Leadfingers - that'll be your local landlocked HMS Northwood, Middlesex, I take it...

Gareth and LtS - the recent ITV dramatisation about Henry VIII (Ray Winstone) showed Anne Boleyn (Helen Bonham-Carter) having her head chopped off with a sword rather than axe.   

There was a brief item on the radio last week (Today, BBC Radio 4) that suggested that the EU are proposing that member states should re-name places called after battle sites to avoid causing distress to visitors from the defeated nations.... so no more Trafalgar Square or Waterloo station. (IIRC, Winston Churchill gave deliberate instructions that the train bearing his coffin to Bladon should depart from Waterloo, so that General de Gaulle would have to see the train off from Waterloo.)

There's also the matter of the 60th anniversary of the D-day landings next year.

Kitty