sanitary district forming the parish of Willington in Tynemouth Rural District. Wallsend was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1901, and in 1910 took over Willington Quay and Willington, and also part of the parish of Longbenton.
St Peter's church (Church of England) has four fine stained glass windows by Michael Healy of An Túr Gloine: St Patrick, St Peter and St Luke (1913); Our Lord with the Nativity and the Shepherds (1919); Angel of the Resurrection with St George and St Christopher (1921); Our Lord walking on water (1921); and a window by Ethel Rhind, also of An Túr Gloine, depicting The Good Shepherd, Mary of Bethany, David (1921).
Wallsend has a history of shipbuilding and was the home of the Wigham Richardson shipyard, which later amalgamated to form Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, probably best known for building the RMS Mauretania. This express liner held the Blue Riband, for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, for 22 years.
Other famous ships included the RMS Carpathia[6] which rescued the survivors from the Titanic in 1912, and the icebreaker Krasin (launched as Sviatogor) which rescued the Umberto Nobile expedition on Spitzbergen in 1928, when Roald Amundsen perished. The story is retold in the movie The Red Tent, starring Sean Connery and Peter Finch.
Charles Parsons launched his revolutionary Turbinia here in 1894, thus not only revolutionising the navies of the world, but also, through the large-scale production of affordable electricity, making a significant contribution to the modern age. He features in a BBC film called The Inventor of the Twentieth Century.
Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin worked at Swan Hunter in 1916–17, and used it as background for his great anti-utopian work We which was a major influence on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
World War II ships built here include HMS Sheffield and HMS Victorious which took part in the sinking of the Bismarck. Other ships built there include the new HMS Ark Royal in the 1980s.
The shipyard closed in 2007. The musical The Last Ship by Sting is set in the shipyard. The former Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Shipyard continues to operate, constructing offshore oil rigs and as a TV studio: productions from there include the hit ITV drama Vera starring Brenda Blethyn and Inspector George Gently starring Martin Shaw.
Much of Wallsend's early industry was driven by coal mining. The Wallsend Colliery consisted of seven pits which were active between 1778 and 1935. In the 1820s the pits became incorporated as Russell's Colliery, which then became the Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Company Ltd. By 1924 the colliery employed 2,183 people. Its most prominent manager was mining and railway engineer John Buddle who helped develop the Davy Lamp.
Between 1767 and 1925 there were 11 major incidents recorded at the colliery resulting in over 209 deaths. On 18 June 1835 a gas explosion in one of the tunnels killed 102 miners, the youngest of whom was aged eight and the oldest 75. Many of the dead were found with their cloth caps in their mouths. This is believed to have been an attempt to prevent inhalation of the gas which eventually killed them. The bodies were extracted and buried in St Peter's churchyard at the top of the bank overlooking the Wallsend Burn. A plaque has been erected within the churchyard to commemorate this tragedy.
The town has expanded greatly in terms of housing since the end of World War II, and since the 1960s. Wallsend Town Centre—including the main shopping area known as the "Wallsend Forum"—is in fact to the west of the land covered by the town. To the north of this area lies the older estate of High Farm and the new estate of Hadrian Lodge. The town centre of Wallsend is separated from the eastern areas of the town by the Wallsend Burn, a stream running through a small glacial valley from north-west to south-east and through the Willington Gut into the River Tyne. To the east of the Burn is the old area of Holy Cross, which contains the ruins of a medieval church, the pre-war estate of Rosehill and the mainly post-war estate of Howdon. To the south of Howdon lies Willington Quay which, as its name suggests, once served shipping but which is now dominated by industry and housing. East Howdon forms a small enclave between Willington Quay and North Shields.
The town's principal thoroughfare and shopping street is the High Street. To the north of this street is Wallsend Green, the town's most picturesque area, consisting of large houses as well as the Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital, surrounding a green square. Behind the Green, where the Burn runs through the parkland of the Hall Grounds lies Wallsend Park, a traditional British municipal park, whose restoration has frequently been demanded by local residents and is planned with many improvements such as a skate and BMX park, better pathways, and a rebuilding of the Duffy Memorial Fountain. On Rheydt Avenue in Wallsend is Centurion Park Golf Club, previously named Wallsend Golf Club. It has 18 holes and a driving range.
The town is home to Wallsend Boys Club, which has produced many famous football players such as Alan Shearer, Lee Clark, Steve Watson, Peter Beardsley, Robbie Elliott, Mick Tait and Michael Carrick. It is also hometown and birthplace to internationally successful musician Sting, whose song All This Time refers to the Roman wall and fort. The musical The Last Ship, composed and written by Sting, is set in Wallsend.
