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...base guided tours are run, and information sheets and visitor packs have been produced special days for artists are held. These various initiatives, with the addition of a new visitor centre, full disabled access and better parking facilities, have led to visitor numbers now averaging 24,000 per year...Aberdulais Falls: A case study in Welsh heritage: 1.7 Evaluation - The...

...based on two areas of thinking about it. One, is the way in which the rents for allotment are such a powerful rejection of contemporary land values by local authorities. It's almost sweeping - 'you can have this piece of land for your allotment for thirty pounds a year and the land is worth half a million' or something like that. And then secondly within the allotment...

...De Quincey shed a backward gleam upon his native place, which can still show the house where he was probably born and the grammar-school he certainly ran away from. In my forgetfulness, or my ignorance, that Manchester was the mother of this tricksy master-spirit of English prose, who was an idol of my youth, I failed to visit either house. The renown of Cobden and of...

...de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon. But Barker was emphatic in his wording when defending the show against these comparisons: There is no deception of glasses, or any other whatever; the view only being a fair sketch, displaying at once a circle of a very extraordinary extent, the same as if on the spot; forming perhaps, one of the most picturesque views in Europe. The idea...