Kynance Cove - a striking beach with small tidal islands
This is a tidal beach in Cornwall, on the Lizard peninsula, famous for its white sand, turquoise sea and serpentine rock stacks.
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Tooting Bec Lido - one of London's cool pools
Tooting Bec Lido in South London is the largest open-air fresh water swimming pool in the UK at 100m by 33m, and one of the recently revived lidos in London, now extremely popular as escapes on a hot day, and for dedicated open-air swimmers.
Feisty
The word feisty these days suggests an aggressive, determined, and admirably fierce smaller creature or person – someone or something with a great deal of spirit for their size. The connection may be not too apparent, but the word originally meant “full of farts”!
Cleavers - annoyingly successful
Cleavers are those common weeds that have the sticky burrs that end up all over your clothes or your shaggier pets. Also known as goosegrass, 'sticky bobs', 'stick-a-back' and 'kisses'. It is widespread, except for some areas towards the north of Scotland.
The workhouse: a British institution
The workhouse has come to be popularly associated with Charles Dickens' portraits of poverty in Victorian England. However, public institutions to organise work for the worst off in society have a much longer history, and can be traced back to a Poor Law Act of 1388, immediately after the Black Death.
J. M. W. Turner - putting the railway in the picture
'Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway' is an 1844 painting by British artist J. M. W. Turner, regarded as significant for its evocative depiction of the recently growing railway system – a potent symbol of industrialisation at the time.
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