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From a transformed Castle to explore and a brand-new Queen Victoria exhibition to enjoy, to Easter egg hunts and live performances uncovering the ‘Terrible Tudors’ in all their gory glory, there’s a whole range of activities visitors can join in at Historic Royal Palaces this spring.

If you or your beloved are a bit of a movie fan and you are looking for that special place to pop the question, choose to re-enact or borrow atmosphere from a classic movie.  Here are some ideas of fabulous places where proposals have happened in film fiction.  You may just be able to pick up some of the lingering romance.

Is ‘heritage’ new or have we always been interested in the past?

Signal boxes originally built by the Midland Railway Company over a hundred years ago. 

The massive Vuclan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Cheshire started production of a diesel electric powered locomotive. 

Half buried in years of coal dust and relentless brambles, our featured location holds more hidden heritage as we look closer.