Photographer: © Paul Hilton (Gallery)(12th April 2009)

Bowood House Library

Part of the library at Bowood House. In 1774, Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in his laboratory at Bowood, when he later moved to Northumberland, Pennsylvania.

A picture of: Bowood House & Gardens, Calne

This picture also appears in the following picture tours:
Bowood House & Gardens, Stately Homes and Country Houses, Buildings and Structures, Calne, Windmills of Your Mind - Song

Camera Make: NIKON CORPORATION Model: NIKON D3
Exposure Program: Program, Focal length: 26 mm, ISO: 1000, Exposure time: 1/100 sec, Metering Mode: Multi-Segment, Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Date/Time Creation: April 11, 2009, 1:53 pm

ImageID:1086808, Image size: 800 x 532 pixels

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In the 1973 Hovis bread TV ad filmed on Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset, the young lad pushing his bicycle up the hill was 13 year old Carl Barlow. He went on to a 30 year career with the London Fire Brigade.

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