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Inside Billionaires Row: London's rotting, derelict mansions worth £350m The North London street where billionaires can buy homes, never live in them, let them rot and still make millions
The nicer side of Bishops Avenue.
Cross the road from the rotting Tower and Jersey House feels a million miles away. The electronic gates swing open on a rebuilt £38m, seven-bedroom mansion with silk carpets and limestone floors. The suited housekeeper turns on ambient music and reveals a six-metre-high hall with shimmering bauble chandelier. A fur is tossed over a chaise longue to create a Downton Abbey ambience.
Everything from the leather-clad lift to the vast master bedroom with its three dressing rooms and three bathrooms is 'reassuringly expensive' he says. The master bedroom is in fact one bedroom, three dressing rooms (two of which are fitted out in his and hers styles) and three bathrooms. The staff quarters is a self-contained flat that would delight any first time buyer.
In the basement is a swimming pool, gym and spa, while there is a cinema on the first floor and there are two kitchens Ð one built to catering standard that could serve a small hotel and another more for show. Books are scattered around like heavy hints: The Richest of the Rich and The Villas of the Riviera.
A third of the mansions on the most expensive stretch of London's 'Billionaires Row' are standing empty, including several huge houses that have fallen into ruin after standing almost completely vacant for a quarter of a century.
Am investigation has revealed there are an estimated £350m worth of vacant properties on the most prestigious stretch of The Bishops Avenue in north London, which last year was ranked as the second most expensive street in Britain.
The empty buildings include a row of 10 mansions worth £73m which have stood largely unused since they were bought between 1989 and 1993, it is believed on behalf of members of the Saudi royal family.
Exclusive access to now derelict properties has revealed that their condition is so poor in some cases that water streams down ballroom walls, ferns grow out of floors strewn with rubble from collapsed ceilings, and pigeon
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Inside Billionaires Row: London's rotting, derelict mansions worth £350m The North London street where billionaires can buy homes, never live in them, let them rot and still make millions
The nicer side of Bishops Avenue.
Cross the road from the rotting Tower and Jersey House feels a million miles away. The electronic gates swing open on a rebuilt £38m, seven-bedroom mansion with silk carpets and limestone floors. The suited housekeeper turns on ambient music and reveals a six-metre-high hall with shimmering bauble chandelier. A fur is tossed over a chaise longue to create a Downton Abbey ambience.
Everything from the leather-clad lift to the vast master bedroom with its three dressing rooms and three bathrooms is 'reassuringly expensive' he says. The master bedroom is in fact one bedroom, three dressing rooms (two of which are fitted out in his and hers styles) and three bathrooms. The staff quarters is a self-contained flat that would delight any first time buyer.
In the basement is a swimming pool, gym and spa, while there is a cinema on the first floor and there are two kitchens Ð one built to catering standard that could serve a small hotel and another more for show. Books are scattered around like heavy hints: The Richest of the Rich and The Villas of the Riviera.
A third of the mansions on the most expensive stretch of London's 'Billionaires Row' are standing empty, including several huge houses that have fallen into ruin after standing almost completely vacant for a quarter of a century.
Am investigation has revealed there are an estimated £350m worth of vacant properties on the most prestigious stretch of The Bishops Avenue in north London, which last year was ranked as the second most expensive street in Britain.
The empty buildings include a row of 10 mansions worth £73m which have stood largely unused since they were bought between 1989 and 1993, it is believed on behalf of members of the Saudi royal family.
Exclusive access to now derelict properties has revealed that their condition is so poor in some cases that water streams down ballroom walls, ferns grow out of floors strewn with rubble from collapsed ceilings, and pigeon
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Inside Billionaires Row: London's rotting, derelict mansions worth £350m The North London street where billionaires can buy homes, never live in them, let them rot and still make millions
The nicer side of Bishops Avenue.
Cross the road from the rotting Tower and Jersey House feels a million miles away. The electronic gates swing open on a rebuilt £38m, seven-bedroom mansion with silk carpets and limestone floors. The suited housekeeper turns on ambient music and reveals a six-metre-high hall with shimmering bauble chandelier. A fur is tossed over a chaise longue to create a Downton Abbey ambience.
Everything from the leather-clad lift to the vast master bedroom with its three dressing rooms and three bathrooms is 'reassuringly expensive' he says. The master bedroom is in fact one bedroom, three dressing rooms (two of which are fitted out in his and hers styles) and three bathrooms. The staff quarters is a self-contained flat that would delight any first time buyer.
In the basement is a swimming pool, gym and spa, while there is a cinema on the first floor and there are two kitchens Ð one built to catering standard that could serve a small hotel and another more for show. Books are scattered around like heavy hints: The Richest of the Rich and The Villas of the Riviera.
A third of the mansions on the most expensive stretch of London's 'Billionaires Row' are standing empty, including several huge houses that have fallen into ruin after standing almost completely vacant for a quarter of a century.
Am investigation has revealed there are an estimated £350m worth of vacant properties on the most prestigious stretch of The Bishops Avenue in north London, which last year was ranked as the second most expensive street in Britain.
The empty buildings include a row of 10 mansions worth £73m which have stood largely unused since they were bought between 1989 and 1993, it is believed on behalf of members of the Saudi royal family.
