Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses is based in the fishing port of Fraserburgh on the North-east corner of Aberdeenshire. The museum is in a purpose-built museum alongside the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse – the very first lighthouse on mainland Scotland .
Leighton Hall in Lancashire is the ancestral home of the world-renowned Gillow Reynolds furniture family. The house has a history going back to at least the 13th century, though the present house was built in 1759–61.
John Nevil Maskelyne (1839 – 1917) was a stage magician, inventor, and scourge of fake mediums. As well as creating illusions and magical contraptions, he can lay claim to be the first man to 'spend a penny', having originated the coin-operated toilet cubicle.
Next time you are enjoying watching the ducks at a local park and then notice what appears to be a rat slipping into the water, you might actually have been lucky enough to see Britain's fastest disappearing mammal - the water vole.
Nonsuch Palace, near Ewell, Surrey, was the grandest of Henry VIII's building projects. So unbelievably elaborate were the plans that people said that "non such" had ever been seen, and the name stuck.
It's hard to believe, but television is still less than a hundred years old. Scottish engineer John Logie Baird gave the world's first demonstration of the concept before 50 scientists in an attic room in central London on 26th January 1926. His early experiments deploying quite crude mechanical picture transfer took place in the seaside town of Hastings in East Sussex and he wrote that his ideas came to him whilst walking in the hills beyond the town.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.