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Blackpool Pleasure Beach sign

Take a ride through history at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

For our latest Curiosity of the Week, we thought we’d bring you a bit of cheery escapism in the form of fairground rides!

Normanton Church by Karen Cann

Normanton Church, a waterside wonder

Welcome to a new year, and a new Curiosity of the Week! Our first curiosity of 2021 is a sunken church. It’s also one of the UK’s finest hidden gem tourist attractions…

American Museum & Gardens, Hall and Gaines

A presidential garden hidden in the UK

Here we are again, with another slightly topical Curiosity of the Week. As we’ve been gripped by the US Elections, we decided to focus on an unusual link between the UK and USA for our latest curiosity.

Witch Mark at National Trust Little Moreton Hall

Have you seen a Witch Mark?

We’re carrying on with our spooky Halloween theme for Curiosity of the Week, by taking a look at Apotropaic Marks…

The Dark Hedges by Trevor Cole on Unsplash

Take a wander under The Dark Hedges

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a spooky treat, just in time for Halloween. A rather eerie and unusual avenue of beech trees…

The Singing Ringing Tree

A unique musical sculpture in Lancashire

Following on from last week’s rather touching sculpture, we bring you an altogether different kind of sculpture for our latest Curiosity of the Week…

St Abbs Sculpture, Widows and Bairns, Black Friday

Widows and Bairns look out to sea

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusual and touching sculpture, commemorating the 1881 fishing disaster known as ‘Black Friday’…

Crossness Pumping Station, Nicolas Lysandrou on unsplash

A beautiful way to pump out poop

Our latest Curiosity of the Week might cause a bit of a stink! We’re taking a look at the Victorian wonder that is Crossness Pumping Station…

Vicars' Close image by Amber Maxwell Boydell/Unsplash

A little Somerset street with a big claim

For our latest Curiosity of the Week, we take you to the cathedral city of Wells in Somerset. Come with us to Vicars’ Close…

Watch out for grave robbers in Scotland

We’re back with our Curiosity of the Week slot, and this week we visit an unusual hut on a coastal nature reserve in Scotland…

Great Yarmouth Venetian Waterway - photo: Gary Philo

Visit a Venetian Waterway in Norfolk

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a Venetian style waterway in the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth…

Essoldo Longford, Stretford Manchester - longfordcinema.co.uk

A building shaped like a cash register in Manchester

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusually-shaped art deco building in Stretford, Manchester…

Italian Chapel, Lambholm, Orkney

Orkney’s Italian Chapel

For our latest Curiosity of the Week we are heading over to Orkney to discover a rather unusual piece of history…an Italian Chapel made from Nissen huts and a shipwreck!

Exterior view of A la Ronde, Devon

A la Ronde in Devon

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusually shaped building in Devon.  A la Ronde is a quirky 18th century, 16 sided house, with a fascinating interior…

Curiosity of the Week - Bedale Medicinal Leech House - North Yorkshire

Bedale Medicinal Leech House

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusual little building that looks like a castellated folly from the outside, but was actually built to store leeches…

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Curiosity of the Week

Take a ride through history at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Blackpool Pleasure Beach sign

For our latest Curiosity of the Week, we thought we’d bring you a bit of cheery escapism in the form of fairground rides!

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Manor of Lies by Morpheus

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