Greetings one and all. How’s the weather where you are? Yesterday was nice and warm but, as I write this today, it is grey and cool with not much of a weekend in prospect. But never mind; by the time this reaches you summer might actually set in. Maybe! Let’s have a few London brewery anagrams. Like I warned you last time, I have run out of brewers who produce cask ale so I am now also including those that produce keg beer; my excuse is that some (most?) of these are selling keg conditioned beers, though I have not carried out any checks on whether all of these do.
- YOB CLERK
- NOBLE DROWNING
- ARK FRAGMENT
- REVEAL PI
- BASE TREAT
- DROLE TEST
- A NEW JOB
- YOB CLERK
- SELL BREAM
- SIT ON IT, ROD
By the way – the subterfuge last time was to include Twickenham Brewery for a second time at Twickenham Fine Ales. Putting in Pretty Decent twice (with the same anagram) was not the subterfuge; that was a cock up which I only spotted this week. Confession out of the way, let’s have some more Consecutive Celebrities:
- EF: Swashbuckling Australian actor
- RS: Austrian actress (What’s New Pussycat?)
- FG: Irish fiddle player (De Dannan)
- CD: ‘My Boomerang Won’t Come Back!’
- GH: Rhodesian England cricketer
- LM: ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’
- AB: Mrs Brooks (and ‘Mrs. Robinson’)
- ST: Dame and doyenne of English theatre
- VW: Punk designer
- DE: English singer and actor (Godspell)
For General Trivia time, I found a bunch of questions that all have something in common, though to make it to ten, I have included that fact in No. 10. Another subterfuge? If you like!
- The largest bronze sculpture in Europe, by Adrian Jones and depicting the Angel of Peace riding on a quadriga (four-horse chariot), was installed in 1912 on what London landmark?
- ‘No. 1 London’, London’s ‘first address’ was extended, remodelled and gifted by the Nation to the first Duke of Wellington. What is the name of this building, reflecting the name of the baron who commissioned Robert Adam to design and build the original building?
- This neo-Palladian house was commissioned by Richard Boyle, third Duke of Burlington, as a home for his large art collection and for entertaining (having hardly any domestic facilities). What is it called and who was the architect given the commission?
- Another Palladian mansion, this one was built (starting in 1724) for Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk. What is it called and where is it?
- A major feature of the Ranger’s House is the Wernher Collection, one of the greatest private art collections ever assembled in Europe, by diamond magnate Sir Julius Wernher. Where is it?
- The great hall (dating from the 1470s) of which palace was the basis of a major extension in the art deco style created in the 1930s by fabrics magnates Stephen and Virginia Courtauld?
- The above home featured special accommodation (corridors and cages) for the Courtaulds’ pet, Mah-Jongg. What kind of creature was this cosseted pet?
- Another ‘posh house’ by Robert Adam, this one was built between 1764 and 1799 for William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield. What is this one called and where is it located?
- Somewhat(!) less elaborate than the above properties, comprising two brick chambers linked by an underground passage, Coombe Conduit (in Kingston upon Thames) was constructed to collect rainwater and to feed it to what other historic building?
- You may have noticed that all of the foregoing questions refer to places or buildings in Greater London. Can you also name the institution that owns and/or administers all of them?
Well, that’s enough of me for this edition (no comment, or alternative time scale required) so I shall simply wish you pleasant weather and an absence of calamities. BFN
Andy Pirson
As usual, here are the solutions to the puzzles set in the June/July Idle Moments column.
Brewery anagrams:
1.ROLLS ME – MELLORS
2.WE BORE THE PLUMES – TEMPLE BREW HOUSE
3.MIND BELOW – WIMBLEDON
4.GIVES ALL – VILLAGES
5.PETTY CENTRED – PRETTY DECENT
6.PAST TEA – TAP EAST
7.MICK WENT “HA!” – TWICKENHAM
8.TO FINE SPIV – FIVE POINTS
9.PROTO BELL – PORTOBELLO
10.NOTED PRIME – REDEMPTION
Consecutive celebrities:
1.DID CRAWL – WILD CARD
2.THEM? . . .ROMAN? – HAMMERTON
3.SOAKS BROM – SAMBROOK’S
4.BILLET ARIA – LIBERTALIA
5.AH! A CANDY SHOP BAND – ANSPACH AND HOBDAY
6.REDEST ROOF – FOREST ROAD
7.RUB RED MONK – BROKEN DRUM
8.AUK POOL ARM – MARKO PAULO
9.WE MASK FLEET IN CHINA – TWICKENHAM FINE ALES
10.PETTY CENTRED – PRETTY DECENT
General knowledge:
- The (now) state of the USA which became the first English crown colony on 16 June 1624, following the bankruptcy of its sponsoring company in London, is Virginia;
- The English civil engineer born on 8 June 1724 in Austhorp near Leeds is John Smeaton. His memorial on Plymouth Hoe is the third Eddystone Lighthouse;
- The first example of a patented domestic appliance (patented in Quebec on 8 June 1824), was a washing machine;
- The charity founded on 16 June 1824 by Richard Martin, William Wilberforce and Rev Arthur Broome, is the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals;
- The first public opinion poll, published on 7th July 1824 (into the projected outcome of the 1824 presidential election), was held in Wilmington, Pennsylvania;
- The French playwright (particularly known for La Dame aux Camélias), born on 27 July 1824, was Alexandre Dumas fils (junior);
- The mountaineers, seen for the last time about 800 feet below the summit of Mount Everest on 6 June 1924 (on their third attempt to reach the summit), were George Mallory and Andrew Irvine;
- The former President of the USA, born on 12 June 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts, was George Henry Walker Bush;
- The eighth Olympic games opened on 5 July 1925 in Paris;
- The member of the ‘Three W’s’, the West Indian test cricketers commemorated by a stand at the Oval and who was born on 1 August 1924 in Bridgetown, Barbados, was Sir Frank Worrell. The other two were Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Everton Weekes (but then you knew that already, didn’t you?). The Oval in question is, incidentally, Bridgetown’s Kensington Oval.