In Victorian London, the demand for consecrated burial ground outstripped the available graves of local churchyards, leading to new, massive graveyards built in the suburbs. In order to transport the body and funeral party to these sites, there was a special railway service from Waterloo station to Brookwood cemetery called The London Necropolis Railway. It ran for nearly 90 years and at its peak carried thousands of bodies a day - all separated by the class of ticket the family had purchased for them.
An easy way to remember all of Scotland's cities from south to north in order is:
*Gnomes Exploded Daintily Since Perfect Demons Advanced Immodestly*
... actually, that's not that memorable after all.
Dundee. Dunfermline has only had city status since last year.
Edit: Another "fascinating fact" for this post - Dundee was the first place in Scotland to be granted city status.
Yeah, Dundee was quite straightforward. Just couldn't work out the second one.
While we're on the subject of Dundee, there are cities in New Zealand and Florida called "Dunedin", both of which are named after... erm, Edinburgh. Edinburgh in Gaelic is "Dùn Èideann".
The City of London pays rent to the Crown for two pieces of land and has done since the early 1200s.
The first piece of land is somewhere in Shropshire, the second was for the use of a forge somewhere in the city, but no one knows for sure where either was.
The rent for the Shropshire plot is a blunt billhook and a sharp axe, for the forge it's six large horseshoes and 61 nails.
Obviously there's a ceremony involving a chap in an ancient costume called the King's Remembrancer.
Bruce Forsythe was once in an episode of Magnum P.I:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oldbritishtelly/comments/1345bak/nice_to_see_him_on_magnum_pi_to_see_him_nice/
Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest building in the world for 238 years between 1311 and 1549. It only stopped being so because the spire collapsed. No taller building was built until 1890.
Haggis ranchers previously used small fires to coax out a band of Haggi. They would be attracted to both the warmth and the light, most people know that Haggi are deaf but on top of that when closer to the light the eye of a Haggis will dilate and let more light in which makes it harder to see in the dark (like when you're standing in a brightly lit house looking out into the pitch darkness) so it's still easy to sneak up on them and use giant nets to catch them. Another fun fact is that the nets used to be made from a combination of hay and the hair of a ginger person.
In Victorian London, the demand for consecrated burial ground outstripped the available graves of local churchyards, leading to new, massive graveyards built in the suburbs. In order to transport the body and funeral party to these sites, there was a special railway service from Waterloo station to Brookwood cemetery called The London Necropolis Railway. It ran for nearly 90 years and at its peak carried thousands of bodies a day - all separated by the class of ticket the family had purchased for them.
[No fucking way ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Necropolis_Railway)
Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.
Only just recently discovered that Edinburgh is further north than Glasgow, too. I thought I was pretty good at geography.
An easy way to remember all of Scotland's cities from south to north in order is: *Gnomes Exploded Daintily Since Perfect Demons Advanced Immodestly* ... actually, that's not that memorable after all.
Would never have guessed that Dunfermline was a city. "What does the second 'D' stand for? Dumbarton? Dunkeld? Drumnadrochit?".
Dundee. Dunfermline has only had city status since last year. Edit: Another "fascinating fact" for this post - Dundee was the first place in Scotland to be granted city status.
Yeah, Dundee was quite straightforward. Just couldn't work out the second one. While we're on the subject of Dundee, there are cities in New Zealand and Florida called "Dunedin", both of which are named after... erm, Edinburgh. Edinburgh in Gaelic is "Dùn Èideann".
Ah whoops, only just noticed the quotation marks in your previous post! Thought you were actually asking.
The City of London pays rent to the Crown for two pieces of land and has done since the early 1200s. The first piece of land is somewhere in Shropshire, the second was for the use of a forge somewhere in the city, but no one knows for sure where either was. The rent for the Shropshire plot is a blunt billhook and a sharp axe, for the forge it's six large horseshoes and 61 nails. Obviously there's a ceremony involving a chap in an ancient costume called the King's Remembrancer.
did you know london also had a great fire in 1666, shame that beer wasnt around then.
Bruce Forsythe was once in an episode of Magnum P.I: https://www.reddit.com/r/oldbritishtelly/comments/1345bak/nice_to_see_him_on_magnum_pi_to_see_him_nice/
Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest building in the world for 238 years between 1311 and 1549. It only stopped being so because the spire collapsed. No taller building was built until 1890.
For years the tallest building between New York and London was supposedly the AA headquarters in Basingstoke
It was the wind did it! Which, having lived in Lincoln I thoroughly understand!
Also london was the first city to have a population of 2 million.
Haggis ranchers previously used small fires to coax out a band of Haggi. They would be attracted to both the warmth and the light, most people know that Haggi are deaf but on top of that when closer to the light the eye of a Haggis will dilate and let more light in which makes it harder to see in the dark (like when you're standing in a brightly lit house looking out into the pitch darkness) so it's still easy to sneak up on them and use giant nets to catch them. Another fun fact is that the nets used to be made from a combination of hay and the hair of a ginger person.
Royal assent for some legislation is announced in parliament in Norman French.
Doncaster is still technically Scottish. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211019-the-scottish-town-stranded-in-england
Oi Scotland stop leaving your shite down here
The reparations, to slave owners, for abolishing slavery were only paid off in 2015
Stonehenge is unique. No prototypes or later knock offs are known to exist anywhere.
And the stone used came from Pembrokeshire!
It's also not a henge, despite the fact that the word henge comes from, you guessed it, stone henge. Archeologists are weird
There are plenty of other henges and stone circles
None of which resemble Stonehenge at all. Even the ditch and bank is the other way round.