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DerekC

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The Ba Game (a form of "mob football") is played in Kirkwall between the Uppies and the Doonies. A very similar game is played in a number of Scottish towns including Jedburgh.
 

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Camberwell has a street called "Camberwell New Road" whereas the street in Whittlesey
is just called "New Road" which must have taken a lot of thought.
 

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The suffix "-ey" in a place name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "eg" which meant "island". Whittlesey was an island in the fens. Bermondsey was a similar island in the marshy land south of the Thames.
 

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Chiswick is the home of Fuller Smith & Turner who brew good London beers. However in 2006 they took over George Gale's brewery in Horndean and promptly closed it down.
 

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Watford was the home of Benskins Brewery until its takeover by Ind Coope in 1957, shortly afterwards becoming part of Allied Breweries.
Another brewery taken over and absorbed by the Allied Breweries empire around the same time was Walkers based in Warrington.
 

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Stockport is the home of what is claimed to be the only dedicated hat museum in the UK. Nevertheless Wardown House, Luton has a museum section dedicated to hats.
 

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