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9 October 2018
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Life behind the wire: rare images of Prisoner of War Camps

From the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, German prisoners of war (POWs) began arriving in England.Read more

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London’s most splendid synagogue interior can be found at the New West End Synagogue. Opened in 1879, this synagogue was designed in High Victorian Oriental style by Liverpool-based Scottish architect George Audsley, for the social elite of Anglo-Jewry. It has much in common, both inside and out, with its ‘older sister’ Liverpool’s Princes Road Synagogue – designed by the same architect.
This Oriental gem of 1880-1, in the heart of Yorkshire, was built for the German Reform community of woollen merchants who predated the Orthodox in the city. Bradford Synagogue was designed by local church architects the Healey Brothers and features such exotic touches as striped brickwork, horseshoe arches and a decorative cornice, inspired by a mixture of Mamluk Egypt, Moorish Spain and Mogul India. Listed at Grade II* it was just the third @reformjudaism synagogue to be established in the UK and predated the building of an Orthodox synagogue in the town. In 2013 the local Muslim community stepped in to help save the synagogue with a financial donation to the dwindling community.
Princes Road Synagogue in liverpool is the most lavish High Victorian Oriental synagogue in England: the older sister of London’s New West End, it was designed by the same architect, George Audsley. It opened in 1874 and is Grade I Listed despite losing its turrets in the 1960s. Its gorgeous mint green, stencilled and gilded décor contrasts with the rich jewel colours of the domed and turreted Ark.
The Grade I listed St Mary's Church in Kempley, Gloucestershire. The wall paintings inside date from the early 12th Century and tell stories from the bible. They are some of the best preserve medieval wall paintings in Britain.

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