Location: Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England.
The peaceful, small town of Winchcombe has a wonderful historical heritage. In Anglo-Saxon times, during the reign of King Coenwulf in the 8th and 9th Centuries it was the chief city of Mercia and briefly the county town of Winchcombeshire. In the immediate vicinity of the town can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks said to contain the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the now-vanished Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is noted for its grotesques.
The car? Haven't a clue! Possibly dates around 1932-1936. The front grill resembles that of an old Bugatti but I'm fairly certain it's not one of those! Answers on a postcard, please.
(It's a Hotchkiss, see below comment. French manufacturer's Hotchkiss et Cie made cars between 1903 and 1955 in Saint-Denis, Paris.)
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Location: Sizergh Castle, Kendal, Cumbria, England.
Sizergh is a castle, stately home and extensive gardens set near Helsington, in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria and has been called home to the Strickland family for over 750 years.
The castle is based on a 14th century pele tower and extended in Tudor times by the addition of an Elizabethan period house. It is a Grade 1 listed building.
Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII and a relative of the Stricklands, is thought to have lived here after her first husband died in 1533.
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Corfe Castle is a medieval fortress standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset, England and was built by William the Conqueror, dating back to the 11th century.
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Location: Millau Viaduct, Aveyron department, Midi-Pyrenees, France.
The Millau Viaduct (Le Viaduc de Millau) crosses the Valley of the River Tarn above Millau in Southern France. It is 2,460 metres long, has a height of 343 metres (making it the tallest bridge in the world) and cost a staggering Euro 394,000,000. Construction work began on 16 October 2001 and it was officially opened on 16 December 2004. It was ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time.
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The Lord Leycester Hospital, as it is officially known, is a retirement home for ex-Servicemen in Warwick, England, and is not one building, but a collection of buildings just inside the medieval Westgate to the town of Warwick. The Hospital comprises the medieval Chapel of St James the Great, living quarters (including the Master's House), a Guildhall (with anterooms) and a Great Hall.
In the late 14th century Thomas Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick rebuilt the chantry chapel over the gatehouse, replacing the earlier chapel of 1126.
In 1571 Robert Dudley, favourite of Queen Elizabeth, purchased the property and, under royal charter, created a home for 12 aged or infirm soldiers and their wives, thus creating the hospital.
Famously, a banquet held for King James I at the Great Hall in 1607 put the town of Warwick into debt for ten years. Now, that's a party!
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