Nationality: English
Date of Birth: 1808
Place of Birth: Bath
Date of Death: 18 April 1882
Place of Death: London
Identity:
Sir Henry (’King’) Cole was a civil servant, industrial designer and museum director. He was the son of Captain Henry Robert Cole (1780-1863) and Lætitia Dormer(1792-1867 or 1868). His third brother Charles was a schoolmate of Francis Seymour Haden, who [...]

Yoonah(PhD Design History researcher at Brighton), Jonghoon(BA Architecture student), and I had sunday-roast at the BLA-BLA(?) restaurant just near the Brighton Backpackers on last Sunday. The Bla-Bla is nice, cosy place and it has lovely sunny windows as well as a set of electric-powered fans which looks like an exotic or oriental something. Anyway, it [...]

영국의 음주, 24시간 가능해지다.
[Captured Article from BBC]

빈지드링킹(술먹고깽판치기)이 심각하게 사회문제화되고있는 영국에서 놀라운 일이….
‘잉글랜드,웨일즈에 24시간 주류판매 및 펍 연장운영이 오늘 밤부터 합법화’
About one-third of all the pubs, clubs and shops in England and Wales licensed to sell alcohol are to get longer opening hours, BBC research suggests.
New licensing laws which allow pubs to apply for 24-hour drinking [...]

[Captured Article from Reuter]
17 Nov, 7:22 AM _ Reuter

A specimen copy of the new identity smart cards for asylum seekers
The Government is coming under pressure to rethink its plans for identity cards after a former security service boss warned they would not make Britain any safer from terrorists.
The ex-director general of MI5 Dame Stella [...]

* 루이스의 본파이어는 다섯군데에 나뉘어 열렸다. 4-5층건물만한 장작불 주위에 사람들이 모여서 불구경을 한다.
브라이튼 북쪽에 있는 루이스(Lewes)는 영국에서 가장 큰 불구경터로 유명한 곳이다. 약 4백년전 영제국 왕실과 의회를 날려버리려고 계획했던 일단의 카톨릭 신자들의 모의를 미리 알아낸 것을 기념?하는 이날에는 영국 각지에서 축제와 불꽃놀이, 그리고 아주 큰 불을 피우고 노는 광란의 밤이 연출된다. 이 행사는 상당히 종교적인 [...]

“We’ve got no money.” That’s what Piers Roberts and Rory Dodd - aka designersblock - say when you ask them why they live and work in a dilapidated former pub in a shabby backstreet off Kingsland Road in East London. But the building is the perfect base for a company that is the raw antidote [...]