Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Wrekin is a hill within the northern panhandle of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It rises above the Shropshire Plain to a height of 407 metres, and is located five miles west of Telford new town, it is a prominent landmark that signals the entrance to Shropshire for travellers.
John Metcalf, known as 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough', was the first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution. Blind from the age of six, he was an accomplished diver, swimmer, card player and fiddler. But he is best known for pioneering 180 miles of turnpike road in the north of England, between 1765 and 1792.
The Hyde Park pet cemetery is a disused burial ground for animals in London. Established in 1881 in the garden of Victoria Lodge, home of one of the park keepers, the cemetery became popular after the burial of a dog belonging to Sarah Fairbrother, wife of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge.
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.
The appearance of the swallow in the warmer months baffled naturalists for centuries. Where did they go in the winter? In the late 18th Century, naturalists in Britain became quite obsessed with the finding out the answer.
Whilst most of London's surviving theatres are either Victorian, Edwardian or post-war, the Savoy Theatre on the Strand (well actually just off it) is unusual in having a remarkable later Art Deco 1920s interior. Closely associated with the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, the original theatre was built in 1881, just before the famous similarly-named hotel next door, and helped to fund its construction.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.