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Topic Started: Jul 5 2013, 02:30 PM (10,214 Views)
becky sharp
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A new game!

Similar to the Wordsnake thread only this one is comprised of the names of Towns/Cities only.

We can also put some information about said town etc. to make it a little more interesting

I'll start us off with

Edinburgh

From its prehistoric beginning as a hillfort, following periods of Celtic and Germanic influence, Edinburgh became part of the Kingdom of Scotland during the 10th century. With burgh charters granted by David I and Robert the Bruce, Edinburgh grew through the Middle Ages as Scotland’s biggest merchant town. By the time of the European Renaissance and the reign of James IV it was well established as Scotland's capital.
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dai Cottomy
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chocster
Dec 12 2013, 04:20 PM
You win, my bad. Or should I say hi there a bad (hyderabad). You have better Google skills and I had no knowledge of them.
Here's the link, Chocs

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PK/
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Going on from 194, ...Nashville





Newbury



Where "Swampy" set up camp in one of the local trees to protest against the building of a new by-pass road in 1996
Edited by Norm Deplume, Dec 13 2013, 04:49 PM.
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York...a beautiful walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence.
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Kidderminster

A town in Worcestershire famous for its carpet industry.

[Continuing the non-existent towns beginning with 'E' (just to rub it in) ...

Eccles
Edgware
Eastbourne
El Paso
Eindhoven
Emmenthal
Etc.]
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<cool> and not forgetting... Ely, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire...



Rochester

... the Cathedral, the Castle, the annual Rochester Dickens Summer Festival and Dickensian Christmas Festival, all reasons to visit this strange yet wonderful little city - well former city - in the unitary authority of Medway in South East England. It is at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles from London. My beloved sister died in the hospice on the High Bank so I got to know the town very well.... <rose>
Edited by Mobson, Dec 14 2013, 03:07 PM.
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Rome - no, not that one,this is Rome Georgia, USA. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States.

Rome, Georgia, was built on seven hills with a river running between them, a feature that was an inspiration for the name. This connection is emphasized by a replica of the statue of Romulus and Remus nursing from a mother wolf, a symbol of the original Rome, which was a 1929 gift from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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Eccles ...is a village in the English county of Kent, part of the parish of Aylesford and in the valley of the River Medway. The name "Eccles" comes from the Latin word "ecclesia" meaning church, and suggests that a post-Roman Christian community existed in the village beyond ...There is a corner shop-cum-post office, a church and church hall (used by the village pre-school), a school, a doctors' surgery and a large park with a skate park and children facilities. A library bus visits every Tuesday afternoon, and an ice cream van visits on the occasional summer Sunday evening. Eccles has two bus stops and the bus numbers are 155 and 158.
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Shaldon
In the County of Devon




A delightful village on the River Teign opposite the town of Teignmouth. Magnolia cottage in the centre of the village has two splendid Magnolia trees in the front garden which are reputedly the first ever in the country, imported by a sea captain who once owned the cottage.
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Dec 17 2013, 12:03 PM
Shaldon
In the County of Devon

A delightful village on the River Teign opposite the town of Teignmouth. Magnolia cottage in the centre of the village has two splendid Magnolia trees in the front garden which are reputedly the first ever in the country, imported by a sea captain who once owned the cottage.
Lovely! My husband's Aunt Marjorie and Uncle Douglas lived there Norm...whilst we were courting, we went on a scooter touring holiday to Devon and Cornwall; we stopped off to have a proper afternoon tea with this very conventional couple...we were camping and they asked about our tent's sleeping arrangements...must have had some effect, as we were driving down to Newquay, my husband-to-be doubled back to Teignmouth and bought my engagement ring! <hug>
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Newquay.... a seaside resort and fishing port in Cornwall, England, situated on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall approximately 20 miles west of Bodmin and 12 miles north of Truro.
It's been a major tourist destination for more than a century, principally on account of its coastline and nine long and accessible sandy beaches, including Fistral. Around 22,000 people live in Newquay, but the population can increase to 100,000 or more in the summer. The resort is widely regarded as the surf capital of the UK, and a centre for the surf industry with many surf stores, board manufacturers and hire shops in the town. At the centre of Newquay's surfing status is Fistral Beach which has a reputation as one of the best beach breaks in Cornwall. Fistral is capable of producing powerful, hollow waves and holding a good sized swell.
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Yardley Gobion

Famous for nothing except for being near to the village of Hanslope, home of Hanslope Park, the real-life headquarters of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office version of Q Branch in the Bond movies. Documents relating to the ill-treatment of Mau-Mau rebels by the British were recently uncovered there.
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did a Norm!!!!!!!!
Edited by Norm Deplume, Dec 17 2013, 04:44 PM.
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Nappa is a hamlet and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the A682 road and 6 miles north-west of Barnoldswick and 10.5 miles west of Skipton.

The population of the parish was estimated at 10 in 2010
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Akalgarh

My ancestral home in Azad Kashmir in Pakistan, as opposed to Indian occupied kashmir if you want to get political. No electricity until 1977, a village which recently changed its name to Islamgarh because Akalgarh had Sikh connotations/origins (to me it is always Akalgarh) and even tho all the family have moved to nearest 'city' my brother's grave is in Akalgarh. My father buried him in Pakistan in 1977. Situated near the impressive Mangla Dam and in the mountains, very scary.

