Dickie Dirts Curiosity Shop pun for Today! Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.

The end of the James Bond Film ‘Die Another Day’ starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry in an exotic beach house at a Caribbean location was actually filmed on the National Trust beach at Penbryn, Wales! This Beach House was built on the hillside above the beach.

The wreck of the Amsterdam is the most notable feature of the beach at Bulverhythe, the tops of its ribs being exposed in the sands and the peaty clay of the prehistoric forest. The Amsterdam is of global importance since she is two-thirds complete, the most intact East Indiaman of any country known in the […]

This is a diving haven with more that 3,000 recorded shipwrecks. Visit the the Hathor and Plympton wrecks just south of St. Agnes or the Torrey Canyon one of the first supertankers which was wrecked and deliberately sunk in 1967 after she struck Pollard’s Rock in the Seven Stones reef between the Scilly Isles […]

In 1835, 70ft of winding underground passages were discovered which lead to an oblong chamber. Its walls were decorated with strange symbols mosaiced in 4.6 million cockle, whelk, mussel and oyster shells. Nobody can explain who built this amazing place, or why, or when, but since its discovery visitors from all over the world […]

An update from Dickie Dirts Curiosity Shop. The MSC Napoli had to be rebeached on Thursday 12 July 2007. The decision was made following the re-floating of the vessel earlier in the week. The wreck has been found to be in a worse state than previously thought, with the crack of the hull being […]

In June 2002, donors and the Heritage Memorial Fund helped the National Trust purchase Tyntesfield – one of the finest surviving Victorian estates in the country. Without that vital support, this magnificent property would have been broken up and sold to property developers. Instead, Tyntesfield now belongs to us all. An extensive survey has shown […]

Owned for almost 600 years by the Legh family, the original house was Tudor but was re-built to an Italianate design by Giacomo Leoni in the early 18th century. The garden features a large lake designed to reflect the view of the house and there are many fine trees to be found in a design […]

Dickie Dirts Curiosity would like to bring your attention to Alnwick Castle featured as ‘Hogwarts’ in the first 2 Harry Potter movies. It has also been used for other film locations such as Elizabeth, Becket and Blackadder. Alnwick Castle is the second largest inhabited castle in England, the first being Windsor Castle, and has been […]

John (also known as Jack) Russell was born in Dartmouth in 1795. Following his university days in Oxford, he returned to the county to work as a churchman in North Devon taking with him his terrier Trump. As a youngster, he loved to hunt, and he became obsessed with the notion of finding a hard […]