Great British Landmark Fixers
Great British Landmark Fixers is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 6 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2024.
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43:05Great British Landmark Fixers
On the banks of the River Thames in the east end of London stand two beautiful cathedrals… to sewage. These are the old Victorian pumping stations of Crossness and Abbey Mills.
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43:37Standing at the heart of Britain's second city, Manchester Town Hall is a Neo-Gothic masterpiece. It rose from the smoking chimneys of the Industrial Revolution to serve the first Industrial city in the world -Manchester.
43:41Stretching 1.3 miles out into the waters of the Thames Estuary stands the world’s longest pier. Built in 1888 to service the Victorian need to escape the noxious London air, the pier is supported by more than 2000 cast iron piles.
43:42The world-renowned Royal Albert Hall opened its doors to the public in 1871. Brainchild of Prince Albert, this Central London Concert Hall was intended to further his lifelong ambition to popularise the arts and sciences.
44:08Spanning Waverley Station in the historic heart of Edinburgh, the North Bridge links the cramped tenements of city's iconic Royal Mile with the broad boulevards and beautiful crescents of its famous New Town, birthplace of the Edinburgh Enlightenment.
44:11Canterbury Cathedral is as old as England. Founded around AD 597 by the missionary St Augustine, in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain, it was burned down during the Norman Conquest and rebuilt by its new Archbishop Lanfranc.