Posted Imagecity centre

Posted Imagemangla dam

Posted Imagehilltop view

Posted Imagemain road

Live in a huge house now...when I go back
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Holkham
In the County of Norfolk





Holkham on 'The Wash' coast of Norfolk is where Holkham Hall is sited, the country seat of the Earls Of Leicester.
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Marston, Vale
In the county of Bedfordshire

Creation of the Forest of Marston Vale is the largest environmental regeneration project in Bedfordshire, covering 61 square miles between Milton Keynes and Bedford. This is mostly reclaimed land from what were The London Brick Co's numerous brickworks and quarries in the area, now no longer operating
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Eton

...is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, lying on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor and connected to it by Windsor Bridge. The name "Eton" derives from Old English Ēa-tūn = River-Town, i.e. Town on the River Thames. The town is best known as the location of Eton College, a famous public school, that some may have heard of....
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Neasden is an area in northwest London, UK. It forms part of the London Borough of Brent.

Neasden has achieved considerable notoriety thanks to the British satirical magazine, Private Eye. Since early in its history (when the magazine was actually printed in Neasden) the magazine has used Neasden as an exemplar of the suburban environment in pieces parodying current events, personalities, and social mores (for example, the University of Neasden). Spoof sports reports in the magazine usually feature the perennially unsuccessful football team, Neasden F.C. with their manager, "ashen-faced" Ron Knee and their only two supporters, Sid and Doris Bonkers.


BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden, is a Hindu temple. Built entirely using traditional methods and materials, it has been described as being Britain’s first authentic Hindu temple.
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Northwood

In the London borough of Uxbridge





The NATO Allied Maritime Command is based at Northwood, and comes under the Command and Control of the Allied Command Operations.


This town is also where Reginald Dwight...aka, Elton John, was born and lived and where his career started by playing the piano in one of the local pubs
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Ditchling is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is contained within the boundaries of the South Downs National Park.

Ditchling was the home of an artistic community known as The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. It was founded by the artist Eric Gill during the early 20th century, and survived until 1989. Eric Gill's statue of Prospero and Ariel surmounts the entrance to Broadcasting House in London
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Gosforth

A small village in Cumbria, noted for its Viking connections.
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Hemel Hempstead
in the County of Hertfordshire


It has been a settlement since the 8th century but was developed as one of the original 'New Towns' post WW2, to accommodate the "London Overspill". Now well established in its own right and in its 7th decade.[/i]
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Dittisham is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of the English county of Devon. It is situated on the banks of the tidal River Dart, some 2 miles upstream of Dartmouth.

The Greenway Ferry carries pedestrians across the river from Dittisham to Greenway Quay, adjacent to the Greenway Estate. Formerly the home of the late crime writer Agatha Christie, this has views across the river, and the house and gardens are now owned by the National Trust and are open to the public
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Matamata - a town in the North Island of NZ, a quiet service town for a dairy farming area and known for its thoroughbred breeding, until Peter Jackson set up the Hobbiton Movie Centre there, since when it has become a tourist attraction. (My kids visited this and said it was great.) It has about 12,000 people and means 'headland' or 'the tip of something'.
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Adelaide

Capital of South Australia, named after King William IV's queen, hence King William Street in the city centre.
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Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is situated immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain.

There are an estimated 20 deaths a year at Beachy Head.The Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team conducts regular day and evening patrols of the area in attempts to locate and stop potential jumpers and there are posted signs with the telephone number of the Samaritans urging potential jumpers to call them
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"there are posted signs with the telephone number of the Samaritans urging potential jumpers to call them."
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I'll bet that there are literally hundreds of balls of wool all lined up waiting to make the phone call <violin>
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Ettrick - a tiny town in Central Otago, NZ, traditionally a fruit-growing area, and Ettrick sells a lot of apples, apricots, peaches at the roadside. We stopped there recently at a tearooms, instead of the usual cafe, and it was rather nice to have a good cup of tea and very fresh sandwiches for a change. I see in the wikipedia item for Ettrick that it is known for its 'quaint tearooms' - they didn't seem specially quaint to me.

And somehow we have never noticed the following: Recently New Zealands only McDonald's themed museum opened to the public in Ettrick, boasting the largest collection of McDonald's paraphernalia in the Southern Hemisphere. Alan Garthwaite, the collector and owner of the museum has been collecting McDonald's nick-nacks for over 25 years, his collection consists of Burger boxes, cups, hats, toys, watches, badges, dolls and uniforms, some dating back 40 years.[1]

Ettrick was named by its Scottish settlers during the goldrush times.
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Kidwelly
In the County of Carmarthenshire


Kidwelly Castle, founded in 1106; a fourteenth-century bridge and gate; and a Norman parish church, are the local attractions and also, probably the finest cockles in the UK are collected here
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Yealand Conyers is a village and civil parish in the English county of Lancashire.

