You and @Gloster, upthread -- should go into business jointly, as banknote-designers -- your ideas are inspired; but, alas, not the right answers.Different varieties of wild haggis.
You and @Gloster, upthread -- should go into business jointly, as banknote-designers -- your ideas are inspired; but, alas, not the right answers.Different varieties of wild haggis.
BridgesNot kilts. Possibly "clear-as-mud" attempted hint -- other-side (from the famous ladies) subject, is indeed a common theme -- the various "that which depicted": found in Scotland, but not specifically / uniquely Scottish.
Nope -- see post #34,314.Bridges
@OhNoAPacer and you, the nearest so far re one side of the notes -- he, closer than you. I feel that this question isn't likely to go much further -- see "drawing stumps" say tomorrow afternoon (Sun.), unless things go otherwise between now and then.Scottish inventors?
Correct re reverse of notes -- you indeed have the right bank (RBS). This bids fair to get complicated, as to who wins !Reverse of the £5 note are mackerel
Reverse of the £10 note are otters.
Not sure if I've got the right bank.
Broadly, famous Scottish women, yes. As upthread, not mountains; but types of "non-human creatures" notable for being found in, or off, Scotland (including mackerel, and otters, as per @Xenophon PCDGS upthread). The women -- @D6130 identified Nan Shepherd, but "in isolation" as it were. @Ashley Hill, on outskirts of ballpark with "inventors" -- a couple of the ladies were, anyway, innovators -- but I see @OhNoAPacer, basically right re a full 50% including specifying the gender: as the participant qualified to set the next question.Famous Scottish Women and Mountains.
("Full roll-call" re the Royal Bank of Scotland notes:
"Front": Scottish women of the last metaphorical "couple" of centuries, of prominence in their fields of activity -- £20: Kate Cranston, teashop entrepreneur/euse; £10: Mary Somerville, scientist and astronomer;
£5: Nan Shepherd, writer / poet / "outdoorsperson".
Reverse: "creatures" -- £20: red squirrels; £10: otters; £5: mackerel [two of them]. )
Indeed ! From context in the poem, I'd figured that Cranston's must (like its counterpart) be a relatively up-market place, somewhere in Scotland, where one could go for tea; but I'd never heard of Kate, its founder, until a recent visit to Scotland in which I encountered the relevant banknote and its "mates" -- and duly researched re Miss C. (hence, by extension, this question). Every day a school day, and all that...Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms are mentioned in the poem Night Mail, along with Crawford’s, their Edinburgh equivalent:
Thousand’ss are still asleep
Dreaming of terrifying monsters
Or of friendly tea beside the band at Cranston’s or Crawford’s
Not a school.School?
I agree that it does but you haven't said what Kopke is.I know that it goes fantasticly with Lancashire tasty cheese - but that is hardly likely to be the answer!
Not a brewery but that answer is heading in the right direction.Brewery?
Not a distillery.Distillery?
We have a winner.Kopke is a make of port isn't it? So is the 1638 bit the founding of the first port maker?
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