Cryptic clues = station name

[Welshman]

Shrewsbury?
Prison used to be adjacent the station.

 

[Loppylugs]

Hornsey

No.

Shrewsbury?
Prison used to be adjacent the station.

No.

Portslade

That's the one. Left being port and slade prison being Fletcher's abode, so it's back to you.

Incidentally, for a bonus point and a free bowl of cold porridge, does anyone know the frontage of which prison was used in the opening sequence of the show?

 

[DaleCooper]

That's the one. Left being port and slade prison being Fletcher's abode, so it's back to you.

Thank you.

Next clue:

This station was depicted on the label inside the straw hats T & W Ellison Ltd. made.

 

[Calthrop]

Shrewsbury?
Prison used to be adjacent the station.

Just incidentally and non-cryptically: memory stirred re lines by A.E. Housman, misery-merchant par excellence with a particular "thing" about that part of the world --

They hang us now in Shrewsbury jail / The whistles blow forlorn / And trains all night groan on the rail / To men that die at morn.

 

[RDP]

Whatstandwell

 

[DaleCooper]

Whatstandwell

Whatst&well is correct, your turn...

 

[RDP]

Whatst&well is correct, your turn...

Open floor.

 

[Welshman]

No.

No.

That's the one. Left being port and slade prison being Fletcher's abode, so it's back to you.

Incidentally, for a bonus point and a free bowl of cold porridge, does anyone know the frontage of which prison was used in the opening sequence of the show?

That was the gatehouse of the old St Albans prison

 

[Calthrop]

Open floor.

Might be misread / mispronounced as advice to author Mary Webb: indulge yourself in the product of Rowntrees or Haribo, then get cracking on your Shropshire tear-jerker about deformed heroine.

 

[DaleCooper]

Might be misread / mispronounced as advice to author Mary Webb: indulge yourself in the product of Rowntrees or Haribo, then get cracking on your Shropshire tear-jerker about deformed heroine.

Abergele & Pensarn

 

[Calthrop]

Abergele & Pensarn

Correct -- "pen Sarn" -- the lady's novel Precious Bane, heroine Prue Sarn.

Your turn to produce a back-of-beyond-evil-sinister-stuff epic.

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct -- "pen Sarn" -- the lady's novel Precious Bane, heroine Prue Sarn.

Your turn to produce a back-of-beyond-evil-sinister-stuff epic.

Thank you.

Next clue:

I mistakenly go to the this station.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

Next clue:

I mistakenly go to the this station.

Hint:

...and I nearly fall over.

 

[DaleCooper]

Hint:

...and I nearly fall over.

...on the ice.

 

[Calthrop]

Islip?

 

[DaleCooper]

Islip?

That took a while but we got there in the end, your turn...

 

[Calthrop]

It sure took a while, and I feel positively ashamed -- can we make it open floor, please?

 

[devon_belle]

I'll give it a whirl.

This station resembles an untidy protrusion from the head.

 

[RDP]

Earley?

 

[devon_belle]

Earley?

I like your thinking, but no.

 

[devon_belle]

Clue: if I were a key to a carpet, I would fit in a ...?

 

[Loppylugs]

Clue: if I were a key to a carpet, I would fit in a ...?

Matlock

 

[devon_belle]

Matlock

Bingo. Over to you.

 

[Loppylugs]

Bingo. Over to you.

Thank-you.

This location was the inspiration for Tchaikovsky to compose Swan Lake.

 

[Calthrop]

My usual way of being unhelpful -- keep thinking of Swanbourne, but of course that closed in 1967...

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank-you.

This location was the inspiration for Tchaikovsky to compose Swan Lake.

Penmere

 

[Loppylugs]

My usual way of being unhelpful -- keep thinking of Swanbourne, but of course that closed in 1967...

You are never unhelpful @Calthrop

Penmere

Indeed it is. ( pen - female swan, mere - lake). Obviously the platform for Tchaikovsky's success! Over to you.

 

[DaleCooper]

Indeed it is. ( pen - female swan, mere - lake). Obviously the platform for Tchaikovsky's success! Over to you.

Thank you.

Next clue

Romeo gets a penny change.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

Next clue

Romeo gets a penny change.

Hint:

This GWR station has two platforms with an unusual layout.

 

[D6130]

Penryn?