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I was laying in bed on a stormy night. At the time, I was 10-years-old so I was extremely scared of thunderstorms. This night made that fear permanent. I was almost asleep until I heard a distant giggle from outside. I got out of bed to look out of my window thinking my younger brother [...]
I was extremely sick one night, running a fever and vomiting every other minute. My mom and my two brothers went to my grandma’s for the night while my dad stayed home with me. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling very sick again. I got out of bed and decided to [...]
My mother died of meningitis when I was 2-years-old, on February 15, 2000, at around 12:30 PM. It was a very tragic and sudden death, and, understandably so, greatly affected my dad and my grandmother. We recently shared the 12th anniversary of her passing. On that day, my dad and I set off to the [...]
History The Black Swan Hotel is located in the centre of the town of Devizes overlooking a picturesque Market place, this former Coaching Inn dates from 1737 but the cellar beneath the building is said to have been built prior to 1600, once part of a lavish network of tunnels underneath the town. The pub [...]
History The Golden Fleece is a pub and an inn in the center of York and was mentioned in York City’s archives as far back as 1503. The back yard of the inn is named “Peckett’s Yard” after John Peckett, who owned the premises as well as being Lord Mayor of York in around 1702. [...]
History The Black Bull may actually be Yorkshire’s most famous pub. This 300 year old public house was Patrick Branwell Bronte’s (brother of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Bronte) favorite place to drink. The story goes that Emily, his younger sister found some of his manuscripts and with a few minor alterations, found a massive [...]
History Llancaiach Fawr is a semi-fortified Tudor manor house that was built in 1530 for Dafydd Prichard and was designed to be easily defended in case of attack during this turbulant part of history. After nearly a century the Prichard family had prospered so much that the house had to be extended in 1628 [...]
History Moresby Hall is a hotel and manor house, situated in the small coastal village of Parton in Cumbria. The name of the manor house is thought to have originated from the name of the builder (Morisceby, Mawriceby or Moricebi – we’re not sure!) and the building was originally built over 800 years ago in [...]
History Leith Hall is a manor house, which is situated in the town of Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Construction dates back to the mid-seventeenth century (around 1650) on the site of an earlier medieval castle called Peill. The house was updated and extended in 1738, 1810 and in 1904 and most notably, during the first [...]
History The schooner hotel was built in the 17th century and was originally used as a coaching inn. Over the last 400 years it has been enjoyed as an overnight rest place for many tourists and travelers, including king George the 3rd. It is located in the village of Alnmouth on the coast of Northumberland [...]