Showing 500 results

Places
Places term Scope note Archival description count Authority record count
Royal Sussex County Hospital

Use for: R. Sussex County Hospital

0 0
Royal College of Science
  • Former higher education institution located in South Kensington; it was a constituent college of Imperial College London from 1907 until it was wholly absorbed by Imperial in 2002.
1 0
Royal Academy of Arts

Use for: Royal Academy

  • Art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly, founded 1768.
 0 0
Royal Academy 1 0
Rotterdam 7 0
Rome 2 0
Romania 2 0
River Nile

Use for: Nile

0 0
Rhinos of Nepal
  • Opened in February 2008, Rhinos of Nepal houses a group of four Indian rhinoceros. The building aims to be environmentally friendly, using rain water captured on the roof to fill the pools, heating the pools with solar energy and featuring barriers that are made from recycled wooden railway sleeper instead of metal bars.
0 0
Reptiliary
  • The Reptiliary was originally an Otter Pond, the forming of which followed on from the opening of the adjacent West Tunnel in 1920. The otters were rehoused in 1969 and the pond was refitted for two black beavers donated to the Queen by the Hudson's Bay Company and passed on to the Zoo in 1970. Subsequently the enclosure was converted for iguanas. Built 1922. Remade 1971, John Toovey, architect; plaque designed by Banks and Miles, cut by David Kindersley. Converted 1992. Outdoor exhibit built over 2014.
0 1