The village has both a manor house and a stately home Leighton Hall. The bulk of the Leighton Moss RSPB reserve is in Yealand Conyers but main visitor access is from Silverdale. The RSPB reserve also protects an area of Morecambe Bay, where a saltmarsh provides a habitat for birds such as avocets.
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Seoul - the capital city of South Korea (which I note is just called Korea when it is a more local site referred to). A very large metropolis, technologically advanced and generally progressive, highly ranked for livability, with Asia's largest underground shopping centre; it has a population of over 10 million for the city itself, and serves 26 million in the surrounding metropolitan area. It has been an important place in Korean history for 2000 years, and now has the longest bridge foundation, highest building, fastest broadband, etc in Asia.
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Leyland

On the outskirts of Preston in the County of Lancashire





One time home of the famous "Leyland" buses and lorries
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Deauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.

With its race course, harbour, international film festival, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino and sumptuous hotels, Deauville is regarded as the "queen of the Norman beaches" and one of the most prestigious seaside resorts in all of France.
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Ekatahuna - town in the North Island of NZ, about 80 miles north of Wellington. It was the subject of a 6.2 earthquake last week, lots of minor damage and very frightening, though with few injuries. Ekatahuna = "to run aground on a sandbank" though it was originally called Mellemskov by its Swedish, English, Norwegian and German early European settlers. Has about 4500 people and is a service town for a sheep, beef and deer farming area, with horse-breeding and opportunities for hunting, golf and walking.
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Ekatahuna - town in the North Island of NZ, about 80 miles north of Wellington. It was the subject of a 6.2 earthquake last week, lots of minor damage and very frightening, though with few injuries. Ekatahuna = "to run aground on a sandbank" though it was originally called Mellemskov by its Swedish, English, Norwegian and German early European settlers. Has about 4500 people and is a service town for a sheep, beef and deer farming area, with horse-breeding and opportunities for hunting, golf and walking

It sounds very idyllic Caro




Ashford

In the County of Kent


Gateway to Europe via the Channel Tunnel
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Dieppe is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in France.

A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi.
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Elsinore - Town in Denmark associated most strongly with Hamlet and the castle. We visited this on our honeymoon and I wrote a very long letter about our trip. Its part about Elsinore said: One other day we made a trip to Elsinore - just opposite Sweden, which we could see quite clearly in the distance. It was bitterly cold - with icy sea breezes. We had to walk quite a long way from the railway to the castle and we got quite frozen. The castle itself was quite stark on the outside - no pretty gardens, or such things. There were a few soldiers around who had their barracks on the site of the castle. We had a tour through the castle itself - some of the rooms had antique furniture, etc. in them, but some were undecorated. We started to go on a tour round the dungeon underneath, by torchlight, but fortunately just as I was beginning to think I couldn’t possibly manage it (claustrophobia - well, fear of dark undergrounds, anyway. Imagine if you got locked in, or they fell down!), Malcolm decided we didn’t have time, so we slipped away back.

We got back to the railway with a good half-hour to spare before our train was due, so we thought we’d have tea. Unfortunately, the waitress was a bit slack and spent her time smoking and chatting, and serving old friends, instead of us, so eventually we walked out, as the train had arrived. The last I saw of her she was gesticulating madly at us, with our meals in her hands.

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Eynsford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent.

In the centre of the village is a ford over the river Darent with a picturesque hump-back bridge alongside. There are many old buildings including the 16th-century Plough Inn and the Old Mill.

Dating from 1088, Eynsford Castle is one of the most complete Norman castles in England. Ransacked in the 14th century, it fell into decay. It is now in the care of English Heritage and open to the public.
Lullingstone Roman villa was discovered in 1939, and contains some of the finest excavated remains of a Roman villa in Britain, including a Romano-Christian chapel.
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Derby



As home to Lombe's Mill, the first factory in the world, Derby is considered the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, and due to its strategic central location, the city grew to become the foremost centre of the British rail industry.

Today, Derby is an internationally renowned centre for advanced transport manufacturing, home to the world’s second largest aero-engine manufacturer, Rolls-Royce, and Derby Litchurch Lane Works—the UK's only remaining train manufacturer. The Toyota Manufacturing UK's automobile headquarters is found just South of the city at Burnaston.
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Yalding is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent. The village is situated 6 miles south west of Maidstone at a point where the Rivers Teise and Beult join the River Medway.

Plans to create a new ‘garden city’, boasting thousands of new homes in Kent, have been revealed by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg - with the site identified as Yalding.

Local residents will be excused for not appreciating the humour of the situation after it was submerged over Christmas and is vulnerable to flooding.




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Grasmere
In the County Of Cumbria

Home to poet William Wordsworth




Daffodils



I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


William Wordsworth
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EDGBASTON

Leafy (in its south-western parts) suburb of Birmingham, chiefly known for its world-famous cricket ground which, since its multi-million pound refurbishment and refitting, hasn't hosted a single test match! <laugh>
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Why would it Taf! :'( ...and Norm my mother has told me very recently that Wordsworth's Daffodils is her poem of choice when the time comes.... :wub:


Newington ~ Stop-off on the Southern Railway route to Dover/Ramsgate - altho' why anyone would, I've no idea!
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Nantwich
In the County Of Cheshire


The origins of the settlement at Nantwich date to Roman times when salt from Nantwich was used by the Roman garrisons at Chester and Stoke-on-Trent as both a preservative and a condiment. Salt has been used in the production of Cheshire cheese and in the tanning industry, both industries being products of the dairy industry based on the Cheshire Plain around Nantwich
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Holmfirth is a small town in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England, six miles south of Huddersfield. It consists mostly of stone-built cottages nestled in the Pennine hills. The Peak District National Park around Holme Moss is 4 miles to the south of the town.

