Kenwood House which houses masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer set to reopen. Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath in London will open its doors to the public this week after a £5m refurbishmentThe former home of Lord Iveagh of the Guinness brewing family has been represented by Heritage EnglandFamous architect Robert Adam was commissioned to redesign the house's interior in the 18th Century By Aaron Sharp Published: 04:44 GMT, 26 November 2013 | Updated: 09:48 GMT, 26 November 2013 One of Britain's most historic stately homes is set to reopen to the public after around £5m worth of renovations that have restored Kenwood House to its former beauty.
Eight rooms have been re-presented and reinterpreted to reference different periods in the building's history. They have been redecorated to reference the period during the 18th century when the house was bought by William Murray, the 1st Earl of Mansfield. Kenwood House, on the northern edge of Hampstead Heath, has undergone a major refurbishment that includes a recreation of the original Robert Adam interiors. Royal Holloway University, Surrey, England. Royal Holloway College, University of London. College Chapel William Henry Crossland Royal Holloway College, University of London Egham, Surrey (19 miles from London) Photograph 2006 by Jacqueline Banerjee. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL.] Other views Three-quarter view, exteriorExterior viewChimneys and towersApse, college chapelUpper quadranglePicture Gallery on Open Day, 2006Picture Gallery (arrangement of paintings) Related Material Statue of Queen Victoria by GleichenStatue of Thomas and Jane Holloway by GleichenVirtual tour of the campus (Royal Holloway site)
Waddesdon Manor - Home. Shakespeare: 'Wooden O' stage of Curtain theatre where Shakespeare premiered Henry V unearthed near Thames. Bard used theatre as a base from 1597-99 while the Globe was being built across the riverThe Curtain was shut down in 1622 and its exact location had been lostSite could be opened to public and have plays staged there By Nick Enoch Published: 11:36 GMT, 6 June 2012 | Updated: 17:24 GMT, 6 June 2012 In the late 16th century, the audience who crossed a yard paved with sheep knuckle bones to reach this playhouse could not have known that history was being made. And now, the remains of the 'wooden O' stage, where William Shakespeare's company first performed Henry V, and possibly Romeo And Juliet, have been unearthed in a gravelled yard in Shoreditch, east London.
The Curtain Theatre was the Bard's first venue - and the 'wooden O' description comes from the prologue to Henry V: 'Can this Cock-Pit hold within this Woodden O, the very Caskes that did affright the Ayre at Agincourt? ' For two years, from 1597, it acted as his main stage while he waited for the Globe, across the Thames, to be built.
Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square! Highclere Castle: A Look at the Real Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey, PBS’s hit period drama that has become essential Sunday-night viewing, has turned its setting, Britain’s Highclere Castle, into a television icon. Here AD revisits the historic Victorian estate as it appeared in the January/February 1979 issue, long before it was chosen as the home of the fictional Crawley family. “I am the last link of the feudal system. I’ve done everything I possibly can to keep the ancestral home.” The present earl of Carnarvon, who is the sixth of that title, lives at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, one of the great country houses of England. He succeeded to the estate in 1923, on the death of his father, who financed Howard Carter and discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, in Egypt.
Maintaining Highclere Castle has been a difficult challenge for Lord Carnarvon, who is the head of the Herbert family. Pictures have had to be sold, family silver and a fine pearl necklace also, and over the years, some of the outlying parts of the estate. Inside Highclere Castle.