Portwey Hospital

Grade II listed former workhouse and hospital in Weymouth, Dorset, redeveloped in the early 1990s for residential use.

Electrum


Naturally occurring amalgam of gold and silver used in the production of early coins.

Coinage Act 1816

Act of the UK parliament adopting the gold standard, tying the value of the pound sterling to the value of gold.

Manchester Art Museum

Educational venture undertaken by the philanthropist Thomas Horsfall, inaugurated in 1877. It closed in 1953, and most of its collection is now in the possession of the Manchester Art Gallery.

Great Recoinage of 1696

Attempt by the English government under William III to replace the hammered silver coins that made up most of the coinage then in circulation with coins with milled edges, to prevent clipping.