Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/August 2007

• ...that Churche's Mansion, Nantwich, Cheshire, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander (pictured), a traditional protection against fire?
• ...that today, Ardencaple Castle is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde?
• ...that 24 Royal Marines cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed when a double-decker bus ploughed into their marching column in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster, making it one of the worst road accidents in British history?