Underground Public Toilet Gets New Lease on Life as Boutique Hotel
The Netty, a cozy boutique hotel located down a flight of stairs, in the middle of St. Giles Road, in Oxford, used to be a public toilet for over 100 years. Originally built in 1895, during the reign of England’s Queen Victoria, The Netty served as a gentlemen’s toilet until 2008, when it was closed for […]
Someone Keeps Leaving Plates of Peeled Bananas on a Street Corner, And Nobody Knows Why
For more than a year, at the start of every month, the people of Beeston, a town in the United Kingdom, have been finding a plate of peeled bananas in exactly the same place. Between the first and second day of each month, a plate stacked with 16 to 20 peeled bananas always shows up […]
Tree Cut in Half in Neighborly Dispute Becomes Unlikely Tourist Attraction
A bizarre-looking fir tree sliced in half during a neighborly dispute over bird droppings has become a popular tourist attraction with its own Google reviews in the Waterthorpe suburb of Sheffield, England. Three years ago, the now-famous half-cut fir tree of Waterhope made international news headlines for the first time. Located on the edge of […]
The Holme – The World’s Most Expensive Mansion
The Holme, a 205-year-old London mansion is currently on the market for an eye-watering £250 million ($300 million), which makes it the world’s most expensive mansion. Known as the “White House of Regent’s Park”, because of its massive scale and similar style facade as that of Washington DC’s iconic presidential residence, The Holme features 40 […]
World’s Smallest Football League Consists of Only Two Teams
The Isles of Scilly Football League is the world’s smallest official football league, consisting of only two teams that play each other seventeen times a season. As the home of football, England has always been crazy about the team sport, and the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago of more than 140 islands off the southwestern tip […]
Stargazy Pie – An English Pastry Dish With Fish Heads Sticking Out of It
When it comes to unusual and unappetizing-looking Christmas dishes, there are few meals out there that can compete with the Stargazy Pie, a pie with fish heads protruding through the crust, appearing to be gazing skyward. England is home to a variety of pies, from classics like apple pie and pork pie, to less known […]
England’s Killer Creek – The Most Dangerous Stretch of Water in the World
The Bolton Strid, a narrow segment of the River Wharfe in North England has a reputation that doesn’t quite suite its picturesque appearance – it is informally known as the most dangerous stretch of water in the world, with an alleged fatality rate of 100 percent for everyone unlucky enough to have fallen in it. […]
“Covidiots” Celebrate Quarantine End by Jumping in Lake “as Toxic as Household Bleach”
Hundreds of people, including families with children, were branded “covidiots” after being spotted breaking social distancing rules on the shores of a toxic lake formed on the site of an old chalk quarry, and even jumping in the dangerous water. The old quarry at Chinnor, in Oxfordshire, has become known as the “Chinnor Riviera” or […]
House Painter Who Didn’t Get Paid Gets Revenge with Angry Message on the Building He Painted
A disgruntled painter and decorator took revenge on the person who allegedly refused to pay him the sum they had a greed on by painting an angry graffiti message on the building he had painted. People passing by the former North Star Club building in Bolsover, England last month were surprised to see a peculiar […]
Pack of Eight Dogs Exterminate 730 Rats in Just Seven Hours
Most people think that cats are nature’s ultimate rat catchers, but they’re actually a lot less efficient in catching and killing rodents than dogs. Rats are known to breed at an alarming rate, and in the English countryside it’s easy for farms to be overrun by disease-spreading rodents. When rats become too much for farmers […]
Aggressive Seagulls Keep Couple Hostage in Their Own Home for Six Days
An elderly couple in the UK claimed that they were held hostage by a pair of seagulls nesting on the roof of their Lancashire home. Every time they tried to leave the birds would become aggressive and attack them. Roy and Brenda Pickard’s story sounds like a real life version of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Birds”. The […]
Real-Life “The Joker” Terrorises English Town
A wannabe ‘killer clown’ who dressed like popular Batman villain The Joker was recently jailed for terrorizing the people of Nottinghamshire, in England, for three months. 29-year-old Damien Hammond, a homeless and jobless man who styled himself like Heath Ledger’s character in the hit movie The Dark Knight Rises, has been jailed for 22 weeks and […]
Guy Fakes His Own Kidnapping So He Could Go Drinking With His Friends
A man managed to get himself jailed for 16 weeks and miss the birth of his child, after lying to his pregnant girlfriend that he had been kidnapped, just so he could get drunk with his buddies. This kidnapping prank gone wrong took place in January, when Leigh Ford, a 45-year-old man from Blackpool, England, […]
Son Banned from Contacting His Parents After Constantly Begging Money From Them
A 24-year-old man from Southampton, England, was banned from contacting his parents for five years after they got so fed up with his constant pestering for money that they got a restraining order against him. A restraining order was issued against Matthew Kerley last year by the Crown Prosecution Service, after his parents complained that his […]
Wealthy Brits Install Spikes on Trees to Stop Birds Pooping on Their Expensive Cars
Wealthy residents of an elite neighborhood in Bristol, England have installed ‘anti-bird spikes’ on trees in an attempt to protect their expensive cars from bird droppings. The spikes, which are commonly used to prevent birds from roosting and nesting on building ledges over public sidewalks, were nailed to two trees in the exclusive Clifton area […]