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Garden Festival in 1990 stone bench
The Gateshead Garden Festival was the fourth of the United Kingdom’s five National Garden Festivals. Held between May and October 1990, They were then moved to outside Euston Station in 1993
Dartmoor granite Merrivale (approx. 280 million years old)
Cumbria sandstone (approx. 250 million years old)
Lake District slate green (approx. 450 million years old)
Portland limestone in which fossils of living creatures visible early (approx. 150 million years old)

The demolition of the Arch The Doric Arch can be found outside Euston station

On 12 July 1961, in a written answer to a Parliamentary question, the Minister of Transport, confirmed that he had given approval to the early reconstruction of Euston station which, in his view, was urgent not only because of the electrification programme but also because three 50-year-old Underground lifts had almost reached the end of their useful lives. The replacement of the lifts would cost £700,000. As he recounted,

The possibility of moving the Doric arch to another part of the site has also been examined by the [BTC] and by the expert advisers to the Minister of Works. They estimate that the cost of dismantling and re-erecting the arch alone without its flanking lodges, would be about £190,000, compared with £12,000 for simple demolition. The arch weighs about 4,500 tons, and to brace it and remove it on rollers would cost even more.

The arch did not, in his view, justify such expenditure, and although he expressed his regret at the passing of a major monument of the early railway age, there was no practical alternative in his mind.

Amarna, the city of king Akhenaten

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world’s leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese materia ‘oldest dress’ there is a unique beadnet dress of a dancer from the Pyramid Age (about 2400 BC), two long sleeved robes of the same date, a suit of armour from the palace of Memphis, many other important Egyptian and Nubian .The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world’s leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material.[17] It only ranks behind the collections of the Cairo Museum, The British Museum and the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin in number and quality of items.

In 2015, the museum, in conjunction with UCL, published a multi-author compilation of articles, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections, which is available in both print and via a free open access download

The collection contains some significant ‘firsts’: one of the earliest pieces of linen from Egypt (about 5000 BC); two lions from the temple of Min at Koptos, from the first group of monumental sculpture (about 3000 BC, these are located in the main UCL building); a fragment from the first kinglist or calendar (about 2900 BC); the earliest example of metal from Egypt, the first worked iron beads; the earliest example of glazing; the earliest ‘cylinder seal’ in Egypt (about 3500 BC); the oldest wills on papyrus paper; the oldest gynaecological papyrus; the only veterinary papyrus from ancient Egypt; and the largest architectural drawing, showing a shrine (about 1300 BC).

Costume is another strength of the collection. In addition to the ‘oldest dress’ there is a unique beadnet dress of a dancer from the Pyramid Age (about 2400 BC),

“The Beautiful One Is Come” Nefertiti’s disappearance

Nefertiti, whose name means “a beautiful woman has come,” was the queen of Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten during the 14th century B.C. She established the cult of Aten, the sun god, and promoted Egyptian artwork that was radically different from its predecessors. She is best known for her appearance in Egyptian art, especially the famous bust discovered in 1912 at Amarna, along with her role in the religious revolution centering on monotheistic worship of the sun disk, Aten.