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We hear, partnership between Highland Games weight-for-height champion; and Samuel, mid-century gritty-popular-music exponent
 
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DaleCooper said:
Evesham? (Heave + Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)
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Thoughts entertained, of OK-ing this one -- not the actual "answer station", but on right lines, and nearly as good an answer; afraid I'm hardening my heart, though, and saying no. (S the S and the Pharaohs, unknown to me till this moment; but that kind of stuff isn't my thing.)
 
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Er, no -- he was a prodigious explorer, but not much into Herculean feats or trendy music, that I've ever heard of...
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James Dawkins won "Throwing 42lb. Weight over Bar, One Hand, Local" at the Braemar Gathering 2019.
Sam Cook b1931 d1964 American soul singer.
 
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@DaleCooper -- as ever, your encyclopedically wide-ranging detailed knowledge amazes, cows and abashes me: but I'm doing ignorant broad-brush wordplay -- no specific real-world ever-heard-of highland-games-wallah, or music-maker, features in my clue.
 
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Correct: Highland Games chap "hove" (slightly old-fashioned past tense of "heave") a metaphorical ton; and his friend is Rock Sam.

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I think Calthrop has been rather naughty here - I looked through all the narrow-gauge railways without success until the answer was shown, and I think he's referring to Wroxham Miniature Worlds!
 
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neilmc said:
I think Calthrop has been rather naughty here - I looked through all the narrow-gauge railways without success until the answer was shown, and I think he's referring to Wroxham Miniature Worlds!
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I'd beg leave to defend myself, I think justly -- my reference was to the 15 in. gauge Bure Valley Railway, Wroxham -- Aylsham. It doesn't actually share the "Bittern Line" Hoveton & Wroxham station -- but its own station is close by; and I would say that my wording "this location" is vague enough to refer to the village, rather than to one-and-one-only station.
 
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Ah. Apologies to Calthrop - Wikipedia's list of narrow gauge lines let me down, and looking at visitor attractions in Wroxham brought up the model railway, which apparently is huge.
 
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Model railway hitherto unknown to me -- herewith, on list to take a look at, should I be in those parts again !
 
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