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Oldest wooden building still standing. [140] Nanchan Temple: Wutai, China: 782 CE Buddhist Temple Its Great Buddha Hall is currently China's oldest extant timber building. Greensted Church: United Kingdom c. 1053 CE Church May be the oldest, extant wooden church in the world and the oldest, extant wooden building in Europe. [141] [142]
After the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh laid the foundation stone for a new building in 1884, it was renamed Hull Royal Infirmary. [3] After the old buildings in Prospect Street became dilapidated in the 1950s, the infirmary moved to new premises in Anlaby Road, which were designed by architects Yorke Rosenberg Mardall and for which the ...
Nonetheless, the Ferriby Heritage Trust describe Ferriby Boat 3 as Europe's oldest known seacraft. [4] Outline of a Ferriby boat. The BBC television programme Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath Pt 2, broadcast on BBC Two in September 2014, describes the boat as seagoing and describes the tons of cargo it could have taken across the Channel.
Many historic routes, such as the Silk Road, the Amber Road, and the Royal Road of the Persian Empire, covered great distances and their impact on human settlements remain today. The Post Track , a prehistoric causeway in the valley of the River Brue in the Somerset Levels , England, is one of the oldest known constructed trackways and dates ...
The oldest remains include a double beehive cell and a grave and cross-slab associated with Eithne the mother of Columba. These are the oldest extant church buildings in Scotland and possibly Britain. [19] [20] [21] St Martin's Church, Canterbury: Canterbury, Kent 597 The oldest church building in England, still functioning as an Anglican ...
High Street is a road in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull in East Riding of Yorkshire, England. [1] Located in the city's old town close to the River Hull , it features a number of historic buildings.
In 1892 he became a member of the Hull School Board and three years later joined the City Council. [3] From 1899–1903 Gelder was Liberal Mayor of Hull [9] and in all was a member of the council, later in the office of Alderman, for 43 years. In 1930 he received the Honorary Freedom of the City. [10]
The Hull and East Riding Museum of Archaeology is located in the Museums Quarter of the Old Town in Kingston upon Hull, England.It dates back to 1925 as the Museum of Commerce and Industry in a former Customs House but acquired its present name in 1989 with a major refurbishment and new entrance, with the transport section moving to a separate museum.