For this week’s Curiosity of the Week we bring you a little London attraction that is just a bit different. If you like the peculiar and are a fan of the absurd, then read on!
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The first cinema in Britain
Our latest Curiosity of the Week, the Regent Street Cinema, will be of interest not only to all the film fans out there, but to cultural history buffs as well…
Turning the Devil’s Stone
For our latest Curiosity of the Week we’ve decided feature one of the country’s strangest annual customs, Turning the Devil’s Stone…
Victoria Baths
Our latest Curiosity of the Week was once a rather grand bathing house. Victoria Baths is also known as ‘Manchester’s Water Palace’, and for good reason…
The Charterhouse
Curiosity of the Week encourages you to take a tour of a former monastery in the centre of London with an interesting history…
Ancoats Dispensary
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a former hospital, built in 1873 to serve the densely populated districts of north and east Manchester…
Linen Hall Library
We pop over to Belfast for our latest Curiosity of the Week. The Linen Hall Library may not look curious at first glance but unique it certainly is…
Heckington Windmill
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is Heckington Windmill, the only remaining eight-sailed windmill in the country…
Striding Arches
Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unexpected treasure which springs out from the landscape in Dumfries & Galloway in south-west Scotland…
Lacy’s Caves
Tucked away beside the River Eden in Cumbria is our latest Curiosity of the Week. Lacy’s Caves are five chambers carved into a sandstone cliff…
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Our latest Curiosity of the Week comes in the ancient and unique form of Maeshowe Chambered Cairn.
Chesterton Windmill
This week’s curiosity comes in the shape of Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire. This unusual landmark is thought to be the oldest tower mill in England to retain any of its working parts…
Ring O’ Bells – a pub on sacred ground
The Ring O’ Bells pub in Kendal, Cumbria boasts something of a unique and unusual claim. The Ring O’ Bells is said to be the only pub in the UK to be on consecrated ground…
Village lock ups and round houses
This week’s Curiosity of the Week looks at the village lock ups that can be found in Leicestershire and Derbyshire. These tiny historic buildings were often used to lock up the local drunks…
The Dashwood Mausoleum
This week’s Curiosity of the Week is the Dashwood Mausoleum in Buckinghamshire. A hexagonal structure found on the hill in West Wycombe…