Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/December 2008

... that Herman Landon (pictured) commanded five different British Army divisions during the First World War?
... that the 14th-century Tree House, the former manor house of Crawley, England, was named after an ancient elm whose trunk was hollowed out to form a room in which travellers stayed overnight?
... that British rocket scientist Daniel Jubb claims to have built his first rocket at age five?
... that in 1908, Maypole Colliery in Abram, Greater Manchester, was the site of an underground explosion which killed 75 miners?