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85 relations: Alright (Supergrass song), Altered Images, Battlement, BBC, Blackheath, London, Blithe Spirit (play), Bricolage, Bruce Dickinson, Bryn Terfel, Castle, Caterham 7, CBeebies, CBS, Channel 4, Charitable trusts in English law, Citizen Smith, Classic Albums, Classic Albums: Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast, Clough Williams-Ellis, Cold Feet, Community (Wales), Danger Man, Doctor Who, Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Assembly constituency), Dwyfor Meirionnydd (UK Parliament constituency), Estuary, European Regional Development Fund, Festival N°6, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Henry Caton Haigh, Gerald of Wales, Gigglebiz, Gregory Peck, Gwynedd, Heritage Lottery Fund, Hugh Laurie, Ingrid Bergman, Iron Maiden, Italian Riviera, Italianate architecture, ITV (TV network), Jools Holland, Lewis Mumford, List of gardens in Wales, Lotus Seven, Mediterranean Sea, Middle Ages, Minffordd railway station, Morfa Bychan, New Order (band), ..., Noël Coward, North Wales, Nostalgia, Patrick McGoohan, Paul McCartney, Penrhyndeudraeth, Plas Brondanw, Popeye Village, Porthmadog, Portofino, Postmodernism, Primal Scream, Province of Rimini, Renaissance, Rhododendron, River Dwyryd, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet, Skylarking, Spiritualized, Stephen Fry, Supergrass, Surrealism, Terence Alexander, The Celts (TV series), The Masque of Mandragora, The Number of the Beast (album), The Prisoner, The Tube (TV series), The Village (The Prisoner), Tourism, Victorian architecture, Visit Wales, Wheeler Dealers, XTC. Expand index (35 more) »
Alright (Supergrass song)
"Alright" is a song by British alternative rock band Supergrass.
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Altered Images
Altered Images were an early 1980s Scottish new wave/post-punk band.
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Battlement
A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e., a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Blackheath, London
Blackheath is a district of south east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham.
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Blithe Spirit (play)
Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward.
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Bricolage
In the arts, bricolage (French for "DIY" or "do-it-yourself projects") is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by mixed media.
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Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, airline pilot, entrepreneur, author and broadcaster.
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Bryn Terfel
Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (born 9 November 1965) is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer.
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Castle
A castle (from castellum) is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages by predominantly the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
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Caterham 7
The Caterham 7 (or Caterham Seven) is a super-lightweight sports car produced by Caterham Cars in the United Kingdom.
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CBeebies
CBeebies is a BBC television network for British programming aimed at encouraging "learning through play in a consistently safe environment for children aged 6 or under", and providing "high quality, mostly UK-produced programmes".
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CBS
CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.
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Charitable trusts in English law
Charitable trusts in English law are a form of express trust dedicated to charitable goals.
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Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.
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Classic Albums
Classic Albums is a British documentary series about pop, rock and heavy metal albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.
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Classic Albums: Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
Classic Albums: Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast is a documentary about the making of the album of the same name by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 26 November 2001 as part of the Classic Albums documentary series.
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Clough Williams-Ellis
Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, CBE, MC (28 May 1883 – 9 April 1978) was a British architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales.
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Cold Feet
Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network.
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Community (Wales)
A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.
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Danger Man
Danger Man (titled Secret Agent in the United States, and Destination Danger and John Drake in other non-UK markets) is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.
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Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Assembly constituency)
Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election.
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Dwyfor Meirionnydd (UK Parliament constituency)
Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster).
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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European Regional Development Fund
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is a fund allocated by the European Union.
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Festival N°6
Festival N°6 (Festival Number 6) is an annual art and music festival held in and around Portmeirion, Wales.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
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George Henry Caton Haigh
George Henry Caton Haigh (1860 – 11 February 1941) FZS, MBOU, DL, was a world authority on Himalayan flowering trees and exotic plants.
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Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Gymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon and historian.
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Gigglebiz
Gigglebiz is a children's television programme (a 'live action comedy sketch show') made in the UK.
