Oxford is renowned for being home to one of the oldest, most prestigious, universities in all of the world – not just in the UK. It carries a reputation that opens political and career doors all around the globe, with few exceptions. But Oxford isn’t just a university… it’s a town, first. Oxford; it’s more…
Join us for the Five Minute Spare’s Walk Round Birkenhead, everything you ever wanted to know about the town, and some stuff you weren’t that fussed about. Ok, dad joke aside let’s get Somewhere in Wirral, Merseyside, there is a town named Birkenhead. Within that town, hundreds of years of history lie wrapped in…
The Five Minutes Spare tour of Cheltenham Could Cheltenham be your favourite English city? It’s about a whole lot more than just horse racing… Cheltenham might be famous throughout the UK as a horse racing venue, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a wealth of history behind it, to back all that swagger…
Could Gloucester be the place for your summer holiday or weekend staycation break? Let’s take a look… As a cathedral city, we already know that Gloucester is important, but the fact is that historically it was so so highly regarded that they didn’t bother to put its population in the doomsday book as “everybody then…
Although for most the word Paisley will bring forth connotations of loud ties, or pretty shawls, the town itself is currently best known as the home town of the 10th Doctor David Tennant. However apart from producing the handsome actor the town does have a long and interesting history and is well worth a visit….
Somewhere in the lovely humid warmth of Derbyshire, you will find a town called Chesterfield. Situated at the meeting place of the Rivers Rother and Hipper, this town and borough lie in the centre of an old coalfield. In the middle of the town in the middle of the regrown coalfield, lies a church with…
Craig Taylor