A-Z Of GREAT BRITAIN

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This can be anything, anyone, anywhere to do with GB

A ANGEL Of The North - Statue of Antony Gormley's creation that stands at Gateshead in the North of England.

 

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B - Ben Nevis. Highest mountain in the British Isles. Located near Fort William in the western Grampians. The summit is 4413 ft above sea level.

 

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C CRICKET - very much the 'English' game but Scotland have a team too - not sure about Northern Ireland and Wales though.

 

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D - DALES - an old word meaning valleys. As far as I know - only used to describe a large area of low(ish) hills and valleys in Yorkshire.

 

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C CRICKET - very much the 'English' game but Scotland have a team too - not sure about Northern Ireland and Wales though.

Caz, Welsh players represent England under the England and Wales Cricket Board. NI has a team but for main ICC competitions as NI is part of Cricket Ireland NI players represent Ireland in major competitions..

 

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D - DALES - an old word meaning valleys. As far as I know - only used to describe a large area of low(ish) hills and valleys in Yorkshire.

The famous radio series Mrs Dale's Diary ran from 1948-1969 and my mother never missed an episode. From 1962 it was renamed The Dales.

 

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E - Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a long running British TV soap set in a village in the Yorkshire Dales.

 

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Caz, Welsh players represent England under the England and Wales Cricket Board. NI has a team but for main ICC competitions as NI is part of Cricket Ireland NI players represent Ireland in major competitions..

Yes, of course they do, I knew that really! Doh!

 

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F FISH and CHIPS - often thought of as the dish of the UK, fish and chip shops originating in England in the 19th Century.

 

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G - Goonhilly Downs. Site of special scientific interest and nature reserve on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. Often in the news in my youth as the site of the famous Satellite Station.

 

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H HOUSES Of Parliament - although it's real name is Palace of Westminster because until a fire in 1512 it's where the Kings of England resided. Now it's the home of the House of Commons and House of Lords.

 

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I - Isle of Wight, Isle of Mann, Ireland……

 

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J - Jarrow March. 1936 march to parliament protesting against unemployment and poverty starting from Jarrow in Tyneside.

 

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K KELHAM Island Museum - industrial museum in Sheffield. It stands on a site where an Iron Foundry was built in 1829 and continued in operation until the 1890. The museum has the world's largest surviving Bessemer Convertor.

 

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L - L. S. Lowry. English artist who mainly painted scenes of life in industrial Lancashire.

 

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M MAN And Boy Statue - situated on the harbour at Brixham in Devon which honours fishermen lost at sea.

 

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N - Northumbria. Anglo-Saxon kingdom formed in the early 7th century that stretched at its height from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.

 

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O OAK Trees - native to Britain. Famous oak trees include the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest which sheltered Robin Hood. There is also a village in Durham called Oak Tree

 

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O OAK Trees - native to Britain. Famous oak trees include the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest which sheltered Robin Hood. There is also a village in Durham called Oak Tree

'Heart of oak are our ships...' Sung gustily by us at primary school.

 

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P - Portmeirion. Unique Italianate style village in North Wales designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis and famously used as 'The Village' in the TV series, The Prisoner.