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Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor, one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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Gwynedd
Gwynedd is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi.
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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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Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author.
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Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films.
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.
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Italian Riviera
The Italian Riviera, or Ligurian Riviera (Riviera ligure; Rivêa ligure) is the narrow coastal strip which lies between the Ligurian Sea and the mountain chain formed by the Maritime Alps and the Apennines.
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Italianate architecture
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV is a British commercial TV network.
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Jools Holland
Julian Miles "Jools" Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.
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Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.
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List of gardens in Wales
This is a list of gardens open to the public in Wales, either regularly or by appointment.
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Lotus Seven
The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car produced by the British manufacturer Lotus Cars (initially called Lotus Engineering) between 1957 and 1972.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Minffordd railway station
Minffordd railway station (translation Roadside, literally Lip of the Road) station, is actually two adjacent stations operated entirely independently of each other.
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Morfa Bychan
Morfa Bychan is a village located in Gwynedd, North Wales.
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New Order (band)
New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
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Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
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North Wales
North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is an unofficial region of Wales.
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
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Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American-born Irish actor, writer, and director who was brought up in Ireland and England.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.
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Penrhyndeudraeth
Penrhyndeudraeth ("peninsula with two beaches") is a small town in the Welsh county of Gwynedd.
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Plas Brondanw
Plas Brondanw in Carreg Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, North Wales, was the family home of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of the Italianate village Portmeirion, and elements of similar architectural styles can be seen at both locations.
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Popeye Village
Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village and Danish Village, is a purpose-built film set village, now converted into a small attraction fun park, consisting of a collection of rustic and ramshackle wooden buildings.
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Porthmadog
Porthmadog, known locally as "Port", is a small coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, in Wales.
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Portofino
Portofino is an Italian fishing village and holiday resort famous for its picturesque harbour and historical association with celebrity and artistic visitors.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.
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Primal Scream
Primal Scream are a British rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie.
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Province of Rimini
The province of Rimini (provincia di Rimini) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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Rhododendron
Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
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River Dwyryd
The River Dwyryd (Afon Dwyryd, meaning a river of two fords) is a river in Gwynedd, Wales which flows principally westwards; draining to the sea into Tremadog Bay, south of Porthmadog.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.
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Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet
Sir Arthur Osmond Williams (17 March 1849 – 28 January 1927) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician.
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Skylarking
Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released on 27 October 1986.
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Spiritualized
Spiritualized are an English space rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce (often known as J. Spaceman), formerly of Spacemen 3.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
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Supergrass
Supergrass were an English rock band, formed in 1993 in Oxford.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.
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Terence Alexander
Terence Joseph Alexander (11 March 1923 – 28 May 2009) was an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama Bergerac.
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The Celts (TV series)
The Celts: Rich Traditions and Ancient Myths is a 1987 documentary series that examines the origins, growth, and influence of Celtic culture in Great Britain and throughout Europe.
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The Masque of Mandragora
The Masque of Mandragora is the first serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 4 September to 25 September 1976.
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The Number of the Beast (album)
The Number of the Beast is the third studio album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released in March 1982.
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The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in Canada beginning on 6 September 1967, then in the United Kingdom on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968.
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The Tube (TV series)
The Tube was a United Kingdom music television programme, which ran for five series, from 5 November 1982 to 26 April 1987.
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The Village (The Prisoner)
The Village is the fictional setting of the 1960s UK television series The Prisoner where the main character, Number Six, is held with other former spies and operatives.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.
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Victorian architecture
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.
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Visit Wales
Visit Wales (Croeso Cymru) is the Welsh Government's tourism team within the Department for Heritage to promote Welsh tourism and assist the tourism industry.
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Wheeler Dealers
Wheeler Dealers is a British television series originally produced by Attaboy TV for the Discovery Channel in the UK and Velocity Channel HD in the U.S. The programme is fronted by car enthusiast Mike Brewer.
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XTC
XTC were an English rock band formed in Swindon in 1972 and active until 2006.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmeirion
