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art and poetry inspired by great british landscape
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Birmingham
Brighton
London
Oxford
West England, Cornwall
Welsh Valleys
North, Scotland
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BIRMINGHAM
Ikon gallery
Mailbox
At the canal's peak in the late 1700's over 100 canal boats a day passed through the city of Birmingham on route with their cargo to various destinations in the West Midlands and beyond.
In 1854 a new station was opened and named New Street Station. This was the largest station in the UK with a spectacular roof that was the largest in the world at the time. New Street Station today is still the main railway terminus for Birmingham.
1900 Joseph Chamberlain founds University of Birmingham
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BRIGHTON
Royal Pavilion
West Pier
Palace Pier
pre-1700 Brighthelmston a fishing village of Saxon origins
1870 Theatre Royal built
1815-22 John Nash builds the oriental Marine Pavilion for the Prince Regent
1866 West Pier, a promenade for well to do Victorians designed by Eugenius Birch opens
1899 Palace Pier built
1964 Mods and rockers jailed after seaside riots (Easter) whitsun weekend of violence dramatised in Quadraphenia (1979)
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LONDON
London eye
Tate Modern
Institute for Contemporary Art
Berkeley Hotel
50 Foundation of London
1665 Great Plague
1666 Great Fire
1851 Great Exhibition of 100,000 objects from all over the world exhibited in Paxton's crystal palace
1895 Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts
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OXFORD
Daily Information
Modern Art Oxford
Ashmolean Museum
1071 First Norman castle built by Robert Doily for William the Conqueror next to Oxford's saxon wall
1215 King John escapes Oxford Castle and is forced to sign Magna Carta at Runnymede Island
1249 University College, is the first Oxford College to be founded
1669 Christopher Wren completes Sheldonian Theatre
1833 Pusey, Newman and Keble begin the Oxford movement
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West England, Cornwall
Tate St Ives
Surfers Against Sewage
Eden Project
A Peninsula with a sense of difference and separateness the quality of light inspired Modernists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham who brought the region fame.
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Welsh Valleys
Dylan Thomas' boathouse, Laugharne
Big Pit, Blaenavon
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Celtic Manor, Magor
7000BC First monoliths dragged from the mountains of Wales to Stonehenge
800BC Immigration of Celts
1240 Death of Llewellyn I ap Gruffyd
1301 First Prince of Wales born at Caernarfon Castle
1400 Rebellion of Owain Glyndwr
1848 Chartist movement collapses
1974 Miners' strike
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Scotland
Ramblers, Scotland
1296 Edward invades Scotland
1598 Mary Queen of Scots beheaded
1715 Jacobite rebellion
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