This marble statue of the eighteen year old Queen Victoria, in her coronation robes, was designed by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, in 1893. It stands outside Kensington Palace, where the […]
The Royal Border Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed is a Grade I listed railway viaduct, opened by Queen Victoria in 1850. Despite its descriptive name, it does not span the border between England and Scotland: […]
Built in 1790 or thereabouts, Pierremont Hall was built to the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, great-grand-nephew of Samuel Pepys the Diarist. In 1827, the widowed Duchess of Kent and her little […]
Edward Onslow Ford’s Queen Victoria Monument in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is in need of some tender loving care. This Grade II listed monument caught my attention yesterday because of the weeds that have […]