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Burt Hall
Burt Hall is a public building in Northumberland Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is a Grade II listed building. History The building was designed by John Dyson for the Northumberland Miners' Association and completed in 1895. A plaque on the wall states that it "was built by the miners' in recognition of valuable service rendered by Thomas Burt M.P. as general secretary for 27 years, and to commemorate his appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1892." There is a statue of a miner with his pick and lamp on the roof; the statue is modeled on a painting entitled "Going Home". The building served as the head office of the Northumberland Branch of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain), National Union of Mineworkers until it was acquired by Northumbria University in the 1990s. It is now occupied by the university's Department of Arts, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences. References {{coord, 54.97690, N, 1.60994, W, region:GB-BKM_type:l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the great hall was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept. As more complex house plans developed, the hall remained a large room for dancing and large feasts, often still with servants sleeping there. It was usually immediately inside the main door. In modern British houses, an entrance hall next to the front door remains an indispensable feature, even if it is essentially merely a corridor. Today, the (entrance) hall of a house is the space next to the front door or vestibule leading to the rooms directly and/or indirectly. Where the hall inside the front door of a house is elongated, it may be called a passage, corridor (from Spanish ''corredor'' used in El Escorial and 100 years later in Castle Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
