Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL about the Oxenham Arms hotel and pub. Originally a monastery in the 1100s and an inn starting in the 1400s, it was built around a neolithic standing stone.www.theoxenhamarms.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1150arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the Oxenham Arms hotel and pub. Originally a monastery in the 1100s and an inn starting in the 1400s, it was built around a neolithic standing stone.www.theoxenhamarms.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI admit, it’s pretty cool to do things like walk down the street in London and look down at a manhole cover and see that it has the date imprinted on it and has been there since the start of the industrial revolution.
I admit, it’s pretty cool to do things like walk down the street in London and look down at a manhole cover and see that it has the date imprinted on it and has been there since the start of the industrial revolution.