Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Near Godalming, Surrey, lies a romantic hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake. It was built by the famous swindler James Whitaker Wright with his ill-gotten gains, as a statement of his status in Victorian society. Whitaker Wright committed suicide with a cyanide pill at London's Royal Courts of Justice when he was subsequently convicted of fraud.
The first Eddystone lighthouse was built over three years from 1666 and was a wonderfully eccentric structure. It protected ships until it vanished along with its creator in a great storm in 1703.
This mystical stunted oak wood in Dartmoor in Devon is a Nature Reserve, important for its fragile mosses and lichens.
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames.
Ullswater Steamers is a boat company which provides leisure trips with a vintage fleet on Ullswater in the north-eastern part of the English Lake District. It is based in Glenridding, Cumbria. Founded in 1855, it currently operates five vessels between four locations on the lake, with the oldest boat, 'Lady of the Lake', dating back to 1877. She is believed to be the oldest working passenger vessel in the world.
Calder Hall at Sellafield, Cumbria, was the world's first and longest-serving nuclear power plant used for commercial electricity generation. Opened in 1956 and designed to last 20 years, it was operational for 47 years before closing in 2003.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.