Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/July 2007

...that William Leybourn (pictured) wrote the first English language compendium on astronomy?
...that the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel, during engineering work in 1979, killed two workers and severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
...that the architect Hans Price was responsible for the distinctive look of many buildings in Weston-super-Mare during the Victorian era?