A three-seater outside lavatory at Bishop’s Tawton in North Devon is a Grade II listed building.
Female applicants for the original Directory Enquiry operators had to be single. They were expected to resign if they got married.
When it was built in 1286, Harlech Castle in West Wales was right on the coast. Now it id half a mile inland. This is because the land around the castle is slowly rising – part of northern Britain springing back into position after being weighed down during the Ice Age.
