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Post by Jasmine on Sept 27, 2008 18:27:48 GMT
Charles Street Jail, Boston, Massachusetts?
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Post by Plocket on Sept 28, 2008 9:20:06 GMT
YES!!!! ;D
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Post by Jasmine on Sept 28, 2008 9:27:07 GMT
That was a really good one Plocket - what made you think of a prison?
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Post by Plocket on Sept 28, 2008 16:45:27 GMT
I was actually looking something up on Wikipedia and came across it  |
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Post by Jasmine on Sept 28, 2008 18:14:30 GMT
It is over 60 metres tall and it has a station named after it.
It was designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke.
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Post by Plocket on Sept 29, 2008 6:55:22 GMT
The monument to the Great Fire of London, and Monument Station?
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Post by Jasmine on Sept 29, 2008 8:51:41 GMT
Well done Plocket - over to you! |
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Post by Plocket on Sept 29, 2008 10:29:38 GMT
We went past it when we were in London a few weeks ago but it was being tarted up so was covered in netting ;D
I'm the first of my kind to be opened in the UK and date from 1654.
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Post by blodau on Sept 29, 2008 11:16:01 GMT
Tesco? ;D
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Post by Plocket on Sept 29, 2008 11:51:52 GMT
Brilliant - but wrong I'm afraid Blod - it gave me a good laugh though ;D
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Post by nightowl on Sept 29, 2008 19:15:52 GMT
Castle Howard? (opened to the public?)
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Post by Plocket on Sept 30, 2008 8:07:10 GMT
Nope sorry NO - I don't think Castle Howard had even been built when this place was opened |
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Post by Spruance on Sept 30, 2008 12:04:58 GMT
Well it couldn't have been anything very ostentatious during Oliver Cromwell's time (least said about him the better!  ) so how about somethng practical like a bridge? |
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Post by Plocket on Sept 30, 2008 13:37:20 GMT
No it's not a bridge, or a stately home, but you would visit one for social interaction ;D
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Post by blodau on Sept 30, 2008 15:01:18 GMT
Well, that rules out Ruthin Gaol I suppose ;D
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Post by blodau on Sept 30, 2008 15:06:55 GMT
Oooo! I thought I'd got it then, but the first London coffee house was 1652  |
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Post by Plocket on Sept 30, 2008 16:52:07 GMT
I think I might have been slightly misleading on reading back the facts - I've done some more research and it seems I wasn't the first (although it's a close call) but I'm still in existence whereas your London Coffee House doesn't seem to exist any more Blodau. You are SOOOO close |
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Post by blodau on Oct 1, 2008 6:56:33 GMT
Mr Wiki says:
Oxford's Queen's Lane Coffee House was established in 1654 and still exists. London's first coffee house was in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, but there's just a plaque now. UK's first coffee house set up in Oxford in 1650 by a man called Jacob.
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Post by Plocket on Oct 1, 2008 9:11:25 GMT
You've named it now Blod - over to you. Perhaps I shouldn't do these any more!  |
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Post by blodau on Oct 1, 2008 9:48:08 GMT
Thanks P. Don't give up now. It was fun trying to guess what it might be and doing the research. I now know more about coffee houses than I did ;D
I shall go away and put on my thinking cap (now where do you suppose that saying comes from??)
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Post by blodau on Oct 1, 2008 13:58:38 GMT
Ok.
I'm famous for a rhyme and a racehorse.
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Post by nightowl on Oct 2, 2008 9:18:45 GMT
Ooo-er Blod  , that's a bit brief innit? Are we in England, Britain, or what? |
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Post by blodau on Oct 2, 2008 9:28:36 GMT
Sorry NO. You're right. Trouble is it always seems so obvious when you know.
Right. We are still in the UK and I'm a physical feature rather than say a building.
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Post by Plocket on Oct 2, 2008 10:19:59 GMT
I can only think of Banbury at the moment : Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury..... but it holds a hobby horse festival - nothing to do with racehorses!!! |
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Post by blodau on Oct 2, 2008 11:01:56 GMT
This was a real horse, but alas I am the site of his grave.
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Post by Jasmine on Oct 2, 2008 13:50:43 GMT
Heeley Millenium Park White Horse, Sheffield?
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Post by blodau on Oct 2, 2008 14:26:17 GMT
Nope. Sorry folks, apparently it was a showjumper (and an Olympian at that!) not a racehorse (which kind of spoils the alliteration of my first clue ) There is a car park in his memory. |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 2, 2008 15:18:12 GMT
A car park? They can't have thought that much of him then!! ;D
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Post by blodau on Oct 2, 2008 16:12:31 GMT
Well, apparently he got a gold medal!
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Post by Jasmine on Oct 2, 2008 17:55:08 GMT
Foxhunter Carpark, Blaenavon?
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) so how about somethng practical like a bridge?
, that's a bit brief innit?