Sash window renovation with slimline double glazing in Liverpool conservation area Published: 07/12/2024 Renovation of six wooden sash windows with slimline double glazing in a Grade 2 listed property in Fulwood Park, Liverpool. Includes new weights, ropes, pulleys, priming, and locking latches. Read this article
Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a community in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the primary management, social and also geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish local government reforms took the kind of the county of Haddingtonshire for the period from 1889-1921. It lies about 17 miles (27 kilometres) east of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the 6th or seventh century AD when the location was included right into the kingdom of Bernicia. The town, like the remainder of the Lothian area, was delivered by King Edgar of England and also became part of Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington received burghal condition, among the earliest to do so, during the regime of David I (1124-- 1153), offering it trading civil liberties which motivated its development right into a market community. Today Haddington is a town with a population of fewer than 10,000 people; although throughout the High Middle Ages, it was the fourth-biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh as well as Edinburgh. In the middle of the town is the Town hall, built in 1748 according to a plan by William Adam. When initially built, it inheld a council chamber, jail and sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were added in 1788, and also a new clock in 1835. Neighboring is the Corn Exchange (1854) as well as the Court (1833 ). Various other close-by noteworthy sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close as well as the birth place of author and also government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, marked by a celebratory plaque.