The building underwent two Victorian restorations and another in 1930.

An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).

The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, housed in a Victorian Gothic building and opened in 1874, presents artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.

The Victorian era saw the building of many major attractions including the Grand Hotel ( 1864 ), the West Pier ( 1866 ) and the Palace Pier ( 1899 ).

Later it fell into disrepair, but was renovated when Jack Woolley leased the mansion to Landmark Trust ; Architect Lewis led the restoration of the building to its Victorian splendour.

The Victorian building was destroyed by fire in June 1966.

Under Tree, however, Her ( later His ) Majesty's Theatre was most famous for its work with Shakespeare, building an international reputation as the premier British playhouse for his works during the Edwardian era, which had for so long belonged to Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre during the Victorian period.

Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a major collector of Victorian art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the State pay for the site and revenue costs.

In that year it gained a carrier licence, offering long distance services to the residential market and building communications networks for the South Australian and Victorian governments.

The arches in the rest of the building are Gothic, following medieval rebuilding and extensions, and Victorian era restoration.

Whereas Scott's work had clearly been in sympathy with the existing building, Grimthorpe's plans reflected the Victorian ideal.

Butterfield's church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, was, in the view of Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the building that initiated the High Victorian Gothic era.

After a major fire in 1978 destroyed the Victorian and Edwardian additions to the building, restoration work was completed in 1984.

Most of the area remained agricultural until the mid nineteenth century, the most notable building of the time being the ' Brockley Jack ' ( since rebuilt ), a large Victorian public house which today houses the Brockley Jack Theatre.

During the Victorian era and into the early 20th century, Carshalton was known for its lavender fields, but the increasing land demand for residential building put an end to commercial growing.

Now an historic house museum, the building features a period kitchen, and house details from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras.

All Saints Church, West Dulwich ( Church of England ) alongside Rosendale Road is a Victorian Gothic building, originally intended to be the cathedral for south London.

Its later development as a passenger line led to the redevelopment in the 1880s of the medieval core of the village on Homerton High Street with Victorian dwellings and public houses, and speculative building on the lands either side of Homerton High Street.

* All Saints ' Church-An astonishing Victorian Gothic building in West Dulwich, originally intended to be the cathedral for south London.

Damage to housing stock in Wimbledon and other parts of London during the Second World War led to the final major building phase when many of the earlier Victorian houses built with large grounds in Wimbledon Park were sub-divided into apartments or demolished and replaced with apartment blocks.

In October 2008 a fire in the Woolwich Triangle area left the upper storeys of an empty Victorian shop building severely damaged, contributing to the decline of the area.

The building originally had a smaller federal style cupola but was later replaced with a late Victorian clock tower in the second Empire style.

The King's Head Tavern, now a Victorian building with a theatre, has remained on the same site, opposite the parish church, since 1543.

By October 1969 Norman was a regular performer at the Salt Company, " a combination of late Victorian and early Salvation Army ", which held concerts on weekends in the upstairs loft of a converted apartment building in downtown Hollywood.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Dickens was not for nothing the most theatrical of the great Victorian writers.

Alec's first impression of the lobby was gloomy, Victorian dignity -- black walnut and red plush, a black and white tiled floor, and Persian rugs.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

Each club was required to pay a licence fee which allowed the Victorian based clubs to survive.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.

In Victorian London the bright red brick was chosen to make buildings visible in the heavy fog that caused transport problems.

The funky street scene still holds some urban flair, but was dressed up recently with Victorian streetlights, benches and bus stops.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’