Portal : England/Did you know/12 2008
... that the Handlebar Club (noted member Michael "Atters" Attree pictured) , based in London , is a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches , considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral ?
... that Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs has units of rock showing the lower to early Middle Devonian period, laid 417–354 million years ago?
... that seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery ?
... that although Fairfield Grammar School , Bristol , expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?