W. Braxton Sinclair

Captain William Charles Braxton Sinclair FRIBA (1883 – 29 November 1962) was a British architect who worked in the United Kingdom and in Burma, where he was a captain in the Royal Engineers. ^[1]

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Air raid shelter

Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of non-combatants as well as combatants against enemy attacks from the air.

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Bridget Cherry (born 17 May 1941) is a British architectural historian who was series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides from 1971 until 2002, and is the author or co-author of several volumes in the series. W. Braxton Sinclair and Bridget Cherry are British architectural historians and Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Bromley

Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley.

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Building (magazine)

Building is one of the United Kingdom's oldest business-to-business magazines, launched as The Builder in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom – architect of Birmingham Town Hall and designer of the Hansom Cab.

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Building society

A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization, which offers banking and related financial services, especially savings and mortgage lending.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.

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Church of Christ, Scientist

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of Christian Science.

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Council for British Archaeology

The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) is an educational charity established in 1944 in the UK.

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Essex Regiment

The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958.

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First Church of Christ, Scientist, Richmond

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Richmond, is a church on Sheen Road, Richmond, London.

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Greenford

Greenford is a large town in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, England, lying west from Charing Cross.

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Greenwich

Greenwich is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London.

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Hampstead Garden Suburb

Hampstead Garden Suburb is an elevated suburb of London, north of Hampstead, west of Highgate and east of Golders Green.

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Highbury

Highbury is an area in North London and located in the London Borough of Islington.

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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.

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Ian Nairn

Ian Douglas Nairn (24 August 1930 – 14 August 1983) was a British architectural critic who coined the word "Subtopia" to indicate drab suburbs that look identical through unimaginative town-planning.

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Journal of the Burma Research Society

The Journal of the Burma Research Society (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသုတေသနအသင်းဂျာနယ်, JBRS) was an academic journal covering Burma studies that was published by the Burma Research Society between 1911 and 1980.

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Kalaga

Kalaga (ကန့်လန့်ကာ) is a heavily embroidered appliqué tapestry made of silk, flannel, felt, wool and lace against a background made of cotton or velvet indigenous to Burma (Myanmar).

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Lacquer

Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Local history

Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context, often concentrating on a relatively small local community.

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London Metropolitan Archives

The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is the principal local government archive repository for the Greater London area, including the City of London: it is the largest county record office in the United Kingdom.

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London Society (organisation)

The London Society is a British membership organisation established to encourage public interest and participation in urban planning and transport matters in London as well as to study and celebrate the capital's unique history and character.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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National Army Museum

The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74). W. Braxton Sinclair and Nikolaus Pevsner are British architectural historians.

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Oliver Simmonds

Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds, FRAeS (22 November 1897 – 26 July 1985) was a British aviation pioneer, aircraft engineer and Conservative Party politician.

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Pagoda

A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are four series of guide books to the architecture of the British Isles.

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Purley, London

Purley is an area of the London Borough of Croydon in London, England, south of Charing Cross, with a history going back at least 800 years.

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Queen's Gate

Queen's Gate is a street in South Kensington, London, England.

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Richmond, London

Richmond is a town in south-west London,The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.

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Ripley, Surrey

Ripley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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South Kensington

South Kensington is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Southport

Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England.

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Strand, London

The Strand (commonly referred to with a leading "The", but formally without) is a major street in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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The Georgian Group

The Georgian Group is a British charity, and the national authority on Georgian architecture built between 1700 and 1837 in England and Wales.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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The London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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The Twentieth Century Society

The Twentieth Century Society (abbreviated to C20), founded in 1979 as The Thirties Society, is a British charity that campaigns for the preservation of architectural heritage from 1914 onwards.

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Tudor Revival architecture

Tudor Revival architecture, also known as mock Tudor in the UK, first manifested in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the Stone Age when early ancestors combined earth and charcoal with water to create the first wet-on-dry picture on a cave wall." in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Worcester, England

Worcester is a cathedral city in Worcestershire, England, of which it is the county town.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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York

York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.

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Yorkshire Building Society

Yorkshire Building Society is the third largest building society in the UK, with its headquarters in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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