Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Caernarfon Castle is a medieval fortress in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The first fortifications there were built by the Romans, on the outskirts of the modern town. Although little is known about the fate of the fort after the Romans departed in the early 5th century, another castle was built in the medieval period, and has enjoyed a rich history since.
Robert Stephenson was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on his father's achievement, with both the technical design of steam engines and the spread of railways around Britain and the world, and has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century.
The tarmac that covers our roads is famously credited to the Scottish engineer and inventor John Loudon McAdam. However, county council surveyor Edgar Hooley is the man that pioneered the world’s first tarmac road in Nottingham.
Brimham Rocks is a 454-acre Site of Special Scientific Interest(SSSI), near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, on Brimham Moor in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The site is known for its water and weather-eroded rocks, which were formed over 325 million years ago and have assumed fantastic shapes.
William Huskisson was a British politician and former Cabinet minister who had the misfortune to become the first casualty of the newly invented railway. He was run over by George Stephenson's locomotive 'Rocket' at the opening ceremony of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830.
Test Card F was a picture created by the BBC in the 1960s to support the development of television technology and help deliver a quality screen image on receiving equipment, and to support the calibration of TV sets by manufacturers, owners and installation engineers.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.