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Lock, stock… and 200 solar panels: Guy Ritchie fills field of £9m Wiltshire mansion
By
Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 12:51 AM on 21st August 2011
Going green: Guy Ritchie wants to instal 200 solar panels at his home
He made his name as the director of gritty gangster film Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels – but film director Guy Ritchie is more interested in bei… (View original article)
Mandelson’s £8m mansion: New questions over former Labour minister’s wealth after ‘huge property offer’
£8m home boasts wine cellar, atrium and elegant reception rooms
By
Andy Whelan and Martin Delgado
Last updated at 2:59 PM on 21st August 2011
Former Labour Minister Lord Mandelson is understood to have made an offer to buy an £8 million house in one of Londonâ… (View original article)
The singer selling his statue-festooned $2.1m LA mansion…because it’s more famous than he is
By
Mike O’brien
Last updated at 8:09 PM on 21st August 2011
He came in search of fame and fortune
– a singer with a dream of seeing his name up in lights in Los Angeles,
the capital of showbusiness.
Norwood Young got the fortune, he opened a club and ‘made money fast,’ but somehow the fame eluded him.
What he did get was a house t… (View original article)
Published: Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 9:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 11:37 p.m.
Second in size only to Cà d’Zan — the famed John and Mable Ringling mansion — is a 21,192-square-foot home that is likely the largest built in Sarasota since the Ringling brothers’ spending spree in the mid-1920s.
This estate, at 4449 Bay Shore Road, also is at the center of the most expensive sale you’ve never heard of.
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Modesto’s treasure, the McHenry Mansion, sits majestically on the corner of 15th and I streets. It has remained there for 128 years, since 1883.
It has survived many eras, beginning with the first when the streets were ungraded and unclean; when the vehicles going by were pulled by horses; and when the children, walking along the dirt sidewalks, were headed for the Brick Schoolhouse at 14th and I streets or later, for the 17th Street school just three blocks away.
The McHe… (View original article)
Calm down dear, it only costs £60million: Michael Winner puts mansion on market (despite promising to leave it to nation)
By
Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:20 AM on 22nd August 2011
Time to say goodbye: Michael Winner, with his fiancée Geraldine Lynton-Edwards, plans to sell his home
Michael Winner has decided to put his luxury mansion on the market despite his aspirations to try… (View original article)
Built in the 1130s, The Manor is one of the oldest continuously inhabited
houses in Britain and much of the original house remains virtually intact,
in spite of more than 900 years of changes. The house was recreated and made
famous as Green Knowe, the estate at the centre of the series of six books
by Lucy Boston, who lived there when she wrote them.
This moated house is surrounded by four acres of garden, renowned for its
collection of more than 200 old roses … (View original article)
21 August 2011
Last updated at 12:59 ET
The £700,000 restoration of a 12th Century Surrey castle which reopened last year is up for a design award.
Farnham Castle was described as “one of the most important historical sites in the South” by the Heritage Lottery Fund who gave a grant for the renovations.
The major feature of the building work was the creation of an oak framed pavilion, staircase and illuminated viewing platform.
Up to 500… (View original article)
It’s not often that you go on a vacation—to get away from Eagle Rock and to unwind—only to find Eagle Rock “follows” you on your trip.
That’s pretty much what happened to my wife Julie and I when we recently took a road trip to the California’s central coast.
We stayed three nights in the small town of San Simeon, population 462.
The most convenient thing about San Simeon is that it is only a couple of miles s… (View original article)
Norman’s Woe From HammondÂ
Castle
Location, History, and Legends
The rock and reef of Norman’s Woe are a short distance from the westernmost point of Gloucester’s outer harbor. Norman’s Woe can best be seen from Hammond Castle on Hesperus Ave., off route 127 in Gloucester.
There is no clear record of how Norman’s Woe got its name. Tradition tells that a man named Norman was shipwrecked and lost there… (View original article)