Ancient city of Mesopotamia (located mainly in modern-day Iraq). It dates from circa 3,800 B.C. The site is noted for its prominent ziggurat. It started to decline from around 550 BC and was no longer inhabited after about 500 BC, probably due to drought, changing river patterns, and the silting of the outlet to the Persian Gulf.
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City of Ur
Sir Leonard Woolley, archaeologist and excavator of Ur, born in a house on th...
Married the daughter of the architect, William Curtis Green, who in the 1930s took Lloyd into the practice that he had founded in 1898. The style was initially heavily influenced by Edwin Lutyens a...
Architects. The two partners were: Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell (1921 – 2003), usually known as Philip Powell, and John Hidalgo Moya (1920 – 1994), sometimes known as Jacko Moya, born in America...
Architect. Born in Kilmarnock. He specialised in designing country houses, including Pasturewood in Surrey, Parkwood in Berkshire and Chelwood Vachery in Sussex.
Architects. Donald St Aubyn Hamilton (1907–1956). From 1934 Hamilton worked for Lilley and Skinner in Oxford Street, nos 360–366, moving his office there in 1935. "His firm, now Donald Hamilton, Wa...
Born Holles Street, baptised at St Marylebone church in the same year. Spent the first 10 years of his life in Aberdeen with his mother. On the death of a great-uncle in 1798 he succeeded to the ti...
This charming and unusual plaque, placed uncommonly low on the house and doing its best to hide amongst the roses, is not as well-known a...
Singer-songwriter. Born in Gary, Indiana. Arguably the most successful performer of modern times. From 1965, he was the lead singer in the Jackson Five, which had four consecutive number one hits....
Ettore Schmitz alias Italo Svevo, 1861-1928, writer, lived here 1903-1913. English Heritage
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