Exclusive access to now derelict properties has revealed that their condition is so poor in some cases that water streams down ballroom walls, ferns grow out of floors strewn with rubble from collapsed ceilings, and pigeon
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BERLIN: Polar bear Knut
Knut, a six-month-old polar bear cub, during an outing at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten Zoo. The bear was born in December 2006 and rejected by his mother so that he was bottle-feeding. Berlin, GERMANY -24/06/2007 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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WEST VIRGINIA: SCHOOL, 1921.
An abandoned one-room schoolhouse near Charleston, West Virginia. Next to the school is the home of Tate family of farmers. Photograph by October 1921.
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DUCHESS ON THE ESTATE: SARAH FERGUSON TACKLES 'BROKEN BRITAIN'
Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York is back on our TV screens in another bid to improve the nation.
As part of her latest humanitarian mission Sarah will spend time on a housing estate in a new programme for ITV1, 'Duchess on the Estate'
The inspiration for the documentary was Sarah's shock at returning to Britain and finding a place she didn't recognise with a lack of community spirit.
In bid to help this change, in the new series she travels to the Wythenshaw estate in Manchester, one of the most deprived areas in Britain where TV comedy Shameless used to be filmed.
Here she attempts to come up with a blueprint for change that could help the families she meets.
As a mother, and believing that women in fractured communities hold the key to making things better, she sets out to galvanise the women in the households and empower them to raise standards, expectations and ambitions.
She is shown the ropes by one family and tours the locality in an effort to learn as much so that she can help facilitate change in the area.
Sarah comments: "'Some of our communities are so fragmented and I'm convinced that if we can start to give people a sense of community spirit they can start to work together to improve their local area and lifestyles".
In a similar series that aired last year Sarah, who has been a spokesperson for Weight Watchers for ten years, attempted to tackle what she considered to be an impending obesity problem in Britain.
Cameras follow her as she moved in to B&B next to a Hull council estate and became acquainted with life there - getting to know the local families for 'Duchess in Hull'.
Here she met, and tried to help, the Sargersons, an overweight family with a li...
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BERLIN: Polar bear Knut
Knut, a six-month-old polar bear cub, during an outing at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten Zoo. The bear was born in December 2006 and rejected by his mother so that he was bottle-feeding. Berlin, GERMANY -24/06/2007 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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BERLIN: Polar bear Knut
Knut, a six-month-old polar bear cub, during an outing at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten Zoo. The bear was born in December 2006 and rejected by his mother so that he was bottle-feeding. Berlin, GERMANY -24/06/2007 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS : La Forestiere residence
The La Forestiere residence has not been regularly maintained since the fraudulent bankruptcy of its managing agent association. The 17 buildings and 500 units of this private residence are now essentially uncared for. Clichy-Sous-Bois (93), FRANCE-05/01/2006 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA)
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Dr Martin Luther-king At The Savoy Hotel London. The Black Civil Rights Leader Was A Prominent And Eloquent Speaker And Had Suffered Arrests For Leading Peaceful Civil Rights Marches In The Southern United States. He Was Assissinated In Memphis Tenne
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Dr Martin Luther-king At The Savoy Hotel London. The Black Civil Rights Leader Was A Prominent And Eloquent Speaker And Had Suffered Arrests For Leading Peaceful Civil Rights Marches In The Southern United States. He Was Assissinated In Memphis Tennessee In 1968 Soon After Urging His Followers Not To Abandon The Path Of Non-violent Protest. Negative Number 7375/64...london...london...united Kingdom
Dr Martin Luther-king At The Savoy Hotel London. The Black Civil Rights Leader Was A Prominent And Eloquent Speaker And Had Suffered Arrests For Leading Peaceful Civil Rights Marches In The Southern United States. He Was Assissinated In Memphis Tenne
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Battle at Ypres WWI Canadians v Germans - Ypres, a medieval town in Belgium, was taken by the German Army at the beginning of the war. However, by early October, 1914, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was able to recapture the town. The first major German attempt to regain Ypres took place on 15th October. Experienced BEF riflemen held their positions but suffered heavy losses. German attacks took place for the next four weeks but with the arrival of the French Army the line was held. With the weather deteriorating, the Germans decided to abandon the Ypres offensive on the 22nd November. It is estimated that about 135,000 Germans were killed or badly wounded during the offensive. The BEF lost around 75,000 men and was effectively destroyed as a professional army. There were two more major battles at Ypres: 2nd Battle of Ypres (April-May, 1915) and Passchendaele (July-October, 1917). The Second Battle of Ypres, as it is known in British military history, encompassed four battles in the northern sector of the Ypres Salient. The first of these began on 22 April 1915 as a surprise attack by the German 4th Army on the Allied front line. This attack witnessed the first use of a new German weapon on the Western Front: poisonous gas. Its deadly effect was carried on a gentle breeze towards French troops and as a result of its devastating effect on the French the German infantry made a significant advance into Allied territory. During the next four weeks the Allied Forces of Belgium, France and Britain fought to hold off the successful German advance and to regain the ground that had been lost north of Ypres. The fourth battle ended on 25 May 1915.
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