Holmfirth was once a centre for pioneering film-making by Bamforth & Co., which later switched to the production of saucy seaside postcards. More recently it has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine.
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Harpenden

In the County Of Hertfordshire


The home from1960 to 1984, and now, the resting place of the famed comedian Eric Morecombe
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Nether Wallop is a village in central Hampshire, England.
It is part of The Wallops: Nether, Middle and Over Wallop.

The village contains many old thatched cottages and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England.
. Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane, Nether Wallop was used as Miss Marple's home in the BBC adaptations of the Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels.
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Palmerston - there are two Palmerstons in New Zealand, a little town in the South Island with just that moniker, and a large town in the North Island called Palmerston North (though not by locals who call it Palmy). The northern one is a university town, being home to Massey University once an agricultural institution but now a very proactive university spreading its wings everywhere. Palmerston North is an attractive town but suffers from being small and therefore eligible for mockery. Palmerston South has only 900 residents so is too small for mockery. Its river is the Shag River and we sometimes see tourists taking photos of the signs to Shag River, which is also a place.
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Niagara,
Canada


They say that there are some spectacular waterfalls there.
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Alnwick (pronounced Annick) is a small market town in north Northumberland, England.
According to Country Life, October 2002, "Alnwick is the most picturesque market town in Northumberland, and the best place to live in Britain"

The town dates back to approximately AD 600, and over the centuries has thrived as an agricultural centre;and as the location of Alnwick Castle,one of the homes of the Dukes of Northumberland. The castle is popular with film-makers: Harry Potter; Blackadder and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves are some of the films shot here
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We were Alnwick (pronouncing it as spelt till we heard someone at our breakfast table call it Annick) on the day of the Duke of Northumberland's daughter's wedding. I really liked the garden with its steps up to a water feature (not going in the winter, but still special) and various interesting bits.

Kaka Point - seaside resort about 20 minutes from where I live. Lovely little town with yellow-eyed penguins and sea-lions nearby. Only one shop - it has the restaurant, the pub, the dairy and groceries, information, etc. Sometimes whales can be seen there. Not kaka, I think though, which is the name of an endangered native parrot. No doubt it was, not that long ago.
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Tavistock
In the County Of Devonshire

The Birthplace and Home of Sir Francis Drake.

The Russell family, namely the Dukes of Bedford were given the town by Henry the 8th on the dissolution of the monasteries and the eldest son of the Duke of Bedford is known by the courtesy title of Marquis of Tavistock. The Russell family still hold large estates in the area
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Kensington...

...is a west London borough of Royal borough status. It is an urban area, one of the most densely populated in the United Kingdom. It contains major museums and universities in "Albertopolis", department stores such as Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols and embassies in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington Gardens, and it is home to the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest. It contains many of the most expensive residential districts in London and even in the world, as well as districts with high levels of social housing and poverty.
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Nottingham

City connected with the legend of Robin Hood. Has a wonderful museum inside the castle, and what is called Britain's oldest pub. (Though I may have seen that sign in other places.) Nottingham may not be everyone's favourite city, but we have warm feelings towards it, since an architect firm there gave our son a job as an architect when he arrived in Britain eighteen months ago, which he loves.
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Maidstone...

Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, 32 miles (51 km) south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, linking it with Rochester and the Thames Estuary. Historically, the river was a source and route for much of the town's trade as the centre of the agricultural county of Kent, known as the Garden of England. There is evidence of a settlement in the area dating back to beyond the Stone Age. Personally I avoid the place like the plague, don't know why!
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Ebbsfleet A garden city with an initial 15,000 homes will be built at Ebbsfleet in Kent.

Explaining the decision to choose Ebbsfleet rather than richer parts of the country, Mr Osborne said: "In Ebbsfleet there is the land available, there is fantastic infrastructure with the high speed line."

Unfortunately, Ebbsfleet was designated – long before last month’s flooding disasters – as an area of high flood risk.


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Tatranská Štrba

Small village in the High Tatras (Slovakia), these being the western end of the Carpathain mountains. The entire area is worth visiting just to look at - the scenery is stunning. Visit nearby Štrbské Pleso - if you're not feeling well, you will after visiting here; and if you're dead you'll be ressurected.
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ALDEBURGH
In the County of Suffolk



The internationally renowned Aldeburgh Festival of arts, which takes place at nearby Snape Maltings, was created in 1948 by the resident and acclaimed composer Benjamin Britten
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Hastings:

...is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, on the south coast of England.

In historical terms, Hastings can claim fame through its connection with the Norman conquest of England; the start of which was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066; although the battle itself took place 8 mi (13 km) to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at a site now known as Norman's Bay. It is thought that the Norman encampment was on the town’s outskirts, where there was open ground; a new town was already being built in the valley to the east. That "New Burgh" was founded in 1069, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as such. William defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army; thus opening England to the Norman conquest.
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SOUTHSEA
In the County of Hampshire





From where the observers watched the Coronation Fleet Review in 1953. I was standing with the rest of the ship's crew of HM Submarine Amphion, saluting Her Majesty as she sailed past on board the Royal Yacht Brittania
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What a great memory that must be, Norm.

