Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The most north-westerly point in mainland Britain, Cape Wrath in Sutherland, Scotland, is one of the most remote places in the country. Visitors who reach this point will be rewarded with wild and beautiful scenery... and (thankfully) a cafe.
Liverpool Lime Street was built as the main terminus station for the city of Liverpool in the early days of the railways. Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest still-operating grand terminus mainline station in the world. The original station was designed by architects John Cunningham, Arthur Holme, and John Foster Jr, though subsequent elements have been added to other designs.
Despite its foreign-sounding name, Battenberg is a traditional English type of cake, and relatively recent in origin. It was first named and described in a bakery and confectionary publication, published in 1898. Distinctive for its check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow when cut through, these patterns when used on emergency vehicles in the UK are officially referred to as Battenburg markings because of their resemblance to the cake.
Visible from the road to Mungasdale, Highland, on the west coast of Scotland, the small and treeless Gruiniard Island seems to have had a gloomy reputation for centuries. From the redoubt of thieves and pirates, to a home for a killer disease, the news has never been good.
Englishman John Lombe opened what is generally regarded as the first fully mechanised factory ever recorded in 1771 in Derby. It was built to manufacture silk, and resulted from a real life tale of espionage by Lombe when touring Italy, where he obtained the knowledge he needed of the best method for silk production.
Geoffrey Chaucer, called 'the father of English literature', lived in the fourteenth century, and is best known for The Canterbury Tales that details a storytelling contest from participants on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. Chaucer was the first writer to be buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.