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martinsh

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What organisation has branches all over the UK, many of which are buildings converted from the following uses, bank, church, cinema, coaching inn, multi-storey carpark, post office, theatre ?
 
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martinsh said:
What organisation has branches all over the UK, many of which are buildings converted from the following uses, bank, church, cinema, coaching inn, multi-storey carpark, post office, theatre ?
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On reputation, my first guess would be Wetherspoon pubs.
 
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Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square is well known to everyone. Can you name the other places in the UK that have Nelson memorials (statues count)? A bonus point for the living memorial.

(There are a lot more than I thought, so the winner is the person with the most correct answers by the time we all get bored with the question)
 
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DerekC said:
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square is well known to everyone. Can you name the other places in the UK that have Nelson memorials (statues count)? A bonus point for the living memorial.

(There are a lot more than I thought, so the winner is the person with the most correct answers by the time we all get bored with the question)
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There is Nelson's Tower in Forres.
 
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The Wells and Walsingham Railway has a loco named The Norfolk Hero, the Norfolk Hero being Lord Nelson. Then there’s SR 4-6-0 Lord Nelson itself in the National Collection.
 
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@Marton , would you be able to satisfy our curiosity?
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I apologise. I was away and I thought I had posted the answer before I left. It was still on the page.

The answer is Ripon.

Journey to the centre of the earth by Rick Wakeman. Ripon has a Wakeman who sounds a curfew at 2100.

The eponymous saint is Wilfrid of Ripon.

Once again apologies.
 
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Nelson's needle, Porchester (nr Portsmouth)
Bull Ring Birmingham
Nelson monument Glasgow
 
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krus_aragon said:
That's reminded me of one that's been gotten rid of (in a spectacular fashion): Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, now replaced with a spire. It's no longer in the UK, anyway.
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Ah... please see my post #11711 :smile:

There's an IMO fine song on the subject: my linking skills are poor -- thus have to say, Google "Lord Nelson stood in pompous state"
 
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OK - time for a score check. Excluding locomotives and towns (and demolished pillars outside the UK):

@341o2 - 3
@krus_aragon - 1
@GusB -1
@martinsh -1

8 left to do (including the living monument)

I haven't detected terminal boredom yet - can anyone beat @341o2 ?

PS - I remember one of my daughters coming back from school with a Nelson song - something to do with ".. and if you return victorious, and assuming you are dead, you too can have a statue in Trafalgar Square; with a pigeon sitting on your 'ed .. "
 
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What's the other thing about him?: one arm, one eye, and one -- er -- ambition...
 
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OK - I wlll call time on this and declare @341o2 the winner. The ones you didn't get are:

Edinburgh (monument)
Liverpool (monument featuring a naked Nelson in the arms of Victory and Death)
Great Yarmouth (column)
Norwich (statue in the cathedral grounds)
Hereford (column)
Swarland, Northumberland (memorial)
Dervock, Co Antrim (small memorial)

And the living memorial - "Nile Clumps" on Salisbury Plain - groups of trees set out to represent the positions of French and British warships at the Battle of the Nile.

@341o2 - your ocean.
 
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Who was I?
Australian born, moved to the USA and received a career boost thanks to Alfred Hitchcock
co starred with Elizabeth Taylor in what was originally a Broadway play
Another casting involved gender reversal
Appeared in a Star Trek film
Finally became associated with a certain US city, both in a professional capacity and retired there

bonus points for identifying the films & programmes involved
 
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341o2 said:
Who was I?
Australian born, moved to the USA and received a career boost thanks to Alfred Hitchcock
co starred with Elizabeth Taylor in what was originally a Broadway play
Another casting involved gender reversal
Appeared in a Star Trek film
Finally became associated with a certain US city, both in a professional capacity and retired there

bonus points for identifying the films & programmes involved
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"Australian born" -- for a moment, Errol Flynn came to mind: but anything vis-a-vis him and gender reversal; no, I don't think so...
 
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No, wrong gender. Think Hitchcock and co star. Her role in Star Trek was minor in the original series of films, No3 the search for Spock
 
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no, I said co star. However, and this might give the game away, the Birds and the film I am referring to are based on a story and novel by the same UK writer
 
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341o2 said:
no, I said co star. However, and this might give the game away, the Birds and the film I am referring to are based on a story and novel by the same UK writer
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The writer, Daphne du Maurier; and otherwise, I'm none the wiser.
 
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The name of the actress is Dame Judith Anderson. She co starred in Hitchcock's Rebecca as the housekeeper Mrs Danvers, devoted to Rebecca, the first Mrs de Winter, resenting the second Mrs de Winter. Rebecca was the first Hitchcock Hollywood film and a success for all concerned.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was the film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Cinderfella the gender film
Her final role was Minx Lockridge in the US daytime soap Santa Barbara

I'm going to declare open floor
 
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There's a part of the world which was -- not quite 200 years ago -- briefly, most of it one country; which then split up into a number of small countries. A couple more independent small countries, previously "under different management", were added to the bunch very considerably later: one of these two, 78 years after the other. That last one added, differs significantly from all the others; in that it was a British colony until it achieved independence.

Whereabouts in the world, did all this happen?
 
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