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6 Things About the UK Today
- The Brixton Windmill - remnant of a more pastoral time September 21, 2025Brixton Windmill, also known as Ashby's Mill, is an unusual survivor from another era. The 200-year-old structure occupies a small tranquil corner of urbanised south London, just off Brixton Hill. When it was built in 1816, this now densely populated inner London borough was still fields and market gardens.
- The Tobacco Warehouse - big on bricks in Liverpool September 21, 2025The Tobacco Warehouse, Stanley Dock, Liverpool is the world's largest brick warehouse. It was completed in 1901 when trade through the Merseyside port was at its height. It deployed more than 27 million bricks, 30,000 panes of glass and 8,000 tons of steel.
- The humble Bugle - flower of woodland glades September 21, 2025The bugle is a low-growing wild flower which produces purplish-blue flower spikes between April and July. Often to be seen on damp grasslands, scrub and woodland clearings on fertile soils, and alongside railway lines, the bugle is common throughout the UK.
- The Venerable Bede - Anglo Saxon historian September 21, 2025Bede, a monk of the important Northumbrian monastery of Jarrow in the 7th/8th centuries, is widely recognised as the greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar of his day. His most famous work, 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', gained him the title 'The Father of English History'.
- The Old Man of Storr - the sleeping giant of Skye September 21, 2025A beautiful rock formation on the Isle of Skye on Scotland's west coast, the Old Man of Storr is said to be the graveyard of a giant. This intriguing outcrop, set in a stunning landscape, has featured in a number of paintings, and as a backdrop in many films.
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct - dramatic pioneering canal crossing of the River Dee September 21, 2025The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is an impressive navigable water course that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen in northeast Wales. The 18-arched stone and cast iron structure was completed in 1805 having taken ten years to design and build, to connect local industries to the main British canal network.
