Nailsworth where the rolling valleys of Gloucestershire & the whole of the Cotswolds are within easy reach! If you are looking for a picturesque, serene staycation destination for the 2021 holiday season, Nailsworth might be just the quiet little town you have been looking for. It’s removed enough from the cities that it doesn’t suffer the…
Crewe, in Cheshire, home to one of the Worlds most significant Railway station and in fact is one of few towns originally built expressly to accommodate railway workers. These navvies as they were known then were fundamental in the construction of Britain’s Rail Network. Add to this the fact that Rolls Royce Cars were built…
The Five Minutes Spare Tour of Crawley, The Town With That Airport! Here at Five Minutes Spare, we often review towns and cities in Britain with the aim of highlighting their best points and showing you that there are worthy staycation destinations everywhere. Sometimes it’s not that easy to get the good across, but not…
Looking for a perfect Staycation destination In Buckinghamshire? Then High Wycombe could be your holiday destination, this year. High Wycombe is a huge modern-looking market town in Buckinghamshire, with a reputation for being one of the more prosperous areas of England. We took an in-depth look around town, to find out what makes it so…
Accrington the internationally renowned purveyor of incredibly dense bricks. Seriously the famed Accrington Brick is iron-hard and has been used as the foundation of landmark buildings as famous and diverse as the Empire State Building in New York and Blackpool Tower! However, that’s not all the town has to offer and it is somewhere deserving…
Scunthorpe the Lincolnshire industrial town built on Ironstone. Sounds like a line out of a Sword & Sorcery B Movie, doesn’t it. Well, fear not, this is our guide to this fine town and not a movie review! Anyway, bad jokes aside, as our regular readers know, here at Five Minutes Spare, we are always…