Capital city of India. It succeeded Calcutta as the capital of the country. The foundation stone of the city was laid by George V, Emperor of India during the Delhi Durbar of 1911. It was designed by British architects, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. The photograph shows the Viceroy's Palace, now known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan, which is the official home of the Indian President.
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New Delhi
The relief sculpture, by Stephen Cox, is called 'Figure Emerging', and was in...
Built as the town house of the bishops of Norwich. At the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 King Henry VIII and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk exchanged properties: Suffolk gave up Suffolk H...
Royal Palace. Records of the time indicate that Edward the Black Prince was building at Kennington from the early 1340s until about 1350. Between 1353 and 1363 further work took place and some of t...
4th and last baronet. In 1798 he built a country villa in Highgate which later was known as "The Holly Lodge" on Highgate West Hill, and became the property of Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
The Picture source has: "United Friendly Life Insurance was founded back in 1908, with their Head Offices based in London 42, Southwark Bridge Road, SE1."
{On three marble slabs attached to the base of the cross:} To the honoured memory of those employees of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hac...
Borough Tube Station This was a station of the City and South London Railway that opened in 1890. The line was the world's first undergro...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
{On the marble base:} To the sacred and loving memory of the Aloysians who gave their lives for their country in the Great War. 1914 - ...
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