Wallsend Town Hall, a large Edwardian Baroque style building in High Street East, was completed in 1908.
In dedication to its Roman heritage, Wallsend's historic name Segedunum is shown in many places in the town, and signs with Latin wordings can also be found. Wallsend Metro Station has some signs in English and Latin. Such translations tend to amuse, with contrasts between today's and ancient times. Segedunum Roman Fort Museum has displays on Roman history as well as reconstructions of a bath house and a section of the Roman Wall which once stood on the site.
In Wallsend, 4.9% of the population is non-white British, which is the same as the surrounding borough. It also has the same percentage of Asian people, but has slightly more black people. Wallsend is the second least ethnically diverse major urban subdivision in Tyneside and has a larger percentage of white British people compared with Tynemouth which is also slightly larger in population. However it has more ethnic minorities than Jarrow, which is south of the river Tyne.
Notable people
Paul W. S. Anderson - filmmaker
Andrea Riseborough - actress
Dr. Sheldon Hall - film historian
Peter Higgs - theoretical physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Paul Kennedy - historian
Andrew Leslie - shipbuilder
John Anthony McGuckin - theologian, Orthodox Archpriest
Vicky Pattison - reality TV star
Charlie Hardwick - actress
Danny Murphy - actor
Politics
John McKay - MP for Wallsend 1945–1964
Chi Onwurah - MP for Newcastle Upon Tyne Central 2010 to present
T. Dan Smith - regional politician
Music
Richard Gaddes - opera administrator
Ray Jackson - musician
Ochre - musician
Venom - band
Sting - musician
Football - players, managers, coaches
Steve Bruce
Brian Laws
Michael Carrick
George Reay
Lee Clark
Neil McDonald
Tony Lowery
Steve Watson
Paul Stephenson
Michael Smith
Barry Richardson
Other sports players
Billy Bolt - motorcycle rider, FIM SuperEnduro World Championship winner
Kevin McDine - darts player
Chris Thorman - Rugby league player
Jocky Wilson - darts player
Gary Wilson - snooker player
Stone built structure on the quiet hillside of Morven. Thought to possibly be a sheepfold but I'm not too sure. Very intriguing.
Piazza Cordusio is a square in central Milan, Italy. The piazza takes its name from the Cors Ducis which was found in the square during Longobard times. It is well known for its several turn-of-the-19th-century Neoclassical, eclectic and Art Nouveau buildings, banks and post offices. Even though many of these have now relocated elsewhere, it is still an important commercial square in the city and hosts the Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali, the Palazzo del Credito Italiano and the Palazzo delle Poste, former Borsa di Milano. Piazzale Cordusio hosts the Cordusio metro station and is the starting point of the elegant pedestrian Via Dante which leads to the imposing medieval Castello Sforzesco, or Milan Castle. Opposite to Via Dante, Cordusio borders onto Piazza Mercanti, former city centre in the Middle Ages, which leads directly to Piazza del Duomo, today's city centre.
Площадь Кордузио - одна из красивейших площадей в центре Милана. Ее часто называют "квадрат банков", так как здесь расположены штаб-квартиры нескольких крупных банков: ЮниКредит, Интеза Санпаоло и Барклай, а также крупнейшая страховая компания Ассикурациони Дженерали. Название площади произошло от слов Cors Ducis или Герцогский суд, который был на этом месте в V-VII веках нашей эры. От площади берет свое начало пешеходная улица Via Dante, ведущая к замку Сфорца. Дворцы на площади Кордузио были построены на рубеже XIX - XX веков и прекрасно сохранились. Здесь расположены Палаццо делла Ассикурациони Дженерали, Палаццо делла Поста, Палаццо дель Кредито Италиано. В центре площади находится монумент великого итальянского литератора XVIII века Джузеппе Парини, архитектор Лука Бельтрами.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.
View of the magnificient frescos inside the main prayer hall of Vank Cathedral (Holy Savior Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters), in Isfahan, Isfahan province of Iran.
The cathedral was established in 1606, dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618.
The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. Pendentives throughout the church are painted with a distinctly Armenian motif of a cherub's head surrounded by folded wings. The ceiling above the entrance is painted with delicate floral motifs in the style of Persian miniature. Two sections, or bands, of murals run around the interior walls: the top section depicts events from the life of Jesus, while the bottom section depicts tortures inflicted upon Armenian martyrs by the Ottoman Empire.
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The announcement made in October 2009 by General Secretary Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, to have built 100,000 apartments in Pyongyang by 2012 officially aims at facing the housing shortage in the capital city. But it also represents a challenge to give evidence of the communist regime overall prosperity. The Stalinian regime had already pretended to amaze the rest of the world in the 1950’s claiming its ability to construct an apartment for a family in 14 minutes only!
