Abandoned British ghost towns left to rot
With its rich and long history, spanning everything from ancient settlements to the world wars, Great Britain is dotted with ...
BBC27d
Six hidden ruins that can be found across the UK
The twin rows of now abandoned houses in Caernarfon, Wales, were, instead, somewhere for the quarrymen who worked at the nearby Dinorwic Quarry from ... in the lowlands of Scotland even though ...
Dreamy holiday isle where even motorways are like a Scalextric circuit
Lanzarote An island perfectly suited to a geologist, a poet or indeed an artist! For Lanzarote has such an awe-inspiring setting: ...
Public Radio International11d
The story of one woman’s fight to gain African independence from colonial rule
Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new edition of her mother's autobiography recounting her fight for African ...
Barnsley Chronicle7d
Yorkshire - A Story of Invasion, Uprising and Conflict
Archaeological finds have shown that Yorkshire was occupied at a time when early hunters from continental Europe were no...
Travel + Leisure on MSN16d
I Took My Daughter Camping in the Hebrides in Search of Our Scottish Heritage — Here's What We Found
A mother and daughter are transformed by a sojourn in western Scotland. At four in the morning, far from civilization on an island in the Inner Hebrides, I woke to the drumming of rain on the canvas ...
Hosted on MSN23d
A Group In France Has Spent Decades Building Guédelon Castle Using Only 13th-Century Methods
Thus began a long research process that led them to a remote abandoned sandstone quarry in the Guédelon ... Then, explore Scotland’s haunted Earlshall Castle.
the Edinburgh Reporter8d
Looking back at February in history
The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born ...
The New Indian Express12d
Abandoned quarry turns dump yard in Madukkarai
COIMBATORE: Residents of Madukkarai allege that the municipality is dumping waste in abandoned quarries in the town, and voiced concerns of health hazards. They recalled that the local body had in ...
The Hindu16d
Cluster of abandoned quarries to be networked to form a significant storage structure for Chennai’s water supply
The cluster of abandoned quarries in peripheral areas, which serve as a buffer source of freshwater, may be networked to form a significant water storage structure to tackle Chennai’s growing needs.