Rosherville Gardens - lost pleasure gardens for London day trippers
There seems nothing more lost and melancholy than a lost pleasure garden. Rosherville Gardens in Northfleet, Kent, were once all the rage, but now they are gone and forgotten.
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Great Tit
A common and easily recognised garden bird, the Great Tit will use bird boxes and garden feeders and is widespread in Britain apart from some of the Scottish islands.
The Needles on the Isle of Wight - make a point of seeing them!
The Needles are a row of three stacks of chalk, rising about 30m out of the English Channel, at the western end of the Isle of Wight, and marked by a lighthouse at their tip.
The Big Grey Man of the Cairngorms - not to be mist?
Rising to 4,295 feet, Ben Macdui is the highest peak in the Cairngorm plateau and the second highest mountain in Scotland. Whilst the terrain is rugged, and the weather often capricious, the greatest fear of climbers tackling Ben Macdui can be meeting up with a mysterious being said to haunt the upper regions of the mountain.
Thomas Paine - the Norfolk-born inspiration of American independence
Thomas Paine was a Norfolk-born political philosopher and writer who helped inspire American patriots declare independence from Britain in 1776. He is perhaps best known for his propagandist texts 'Common Sense' (1776) and 'The American Crisis' (1776–1783), the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution.
Why Orkney has its very own Italian Chapel
The Italian Chapel is a highly ornate chapel designed for Catholic worshippers on Lamb Holm in the Orkney Islands, north of Scotland. But why would there be such a chapel in what is very much a Protestant community? The answer is that it was built during World War II by Italian prisoners of war, who were housed on the previously uninhabited island while they constructed naval defences - and also somewhere to reflect their faith.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.