Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/December 2008


 * ... that Herman Landon (pictured) commanded five different British Army divisions during the First World War?
 * ... that the 14th-century Tree House, the former manor house of Crawley, England, was named after an ancient elm whose trunk was hollowed out to form a room in which travellers stayed overnight?
 * ... that British rocket scientist Daniel Jubb claims to have built his first rocket at age five?
 * ... that in 1908, Maypole Colliery in Abram, Greater Manchester, was the site of an underground explosion which killed 75 miners?