England
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Never Gonna Give You Up Filming Location
This was a fun location to visit. Jerri and I made a couple goofy videos and had a blast!
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Locations
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Jack the Ripper Memorials
These photos show several graves and memorials connected to the Jack the Ripper story, including stops at the City of London Cemetery and other cemeteries tied to the victims. At City of London Cemetery in Manor Park, the memorials for Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols, Catherine Eddowes, and Martha Tabram are included. Nichols and Eddowes are…
Celebrity Related
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Bram Stoker Lived Here
Bram Stoker’s London house is at 18 St Leonard’s Terrace in Chelsea, where a blue plaque marks him as the author of Dracula. It is a quiet-looking terraced home, the kind of place you could walk past without giving it much thought, but it has a strong literary connection. Stoker lived here while he was…
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Bob Marley’s Chelsea House
42 Oakley Street in Chelsea is one of the London addresses most closely tied to Bob Marley. After the 1976 attempt on his life in Jamaica, Marley came to London and lived here with The Wailers in 1977. It was during this period that they finished work on Exodus, the album that gave the world…
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Flat that Diana lived in.
Before she became Princess Diana, she lived at Flat 60, Coleherne Court on Old Brompton Road in London. From 1979 to 1981, this was her home. Not a palace. Not some grand royal residence. Just a flat she shared with friends while working and living a pretty normal young life. That changed fast. As her…
Disasters
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Grenfell Tower Fire: A Tragedy That Changed Building Safety
In the early hours of June 14, 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, a high-rise apartment building in London. What started as a small kitchen fire quickly turned into something far worse. The fire began in a fourth-floor flat after a fridge-freezer malfunctioned. Normally, a fire like this might stay contained. But this one…