AMSTERDAM - great city in Netherlands. We had a wonderful rikstaffel meal there on our honeymoon, visited Anne Frank's house and Rembrandtshius and the Rijksmuseum (interesting to read in my account of our trip that we hadn't heard of the Night Watch till we went there), the Beguine Court (which our book said 90% of tourists missed and which was a delightful spot), and were a little bemused at the busyness of the sex shops and night clubs on Saturday night and the complete contrast on Sunday morning with no one around even by 11am. The food was great in Amsterdam.
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It was a very proud day for me Caro, those were the times, as opposed to nowadays, when I was very proud to be British.
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Mousehole (pronounced mauzel) is a village and fishing port in Cornwall. It is situated approximately 2 1⁄2 miles south of Penzance on the shore of Mount's Bay.

Tom Bawcock's Eve is a unique celebration held on December 23 each year to celebrate the ending of a famine in the 16th century by local resident Tom Bawcock. This festival is the inspiration behind the book The Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber and the associated television productions. This festival is also the origin of 'Star Gazey Pie', a mixed fish, egg and potato pie with fish heads protruding through the pastry
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EASTRY

Little village in Kent, voted the best in Kent in 2005. Some of my husband's relatives are buried in the church grounds here and we visited it last year. The church is an "A listed" historic building. There was a royal palace here for Saxon kings.
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Ystrad (also known as Ystrad Rhondda or Ystrad-Rhondda) is a community and village in the Rhondda Fawr valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. As a community and ward Ystrad contains the neighbouring district of Gelli. Ystrad is a former coal mining village which was once housed the most profitable collieries belonging to the Cory brothers.

It is also the village where my father was born and where he worked in the Gelli Colliery for fifteen years. The economic situation in Wales in the mid 1930s caused our family to emigrate to the more favourable climate of England.
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Ambleside is a town in Cumbria, in North West England. Historically within the county of Westmorland, it is situated at the head of Windermere, England's largest lake. The town is within the Lake District National Park.

William Wordsworth worked in Ambleside, as Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland, from 1813, while living at Rydal Mount in the nearby village of Rydal, It gave Wordsworth the financial security to pursue his poetry. In 1842, he became the Poet Laureate and resigned his office as Stamp Distributor
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We are going to stay a week at Bodmin - our whole family, all ten of us in a cottage - in May. Following the post above I said we should go to Mousehole and explained about our game. My youngest (playful) son has replied thus: "I highly agree.

We should do a round trip from Mousehole to Engollan, then Nine Maiden's Downs, then Slaughterbridge, before popping over to Egloskerry (who knows?), Yeolmbridge, and Eastcott. Then we'd have a choice between Tredannick, Trebetherick, or Treburrik, and we'd still be able to go by Kehelland on our way to Doublebois! (which is really not far from Bodmin at all)

Of course that's just one idea, and I have no idea where any of those places are. Love a good game though."


So following Ambleside we will have

Engollan.

Which is a rural hamlet in north Cornwell. It seems very hard to find out much about it - wikipedia has the tiniest entry and sites talking of historic photos of Engollan just say they don't have any yet and would I like to provide some. Maybe one of you knows more.
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Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. . Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.

Nineveh was one of the oldest and greatest cities in antiquity. The area was settled as early as 6000 BC and, by 3000 BC, had become an important religious centre for worship of the Assyrian goddess Ishtar. In the Bible, Nineveh is first mentioned in Genesis 10:11: "Ashur left that land, and built Nineveh".

In an October 2010 report titled "Saving Our Vanishing Heritage" Global Heritage Fund named Nineveh one of 12 sites most "on the verge" of irreparable destruction and loss, citing insufficient management, development pressures and looting as primary causes.
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Ah! Nineveh! I became fascinated by various subjects on this ancient city made great again by King Sennacherib, c700BCE, when he established it as the new capital of the Assyrian Empire, building the largest palace of its time; fascinated reading about the findings of this ancient city in 1845 by Sir Austin H. Layard, after it had been mapped by British archaeologist Claudius J Rich. Layard bought a huge collection of artefacts back to Britain, much of which went to the British Museum but since they didn't/couldn't take it all, many went to Lady Charlotte Guest, a cousin of Layard and at the time the richest woman in England. At her country house, Canford Manor, Guest commissioned from Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament, the "Nineveh Porch" to display the sculptures. This established a whole new decorative and architectural fashion for "Assyrian Revival".

