It’s a great day today, for so many reasons, including respect for our Monarchy and the joy it brings not only to the British, but around the World. Pictures of the Royal Wedding will soon be circulating internationally and will touch the hearts of millions. The Royal Princes are a fine duo, each with their
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It would have been Florence Nightingale’s birthday today. This great doyen of the Crimean War and nursing reform ranks among the greatest of British reformers and is remembered with great respect and honour. Further to her other great achievements, Florence Nightingale greatly influenced the design of the 1872 St Thomas’ Hospital with its innovative ‘pavilion
This important office complex is situated next to St Katharine Docks, on the site of part of the old London Docks. The owners decided to rebrand the estate and to create a new image, so have renamed it Moretown, and are investing substantially to improve and modernise the facilities. While achieving all this change, they
Lent ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday, and during this period, the alter is dressed as above. Canon Chaplain Roger Hall had the cross made shortly after his arrival at the Tower, and each year talks about the symbolism of the True Cross, as well as the purple robe of mockery, the nails, the