Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire. During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United...
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The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, was the world's first university museum. Its first building was built in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave...
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The central block of the Neoclassical building Somerset House was designed by Sir William Chambers and dates from 1776–96. It was extended by classical Victorian wings to...
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Thorpe Hall at Longthorpe near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire is a Grade I listed building, built by Peter Mills between 1653 and 1656, for the Lord Chief Justice, Oliver St...
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The first stone of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, was laid by Charles II in 1682. The idea of a home for veteran soldiers was inspired by the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris. 476...
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The Former Royal Naval College, Greenwich is one of my longest-standing clients. I have worked there since the days when it was occupied by the Royal Navy. Most of the site...
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Numbers 26-31 Charlotte Square, in Edinburgh, and the mews buildings behind were designed by Robert Adam in 1792 and built between 1805-1820. In 1996 Simpson & Brown was...
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Queen Victoria's love for her husband Prince Albert is well known and when he died on 14th December 1861, of typhoid, she was devastated. Within four days she had ordered the...
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The British Museum. I assisted Richard Ireland with his work on the restoration of the ceiling of the Entrance Hall and the old Reading Room. Papers and Paints also...
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By 1926 the BBC was fast outgrowing its accommodation at Savoy Hill in the Strand. Their recently appointed civil engineer, Mr. M.T. Tudsbery, was asked to search for a...
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I advised on appropriate colours for several of the areas of the The Bank of England that were designed by Sir Herbert Baker in the manner of the Bank's earlier architect...
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Brompton Oratory (more properly The London Oratory) is one of my favourite London churches. I have done much here over the years and Papers and Paints has produced...
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A church is believed to have existed on this site in 1219. The core of the existing church of St Michael and All Angels dates from the first half of the fourteenth century. ...
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I was asked to provide advice on colour and technical matters when this church was refurbished for the Armenian community. It is located in Cranley Gardens, Kensington,...
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St Paul's Cathedral was built in the 17th century and designed by Sir Christopher Wren. While working on the Tijou Screen at Hampton Court Palace I was asked to carry out a...
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