There is a further story of the finding of the sculptures in what is now a boy's school called Canford School...the sculptures were the subject of a book written by John Malcolm Russell, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art called 'From Nineveh to New York: the Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School' (New Haven, 1997). He wrote a very important book 'The Final Sack of Nineveh: the Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of Sennacherib's Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq' (New Haven, 1998). In these works Russell's meticulous research called attention to Iraqi antiquities appearing on the international market and traced their origins back to specific sites and monuments. When asked to join the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, Russell showed his willingness to take extreme risks in backing up his words with action. From September 2003 until June 2004 he served as Deputy Senior Advisor, then Senior Advisor, to the Iraq Ministry of Culture, Coalition Provisional Authority. During this work he continued his efforts to educate those around him about the importance of preserving Iraq's archaeological heritage. With few resources he pressed for better protection of sites and practical efforts at restoring Iraqi museums. He also served as an inspiring leader for the staff of the Iraqi National Museum as they attempted to move toward the future. As reconstruction has progressed, Russell has raised awareness of the need to incorporate site protection in rebuilding contracts. Since returning to the U.S., he has continued to speak out in public forums in defense of the preservation of sites and the restoration of museums. In recognition of generous and effective service, carried out under extraordinary and often dangerous circumstances, the Archaeological Institute of America presented John Malcolm Russell its Outstanding Public Service Award for the year 2005.

All this is why when I visit the British Museum, I invariably go to room 9 where a series of detailed carved stone panels, that once decorated rooms and courtyards of the Neo-Assyrian Southwest Palace of King Sennacherib, are exhibited...the British Museum's database counts 30,943 'tablets' in the entire Nineveh library collection http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/middle_east/room_9_assyria_nineveh.aspx ....

By coincidence, a friend of mine, in his little museum/workshop in the canaries recreates cuneiform tablets and images from the period; which I now have a collection of & have written about on this forum before...
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Thanks for that info, Mobs. The name Nineveh takes me back to schooldays, learning "Cargoes" by John Masefield by heart:

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amethysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays
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Oh! the comparisons between the three cultures, two exotic but the last of Britain, makes us sound so base and miserable!

The poem on this subject that I relate to goes back even further than John Masefield's...to 1815 in fact...

The Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon Byron

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still.

And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride:
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.

And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail;
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
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'Suppose better get back to the thread...after Nineveh comes....


Hebden Bridge...

is on the Yorkshire side of the Pennine Hills. It was a small mill town producing wool and woollen goods. By the end of the sixties, the town was in bad shape. Shops were empty and blocks of terraced houses were being pulled down. During the seventies and eighties the town was repopulated by a motley mixture of artists, writers, photographers, musicians, alternative practitioners, teachers, green and New Age activists and more recently, wealthier yuppy types. The area has a rich literary history. The Bronte sisters wrote their famous novels just a few miles away in Haworth, the American poet, Sylvia Plath is buried at Heptonstall on the hill overlooking Hebden Bridge and the poet laureate, Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, two miles away. It's an obvious destination for those wanting to escape the cities because life here can be a fine mixture of the urban and rural. The water from the hills powered the first mills of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, ten minutes from the town centre and you can be walking alone by the river in one of the many wooded valleys. A half an hour's walk uphill and you can be rambling across heather moorland. Gibson Mill - renovated with sustainable energy from the Hebden Water, sun and wood - is now with a cafe. 2010 marked 500 years of the Hebden Bridge and Ian McMillan Poet-in-Residence at the Academy of Urbanism, wrote a poem which captures the spirit of the town.

Hebden Bridge which won the Great Town Award given by the Academy of Urbanism

Town with a tissue that's quite unique;
Town where history's strata show
Alternative visions cheek to cheek,
Different plants allowed to grow.

In a world where towns are pallid clones
Hebden Bridge stands out a mile,
As the sun lights up West Yorkshire stones
And the sky is as bright as a smile;

You walk through the street and the voices rise
Like steam from a coffee emporium
And very quickly you realise
The whole town's an auditorium!

Hebden Bridge is theatre, so let's all clap
The wizard's cloak behind the new flat cap!

Ian McMillan
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Apr 11 2014, 01:04 PM
Thanks for that info, Mobs. The name Nineveh takes me back to schooldays, learning "Cargoes" by John Masefield by heart ...
The name Nineveh takes me back to my schooldays, too, studying Ur of the Chaldees by Leonard Woolley. Blair's Iraq War made me despair of what was being done to the ancient artefacts in the region.
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Elephant and Castle
In Central London south of the River Thames






The name "Elephant and Castle" is derived from a coaching inn. The earliest surviving record of this name relating to the area is in the Court Leet Book of the Manor of Walworth, which met at "Elephant and Castle, Newington" on 21 March 1765. Previously the site was occupied by a blacksmith and cutler – the coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers features an elephant with a castle (possibly meant to be a howdah) on its back, which in turn was used because of the use of elephant ivory in handles.
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Ealing ~ a district in west London, with the road to Oxford cutting through it. Known for Ealing comedies, and The Ealing Jazz Club was the catalyst for a number of famous British pop groups, notable the Rolling Stones.
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REFERENCE EALING

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40997909.html



The white house in the photograph is where I lived a child from 5yrs old until I was 15. On moving from Wales when I was 5, we rented the property, until just after World War Two. At that time, the landlord of the house offered it to my father for £450 .00 YES you read it correctly FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS. My Dad, being a staunch Socialist and a paid-up member of The Labour Party said that it was against all of his principles and all that he stood for and that he would not become a landowner.


DAD, I loved you dearly but c'mon! <violin>
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It's wonderful to hear of someone with principles they stick to like that, Norm. (Though of course, I do understand your feelings now on this matter!) I wish there were more socialists around now. (I am what you would call a chardonnay socialist.)

