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That was indeed the chap -- T.R. Perkins, chemist of Henley as above. To be extremely nit-picking: per my understanding, he competed his mission actually in 1932 -- his last line in the bag: the Kilmessan -- Athboy branch, then of the Irish Free State's Great Southern Railways. At the risk of...

Place-name-derivation oddities: same theme, very different places. Kempston's name comes from the Primitive Welsh (seems incongruous for Bedfordshire; but one supposes, "millennia ago ...") camm = crooked -- re the settlement's being located on a crook-like bend in its river; plus Old English...

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Pennsylvania.

There are songs -- "popular" in the old-fashioned sense -- about festive goings-on at Rawtenstall; and at Kirriemuir, Angus. The song about the Lancashire settlement is a little indecorous; that about the Scottish one, is extremely so.

Spot-on, me old China -- Wipers it is ! You set the next one -- try and make it a real stinker... (This event seems marvellously bonkers -- IMO, worth a look-at on Wiki. Key-word "Kattenstoet".)

Trying to see how far-fetched I can get -- if people find this one unacceptably so, I'm prepared to "scrub" it. Association involves comic / gruesome / bad-taste doggerel verse by bygone-days authors of some eminence. Two such "efforts", on the theme of cannibalism on the part of mariners: in...

I'll try one, if I may. Which town in continental Europe, holds a three-yearly festival / parade on the theme of cats; including giant effigies of said creatures -- a modern, sanitised version of the place's one-time cruel ritual of throwing live cats off a prominent high building there?

There was a -- fairly compact -- thread about the Dalmunzie line, here on "Railway History and Nostalgia": Dalmunzie Hotel Railway -- information requested; OP 1/12/2019. (Fellow-participants: if you're sick of references by me, to past threads which I lack the competence to do direct links to...

A degree of desperation here: Wiki has, effectively, nothing to say about the Pentons beyond mentioning their existence. However: the Pentons are in Hampshire only by a fairly narrow margin. A little way across the nearby Hampshire / Wiltshire border, is the group of Wiltshire villages and...

Mussels and prawns?

Glasbury-on-Wye

Whitney-on-Wye

Kinnersley

Credenhill

Namesake settlements to the rescue: Belfast has one in the South Island of New Zealand; as does Christchurch, Dorset -- with the N.Z. places, the former is essentially a suburb of the latter.

Tram Inn

Pontrilas

Llanvihangel

Coming on to the game just after getting up, and not fully awake / alert: I at first mis-read the above as Creeping Bottoms, and the Slow Poor Law Union. Am taking the liberty of shifting to C. B.'s larger neighbour, Creeting St. Mary: which has a pub / restaurant called the Highwayman. On that...

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