Tom Morgan Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Thanks, Sabine. Let's have Seany's clues now. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seany Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Very kind of you Tom - I don't want to hold up your go so here are my clues for a really famous place that should be easy to guess. 1 - it currently has vacancies for the royalty and nobility of Flanders. 2 - Alan Curragh would not be very pleased at its historical roof top activities. 3 - Alphonse 'the bear' unwittingly helped the German artillery destroy what had taken a 100 years to build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 No problem Seany. I give up my go, so the winner of your puzzle can be next, and we're back on track. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seany Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 you are a true gent Tom and should try to guess mine then we would be really back on track. Everyone on this forum will know the place I'm thinking of. No problem Seany. I give up my go, so the winner of your puzzle can be next, and we're back on track. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabine72 Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 st martins cathedral in ieper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seany Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 close st martins cathedral in ieper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Very kind of you Tom - I don't want to hold up your go so here are my clues for a really famous place that should be easy to guess. 1 - it currently has vacancies for the royalty and nobility of Flanders. 2 - Alan Curragh would not be very pleased at its historical roof top activities. 3 - Alphonse 'the bear' unwittingly helped the German artillery destroy what had taken a 100 years to build. That'll be the Cloth Hall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seany Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Hurrah , well done - although I understand they don't throw cats off the roof anymore. Your turn. That'll be the Cloth Hall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 OK - 1) I'm not far from home 2) I can see the grave of the grandfather of a recent Oscar nominee 3) If I was to go inside, I would see a work by Lutyens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 16 March , 2011 Admin Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Mells Churchayrd and you can see the work of Lutyens out there too- he designed a few tombs and the gate and tree walk are his work Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 I'm sure you know the answer, Michelle, but where precisely am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabine72 Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 would you see a garden bench? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Almost certainly, Sabine, but if I did, it wouldn't be significant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabine72 Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 castle drogo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 16 March , 2011 Admin Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Stood by Siegfrieds grave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Yes indeed! Beside Siegfried Sassoon's grave in Mells Churchyard, Somerset. Nearby is the grave of Helena Bonham-Carter's grandfather, Sir Maurice, and inside the church is the statue of Edward Horner, who died at Cambrai in 1917. The statue is by Alfred Munnings, with a plinth designed by Lutyens (who also, as you mention, designed the village war memorial) Your turn now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 16 March , 2011 Admin Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Oh Eck! Somewhere in France........... I am stood with a small white obelisk behind me looking at another identical one across an expanse of water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Leathercote Point above St Margaret's Bay, Dover, looking across to the second Dover Patrol memorial on Cap Blanc Nez? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 16 March , 2011 Admin Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Sorry no Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfaulder Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 The second Dover Patrol memorial on Cap Blanc Nez, looking across to Leathercote Point above St Margaret's Bay, Dover? (would at least put you somewhere in France!) David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 16 March , 2011 Admin Share Posted 16 March , 2011 No again I am afraid. The expanse of water is not the sea.............. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfaulder Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 Oh Eck! Somewhere in France........... I am stood with a small white obelisk behind me looking at another identical one across an expanse of water Small as in not as big as Place de la Concorde, or small as in demarcation stone? David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 16 March , 2011 Share Posted 16 March , 2011 The second Dover Patrol memorial on Cap Blanc Nez, looking across to Leathercote Point above St Margaret's Bay, Dover? (would at least put you somewhere in France!) Whoops! Thank you, David. But it seems I'm wrong anyway. Small as in not as big as Place de la Concorde, or small as in demarcation stone? Are we perhaps at the bottom end of the Western Front on the border with Switzerland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 17 March , 2011 Share Posted 17 March , 2011 No again I am afraid. The expanse of water is not the sea.............. Michelle Is it a canal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 17 March , 2011 Admin Share Posted 17 March , 2011 Not a canal but you are close! The memorials are white Portland stone, with a plinth on raised steps. They are not very big but taller than me. We are not on the Somme or the Salient nor are we at the end of the Western Front. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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