Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/April 2009


 * ... that George Collier (pictured) was shipwrecked, rescued, and then taken prisoner when his rescuer was captured by a privateer?
 * ... that in 1980, Eamonn Collins became the youngest player in a professional football match in England, when he played for Blackpool at the age of 14 years and 323 days?
 * ... that St Mary the Virgin Church in Brighton, England, stands on the site of a former church—designed as a replica of the Greek Temple of Nemesis—which collapsed in 1876?
 * ... that historian V. H. Galbraith considered the medieval English monk Hemming to be the first archivist in English history?
 * ... that when Ted Hough was signed by Southampton Football Club, his "transfer fee" was a round of 52 pints of beer?