43 h. ago 'We bought 1920s house and couldn't believe what we found behind the walls'

Carol and Tracy Thiemer bought a 1920s house and moved into their newly purchased property, however they couldn't believe what they found behind the walls when they looked

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44 h. ago Couple who moved into 1920s house get a big surprise when they look behind walls

Carol Thiemer, her husband Tracy and their young children disclosed they uncovered the hidden secret shortly after moving in to their 1920s home when they realised something was concealed behind the drywall

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1 week ago FTSE 100 Live 07 January: Index record run on hold, oil and mining stocks fall

The new year rally of the FTSE 100 index has softened following last night’s latest record close.

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1 week ago FTSE 100 Live 07 January: Index record run on hold, oil price under pressure

The new year rally of the FTSE 100 index has softened following last night’s latest record close.

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1 week ago 'We bought a rundown house at auction and nothing could have prepared us for this'

The Taylors are renovating an abandoned 1920s semi-detached house bought at auction in 2024 but have since encountered a series of major problems with it that left them 'devastated'

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2 w. ago ‘I visited Scottish loch with wallabies, nudist colony and Game of Thrones actor’s house’

Inspired by BBC's The Traitors, we checked in to Cameron House hotel and discovered a Scottish getaway filled with history, fine dining and spa experiences – plus a few surprises

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2 w. ago The English House by Dan Cruickshank review – if walls could talk

A deep dive into the creation of eight buildings from the 1700s to the 1900s tells some very human storiesHistory used to be about wars and dates, but to the architecture writer and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank, it’s more about floors and grates. In his new book, he takes a keen-eyed tour of eight English houses, from Northumberland to Sussex, dating from the early 1700s to exactly 100 years ago, and ranging from an outlandish gothic pile to one of the first council flats. In Cruickshank’s pages, classical influences from Rome and Greece give way to a revival of medieval English gothic and the emergence of modernism.He is particularly interested in who commissioned and built his chosen dwellings, and how they got the job done. It’s a new spin on the recent fashion for historians to explore the homes of commoners, as opposed to royalty and aristocrats, in order to tell the life stories of their occupants. This probably began with the late Gillian Tindall, who wrote a highly...

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