Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Flatford Mill is a Grade I Listed watermill on the River Stour, in Suffolk, immortalised by artist John Constable in 1816. The mill itself, according to the date-stone, was built in 1733, and is attached to a 17th-century miller's cottage, also Grade I Listed. One of the owners of the mill was the artist's father.
The Skylark is our most common lark and is the subject of much poetry and a famous piece of music by Vaughan Williams. The bird is loved for its high-pitched trilling song, which it makes high in the air over open countryside in summer.
Borley Rectory, in Essex, home of a number of ghost stories, gained national fame when it was the subject of a study by paranormal investigator Harry Price in 1937. He described it as ‘The Most Haunted House in England’, a phrase which caught the imagination of the press and public.
Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (c. 1184 –1241), was a contender for the throne of England, but became the victim of a power struggle in the Plantagenet dynasty of English kings and ended up spending the whole of her adult life as a prisoner.
The familiar meat substitute Quorn, now a global product, is a British invention, created by Marlow Foods in Buckinghamshire towards the end of the 20th century. It was first sold in 1993, after 10 years of evaluation.
Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor born in Wakefield in 1903. Her work made a significant contribution to Modernist creative ideas, and in particular, free form modern sculpture. Some of her work became a familiar feature of the public realm, and is now often unnoticed.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.