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The Blue Plaque, which has been awarded for 159 years by the London Society of the Arts in partnership with English Heritage, ...

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Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

This unique barn conversion forms part of a small complex of similarly unique homes, situated on the outskirts of Westonzoyland, around three and ...