Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/July 2007


 * ...that William Leybourn (pictured) wrote the first English language compendium on astronomy?
 * ...that the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel, during engineering work in 1979, killed two workers and severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
 * ...that the architect Hans Price was responsible for the distinctive look of many buildings in Weston-super-Mare during the Victorian era?