The Dell, Thurrock
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The Dell is a house in Grays, Thurrock, Essex, built in concrete—one of the earliest houses in Britain to be built in this material. It was built on the instructions of Alfred Russel Wallace, who live
The Dell as it was in Wallace's time (from My Life, 1905)
Architectural drawing of The Dell by Thomas Robjohns Wonnacott, RIBA, for Alfred Russel Wallace, 1870.
The Dell in 2018 after conversion to flats.
Holy Union Sisters
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The Holy Union Sisters, officially known as the Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, are a religious congregation of women in the Roman Catholic Church founded at Douai, France, in 1842, by
The Dell, Thurrock
…as number 25 College Avenue and is now a Grade II listed building with the date of construction prominently displayed. It was used as a convent by the Sisters of La Sainte-Union des Sacrés-Coeurs order of nuns who had founded the nearby Grays Convent High School. Some rooms in the Dell were used by the school's sixth form. On Saturday 14 September…
A gravestone dedicated to Sisters Melina and Theodula, two of the three Holy Union Sisters who founded Grays Convent High School, Grays, England