Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/February 2009


 * ... that the unusual layout of bays in the aisles of St Luke's Church, Brighton (pictured), was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "curious" and "disturbing"?
 * ... that The Beatles appeared ten times on the BBC Radio programme Saturday Club in the early 1960s?
 * ... that many modern legal commentators believe the decision in Stilk v Myrick was made at least partly due to public policy?
 * ... that Oslac, the first ealdorman of southern Northumbria, is said to have escorted the Scottish king Cináed mac Maíl Coluim to the court of the English king Edgar the Peaceful?
 * ... that Empire Athelstan was the first merchant ship built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow in Furness after the Second World War?
 * ... that protozoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed to have started the use of hamsters as pets in the United Kingdom?