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Interesting Buildings From The Past...

Minster Lovell Hall… Oxfordshire England The ruins of this once imposing manor house lay testament to a frightening and strange tale known as ‘The Mistletoe Bough’ One Christmas many, many years ago the house enjoyed the wedding of young William Lovell, eldest son of the Lovall family, and his attractive young bride. Everyone danced throughout the evening and as it became late and no-one yet wanted to retire, it was suggested that they all play a game of ‘Hide and Seek’ William’s bride offered to hide first, and dared William to find her before the others. Well, time passed and she could not be found. They searched all through the night and into the next day, but without any luck. For a further one week they searched, but never found her. William did not recover from his great loss and died just a few years later from despondency. It was soon after when a servant found an old oak chest that had lay hidden in the attic from some year...

Interesting Buildings From The Past...

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  The Dramatic Stairway of St. Pancras Railway Station in North London. Robert Morey’s camera is deep and dark with this period evoking stairway shot inside the famous North London Victorian Railway Station of St. Pancras. Built in 1868 as The Midland Grand Hotel and Railway Station it served travellers to and from The East Midlands and Yorkshire. It’s a beautiful vision of Victorian gothic architecture. During the 2000s it was renovated and given a new lease of life as a terminal area for Eurostar Trains to Europe.