Monthly Archives: March 2015

Extra jobs at new Dudley register office as demand soars

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Dudley Council says it has already received 'a great deal of interest' from people interested in holding a ceremony at Lye and Wollescote Chapels.The building in Cemetery Road, Lye, which houses identical Anglican and non-conformist chapels, is being converted into a venue for civil ceremonies.West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust has secured a £1million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out the work.Once complete, the building will be leased to Dudley Council to be used Read more [...]

WATCH: Belfast City Hall looks stunning in colourful video

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Showing Belfast's City Hall in a stunning light - this video shows just how magical our city can be. The video was taken by the City Council when the building became the first in Europe to install a revolutionary new intelligent lighting system. Tonight the City Hall will go cream and burgundy in honour of the Belfast Building Trust's 20th anniversary. Since the installation in 2013 the City Hall has been lit up in different colours to mark special events throughout the year. So far in 2015 Read more [...]

Historic St. John’s mansion gets makeover, listed for $1.4M

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A St. John's man is investing millions of dollars to restore a historic home in the centre of the city — a home that isn't protected by heritage status. Bruce Blackwood and his partner are revamping the 12,000-square-foot mansion at 55 Rennie's Mill Road.The grand English oak staircase inside the mansion was especially designed for Lord Edward Patrick Morriss, a lawyer and the 12th Prime Minister of Newfoundland. (CBC) The home was constructed in 1889 by Lord Edward Patrick Morriss, Read more [...]

Property Insider: Beautiful Grade II listed house on sale in Northop for £735000

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VIEW GALLERY This stunning and unique 17th Century property in Northop has gone on the market for £735,000. The Grade II listed detached house has been restored and refurbished while retaining its original features. It is a house full of character and history and located within beautifully landscaped gardens. The property also comes with outbuildings including a former coach house, a small barn, workshop and garage. As the house featured on BBC's House Detectives, the owners have the full Read more [...]

Reopening of Chorley’s Astley Hall postponed

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Photo David HurstThe new fountain in the lake at Astley Hall, Chorley Chorley’s historic hall, which was due to reopen to the public on Wednesday, will remain closed for vital repairs. Astley Hall has been closed since Christmas whilst conservation work was done to preserve the Grade 1 listed building.But council chiefs have revealed a main wall in the Great Hall needs to be repaired before it reopens to the public. Read more [...]

Two beautiful Buckinghamshire houses for sale

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Riverside living at its finest: Medmenham Abbey at Marlow. £10m. From the mid 1800s, when the Rothschild family began acquiring landed estates in picturesque corners of Buckinghamshire, super-rich international businessmen have impressed their peers by buying grand country houses in the Chilterns or weekend retreats on the Thames. Given the recent shortage of notable houses for sale, the launch onto the market, in last week’s Country Life, of one of Buckinghamshire’s most extraordinary riverside Read more [...]

Airbnb cements role as new housing model for major events

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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 28, 2015:  With an official contract to provide rooms for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, online home-rental marketplace Airbnb Inc is creating a model to solve accommodation problems at mega-events, co-founder Joe Gebbia said yesterday. The company, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful start-ups since it was founded five years ago by a trio of graduates – drawing on frustration for attendees at an overcrowded tech event who were unable to book a hotel in Read more [...]

Revealed: Kevin McCloud’s favourite house

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The Grand Designs presenter said Jacob's Ladder is the only house in Britain that takes his breath awayJacob’s Ladder was the staircase to heaven in the dream Jacob had as he fled his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis. It is also the name of an extraordinary house hidden among beechwoods on the Chiltern Hills, designed and built at the beginning of this century. It stands on a steep slope where the land falls away into Oxfordshire and it, too, is like something conjured from Read more [...]

Revealed: Kevin McCloud’s favourite house

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Read: the amazing story of the original bungalow Savills is now bringing it to the market as a kind of three-dimensional abstract work of art. It has four bedrooms, an indoor pool and more than nine acres of beech and cherry. “I don’t think people will necessarily realise that it is designed by a great architect,” says Sue Mailley of Savills (01494 731950, savills.co.uk), who have priced it at £2.25 million. “But they will see the photographs and think wow. It could be bought by a weekender, Read more [...]

AA to launch dedicated tyre-fitting venture as part of its listed company strategy

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By Laura Chesters For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 27 March 2015 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 27 March 2015 View comments The AA is to launch a dedicated tyre-fitting fleet as part of its strategy as a listed company.Punctures and tyre-related breakdowns are the second-most common reason for calling the AA, after flat batteries, accounting for 15 per centof calls. The Read more [...]