In 1891 the proposed River Yealm Hotel is designed, builders employed and work starts. The original idea for the River Yealm is that it would provide accommodation for potential purchasers of the building plots into […]
“As I sit writing this I can still remember the Fantasy Foods smell … Coffee and Ice-cream mixed with damp. The whole place is filled with various ingredients for mixing into the ice-creams and various machines […]
“We decide to visit Butleigh Hospital but spent about 20 mins inside as most of the upstairs was not accessible due to a major fire so that left us the ground floor. The whole place […]
Stover Park camp as its known is one of 45 camps/hostels ran by the National Assistance Board catering for the needs of displaced Polish people who survived the war the traumas of deportations into the […]
“On a wet miserable day we decide to visit Sandhill Park Asylum .. this for me was a bit of a disappointment as it looked like the local chav’s have gotten in and destroyed everything. […]
West Park Hospital built by London County Council during the years 1913-1924 and officially opens on 20 June 1924. It provided for 2096 patients and is the last hospital in the programme to establish five […]
Entering China Clay Cornwall involves a lot of climbing providing a lot of laughs all round. Work seems to have stopped while the new facility next door roars on China clay, or kaolin, was first […]
Bourton Mill used to process wet foods and turn them into powder such as milk. we took a good look around and even found the machines that dried the goods into a fine powder. you […]
The Palace Hotel Torquay created in the 1920s from a villa built for the Bishop of Exeter . In 1921 the building is purchased by George Hands who was at the time a Birmingham Industrialist who […]
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