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Closeup of a Stack of Twelve Pennies, the Equivalent of One Shilling $79.99 Closeup of a Stack of Twelve Pennies, the Equivalent of One Shilling Premium Photographic Print by . Product size approximately 12 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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Mcvitie’s Mcvita Wheat Biscuits Made Entirely from English Wheat at One Shilling a Packet $49.99 Mcvitie’s Mcvita Wheat Biscuits Made Entirely from English Wheat at One Shilling a Packet Giclee Print by . Product size approximately 18 x 24 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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The King’s Shilling $34.99 The King’s Shilling Giclee Print by Thomas Falcon Marshall. Product size approximately 9 x 12 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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A Letter to a Freeholder, on the Late Reduction of the Land Tax to One Shilling in the Pound $12.46 No Synopsis Available |
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The First Shilling Day $49.99 The First Shilling Day Giclee Print by George Cruikshank. Product size approximately 18 x 24 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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Harper’s Mag Still One Shilling Ad Vintage COFFEE MUG $19.99 “High quality ceramic coffee mug made with only the highest quality materials. Mug is large 15 ounces, 4.75 inches tall, 3 inch diameter. Amazing rich colors and vivid images.”… |
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British Bank Notes Photo Mugs A One Pound and a Ten Shillings note issued following a moratorium announced by the Government at the outbreak of World War One. …. |
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Gifts For The Troops Photo Mugs Card acknowledging a gift of two shillings by Arthur Bray, as part of a scheme whereby schoolchildren send Christmas Gifts to Our brave Soldiers and Sailors….. |
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Alton Towers keeps coasting along
Alton Towers, as the UK's biggest and most popular theme park, needs no introduction. The park is located near Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire and was built upon the site of an eighteenth-century manor, the historic seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury. The ruins of the original Towers remain and since 2000 have been used as an atmospheric setting for an attraction introducing visitors to the local legend of an ancient oak tree which is mysteriously bound in chains, supposedly because it is cursed.
While ghost stories, fictions and fantasies have inevitably grown up around this much-loved location, the factual history of the park is interesting too. The construction of the house and its splendid landscaped gardens continued throughout the first half of the nineteenth century and several generations of Earls.
The estate was first opened to the public in 1860 and fetes were held in the formal gardens, but as the costs of maintenance climbed the family eventually sold the land and house off to a group of local businessmen. Calling themselves Alton Towers Limited, this consortium restored and maintained the gardens with the proceeds from charging visitors one shilling each to enjoy fairground rides, boating and concerts in the grounds – a rather tame predecessor of the modern park.
During the Second World War, the estate was requisitioned by the Army and the grounds used as a cadet training camp. In the 1950s it was restored again and re-opened to the public with traveling fun fairs in the summer and a tea room installed in the old banqueting hall; soon followed by more and more ambitious attractions such as a miniature railway, adventure playground and a sea lion pool. The real beginning of Alton Towers as we know it was around 1980 with the construction of the UK's first double-looping rollercoaster, the Corkscrew, which remains popular to this day.
The Corkscrew is now the oldest of 33 attractions at Alton Towers, including eight coasters and three water rides. Its two inversions rather pale in comparison to some of the newer, celebrated rides such as Oblivion, the world's first vertical drop rollercoaster; Air, the world's first 'flying' rollercoaster; and the thrillseeker's favourite Nemesis, an intense inverted coaster which features four inversions and speeds underground in several places. Not content with the title of 'Europe's first inverted rollercoaster', in 2004 Nemesis secured the world record for the largest number of naked people to ride at a time!
Along with the rides, there are many tamer attractions for young children, a petting zoo, arcades, a water park and spa, speedboat racing, a climbing wall and even mini bungee jumping. There are two official Alton Towers hotels in the grounds, with bars and restaurants, live music and shows in the evenings.
Alton Towers continues to expand, with a new pirate-themed area including a huge boat ride planned to open for the 2008 summer season. With over 2.5 million visitors a year, the park shows no sign of slowing down and seems bound to keep on entertaining, thrilling and record-breaking for many years to come.
Elisha Burberry
Elisha Burberry is an online, freelance journalist and keen traveller and watersports enthusiast. Originally from Scotland, she now resides in London.
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1740s Works $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Industry and Idleness is the title of a series of 12 plot-linked engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747, intending to illustrate to working children the possible rewards of hard work and diligent application and the sure disasters attending a lack of both. Unlike his earlier works, such as A Harlot's Progress (1731) and Marriage a-la-mode (1743), which were painted first and subsequently converted to engravings, Industry and Idleness was created solely as a set of engravings. Each of the prints was sold for 1 shilling each so 12 for the entire set, which is equivalent in purchasing power to approximately 80 GBP as of 2005. It may be assumed that these prints were aimed for a wider and less wealthy market than his earlier works. The originals currently reside at the British Museum. Hogarth was far from the first to attempt to dramatically display parallel lives leading from the same start to opposite ends. Paulson suggests two: the plays "Eastward Hoe" (Revived after Hogarth's publication of these) and "The London Merchant", the latter containing the especially applicable quote that "business the youth's best preservative from ill, as idleness the worst of snares". He also suggests that Hogarth already had the idea when he painted "Hudibras and the Lawyer" with its 2 (industrious and idle) clerks. Each print shows a representative or important scene at some point in the life of one of the protagonists (In two plates, both are shown together). Together, the seven appearances of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle show their steady paths up the social and political ladder to the pinnacle of power and esteem and down the path of immorality and crime to complete disgrace and legal infamy, respectively. Each appearance is also accompanied by ... More: |
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1851 Disestablishments $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The National Land Company was founded as the Chartist Cooperative Land Company in 1845 by the chartist Feargus O'Connor to help working class people satisfy the landholding requirement to gain a vote in county seats in Great Britain. It was wound up by Act of Parliament by 1851. The Reform Act of 1832 extended the franchise. In county constituencies in addition to forty shilling freeholders franchise rights were extended to owners of land in copyhold worth £10 and holders of long-term leases (more than sixty years) on land worth £10 and holders of medium-term leases (between twenty and sixty years) on land worth £50 and to tenants-at-will paying an annual rent of £50. The chartists had, as one of their objectives, the enfranchisement of the working man. O'Connor focussed his energies on enabling working class people to satisfy the landholding requirement to gain a vote in county seats. In his single minded pursuit of this objective he diverged from the mainstream of Chartism. OConnor declared that Great Britain could support her own population if her lands were properly cultivated. As has been pointed out, he had no use for cooperative tillage; his plan was for peasant proprietorship. In his book 'A Practical Work on the Management of Small Farms' he set forth his plan of resettling surplus factory workers on little holdings of from one to 4 acres (16,000 m). He held that the only possible way to raise wages was to remove surplus labour out of the manufacturers reach, and thus compel him to offer higher wages. He had no doubts of the yields obtainable under such spade-husbandry. An enterprise in which working men could purchase land on the open market was proposed by him. The land was to be reconditioned, broken up into small plots, equippe... More: |