Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/May 2006

...that the Willow Tearooms in Glasgow, designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1903, is the most famous of the many new tearooms opened in the city in the late 19th and early 20th century due to the growing popularity of the Temperance movement?
...that the first television chef was Marcel Boulestin, who appeared on the BBC's experimental television broadcasts in 1937?
...that a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637?