Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/August 2008

... that the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is Manchester's only listed building constructed in the 1930s?
... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership in 1993, bringing to an end a 132 year old business?
... that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland, but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
... that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip's song "Boy From School" was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack?