Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/May 2008

... that Runcorn Town Hall (pictured) was originally built as Halton Grange, a mansion for Thomas Johnson, a local soap and alkali manufacturer?
... that on every May 1, the hamlet of Ickwell celebrates May Day with dancing around a Maypole and with the crowning of a May Queen?
... that the Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes, England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
...that the endowment by Edmund Meyrick, a Welsh cleric and philanthropist who died in 1713, is still awarding scholarships to students at Jesus College, Oxford after nearly three centuries?