Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/August 2008




 * ... that the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is Manchester's only listed building constructed in the 1930s?
 * ... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership in 1993, bringing to an end a 132 year old business?
 * ... that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland, but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
 * ... that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip's song "Boy From School" was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack?