Thus, according to the Bank of England's Boxall and Gallagher ( 1997 ), "... there was virtually no difference between banks and building society ' listed ' interest rates for home finance mortgage lending between 1984 and 1997.

The stadium later became known simply as Wembley Stadium and it became England's permanent home stadium during the 1950s.

From the 2008 – 09 season to the 2011 – 12 season, England's home qualifiers and friendlies both home and away are being shown live on ITV.

England's traditional home colours are white shirts, navy blue shorts and white socks.

The area is also home to one of England's rarest breeding birds — the Chough.

Winterbottom presided over the 6-3 loss to Hungary in 1953, England's first home defeat to a team from mainland Europe, and also over the 7-1 defeat to the same opposition the following year: England's worst ever international result.

The regency council at home was frustrated by the mounting national debt, while the king and his commanders on the Continent were angered by the government in England's failure to provide sufficient funds.

Blue Hills is home to The First Cathedral, New England's Largest Protestant Church.

Newbury is home to one of England's major racecourses Newbury Racecourse, which celebrated its centenary in 2005.

Adams also claimed England's final goal at the stadium, having scored in the previous home fixture against Ukraine on 31 May.

Bury St Edmunds is home to England's oldest Scout group, 1st Bury St Edmunds ( Mayors Own ).

The home nations all have separate national teams and domestic competitions, most notably England's Barclays Premier League and FA Cup, and the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Cup.

The idea was to create a ground for London that could capture the grandeur of England's finest club stadium, Villa Park, home of The Aston Villa Football Club.

It is also the home to Volleyball England's National Volleyball Centre.

Meadle was the home of John Nash, one of England's foremost painters and war artists of the inter-war years.

It contains Howe Park Wood, one of England's few remaining primeval woodlands ( though certainly coppiced ) and home to a wide variety of wildlife, notably Odonata.

Hartlepool have played their home games since their foundation at Victoria Park, on Clarence Road, Hartlepool, known as one of England's coldest football grounds.

The British flag, the Union Flag, became a symbol, assisted by events such as England's home victory in the 1966 World Cup.

Today England's top domestic league, the Premier League, is one of the most popular and richest sports leagues in the world, and is home to some of the world's most famous football clubs.

In the 1920s, the town was the unofficial home to the King of England's representative in Ireland, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, who declined to take up official residence in the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, and whose family operated a hardware store in the town until 2005, the only store with an Irish language name in the town for many years.

Smith featured in England's first full tour of Australia in 1975, but had to return home injured and Wilkins, who was also in the Royal Navy, won 13 caps, between 1951 – 53.

From 2003 to 2007, Old Trafford hosted 12 of England's 23 home matches, more than any other stadium.

The burial ground, which became known as " Tindal's Burial Ground " attracted mainly dissenters from the Established Church who were of a Protestant persuasion, partly owing to their much larger numbers in the locality than other faiths who did not conform to the Church of England's ways, such as Catholics or Jewish citizens.

The stadium was England's first purpose-built football ground, with stands on three sides.

Cautley Spout is England's highest waterfall above ground.

A view of the ground during England's 2006 T20 International against Sri Lanka

England's Michael Vaughan missed an attempted sweep against Sarandeep Singh, and the trickled along the ground after striking his pads.

* England's only Test win at the ground came during the World Series Cricket split in 1978 / 1979, when David Gower scored 102.

There were approximately 12, 000 spectators in the ground, a figure abetted by England's having conceded a first-innings lead.

But the ground is most famous for the confrontation between Mike Gatting and Shakoor Rana during England's 1987-88 tour, which led to a day being lost during the match and some long-lasting bad feeling between the teams.

Denmark led their qualifying group with a single point over second placed England before the two teams met at England's home ground Wembley Stadium in September 1983.

This picturesque ground is perhaps one of the most significant in Test cricket history recording the first triple century in the game with England's Andy Sandham's 325 versus the West Indies in the 1930 game.

'' A hymn often to be heard in Catholic churches is `` Faith Of Our Fathers '', which glories in England's ancient faith that endured persecution, and which proclaims: `` Faith of our Fathers: Mary's prayers Shall win our country back to thee ''.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

" Similarly a systematic and coherent explanation of balance of trade was made public through Thomas Mun's c1630 " England's treasure by forraign trade, or, The balance of our forraign trade is the rule of our treasure "

His father, a middle-class man from England's countryside, marries a poor woman who falsely believes she is marrying into a monied family.

He now lives in quiet retirement in Staffordshire but is still regarded, as a Channel 4 poll to find England's greatest XI showed recently, as the best goalkeeper England has ever produced.

There is still no consensus ; what does seem to be in agreement however is that the bulk of England's contemporary native population was already in place by the beginning of written history in this part of the world.

In the Church of England's Common Worship prayer book, 8 December is designated a Lesser Festival of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( without the adjective " immaculate ").

He is generally regarded as being England's greatest ever all-rounder, particularly in Test cricket, although having earned celebrity status, his award of a knighthood was

He is generally regarded as one of England's greatest Test players.

* Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, one of the Church of England's designated Evangelical theological colleges, is also named in his honour.

In Have His Carcase, he finds Harriet is not in London, but learns from a reporter that she has discovered a corpse while on a walking holiday on England's coast.

* 1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.

A systematic and coherent explanation of balance of trade was made public through Thomas Mun's argument England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, or the Balance of our Forraign Trade is The Rule of Our Treasure.

* 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.

In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most significant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds ; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State, gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre.

So far as invocation of the saints is concerned, one of the Church of England's Articles of Religion " Of Purgatory " condemns " the Romish Doctrine concerning ...( the ) Invocation of Saints " as " a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God ".

" In 1976, the Tourism Society of England's definition was: " Tourism is the temporary, short-term movement of people to destination outside the places where they normally live and work and their activities during the stay at each destination.

Almost one-third of the population lives in England's southeast which is predominantly urban and suburban, with about 8 million in the capital city of London, the population density of which is just under 13, 000 per square mile.

The match is remembered for England's only World Cup trophy, Geoff Hurst's hat-trick – the only one ever scored in a World Cup Final-and the controversial third goal awarded to England by referee Gottfried Dienst and linesman Tofik Bakhramov.

* October 16 – England's first residential university-level women's college, the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge, is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon.