Monuments (1571 pages found in this category)


Pit Brow Women

Female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit brow (pit bank) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones and sort the coal after it was hauled to the surface.

Pitfour estate

Estate in the Buchan area of north-east Scotland, home to James Ferguson of Badifurrow, the first Laird of Pitfour, and two generations of his family.

Pittenweem witches

Five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704.

Plague House

Redirected to pest house.

Plague stones

Hollowed out stones or boulders containing vinegar to disinfect coins, usually placed at or near parish boundaries, relics of medieval plagues.

Ploughland

Redirected to oxgang.

Pollock and the Porroh Man

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a murdered witch-doctor whose severed head haunts the man responsible for his death.

Port of Manchester

Customs port in North West England, created on 1 January 1894 and closed in 1982.

Porte-cochère

From the French meaning "coach door", also known as a coach gate or carriage porch, a covered porch-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building that gives access to a vehicle while providing arriving and departing occupants with protection from the elements.

Porticus

Side chamber typically added to the north and south sides of early Christian churches to give the building an overall cruciform plan.