Just recently we filled out petitions against our government selling state assets of our power companies. We don't believe in this at all (nor do many people but it hasn't stopped our government being very popular), but my husband has still bought shares in this. He justifies it by saying it keeps them in NZ hands. I do believe they are just in his name, so I don't need to feel too bad about this - though I will expect to get them if he were to die!

Mind you we own rental properties, which is against my principles too, but does mean we have something put aside for our retirement. NZers don't really like shares after 1987.
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Blow that! I don't agree at all and Norm is right - I have two girlfriends with properties in Ealing - one has a house in Warwick Road and the other a flat for investment in the top of a house in Little Ealing Lane, that looks very like the picture of the house, even in today's climate they have increased three-fold in the time since they were purchased.

Talking of missed opportunities, The detached cottage I was born in, in the Kentish countryside, was and still is absolutely idyllic and quite beautiful in its setting right next to a wonderful old Norman church with green pastures as far as the eye can see; my gardener grandfather could have bought it for 700 squid - my father told me he had the money but was a bit tight with it, not allowing my grandmother Sarah Cooker a washing machine or even a refrigerator (the first things she acquired upon his death!). It came on the market a few years back and I was tempted to buy it, but as it was probably a 'remorqueur de cœur' purchase...@ £500k I thought it was a bit pricey for a (sometime) weekend retreat ... :$
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GILLINGHAM ....in Kent, not Dorset...don't go there - there's nothing to see believe me...has the dankest railway station on the London-Dover line...that's the best I can say about it! :'(
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Not far from Chatham though Mobsy, I was stationed there for a few weeks on HMS Sheffield in dry dock, just before I went into Submarines.
My Primary and Junior school was in Little Ealing Lane.
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Chatham dockyard in the next town towards London is a great place to visit now that it has been turned into a very respectable tourist attraction.. but I reiterate, and trust me I know whereof I speak, Gillingham is a no-no unless you're a football fan or someone who has been there recently as I have...
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Had a few boozy nights in Gilly in my heyday ! ! !
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Say no more... <laugh>
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MIRIMAR

A suburb of Wellington, known now for its connection to film maker Sir Peter Jackson. From wikipedia: Prior to World War 2 the then government purchased an independent film company called Kaft Films in Darlington Rd, Miramar and set up a full body, government film production operation, to cover New Zealand's contribution in WW2. It was called the National Film Unit. In the late nineties, Sir Peter Jackson purchased the Film Unit, as it was then known, to produce his films. He used the NFU's facilities to an extreme degree while making Braindead.

Film director Sir Peter Jackson and his colleagues Sir Richard Taylor (VFX) and Jamie Selkirk (Editor) have built a series of multi-million dollar studios, sound stages, and pre- and post-production (including Weta Digital - Avatar and Weta Workshop) facilities in Miramar, where he filmed The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong. It has been hailed by Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro as "Hollywood the way God intended it".[5]

Miramar was named by the first settler in the area, a Scotsman, and it is Spanish for sea view. The Maori name dated to when the peninsula was an island and is Te Motu Kairangi (meaning "esteemed or precious island").
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ROCHESTER...carrying on up the Medway railway line towards London and you'll come to Rochester...Rochester, together with neighbouring Chatham, Gillingham, Strood and a number of outlying villages, makes up the Medway unitary authority area. The town and former city was for many years the favourite of Charles Dickens, who lived nearby at Gads Hill Place, Higham, and who based many of his novels in the area. The Diocese of Rochester, the second oldest in England, is based at Rochester Cathedral, and was responsible for the founding of King's School in 604 AD, which is the second oldest school in the world. Rochester Castle, built by Gundulf of Rochester, has one of the best preserved keeps in England or France, and during the First Barons' War (1215–1217) in King John's reign, baronial forces captured the castle from Archbishop Stephen Langton and held it against the king, who then besieged it. Now this is worth visiting and many people do! <happy>
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ROCHDALE
In the County of Lancashire



Home town of the great entertainer/singer, Gracie Fields

The Parliamentary constituency of the infamous late MP and alleged paedophile, Cyril Smith
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Edgbaston

...is an area in the city of Birmingham in England. It curves around the south and west of the original town of Birmingham, and is bordered by Moseley to the south east and by Smethwick and Winson Green to the north west. Traditionally has a reputation for being one of the most upmarket and affluent parts of Birmingham or "where the trees begin". In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family who refused to allow factories or warehouses to be built in Edgbaston, thus making it attractive for the middle class. Edgbaston is home to the University of Birmingham, established as Birmingham Medical School in 1825. Warwickshire County Cricket Club is based at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, the area historically being part of Warwickshire. As well as hosting regular county matches, the ground plays host to the England cricket team during one day internationals and test matches.
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Nairobi ~ capital of Kenya. The city is the hub of safari parks surrounding it, but has a culture of good food, though tourists need to take care of their personal safety. It doesn't have a long history as a large town, only dating back to 1899. Then it was rebuilt in 1905 after plagues has attacked it and made it unhealthy.

Right now, I see it has been the subject of a bomb attack, injuring many and killing three.
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May 5 2014, 07:08 AM
Nairobi ~ capital of Kenya. Right now, I see it has been the subject of a bomb attack, injuring many and killing three. [/i]
Yes, impossible not to comment on Nairobi which is experiencing deeply troubled times - homemade bombs exploded on two commuter buses on Thika highway in the Kenyan capital, a day after two blasts on the coast killed four people.

