E: 27/02 three night break Mallorca

NOSONDDU

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/where_was_i/article1271593.ece

ans - 1. River Tyburn

2. Thorney Island

anyone agree - thanks Etch for confirmation

found

"Thorney Island was the eyot on the Thames, upstream of mediæval London, where Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster (commonly known today as the Houses of Parliament) were built. It was formed by rivulets of the River Tyburn, which entered the Thames near the lowest point where it could be forded from the north bank at low tide."

Etch

Yes, I agree: the Tyburn and Thorney Island. You were quick off the mark this week!

The authoritative Whig club named after a pie was the Kit-Cat Club.

Regent's Park was the scene of a cataclysmic explosion in October 1874.

Charles Wesley was born in 1707 and is buried at St Mary-by-the-Bourne, now St Marylebone parish church.

"Hanging around" is a reference to the Tyburn Hill gallows

Gilliana

I'm getting an error. Anyone else?

mrsh1968

Yes I think I am getting an error also, well it takes me from the submit page to the area where I 'agree' and then right back to the submit page, I think I may of entered this twice by accident lol, however, great comp so fingers crossed! Thanks poster.

kimmywal

I cant enter with firefox but fine with IE, if that helps

monsieur_epargnant

Worked just now

NOSONDDU

Etch wrote: »

Yes, I agree: the Tyburn and Thorney Island. You were quick off the mark this week!

I was amazed to see it there so early, Etch. Plus there has been a series about the hidden river of London on a fishing programme on one of the Sky channels.

Sorry peeps I forgot to say you enter between Sunday and Wednesday - not Saturday night. Perhaps that's why you couldn't enter last night.

Etch

NOSONDDU wrote: »

I was amazed to see it there so early, Etch.

I only looked after the France v England rugby match had finished, about 21:50, and thought I was in with a chance of being the first to post! I don't look on this forum until I have solved it myself.

NOSONDDU wrote: »

Plus there has been a series about the hidden river of London on a fishing programme on one of the Sky channels.

I checked the details in "The Lost Rivers of London", a book that I got from the History Book Club many years ago.