Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 1 día · A spot of taphophilia - visiting William Smith Williams' Grave, Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Following a few recent trips to graves, a friend taught me a couple of new words: 'Taphophile': as in the Greek for grave / burial monument (tapho) - philological study of words/language - root also found found in cenotaph and epitaph - and phile meaning lover /enthusiast.
Hace 5 días · This is first of the Survey's four volumes to cover Kensington, an area synonymous with Victorian architecture. It concerns the area to the north of Kensington High Street, extending as far as Kensal Green, where large-scale building development took place between the 1820s and 1880s.
Hace 4 días · Kensal Green Cemetery and Crematorium, located in the heart of London, has been providing cremation services to the community for over 180 years. As one of the oldest and most prestigious crematoriums in the UK, Kensal Green offers a unique and dignified way to say goodbye to loved ones.
Hace 1 día · At Kensal Green cemetery, among thousands of graves across 72 acres, the Duke of Cambridge has an Egyptian-style mausoleum for him and his wife Yards away, the Duke of Sussex is buried in a grand ...
Hace 3 días · Kensington, which is technically described as a suburb of London, in the Hundred of Ossulston, has long enjoyed distinction from its Palace, in which several successive sovereigns of the Hanoverian line held their court, and which was the birth-place of Queen Victoria.
Hace 3 días · The Crown Estate in Kensington consists primarily of Kensington Palace Gardens, a spacious private avenue over a half a mile in length which extends from Kensington High Street on the south to Bayswater Road on the north, and which was laid out in the 1840's, mainly on the site of the former kitchen gardens of Kensington Palace.
Hace 6 días · This is a complete list of the 189 blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . At inception in 1876 the scheme was originally administered by the Royal Society of Arts, being taken over by the London County Council (LCC) in 1901.
