Monthly Archives: July 2011

England’s oldest pub is up for sale

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England's oldest public house, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, is up for sale. The pub, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, is an 11th-century structure set on an 8th-century site. It was originally located close to St Albans Cathedral and was moved to the present site on Abbey Mill Lane after the dissolution of the Abbey in 1539. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is held on the remainder of a 10-year franchise lease from Mitchell Butlers ending in 2019 and has been put on Read more [...]

Caledonian Road Tube station listed by English Heritage

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Published: July 29, 2011 by ANDREW JOHNSON THOUSNADS of commuters who use it every day probably don’t take a second glance at its façade, or its tiled interior passageways, but Caledonian Road Tube station has been listed by English Heritage. It is the only station in Islington among 16 in London awarded Grade II-listed status this week. The conservation body described the 105-year-old station (above) as having architectural interest because Read more [...]

Weekend Highlights: Your Guide To Family Fun

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Weekend Highlights: Your Guide To Family Fun BY Georgette Gilmore  |  Friday, Jul 29, 2011 1:00pm  |  COMMENTS (0) Tweet Lots to do again in Baristaville and beyond this weekend. It’s getting harder and harder to choose from all the fun, family events. We told you about Back to The Future, E.T. and Sunset Sensations, but there are even more choices! Check Read more [...]

Honey farm land listed for $1.35 million

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The Saanich property once home to Babe's Honey Farm is on the market under a courtordered sale for $1.35 million.The 5.57-hectare site includes a 2,121-squarefoot house and 11,376square-foot outbuilding at the corner of Walton Place and Oldfield Road.Clumps of bullrushes and grasses grow on the uneven property where the bright yellow building once used for honey production is locked up.Babe's Honey was a long-standing fixture in Greater Victoria. It was launched in 1945 by Alison (Babe) and her husband Read more [...]

Why preserve these London Underground hell holes?

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While commuters on the Northern and Piccadilly lines have fumed and jostled, the inspectors have been ooh-ing and ah-ing about bricks and colour schemes. The reaction of the poor tax-payers who use the Underground to this questionable use of public money can only be imagined. The rest of Whitehall may be tightening its belt, but the heritage industry is as remorseless as ever, finding more and more things for us to appreciate simply because they are old. ''The stations awarded Read more [...]

How to join in the NAMA sale

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NAMA has put hundreds of properties on the market but it is not actually doing the selling.Potential investors are told to go to the NAMA website and if they see a property they are interested in then they should contact the receiver listed.Once they do that, any sale should go ahead in the normal way and it's still up to buyers to do their full due diligence.NAMA does plan to introduce a specialised mortgage for home buyers this year that will include a scheme were NAMA, not the buyer, Read more [...]

ARISTOCRAT TO LORD IT AT GOODWOOD

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14:00 Coutts Glorious Stakes Campanologist won two Group 1's in Germany around this time a year ago and though moderate since this could be his time of year. Indian Days has a Group 3 penalty for landing the John Porter at Newbury which makes this tough but the admirable Distant Memories escapes a penalty for his victory at this level at Windsor in August. Drunken Sailor won a Listed contest by 7l before finishing third behind Await The Dawn and Harris Tweed in the Hardwicke Stakes where Campanologist Read more [...]