Museums have long been a favourite pastime, whether it is a day out with the family, immersing yourself in a long-held interest or broadening your knowledge of the past. These capitals of knowledge ...

ONE tiny town in the middle of the countryside changed travel in the UK and around the globe forever. Shildon in County Durham, is a quaint town that those passing through may assume is just ...

Before Taronga Zoo stole the spotlight, Sydney’s first zoo was hiding in a swamp. In 1884, the city’s very first public zoo opened in Moore Park, on a site rather unglamorously called Billy Goat Swamp ...

Princess Anne attended the National Railway Museum’s 50th anniversary reception on Thursday night (September 25) in her capacity as Fellow of ...

Catherine Slessor looks back at the life and works of Terry Farrell, who became known for his Postmodern architecture but was also a leading light in urban design and helped shaped policy at a nationa ...

On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam-powered railway engine to run on a public railway — George Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 — made its 26-mile journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway between ...

A MOBILE cinema has been saved from crumbling away, with the possibility of showing movies on the move, in the future. The final curtain nearly fell on a historic mobile cinema in Wiltshire, but ...

As we bid farewell to the 125-year-old Elphinstone Bridge, we look back at other colonial-era bridges that carried carts, cars, and millions of daily lives ...

It comes as the Housing Secretary is set to pledge that the construction of three new towns will begin before the next election.

David Dawson owns Vintage Barbers in Watkin Lane, which celebrates its 10th anniversary at the start of next month. To mark the occasion, David has recently commissioned a full refurbishment of the ...

There is much to be said for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR), the grand entry into the British history books, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated today.

The impact of the 20-mile new railway in England was immediate. Within five years, in mid September 1830, a longer line on a more important route, Liverpool to Manchester, also designed by Stephenson, ...