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Royal London Hospital
Built in the East End of London 250 years ago and closed in 2013, the Royal London Hospital pioneered medical breakthrou
Orford Ness: Defence of the Realm
Michael Portillo unlocks the doors to four extraordinary abandoned locations. For almost a century, Orford Ness was owne
Shepton Mallet
Michael Portillo unlocks the doors to four extraordinary abandoned locations. Since it opened 400 years ago, Shepton Mal
Imber Village - The Wages of War
In 1943, the village of Imber in Wiltshire's Salisbury Plain began to be used as a Second World War training ground. At
Plastic Surgery Pioneers: Cambridge Military Hospital
Michael visits the beautiful, forbidding and now abandoned military hospital in the garrison town of Aldershot to uncove
Local Heroes: Manchester Fire Station
In Manchester, Michael ventures inside the London Road Fire Station, which was decommissioned in 1986 after 80 years' se
Countdown to WW3
Michael Portillo visits a top-secret Cold War stronghold, just a mile from the Cambridge campus where he spent his unive
The Palace of Dreams
The New Victoria in Bradford was Britain's first cinema.
Seaside Escape
Michael Portillo explores the history of the British seaside resort. He gets up close and personal with the ghostly skel
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