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66 relations: Arcade (architecture), Birkenhead, Birkenhead Park Cricket Club, Birkenhead Park FC, Calvert Vaux, Cast iron, Central Park, Charles Reed (architect), Chatsworth House, Cheshire Regiment, Claughton, Merseyside, Conscientious objector, Corinthian order, Covered bridge, Criterium, David Lloyd George, Derby Arboretum, Edward Kemp, English Heritage, European Union, Frederick Law Olmsted, Gable, George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle, Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park, Granite, Hedd Wyn, Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic England, Improvement commissioners, Ionic order, Joseph Paxton, Lewis Hornblower, Listed buildings in Birkenhead, Liverpool, Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, Local and personal Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom, Long Depression, Marsh, National Eisteddfod of Wales, National Heritage List for England, New York City, New Zealand national rugby union team, Obelisk, Pantile, Park, Parkrun, Pavilion, Pedestal, Pediment, Pilaster, ..., Protected area, Regional policy of the European Union, Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Rugby union, Sefton Park, Slate, Supermarine Spitfire, Triumphal arch, Veranda, Victorian era, Wirral Council, Wirral Waterfront SRB, Woodside, Merseyside, World War I, World War II, Yale University Press. Expand index (16 more) »
Arcade (architecture)
An arcade is a succession of arches, each counter-thrusting the next, supported by columns, piers, or a covered walkway enclosed by a line of such arches on one or both sides.
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.
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Birkenhead Park Cricket Club
Birkenhead Park Cricket Club, based on the Wirral in Merseyside, England, was founded in 1846.
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Birkenhead Park FC
Birkenhead Park Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Birkenhead, Wirral.
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Calvert Vaux
Calvert Vaux (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.
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Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.
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Charles Reed (architect)
Charles Reed (later Charles Verelst) (1814 – 13 December 1859) was an English architect.
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Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, England, in the Derbyshire Dales north-east of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield.
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Cheshire Regiment
The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division.
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Claughton, Merseyside
Claughton is a residential district in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England.
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Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.
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Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.
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Covered bridge
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof and siding which, in most covered bridges, create an almost complete enclosure.
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Criterium
A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 800 m to 10,000 m.
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David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party and the final Liberal to serve as Prime Minister.
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Derby Arboretum
Derby Arboretum is a public park and arboretum in the city of Derby, England, located about south of the city centre in the Rose Hill area.
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Edward Kemp
Edward Kemp (25 September 1817 – 1 March 1891) was an English landscape architect and an author.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.
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Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.
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George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (18 April 1802– 5 December 1864), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1825 to 1848, was a British statesman, orator, and writer.
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Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park
The Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park is at the northeast entrance to Birkenhead Park in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Hedd Wyn
Hedd Wyn (born Ellis Humphrey Evans, 13 January 188731 July 1917) was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod.
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Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.
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Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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Improvement commissioners
Boards of improvement commissioners were ad hoc urban local government boards created during the 18th and 19th centuries in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its predecessors the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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Ionic order
The Ionic order forms one of the three classical orders of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian.
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Joseph Paxton
Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace, and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.
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Lewis Hornblower
Lewis Hornblower (1823 – 1879) was a Liverpool architect, who along with French landscape architect Édouard André was responsible for the design of Sefton Park in Liverpool.
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Listed buildings in Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town in Wirral, Merseyside, England.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Liverpool and District Cricket Competition
The Liverpool and District Cricket Competition is regarded by some as the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the Liverpool area and since 2000 has been a designated ECB Premier League.
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Local and personal Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Private Acts are laws in the United Kingdom which apply to a particular individual or group of individuals, or corporate entity.
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Long Depression
The Long Depression was a worldwide price and economic recession, beginning in 1873 and running either through the spring of 1879, or 1896, depending on the metrics used.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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National Eisteddfod of Wales
The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.
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National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is Historic England's official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields, World Heritage Sites and other heritage assets considered worthy of preservation.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New Zealand national rugby union team
The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport.
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Obelisk
An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος obeliskos; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
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Pantile
A pantile is a type of fired roof tile, normally made from clay.
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Park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.
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Parkrun
Parkrun (stylised as parkrun) is the name given to a collection of five-kilometre running events that take place every Saturday morning in nineteen countries across five continents.
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Pavilion
In architecture, a pavilion (from French pavillon, from Latin papilio) has several meanings.
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Pedestal
A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo, "foot of a stall") or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase.
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Pediment
A pediment is an architectural element found particularly in classical, neoclassical and baroque architecture, and its derivatives, consisting of a gable, usually of a triangular shape, placed above the horizontal structure of the entablature, typically supported by columns.
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Pilaster
The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function.
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Protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.
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Regional policy of the European Union
The Regional policy of the European Union (EU), also referred as Cohesion Policy, is a policy with the stated aim of improving the economic well-being of regions in the EU and also to avoid regional disparities.
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Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England
The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England provides a listing and classification system for historic parks and gardens similar to that used for listed buildings.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Sefton Park
Sefton Park is a public park in south Liverpool, England.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
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Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during and after World War II.
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Triumphal arch
A triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road.
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Veranda
A veranda or verandah (from Bengali baranda) is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Wirral Council
Wirral Council, formerly Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.
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Wirral Waterfront SRB
Wirral Waterfront SRB (Single Regeneration Budget) is a large urban regeneration initiative in Wirral, England.
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Woodside, Merseyside
Woodside is a small riverside locality in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England, situated almost opposite Liverpool Pier Head across the River Mersey.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park
