Showing posts with label City walls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City walls. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

400th anniversary of Derry/Londonderry City WALLS. Conference 6th-7th April


Walls 400! is a programme of activities planned to mark the quatercentenary of the City Walls during 2013. The objective of Walls 400! is to fully explore the contested history that the City Walls represent and to celebrate Derry’s Walls as a present-day, national heritage asset, with the potential to unite rather than separate people. 
  • Walls 400! History Conference

    Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2013 
     This is the essential conference in 2013, dedicated to unpacking the history of Derry's Walls- exploding myths, tackling hard history and providing evidence-based facts. Over two days 100 delegates will get the opportunity to quiz archaeologists and historians and to take part in practical workshops examining the fabric and use of Derry's Walls.
     Full details are in the brochure.
    Saturday April 6th  & Sunday April 7th 2013
    Verbal Arts Centre,   Stable Lane, by Bishop’s Gate

Thursday, 4 August 2011

London Landscape Observatory

The Council of Europe specifies Landscape observatories as a means of implementing the European Landscape Convention (UK signed). Until national or regional government sets one up... This is a set of other peoples photos illustrating the diversity of character/s within London. Click to see Flickr Gallery . Compare with Catalonian Landscape Observatory


The Clock Mill: Bromley-by-BowTop and bottom of the heapNunhead CemeteryRiver/CloudsMid Saxon fish trap 1North Circular Road, Ilford
St. James's ParkTrafalgar SquareBrick Lane CrowdsKings Cross and the new St PancrasView across main washBelvedere & Thamesmead East
London Wall20100709_hampstead_heath_113rainyhackneyTower of LondonBarbicanNotting Hill Carnival
London Landscape Observatory, a gallery on Flickr.