Tag: Britain

Weald & Downland Living Museum in England.

Founded in 1970, the award-winning Weald & Downland Living Museum is a leading museum of historic buildings in England, covering 40 acres in the South Downs National Park in West Sussex. It includes over 50 historic buildings dating from 950AD to the nineteenth centuries, re-erected from their original sites in south east England, together with period gardens, traditional farm animals and a mill pond.

The Unknown Warrior

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging was told why.

SECRETS OF THE MARBLE VEIL

Looking at the sculptures, covered with the thinnest marble veil, one ponders: How to sculpt the thinnest, transparent fabric from a block of solid stone? A truly divine gift of brilliant artists and sculptors allows you to convey in stone the tenderness and airiness of the lightest fabric, bends and folds while preserving every feature of the face and body. It is impossible to believe that this is the creation of human hands.

NO SERVICE FOR MPS

A popular bar in Leeds, England has backed a national campaign to refuse to serve MP’s until the Government reviews the 10 pm curfew. Mojo Bar, in Merrion Street, is calling for the entire hospitality industry including pubs and restaurants to put all members of parliament on notice as part of the Cancel The Curfew campaign, saying, You won’t serve us, so we won’t serve you!