Cryptic clues = station name

[444045]

Lockerbie ?

 

[Karl]

I like it. It must be?

 

[plymothian]

It is.

 

[444045]

Thank you

Here goes - Tom used to chauffeur this family around

 

[ls2270]

Crawley?

 

[444045]

Sorry not the correct answer

 

[ls2270]

Grantham?

 

[444045]

Spot on - knew it was only a matter of time - Well Done

Tom Branson was the chauffeur to Lord & Lady Grantham in Downton Abbey before marrying his daugther Edith

The floor is yours

 

[ls2270]

Spot on - knew it was only a matter of time - Well Done

Tom Branson was the chauffeur to Lord & Lady Grantham in Downton Abbey before marrying his daugther Edith

The floor is yours

I wasn’t sure which of the two stations to go for first! To be pedantic it was actually Sybil (who later died during the birth of their child) that he married!

 

[ls2270]

Anyway time for the next clue....
The first Caribbean detective had a British coastal connection.

 

[444045]

Sorry couldn't remember whether it was Edith or Sybil - knew it wasn't Mary !

 

[ls2270]

Sorry couldn't remember whether it was Edith or Sybil - knew it wasn't Mary !

No problem!

 

[444045]

I think that was Richard Poole in Death in Paradise played by Ben miller

 

[ls2270]

Crikey didn’t think that would go so quickly! Poole it is, all yours!

 

[444045]

Open Floor

 

[Calthrop]

In Saxon land; archaic affirmation accorded, to (in informal fashion) taker of kingdom, and ginger Norseman?

 

[John Griffiths]

Blimey. Can we answer this Round Britain Quiz style, putting the answer together co-operatively? If so (he said, not waiting for a reply) is the ginger Norseman Erik the Red?

 

[Calthrop]

Blimey. Can we answer this Round Britain Quiz style, putting the answer together co-operatively? If so (he said, not waiting for a reply) is the ginger Norseman Erik the Red?

Co-operation and collaboration are good ! (Who sets the next one, would need to be worked out "in whatever way".) Said Norseperson is indeed Erik the Red. (The informality mentioned, can be reckoned to extend to spelling.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Billericay: taker of kingdom is William the Conqueror, informally Bill; Eric is (as discussed) the red-haired Viking; Ay is the affirmation (regional rather than archaic, surely, especially if spelled aye); and the whole is in the Saxon kingdom of Essex (well done on that: I spent ages trying to fit Mercia and Wessex into the equation).

 

[Calthrop]

In very sooth, sirrah, thou hast right -- doughtily accomplished ! Your floor.

(I reckoned "ay[e]" for "yes", as more widespread and general-speech in past centuries -- like 1066 and stuff -- than nowadays; when as you say, it exists mostly as a regionalism.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Thank you!

A lecturer in the pink here?

 

[444045]

Dean ?

 

[John Griffiths]

I'm afraid not, but I'd really like to know why you suggest it.

 

[Calthrop]

Huntingdon?

 

[RobertsN]

Huntingdon?

Bar(e)don Mill?

 

[John Griffiths]

I like RobertsN's reasoning, but the big cigar goes to Calthrop. The lecturer, if you're being posh, is a don, and if s/he is wearing a pink jacket (what normal people would call red) might well be going Hunting.

Your floor, Calthrop (bur I'm still hankering for 444's explanation too)

 

[Calthrop]

I like RobertsN's reasoning, but the big cigar goes to Calthrop. The lecturer, if you're being posh, is a don, and if s/he is wearing a pink jacket (what normal people would call red) might well be going Hunting.

Your floor, Calthrop (bur I'm still hankering for 444's explanation too)

My thanks.

Cockney Puritan -- very far from home -- recommends that those who behave unrighteously, undergo rigorous imprisonment?

 

[444045]

I like RobertsN's reasoning, but the big cigar goes to Calthrop. The lecturer, if you're being posh, is a don, and if s/he is wearing a pink jacket (what normal people would call red) might well be going Hunting.

Your floor, Calthrop (bur I'm still hankering for 444's explanation too)

The reasoning for the answer Dean was simply a posh lecturer may be a Dean instead of a Don - that was the logic

 

[John Griffiths]

Never crossed my (admittedly small) mind - cheers, 444.

 

[Calthrop]

Cockney Puritan -- very far from home -- recommends that those who behave unrighteously, undergo rigorous imprisonment?

Hint: in a thread on these Forums a few years ago, seeking nominations for "most isolated / exposed station in the UK": this station was suggested for that honour.