Oldest surviving building in Sale, Greater Manchester, built c.1670.
Eyre Crowe
Victorian painter, principally of genre and historical subjects.
Fachan
Monstrous creature of the Scottish Highlands.
Fairbottom Bobs
Fairbottom Bobs, an 18th-century Newcomen-type beam engine, was used to pump water from a coal pit near Ashton-under-Lyne, is probably the world’s second-oldest surviving steam engine.
Fairy painting
Genre of art and illustration featuring small imaginary human-like creatures with magical powers, often with wings.
Fancy picture
18th-century genre of painting, characteristically portraying an individual or group of individuals engaged in some everyday pursuit.
Fantascope
Redirected to phenakistoscope.
Fantasia Mathematica
Anthology of stories, humour, poems, etc. on mathematical topics, published in 1958.
Farthing
British coin with the value of one quarter of an old penny, 1/960 of a pound sterling.
Fasting spittle
Saliva produced first thing in the morning, before breakfast, used to treat a wide variety of diseases for many hundreds of years.
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