Inside the stunning Victorian countryside where Emma Watkins’ boyfriend Oliver Brian popped the question – after The Wiggles star announced her engagement By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 10:14 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 10:57 BST, 6 April 2021 Emma Watkins announced her engagement to boyfriend Oliver Brian on Monday. And The Wiggles … Read more
Every day throughout lockdown, Jon Attenborough has been visited by a small, ghostly girl in Victorian costume, who appears at his breakfast table. ‘She’s aged about seven and dressed in a white-frilled school pinafore,’ says Jon, 31, a freelance finance officer and disability campaigner who lives in Perth, Scotland. ‘She has a blank expression but … Read more
From Homeland to the Docklands! US actress Claire Danes is pictured in stunning Victorian garb as she films The Essex Serpent in London By Eleanor Sharples Tv And Radio Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 01:45 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 01:58 GMT, 25 February 2021 She was a last-minute addition to the cast … Read more
Claire Danes will star as Cora Seaborne in the new Apple TV+ series, The Essex Serpent, as revealed in a new photo released on Saturday. The actress, 41, sports an elaborate Victorian dress as she plays a widower who is relishing in her newfound freedom following the end of her abusive marriage. The period drama, based … Read more
1. Glass Animals — ‘Heat Waves’ 2. Spacey Jane — ‘Booster Seat’ 3. Flume and Toro Y Moi — ‘The Difference’ 4. Ball Park Music — ‘Cherub’ 5. Tame Impala — ‘Lost In Yesterday’ 6. Cardi B — ‘WAP’ (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) 7. G Flip — ‘Hyperfine’ 8. The Jungle Giants – ‘Sending Me … Read more
A Victorian terraced house with hidden gadgets fit for a Bond villain has hit the market for £1.5million – with features including secret rooms, invisible speakers and concealed TV and cinema screens. Tech expert Richard Smythe purchased Hillside as a run-down B&B five years ago, but quickly turned it into a six-bedroom smart home in … Read more
A mother-of-three has transformed her drab Victorian terrace into a colourful wonderland on a budget using brave dark paint colours, patterned wallpaper and £5 vintage finds. Lily Sawyer’s dreary three-bedroom pad in Stratford, east London, was a sea of beige and white when she first moved in after buying it for £445,000 in 2014 with … Read more
An abandoned farmhouse sits frozen in time from the moment a family decided to leave sometime in the late 1960s. A thick layer of dust covers a stack of suitcases and an old broad-rimmed hat found in the front room of the old farmhouse somewhere in the countryside in Victoria, Australia. Photographer Steve Chaz stumbled … Read more
On Boxing Day in 1900 the clocks stopped as three lighthouse keepers on a remote Scottish island vanished without trace, leaving behind their untouched meals and work notes for the following day. James Ducat, Thomas Marshall and Donald MacArthur had been stationed at the Flannan Lighthouse, some 215 feet above sea level near the highest point on … Read more
Welcome to Toad’s homely pile: Inside the handsome Cornish hotel housed in a Victorian mansion that was the inspiration for Toad Hall Fowey Hall sits above the Fowey estuary on the Cornish Riviera and has ‘stunning vistas’, writes Vicki Reeve The usual word for a 36-bedroom pile like this is ‘imposing’, but the hotel has … Read more