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Royal Gunpowder Mills

Victorian Experience - Sunday, 17 December 2006.

http://www.royalgunpowdermills.com/specialevents_dec2006.htm

Royal Gunpowder Mills,

Beaulieu Drive,

Waltham Abbey, Essex, EN9 1JY.

Hearthstone

The world's first home to be lighted by a central
hydroelectric station.

Endangered Arts at Hearthstone!

Thursday November 3, 2006 Appleton, WI- Hearthstone Historic House Museum in collaboration with the Fox Valley Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America begins a new series at Hearthstone, “The Endangered Arts”. Join us on Saturday, November 18^th from 11-2 to see demonstrations of 19^th Century needlecrafts. Members of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America will show and explain these crafts that were once taught from generation to generation. The demonstration is included in the regular admission fee to Hearthstone, $6 for Adults and $3 for children. Don’t forget to visit Hearthstone’s new exhibit “Christmas Through the Ages” on display until January 13^th. For more information contact Patty Lipka during normal business hours at 920-730-8204 or go to our website www.hearthstonemuseum.org.

The Embroiderer’s Guild of America was founded in 1958 and currently is a group of almost 25,000 members. The Fox Valley chapter meets on the third Wednesday of the month from September through June, excluding December. Membership in the guild is a great way to learn more about a variety of needle crafts. Everyone is welcome from beginner to expert. Find out more about the guild when you visit Hearthstone’s Endangered Arts Series.

The new Endangered Arts series at Hearthstone Historic House Museum focuses on preserving the hand crafts of the past. Needle crafts during the 19^th Century were a very important part of life and a point of pride for the creator. Generations handed down these skills and kept them alive. Today, Hearthstone Historic House Museum in collaboration with the guilds is fostering an understanding and continuation of these skills. Through demonstrations at Hearthstone, people can learn more about these forms of art that in the past were functional as well as beautiful. They can find out more information about how to do these hand crafts and help keep history alive.

Hearthstone Historic House is the first home in the world lit by Edison’s Hydroelectric Central Station. Wisconsin architect, William Waters, designed the house. Built on a bluff above the Fox River, Hearthstone symbolizes Victorian elegance and ingenuity. Hearthstone Historic House opened as a museum in 1986 dedicated to educating the public about early electricity, Fox Valley history, and the Victorian lifestyle.

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For More Information Contact: Patty Lipka, Program Director

920-730-8204

Hearthstone Historic House Museum

625 West Prospect Avenue

Appleton, WI 54911

920-730-8266 (fax)

hearthstonemuseum@athenet.net

www.hearthstonemuseum.org

Groups of 10 or more should schedule a tour by calling the office 920-730-8204 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Astors’ Beechwood Mansion,

For further information, please visit:

http://www.astors-beechwood.com

Washoe couple will offer chance to

'live the cowboy life'

Jon and Linda Walters as members of the Comstock Compadres, LLC, purchased the land and together all six members are developing the Old Yella Dog Ranch and Cattle Company on the site of a Nevada ghostown (22 miles east of Cedarville, CA).

Manor Farm Hampshire UK

A working farm of a bygone age

http://www.hants.gov.uk/countryside/manorfarm/index.html

*Press release*

About Thomasville Georgia, the City's history and it's

Annual Victorian Christmas Celebration.

I was delighted when I discovered your website and want to tell you about
our city and our annual Victorian Christmas Celebration. Thomasville,
Georgia was chartered in 1820, but came to be known following the Civil War,
as the premier Winter Resort in the United States. Some of the most
luxuriously appointed hotels of America's gilded age were in Thomasville.
Among our more famous visitors were The Vanderbilts, the Goodrich Family,
and President William McKinley. Many wealthy northern families purchases
plantations that were lost by families who could not afford to pay their
taxes. Our downtown is filled with beautiful Victorian architecture and has
brick paved streets. Two of our downtown businesses have been in continuous
operation since the 1850s'--Jerger's Jewelers and Thomas Drug Store. Each
December, we hold a two night celebration where we bring the beauty and
traditions of Christmas past to life! Victorian Christmas features streets
bustling with horse drawn carriages, townspeople and merchants in
Victorian-era attire, strolling carolers, street musicians, church choirs,
handball choirs, and street vendors (selling handmade candies, hot
chocolate, mistletoe, cakes, cookies, and other delights). This event has
been named one of the Top Twenty Events in the Southeastern United States by
the Southeast Tourism Society year after year. Our historic downtown is a
National Main Street Award winner. Victorian Christmas will be Thursday and
Friday, Dec. 9 & 10, 2004 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. I invite you to join us.
If you would like more information--please call me at (229) 227-3310 or you
may reach me via email at kimmc@thomasville.org.

Thank you, Kim McCray

Jack the Ripper Ghost Walk (London, U.K.)

All year round

It is 1888 and London is being subjected to a reign of terror almost beyond belief.

A mysterious lunatic is playing his fiendish game of cat and mouse with the police, leaving women so badly mutilated that people fear to walk the streets and the name Jack the Ripper is on everyone's lips.

You too can walk the very streets recapturing the horror of those dark nights.

For further information visit http://rippingyarns.8m.com/

Anyone wishing to visit Victorian Britain,

but who lacks the services of a time machine, should explore the excellent quality maps and guide books

published by Old House Books'

Contact: Miranda@Allhusen.co.uk www.Oldhousebooks.co.uk

If you are planning a UK Victorian Theme'd event contact

The Victorian Strollers

http://www.dhk.co.uk/mad/vicstroll/

and find out how we can help add period atmosphere and the splendour of the Victorian age

For the Full Range of Victorian Posters

For your general posters

If you have any press releases, or know of any events or societies that you would like to see on this site, please email them to us and, if appropriate, we will add them to the site.





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