Terracotta plaques set in the wall of a Bristol centre building are a series of plaques commemorating historic and significant events in the life of the city.

Chatham - home of the Chavs - is set to be turned into a modern city centre. This site will (hopefully) record what happens over the next few years.

The Darnley Mausoleum was built for £9,000 at the end of the 1790s to house the bodies of the Earls of Darnley and their offspring. But it was never used after the 4th Earl and the then Bishop of Rochester could not agree to consecrating it.
The building is a two deck structure with the chapel at ground level and the vaults for 36 bodies below.
Finished in the finest Italian marbles, and topped by a pyramid (possibly the first in Britain), the vandalised mausoleum stands on top of William's Hill deep in the woods that now surround the Elizabethan Cobham Hall.
A Grade One Listed Building that featured in the BBC "Restoration" first series, it has suffered from 50 years of abandonment. The climax came on November 5, 1980 when bikers piled rubber tyres in the vault, and lit a fire that brought down the floor of the chapel, and melted some of the rock carvings. The marble had already gone - stolen, probably to decorate ocal fireplaces...
It was acquired by Gravesham Council which is working to restore the building and the parkland for the benefit of everyone living in north Kent.
On September 12, 2004 it was opened for the last time before the restoration - expected to take two years - can get underway. When completed it will be handed to English Heritage for future management.
The pictures follow the mausoleum from its acquisition through to the latter stages of its restoration.
Pictures 1 - 47 show the building before restoration
Pictures 51 - 99 show, as near as possible, the same places under reestoration (simply subtract 50 to get the original condition)
Pictures 101 onwards show the post-restoration scenes from the official reopening by Lord Darnley.

Eastern Quarry is an area in Kent adjacent to the bluewater shopping precinct. The quarry is being reshaped so that it can be converted into five villages between the new Ebbsfleet international rail station, the A2 and Swanscombe.

Pictures from the "spur-of-the-moment" holiday that Sylvia and I took to Malta in 2004.

The Opera House in Tunbridge Wells is now a Weatherspoons pub.
They have carried out a marvellous restoration that preserves many of the original features.
Only problem with it is that you will have difficulty knowing it's a pub - it still looks like a theatre, even down to the A-frames outside the entrance.
Fortunately, two constables were able to point this parched traveller in the right direction!