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...The streets of tall Victorian terraces in Notting Hill are largely a deep red: well-to-do....
...A splendidly unsentimental recorder, Flanders rams home the way that the commercially minded Victorians turned death and mourning into profit....
...But the provision of water services in London since privatisation in 1989 has been eerily reminiscent of private water supply and sewage management in the unregulated Victorian era, when profiteering and...
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...A high-tech pod inserted into an elaborate Victorian megastructure, it became a model for adaptive reuse and intelligent intervention....
...Built around 1690 as a tiny Dutch Colonial farmhouse, it was bought in 1844 by one of Austen’s grandfathers, businessman John Haggerty Austen, who remodelled it in Victorian Gothic style....
...The best things I have found so far have been half a Roman hairpin, a decorated Victorian clay marble, a plain 17th century bone knife handle and the top of a Georgian sugar shaker....
...survive on the rough streets of Victorian London....
...A large proportion of this combined sewer goes back to the Victorian era....
...The UK has neglected the gift the municipally minded Victorians left us. Even the smallest structures — a toilet, a water fountain — matter as much as the major monuments....
...By the Victorian era, Harding writes, “dinner-table discussion” in London and Edinburgh was “fuelled by popular accounts of the Buddha’s life and teachings”....
...Ainsworth was a prolific Victorian writer of historical fiction, a friend to Charles Dickens, who matched his friend sale-for-sale at times but is now essentially forgotten....
...Stamp himself became a formidable heritage campaigner — though perhaps his most influential position was bestowed upon him by the poet John Betjeman, founder member of the Victorian Society and lover of...
...It stars Emma Stone as a Victorian woman whose brain is replaced with that of her unborn baby. She embarks on a sexual journey of self-discovery through Europe and beyond....
...Few public accounts of the past today subscribe to mid-Victorian ideals of an unblemished classical inheritance....
...Keats’s emotive poems, less widely hailed during his lifetime, were elevated by fellow Romantics and subsequent Victorian admirers....
...Yannis Thavoris’s cardboard cut-out sets and PJ McEvoy’s vast cartographic projections whisk the action around Victorian London, and the show is blessed with brilliant principals....
...On top of that as the country that brought the world the railway, much of Britain’s network still follows the same routes built over a 70-year period beginning during the Victorian era in 1850....
...At a time of highly restricted public funds, spending on a Victorian debating chamber is politically untenable....
...Marg Horwell’s costumes relish the camp in lavish Victorian fashion — they wouldn’t look out of place at the Met Gala....
...However, we believe misconceptions about the intentions of the sector’s utilities and their investors — as underlined by Gavin Turner’s letter (“Thames Water saga has echoes of Victorian-era profiteering...
...Victorian Plumbing more than doubled its pre-tax profits for the six months to March 31. This sounds impressive, but there is a caveat....
...More Victorian menace is on offer in Griffin’s latest novel, Fyneshade (Viper, £16.99), with echoes of both Jane Eyre and The Secret Garden as beleaguered (but far from innocent) heroine Marta takes up a...
...In Britain, Victorian-era copper telecoms cables have slowed the country’s transition to high-speed internet....
...One can trace its history back to Victorian times; the other has the pluckiness of a relative newbie. This is a sensible deal, but it is one that smacks of defensive desperation given the backdrop....
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