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http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/where_was_i/article1271593.ece
September 9, 2007
Win a five-star weekend for two in Istanbul, with the Sheraton Istanbul Maslak hotel and EasyJet
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Today, the chance to reveal my identity. You will need to know this number: 35. And my destination.
My journey commences in a district of theatrical repute. Here, in 1576, the country’s first playhouse was built; a second — The Curtain — followed shortly afterwards. The actor (born about 1530) who established the first playhouse was buried in the parish church.
Heading south, we soon arrive at a station. How many travellers, I muse, pause for contemplation, amid the sparkling steel and glass, at its impressive memorial to the great war; or to ponder its tragic history? (The field marshal who unveiled it was assassinated shortly after the unveiling ceremony.) At a tortuously slow pace, we head towards the suburbs, crossing the river, 1½ miles after which we reach a curiously named place. Originally a smithy, it is an electrically busy road junction, and its name is possibly derived from a company (its colours: white and red) that received its charter in 1416.
<!--#include file="m63-article-related-attachements.html"-->Ere long, we reach a second suburb. I wonder whether it was part of the Bills of Mortality area? If so, this type of journey would have been forbidden prior to 1832. Literally the well of the crooked, it was the birthplace, in 1812, of a poet (died Venice, 1889). And just across there is the street where a politician (appointed president, in 1880, of the Board of Trade) was born.
Now we turn southwest for a third suburb. A music-hall star, best known by his stage name, lived here; the infantry in the great war (“Vot a bloody fine lot”) sang of him enthusiastically. We creep west for a further 1½ miles until finally reaching a 220-acre open space. Time to explore, for this neighbourhood was home to a diarist who (elsewhere) famously buried his parmesan cheese in the garden (as one does); also, traditionally, to the explorer who once sailed to disprove the existence of an Antarctic continent; and, finally, to a coal-merchant’s son (born 1739) who, in 1785, founded an institution of universal significance. It cost 2½d.
Crumbs. All these famous people. Me? I’m just an ordinary kind of bloke.
The competition
1. Who am I?
2. Who was the coal-merchant's son?
ENTER THE COMPETITION
Enter by clicking on the link above or by sending a postcard to Where Was I? September 9, 2007, PO Box 48795, London E98 1WY, by Wednesday. The winner will be announced next Sunday. Only one entry per person. Normal Times Newspapers rules apply. No correspondence will be entered into.
September 9, 2007
Win a five-star weekend for two in Istanbul, with the Sheraton Istanbul Maslak hotel and EasyJet
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Today, the chance to reveal my identity. You will need to know this number: 35. And my destination.
My journey commences in a district of theatrical repute. Here, in 1576, the country’s first playhouse was built; a second — The Curtain — followed shortly afterwards. The actor (born about 1530) who established the first playhouse was buried in the parish church.
Heading south, we soon arrive at a station. How many travellers, I muse, pause for contemplation, amid the sparkling steel and glass, at its impressive memorial to the great war; or to ponder its tragic history? (The field marshal who unveiled it was assassinated shortly after the unveiling ceremony.) At a tortuously slow pace, we head towards the suburbs, crossing the river, 1½ miles after which we reach a curiously named place. Originally a smithy, it is an electrically busy road junction, and its name is possibly derived from a company (its colours: white and red) that received its charter in 1416.
<!--#include file="m63-article-related-attachements.html"-->Ere long, we reach a second suburb. I wonder whether it was part of the Bills of Mortality area? If so, this type of journey would have been forbidden prior to 1832. Literally the well of the crooked, it was the birthplace, in 1812, of a poet (died Venice, 1889). And just across there is the street where a politician (appointed president, in 1880, of the Board of Trade) was born.
Now we turn southwest for a third suburb. A music-hall star, best known by his stage name, lived here; the infantry in the great war (“Vot a bloody fine lot”) sang of him enthusiastically. We creep west for a further 1½ miles until finally reaching a 220-acre open space. Time to explore, for this neighbourhood was home to a diarist who (elsewhere) famously buried his parmesan cheese in the garden (as one does); also, traditionally, to the explorer who once sailed to disprove the existence of an Antarctic continent; and, finally, to a coal-merchant’s son (born 1739) who, in 1785, founded an institution of universal significance. It cost 2½d.
Crumbs. All these famous people. Me? I’m just an ordinary kind of bloke.
The competition
1. Who am I?
2. Who was the coal-merchant's son?
ENTER THE COMPETITION
Enter by clicking on the link above or by sending a postcard to Where Was I? September 9, 2007, PO Box 48795, London E98 1WY, by Wednesday. The winner will be announced next Sunday. Only one entry per person. Normal Times Newspapers rules apply. No correspondence will be entered into.
- This is beyond me. Though I am a coal merchant's son.
[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]Any war that lasts for longer than five years should be declared a draw.[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]
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Who am I? - no idea as yet - working on that!!! Presume its linked in some way to the newspaper?
Who was the coal merchants son? This must be John Walter - he was born to a coal merchant in 1739, and founded a newspaper called The Daily Universal Register in 1785 - this paper later became The Times (who is running the competition).I'm a nutter :j0 -
1. Who am I? The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Destination is Clapham Common. The 35 bus goes there :j
and here he is:
Clapham High Street, Clapham, 1908
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</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left width=20> </TD><TD vAlign=top align=left width=160>Clapham High Street, looking north-east with a horse-drawn Clapham Omnibus in the foreground.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]Any war that lasts for longer than five years should be declared a draw.[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]0 -
Well done Snidely - I was slowly getting there!!! I'd got as far as Samuel Pepys and London - but you beat me to the answer!
Well done you - it all makes sense now
(me and snidely are off to Istanbul - we'll see you soon!)I'm a nutter :j0 -
Google is quick updating these days - Searching "coal merchant born 1739" got me to this thread!
In the time it has taken me to log in to tell you the rest of the answer it has been snidely supplied!
As further confirmation, Samuel Pepys (cheese burier) lived his last years in Clah'rm, where the common is 220 acres.0 -
scribbler101 wrote: »Google is quick updating these days - Searching "coal merchant born 1739" got me to this thread!
In the time it has taken me to log in to tell you the rest of the answer it has been snidely supplied!
As further confirmation, Samuel Pepys (cheese burier) lived his last years in Clah'rm, where the common is 220 acres.
I know that now! I was just getting there! LOL :rotfl:I'm a nutter :j0 -
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Yup It is. Man on the Clapham omnibus is a colloqial term for "an ordinary kind of bloke"
We will send you all a postcard :rotfl:[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]Any war that lasts for longer than five years should be declared a draw.[FONT="]:beer:[/FONT]0 -
This thread has been a great help. The competition says 220-acre open space but Clapham Common is 200 acres whereas Tooting Common is 221 acres. I could have been tootling in tooting all night.
Also didn't Dr Johnson do odd things with his parmesan?
Cheers, Lou0 -
This thread has been a great help. The competition says 220-acre open space but Clapham Common is 200 acres whereas Tooting Common is 221 acres. I could have been tootling in tooting all night.
Also didn't Dr Johnson do odd things with his parmesan?
Cheers, Lou
(1) Clapham is quoted on many websites as having 220 acres. Some may say 200 - but they are just rounding it down - I spose when you have this many acres to play with 20 acres is just a smidge of land!!! Samuel Pepys also famously lived in Clapham.
(2) It had to be a diarist that buried his parmesan in the garden - and had links to London...... I too do strange things with parmesan - but burying it in the garden is not one of them! :rotfl:
I hope this puts your mind at rest xI'm a nutter :j0 -
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