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26 de mai. de 2024 · May 26, 2024. Situated in the scenic Furness peninsula in Cumbria, the sprawling ruins of Furness Abbey stand as a testament to both the grandeur and tumult of medieval monastic life in England. This once-mighty Cistercian monastery, founded in 1124, rose to become one of the wealthiest and most influential abbeys in the country ...
Há 3 dias · Barrow and Furness, formerly known as Barrow-in-Furness, is a constituency [n 1] in Cumbria which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Simon Fell of the Conservative Party since 2019. [n 2]
Há 4 dias · Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just " Barrow ") in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness.
Há 3 dias · Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably ...
26 de mai. de 2024 · Last month, as the island wound up its 350th Anniversary celebrations, Furness, Withy & Company marked its 40th year in the New York-Bermuda steamship service. It seems appropriate to look back at some of the highlights of the long “partnership” between Bermuda and Furness.
26 de mai. de 2024 · After the furore evoked by this unexpected news had died down the Board tried to persuade Viscount Furness to employ 'some architect of position', and he did indeed employ Mewes and Davis, though in what capacity is not clear, for Lord later stated explicitly that he had been 'architect for the building of 42 Hill Street'.
Meanwhile the abbey passed through troublous times in the north. In the days of King Stephen Furness was thrown violently into the conflict which made the whole of Northumbria and Cumbria a battle-ground between the scarcely defined nations. The sympathies of the monks themselves were as much Scottish as English.
