Millionaire residents of Sandbanks are battling developers over plans to replace a historic hotel, where inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi lived, with a ‘soulless block of flats’. Almost 5,000 letters of objection have been lodged against the £250million development, which if approved by planning officers, would see the Haven Hotel at Poole Harbour, Dorset, bulldozed … Read more
Millionaire residents of Sandbanks are battling developers over plans to replace a historic hotel, where inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi lived, with a ‘soulless block of flats’. Almost 5,000 letters of objection have been lodged against the £250million development, which if approved by planning officers, would see the Haven Hotel at Poole Harbour, Dorset, bulldozed … Read more
Inside the stunning Victorian countryside where Emma Watkins’ boyfriend Oliver Brian popped the question – after The Wiggles star announced her engagement By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 10:14 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 10:17 BST, 6 April 2021 Emma Watkins announced her engagement to boyfriend Oliver Brian on Monday. And The Wiggles … Read more
From Homeland to the Docklands! US actress Claire Danes is pictured in stunning Victorian garb as she films The Essex Serpent in London By Eleanor Sharples Tv And Radio Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 01:45 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 01:58 GMT, 25 February 2021 She was a last-minute addition to the cast … Read more
Claire Danes will star as Cora Seaborne in the new Apple TV+ series, The Essex Serpent, as revealed in a new photo released on Saturday. The actress, 41, sports an elaborate Victorian dress as she plays a widower who is relishing in her newfound freedom following the end of her abusive marriage. The period drama, based … Read more
Today, neither women nor men need to explain why they aren’t married. But in the Victorian era, there was immense pressure for women to tie the knot. Those who didn’t were described as ‘Spinsters’ and were the subject of cruel jokes. But a popular weekly magazine from the 1880s shows that unmarried women were perfectly … Read more
A Victorian terraced house with hidden gadgets fit for a Bond villain has hit the market for £1.5million – with features including secret rooms, invisible speakers and concealed TV and cinema screens. Tech expert Richard Smythe purchased Hillside as a run-down B&B five years ago, but quickly turned it into a six-bedroom smart home in … Read more
A mother-of-three has transformed her drab Victorian terrace into a colourful wonderland on a budget using brave dark paint colours, patterned wallpaper and £5 vintage finds. Lily Sawyer’s dreary three-bedroom pad in Stratford, east London, was a sea of beige and white when she first moved in after buying it for £445,000 in 2014 with … Read more
A mother-of-three has transformed her drab Victorian terrace into a colourful wonderland on a budget using brave dark paint colours, patterned wallpaper and £5 vintage finds. Lily Sawyer’s dreary three-bedroom pad in Stratford, east London, was a sea of beige and white when she first moved in after buying it for £445,000 in 2014 with … Read more
Welcome to Toad’s homely pile: Inside the handsome Cornish hotel housed in a Victorian mansion that was the inspiration for Toad Hall Fowey Hall sits above the Fowey estuary on the Cornish Riviera and has ‘stunning vistas’, writes Vicki Reeve The usual word for a 36-bedroom pile like this is ‘imposing’, but the hotel has … Read more