Fernley Observatory
Victorian astronomical observatory in Hesketh Park, Southport.
Victorian astronomical observatory in Hesketh Park, Southport.
Probably the last person to be executed for witchcraft in England.
Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles.
Part of the chancel in a Christian church housing the altar, or a residence for Roman Catholic priests.
Oldest surviving building in Sale, Greater Manchester, built c.1670.
Act of parliament to prohibit burials in the metropolis of London.
One of the 31 Essex witches, hanged in 1589.
Collective name given to the 31 people accused of witchcraft in the English county of Essex between 1566 and 1589.
Grade II listed structure in Stretford, Greater Manchester, probably the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft.
Essay by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about the replacement of natural losses such as hair and teeth with artificial substitutes.