Saturday, 21 May 2016

Papplewick Pumping Station, Historical Places of Nottingham

Widely undoubtedly one of the finest samples of Victorian industrial design in great britan, the Papplewick Pumping Station is a wonderful demonstration of 1800s craftsmanship. It boasts a range of original features including an attractive cooling pond plus a Boiler House detailed with six Lancashire Boilers, good to go amidst formal landscaped grounds.

The ornate Engine House hosts the initial twin beam engines, built by James Watt in 1884. Here visitors find a variety of Victorian engineering and artistic design, including beautiful stained microsoft windows, elaborately decorated columns and polished mahogany and brass. Another feat of engineering can be viewed at Bestwood Country Park, where you can the Winding Engine House, the past remaining vestige of the large colliery that once dominated the landscape.

Thursday, 19 May 2016

National Museum Of Scotland, The Most Popular Attraction Of Scotland

Since opening in 2011, the country's Museum became one of Scotland's most favored attractions with all-around two million visitors every year. It incorporates collections from many Edinburgh's older museums. Highlights include national archaeological collections, medieval artifacts, plus displays emphasizing natural history, geology, art, science. Among the 16 galleries, one of the most interesting in excess of 8,000 artifacts on display include Dolly sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, and some of Elton John's more elaborate stage costumes. Traditional museum displays include material from Ancient Egypt, along with the infamous Maiden, an early type of guillotine.

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

George Square Historic Victorian City Center

The hub of Glasgow's historic Victorian city center stands the flower-bedecked George Square with its 12 statues of highly successful people associated with the city, including Robbie Burns, Walter Scott and Queen Victoria. The east end with the square is dominated by the location Hall and its particular 230 ft tower completed in 1890, as the Merchants' Property is the headquarters of Britain's oldest Chamber of Commerce founded in 1605. A group of mid-nineteenth century warehouses are in the city's trendy Merchant City district that, with the Italian Centre, offer unique cafes, restaurants and designer boutiques. Also of interest could be the huge Barras Street Market which each and every week attracts as much as 1,000 traders selling food, antiques, bric-a-brac and clothing