The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89491 Message #1690421
Posted By: NH Dave
10-Mar-06 - 10:21 PM
Thread Name: Icons of Englishness?
Subject: RE: Icons of Englishness?
Bowlers and Brollys Big Ben - even if most of the tourists don't know what it really is. Tower Bridge Red Double Decker Buses, Phone boxes, Pillar Boxes - I count us lucky to haveone of both the phone and post boxes in our town over here. Beefeaters, and for the contrast, a group of Ghurkas standing Guard Mount at Buckingham Palace. The British Pub The Highland Regiments The SAS Dad's Army, The Territorials Cricket and Bowls Shakespear & Stratford-Upon-Avon Balmoral Castle Cadburys Y Schwepps The old wool towns Narrow roads & Hedgerows Gardening Stonehenge King Arthur and the Roundtable