Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Cannock Chase, often referred to locally as The Chase, is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The Chase gives its name to the Cannock Chase local government district and is a former Royal forest.
Greensted Church, in the small village of Greensted, near Chipping Ongar, in Essex, is thought to be the oldest wooden church in the world, at nearly a thousand years old.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer, born in 1872. Much of his music is evocative of the English countryside. His best known and much loved compositions include "The Lark Ascending", "Fantasia on Greensleeves" and "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis". These regularly top public choices of classical music favourites in Britain.
Set in 250 acres of beautiful Hertfordshire countryside, including 28 acres of formal gardens, Knebworth House, has been home to the Lytton family for more than 500 years. Since 1974, the grounds have been associated with numerous major open air rock and pop concerts.
London Bridge, as the well-known nursery rhyme attests, is prone to 'falling down'. Such an event indeed occurred on October 17th 1091, when the original wooden Bridge was one of the victims of the first documented tornado in British history.
There's plenty of military history to be found around Britain - often on your doorstep. Indeed, it is surprising how often, walking in the countryside or along the coast, you come across an abandoned concrete or brick structure of no current purpose or architectural merit. These are often pillboxes, reminders of the frightening days when the nation expected a Nazi invasion at any moment.
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