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

And the list goes on

Dave