The al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab has launched a series of attacks against Kenyan targets, including Nairobi, in recent years in retaliation for Kenya's military involvement in Somalia since 2011. In September at least 67 people were killed when al-Shabab fighters seized the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi for four days. I was only viewing a photographer's work on this subject the other day - harrowing pictures of bodies, who had been innocently shopping, just lying around by shop tills and shelving full of products.. one picture showed a parent with two young children lying by a drinks prep area - it was as if they were sleeping... <rose>

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2014/04/10/world/africa/WESTGATE.html?_r=0#1
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ICKWORTH
In the County of Suffolk

The Country Seat of the Marquesses of Bristol

John Hervey, the seventh Marquess of Bristol who admitted spending £7 million on drugs in less than a decade, had assets in Britain worth only £5,000 when he was found dead in January, 1999, at the age of 44. The estate was worth nothing after liabilities, including his funeral expenses, were taken into account.
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Halifax is a Minster town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It is well known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward. The Piece Hall is the former cloth hall, where pieces of woollen cloth were traded. Opened on 1 January 1779, trading took place for two hours on a Saturday morning in a total of 315 merchant trading rooms. After the mechanisation of the cloth industry, the Piece Hall became a public market. The Piece Hall is now host to many arts, crafts and independent shops.
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Xantippe
Western Australia

Xantippe can have very strong (vii) earthquakes (on average one every 50 years), with occurances at 6-7 Richter. When a strong earthquake occurs, it will be difficult to stand and noticed by people driving motor cars. Furniture and glass will be broken. The damage will be negligible in buildings of good design and construction but considerable damage may be inflicted on poorly built or badly designed structures. There is a low occurence of periods with extreme drought.
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Eye...

is a small market town in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It derives its name from the Old English word for 'island' and it is believed that the first settlement on the site would have been almost entirely surrounded by water and marshland formed by the River Dove and its tributaries. The area is still prone to flooding in areas close to the River Dove. Eye is twinned with the town of Pouzauges in the Vendée Departement of France.
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EPSOM
in the County of Surrey


Home to Epsom Downs Racecourse where The Oaks and The Derby are run each June
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Menton is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Menton, nicknamed the Pearl of France, is located on the Mediterranean Sea at the Franco-Italian border, just across from the Ligurian town of Ventimiglia. It has a warm micro-climate favourable to lemon, tangerine, and orange groves.

The Lemon Festival takes place every February. The festival lasts a few days, with different bands passing through Menton's streets on foot or on truck trailers. The Casino Gardens in the centre of town are decorated in the theme of the festival, using lemons to cover the exhibits, and huge temporary statues are built and covered with citrus fruit.
The Menton Classical Musical Festival is also held every year in the centre of the old town.

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THE CITY OF NOTTINGHAM


Famed for:-
Lace Making, John PLayer's Tobacco Products, Raleigh Bicycles, Boots The Chemist, and of course, the legendary Robin Hood
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Missolonghi is a town in western Greece. It is known as the site of a dramatic siege during the Greek War of Independence, and of the death of poet Lord Byron.

Lord Byron, who supported the Greek struggle for independence, died in Missolonghi in 1824. He is commemorated by a cenotaph, containing his heart, and a statue located in the town.
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Isle of Sheppey

...If Jeremy Clarkson is to be believed...in an article he wrote about driving to the Isle of Sheppey in East Kent, the Top Gear host wrote: "Mostly, the Isle of Sheppey is a caravan site.There are thousands of thousands of mobile homes, all of which I suspect belong to former London cabbies, the only people on Earth with the knowledge to get there before it's time to turn round and come home again."...but the I of S has much more to offer, Jeremy! It is a relatively small island lying just off the North Kent Coast, separated from the mainland by the Swale Estuary, and has Two bridges including a railway connect the island allowing easy access for visitors and locals alike. I say easy access, that's if there isn't a high wind or a traffic accident! Sheppey has a rich history and is known as the birthplace of British aviation. <erm> Distinguished aviators such as Shorts, Rolls and Wrights were all based here and on 2nd May 1909 John Brabazon made the first flight in Britain - flying a total of 500 yards at a height of 35 feet at Leysdown. Other claims to fame include Nelson being based at the naval dockyard, and his body returned to Sheerness after he died at the Battle of Trafalgar.

JMW Turner also painted scenes of Sheerness, and nearby Blue Town which grew up alongside the Naval Dockyard, and so called because the local inhabitants used to paint their wooden houses with blue paint 'liberated from their employers, has many historical links. There's a Warner's Holiday Camp which looks a bit like neighbouring Eastchurch Open Prison, Oh! and a ferry service to escape to Holland which seems now to have been discontinued!...Oh and lots of grazing sheep put there by the Romans, hence the name...
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YEOVIL
In The County Of Dorset


Home and Headquarters of the Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm
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Leominster (pronounced Lemster) is a market town in Herefordshire, England, and is located at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater, approximately 12 miles north of the city of Hereford and 11 miles south of Ludlow.

One of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent. The ducking stool is on public display in Leominster Priory; a mechanised depiction of it is featured on the town clock.
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