This time it might be a little different. Despite the university students’ conscription and the mobilization of the army, many observers doubt the ability of North Korea to complete the buildings by its founder’s 100th birthday in 2012. In fact, it is not only a matter of housing: the energy and water supply as well as transports for 100,000 families need the building of extra-infrastructure.
Lately, reports have emerged of construction projects having been downsized and sites idling due to materials shortages. By the end of 2011, only 500 units are built, which forces the authorities to reduce the target to 20,000 to 25,000 apartments in total.
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The Topkapı Palace (Turkish: Topkapı Sarayı or in Ottoman Turkish: طوپقپو سرايى) is a large palace in Istanbul, Turkey, that was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years (1465-1856) of their 624-year reign.
As well as a royal residence, the palace was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments. It is now a major tourist attraction and contains important holy relics of the Muslim world, including Muhammed's cloak and sword. The Topkapı Palace is among the monuments contained within the "Historic Areas of Istanbul", which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, and is described in Criterion iv as "the best example[s] of ensembles of palaces [...] of the Ottoman period."
Construction began in 1459, ordered by Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Byzantine Constantinople. The palace complex consists of four main courtyards and many smaller buildings. At its peak, the palace was home to as many as 4,000 people, and covered a large area with a long shoreline. The complex was expanded over the centuries, with major renovations after the 1509 earthquake and the 1665 fire. The palace contained mosques, a hospital, bakeries, and a mint. The name translates as "Cannon gate Palace" from a nearby gate which has since been destroyed.
From the end of the 17th century the Topkapı Palace gradually lost its importance as the Sultans preferred to spend more time in their new palaces along the Bosporus. In 1856, Sultan Abdül Mecid I decided to move the court to the newly built Dolmabahçe Palace, the first European-style palace in the city. Some functions, such as the imperial treasury, the library, and the mint were retained in the Topkapı Palace.
Following the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1921, the Topkapı Palace was transformed by a government decree dated April 3, 1924 into a museum of the imperial era. The Topkapı Palace Museum is administered by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The palace complex has hundreds of rooms and chambers, but only the most important are accessible to the public today. The complex is guarded by officials of the ministry as well as armed guards of the Turkish military. The palace includes many fine examples of Ottoman architecture. It contains large collections of porcelain, robes, weapons, shields, armor, Ottoman miniatures, Islamic calligraphic manuscripts and murals, as well as a display of Ottoman treasures and jewelry.
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Harem (pronounced [haˈɾem], Turkish, from Arabic: حرم ḥaram "forbidden place; sacrosanct, sanctum", related to حريم ḥarīm, "a sacred inviolable place; female members of the family" and حرام ḥarām, "forbidden; sacred") refers to the sphere of women in what is usually a polygynous household and their enclosed quarters which are forbidden to men. It originated in the Near East and is typically associated in the Western world with the Ottoman Empire. For the South Asian equivalent, see purdah and zenana.
The word harem is strictly applicable to Muslim households only, but the system was common, more or less, to most ancient Oriental communities, especially where polygamy was permitted.
The Imperial Harem of the Ottoman sultan, which was also called seraglio in the West, typically housed several dozen women, including wives. It also housed the Sultan's mother, daughters and other female relatives, as well as eunuchs and slave servant girls to serve the aforementioned women. During the later periods, the sons of the Sultan also lived in the Harem until they were 16 years old, when it was considered appropriate for them to appear in the public and administrative areas of the palace. The Topkapı Harem was, in some senses, merely the private living quarters of the Sultan and his family, within the palace complex. Some women of Ottoman harem, especially wives, mothers and sisters of sultans played very important political roles in Ottoman history, and in times it was said that the empire was ruled from harem. Hürrem Sultan (wife of Süleyman The Magnificent, mother of Selim II) and Kösem Sultan (mother of Murad IV) were the two most powerful women in Ottoman history.
Moulay Ismail, Alaouite sultan of Morocco from 1672 to 1727, is said to have fathered a total of 525 sons and 342 daughters by 1703 and achieved a 700th son in 1721. He had over 500 concubines.
Singapore Skyline from Garden by the Bay Dominated by Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Super Tree with beautiful reflection in the lake during twilight.
The impressive 1911 built structure for the then South East & Chatham Railway is grade II listed -hence it remaining in situ long after closure.
Numbers of signal boxes in the UK peaked around ths time this was built with about 12,000 in the country.
This cabin was closed in 2011 and signalling moved into the East Kent SCC.
Buildings on Belgrade Waterfront new chapter in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Belgrade Waterfront, known in Serbian as Belgrade on Water is an urban renewal development project.