For years the Plantation gates on Wigan Lane have been on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register and fell into disuse ...

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JUST three hundred years ago a highly important piece of work was being carried through in certain parts of Ulster by a ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

There has been an intense focus on what US president Donald Trump might say to Taoiseach Micheál Martin when they meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday. But as seen in recent meetings with world ...

The Ulster Plantation of 1609, intended to replace native Catholic Irish residents with Protestant settlers from Scotland and England, initiated a conflict that has never quite ended. And in 1690 ...

At the National Trust’s Downhill Demesne, students from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) are learning the art of making a dry stone wall from expert Paddy McKeegan.

For a tech millionaire, Yishan Wong, founder of the reforestation company Terraformation, is remarkably dismissive of his former industry. “I’ve worked on a lot of large-scale tech and there ...

Prominent Vancouver real estate developer Peter Wall, known for helping to shape the city's skyline, has died at 87, the Wall Financial Corporation confirmed in a statement. "Peter Wall's legacy ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site. Millions of people converge on Xi ...

Peter Wall arrived in Canada as a penniless refugee in 1948. But he rose to the top of the Canadian development industry, building some of Vancouver’s landmark buildings, including One Wall ...

VANCOUVER, BC, March 5, 2025 /CNW/ - Wall Financial Corporation proudly honours the extraordinary life and legacy of its visionary founder, Peter Wall. A trailblazing entrepreneur, philanthropist ...