Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
These days, Halloween celebrations are more or less over in one night. But in the Christian calendar of centuries past, Halloween was just the beginning of three days of commemoration as part of a religious event known as All Saints’ Day.
The Great Stone of Fourstones is a massive rock in a lonely landscape on the border of Yorkshire and Lancashire. It has stairs carved into it by an unknown hand, so one can climb up, admire the view and wonder where the other three stones are...
The seaside, or town park, bandstand was once a ubiquitous municipal pleasure, providing a performance venue available to all kinds of musicians and entertainers, and accessible to every citizen. Many have either disappeared, or have lost their original role with the decline in town, village and factory brass and silver bands and the like.
With a total area of approximately 61,414,400 acres (248,532 square kilometres, or 95,960 square miles), Britain would have enough land to provide each of its population with about 1 acre each. But land ownership is far from divided equally, and people sometimes ask who does it all mainly belong to? Is it the state? The Church? The Crown? Farmers? Private landowners? Or the National Trust?
It's already more than ten years since this famous long-lived brand became just a page in the history books. Woolworths shops were once in nearly every town, but the retailer disappeared forever in 2009, with the loss of over 800 shops and 27,000 jobs.
The village of Strathpeffer, north of Inverness, became one of Europe’s most popular health resorts between 1870 and 1939. Though the spa fad has passed, Strathpeffer has been left with some charming Victoria holiday architecture
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.