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[High Dyke]

Newport (I.O.W) also has an example of a Roman Hypocaust.

 

[DerekC]

Rye (Sussex) also has a street called Watchbell Lane

 

[High Dyke]

Caister-on-Sea has also suffered a lifeboat tragedy.

 

[DerekC]

Blackpool is also on a Golden Mile

 

[High Dyke]

Faldingworth in Lincolnshire was also associated with Polish Air Force squadrons in World War Two.

There is a memorial window and some memorabilia in the church, All Saints.

 

[cjp]

The RAF Red Arrow Display Team are based in Scampton not far from Lincoln.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Scampton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. The civil parish also includes the villages of Brampton and Broadholme.

 

[cjp]

Part of London has a similar name - Brompton

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Brompton Bicycle is a British manufacturer of folding bicycles based in Greenford, London.

 

[DerekC]

Berkhamsted, like Greenford, is on the Grand Union Canal

 

[cjp]

Wick also has a George Street

 

[DerekC]

Dunfermline also has a Carnegie Library

 

[High Dyke]

Wick also has a George Street

Pulteney town is an area of Wick on the south side of the River Wick. Pulteney town takes its name from Sir William Pulteney, a governor of the British Fisheries Society, who also commissioned Robert Adam to build the Pulteney Bridge in Bath.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ian Anderson MBE of Jethro Tull was born in Dunfermline in 1947, but moved with his family to Blackpool, in 1959.

 

[High Dyke]

Ian Anderson MBE of Jethro Tull was born in Dunfermline in 1947, but moved with his family to Blackpool, in 1959.

It must be the sea air...with such a quick return there.

Dorchester also has an outdoor art installation.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Henry Pyrgos, the Glasgow Warriors & Scotland Scrum Half, was born in 1989 in Dorchester. He was, however, educated at Loughborough University - or, as once allegedly called by a visiting Australian "Loogabarooga"!

 

[High Dyke]

In 1841, Loughborough was the destination for the first package tour, organised by Thomas Cook for a temperance group from Leicester. Thomas Cook was born in Melbourne, Derbyshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The children's author Andrew (Andy) Cope was born in Derby in 1966 although he is now a resident of Melbourne, Derbyshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Keeping with the Andrew name. Andrew Handyside was a Glaswegian who took over the Britannia Foundry in Derby in 1848. The company supplied a dome to the steel maker Henry Bessemer for the roof of his conservatory. Henry was born in the village of Charlton, near Hitchin.

 

[cjp]

Pembroke has a Charlton Hotel

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Pembroke Castle was the birthplace of Henry Tudor, later Henry VII of England; after a reign of 24 years, he died at Richmond Palace on 21 April 1509.

 

[cjp]

There is a building known as a Palace in Woodstock (Blenheim palace)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sir Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874 and is buried in St Martin's Church in the nearby village of Bladon.

 

[cjp]

That made me think of the song Blaydon Races

 

[DerekC]

Then of course we were gannin' along the Scotswood Road to get there.

 

[cjp]

following on from the last two answers I have to go with Newcastle upon Tyne area - where they both are.

What an education this quiz is!

 

[High Dyke]

Sunderland is also another city in the North East on a major river.

 

[cjp]

The Sunderland flying boat was built by Short Brothers in Rochester.
Shorts are now based in Belfast

 

[johnnychips]

Southampton was where the Titanic sailed from; it was built in Belfast.

 

[cjp]

One can get a ferry from Southampton to the Isle Of Wight where one can visit Ventnor