Five Minutes Spare goes to Londonderry & Yes! Derry and Londonderry are the same place! Asides from settling that long-pondered question, we wanted to take a traditional Five Minutes Spare look at this fabled Irish treasure. This city is one of the five biggest cities in the whole island and takes its name from the…
Your Five Minute Guide to the Fair City of Cambridge Cambridge is so much more than a university town. 50 miles to the north of the Capital City of England, lies Cambridge. Situated in its own shire land, with a substantial population and a history that pre-dates our recorded knowledge, Cambridge is one of those…
Our Five Minute Whirl Around Chelmsford The City Built on Roman Ruins. Chelmsford is an Essex city with more than 110,000 people. While that number seems high, it’s actually smaller than some of England’s larger towns. No matter! This city has been in existence since the Romans invaded Britain circa 40AD. Let’s jump into…
Doncaster the Roman Fort town that outgrew its confines. Originally, this place was nothing but a patch of land on the endless sea of grass that made up England… but before it was England. Originally, it wasn’t even called Doncaster, it was called Danum. This seems like as good a starting point as any to…
Welcome To Our Five Minute (plus) Guide to Belfast… When you think of tourist destinations, even UK based ones Belfast probably doesn’t spring to mind, however as you will see when you read on it is a hidden gem, and it really has shrugged off its chequered history with aplomb. As befitting a Capital City…
Telford The Town Named After An Engineer! Telford is situated in Shropshire, near Shrewsbury, named after the famous Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford. Being one of the New Towns of the ’60s and ’70s has lots of things going for it. Many new towns were cleverly introduced to house population overspill from London. This works…