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Post by tonyhill on May 4, 2020 15:52:57 GMT
Those Cambridge photos brought back some memories - thank you! I'm not in that photo, but I had my 21st Birthday Party with a number of other friends in the Dorothy Ballroom - not a comfortable memory for me.
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Post by minionofmidas on May 7, 2020 9:37:41 GMT
Not unless you extend midlands as far as Bristol. Looking back over the last question or two, the answer always seems to be Bristol. Thinking about the Council House in Bristol , and College Green in front of it and the Cathedral to one side, this is always a special place for me. I can remember the Council House when it housed a British Restaurant (maybe at the end of the war or just after it- a good week to be remembering that, I guess 1945). Also the Cathedral was the site for my Dad's big send off -a cathedral packed to its limits for a very grand memorial service (1973). But most of all , it was on a bench on College Green looking at the Cathedral and the Council House that I proposed to Eileen (1959). Thinking about it, do you guys know what a British Restaurant was?having parents who grew up during the war and having done an 'A' level project on evacuation, I can say yes! . They ceased to be in 1947, but councils were allowed to convert them to 'community restaurants' - it would be interesting to know when the last one ceased operations.
Lest anyone start going on about how corporatist they sound, the name, as with so many other things from this time, is credited to Churchill.
it is a rather more appealing name than "community feeding centre" which makes the customers sound like cattle. I learned something interesting today!
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 9, 2020 13:31:42 GMT
Following on from the Sleaford and North Hykeham thread, what's the largest town/City not to be mentioned in a Parliamentary constituency name?
I would confine that to just separate towns, not suburbs of cities, and also disregard places like Portslade which is part of Hove and Kempston which is part of Bedford.
Smethwick, Kidderminster, Beverley, Bridlington are the sorts of places which come to mind but I'm sure there are larger ones.
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Post by BossMan on May 9, 2020 13:49:02 GMT
Following on from the Sleaford and North Hykeham thread, what's the largest town/City not to be mentioned in a Parliamentary constituency name? I would confine that to just separate towns, not suburbs of cities, and also disregard places like Portslade which is part of Hove and Kempston which is part of Bedford. Smethwick, Kidderminster, Beverley, Bridlington are the sorts of places which come to mind but I'm sure there are larger ones. Lisburn? EDIT: Since 1983, Lowestoft. 2nd EDIT: Grays has a bigger population than Lowestoft. www.thegeographist.com/uk-cities-population-1000/
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Post by andrewp on May 9, 2020 14:01:28 GMT
Following on from the Sleaford and North Hykeham thread, what's the largest town/City not to be mentioned in a Parliamentary constituency name? I would confine that to just separate towns, not suburbs of cities, and also disregard places like Portslade which is part of Hove and Kempston which is part of Bedford. Smethwick, Kidderminster, Beverley, Bridlington are the sorts of places which come to mind but I'm sure there are larger ones. Lisburn? EDIT: Since 1983, Lowestoft. 2nd EDIT: Grays has a bigger population than Lowestoft. www.thegeographist.com/uk-cities-population-1000/I was going to suggest Torquay, but I’m not entirely sure how the boundary with Paignton is defined. According to that list Paignton is bigger than Torquay, which I wouldn’t say it was. Also are Atherton and Bebington that bigger places?!
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Post by carlton43 on May 9, 2020 14:06:05 GMT
Following on from the Sleaford and North Hykeham thread, what's the largest town/City not to be mentioned in a Parliamentary constituency name? I would confine that to just separate towns, not suburbs of cities, and also disregard places like Portslade which is part of Hove and Kempston which is part of Bedford. Smethwick, Kidderminster, Beverley, Bridlington are the sorts of places which come to mind but I'm sure there are larger ones. Worksop, Retford, Dronfield, Matlock, Ely, Lowestoft.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 9, 2020 15:00:08 GMT
Gravesend Cheshunt, Weymouth, Runcorn and Widnes would be other contenders
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Post by yellowperil on May 9, 2020 16:02:09 GMT
Gravesend Cheshunt, Weymouth, Runcorn and Widnes would be other contenders Hadn't come in at the start of this one - just picking it up from the latest posts and trying to work out just what that list could possibly be contenders for. Most of my first thoughts weren't particularly complimentary.
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Post by minionofmidas on May 9, 2020 21:24:25 GMT
"Greater London".
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Post by greenhert on May 9, 2020 22:37:55 GMT
Following on from the Sleaford and North Hykeham thread, what's the largest town/City not to be mentioned in a Parliamentary constituency name? I would confine that to just separate towns, not suburbs of cities, and also disregard places like Portslade which is part of Hove and Kempston which is part of Bedford. Smethwick, Kidderminster, Beverley, Bridlington are the sorts of places which come to mind but I'm sure there are larger ones. At 74,000 inhabitants, Gravesend, with Lowestoft not far behind in that respect.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on May 10, 2020 10:48:57 GMT
When the current Westminster City Council was created in 1965 from three predecessor authorities, each of them had their own Town Hall. Paddington Town Hall was likely to be demolished in the immediate future to make way for an urban motorway (and it was). Old Westminster City Hall on Charing Cross Road became City Hall for the new council, and Marylebone Town Hall on Marylebone Road - which was grand at the front but most of the rear had been demolished by enemy bombing - became 'the Council House'. A new council chamber was built at Marylebone and a new high-rise City Hall inserted into the late 1960s redevelopment of Victoria Street. This presumably isn't atypical of London Boroughs. I'm not sure quite how many the Borough of Bromley had (where did Chislehurst and Sidcup UDC meet?), but it of course now uses none of them.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 10, 2020 13:52:05 GMT
I'm not sure I'd accept Gravesend, because Gravesham is in fact a Norman misspelling of Gravesend. It's a sort of Harringay/Haringey issue.
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Post by warofdreams on May 10, 2020 14:58:47 GMT
Farnborough is another option, officially nearly twice the population of Aldershot but doesn't merit a mention in the constituency name
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Post by Andrew_S on May 28, 2020 17:07:44 GMT
Has anyone had solar panels installed? Or moved to a residence that already has them.
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Post by minionofmidas on May 28, 2020 17:25:26 GMT
Has anyone had solar panels installed? Or moved to a residence that already has them. anybody both posh enough to live in a house of their own and cool enough to be a friend of mine, ie 3 people (read households). And a few of our customers. Why? If this is about UK law on the matter they'd have to collectively throw their hands up in ignorance.
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Post by Adam in Stroud on May 28, 2020 17:27:07 GMT
Has anyone had solar panels installed? Or moved to a residence that already has them. Yes, about 8 years ago.
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Post by edgbaston on Jun 2, 2020 11:10:06 GMT
In which 2020 UK election were the highest number of votes cast?
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jun 2, 2020 11:33:56 GMT
In which 2020 UK election were the highest number of votes cast? Love Island?
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Post by edgbaston on Jun 2, 2020 11:51:34 GMT
In which 2020 UK election were the highest number of votes cast? Love Island? This is not a thread for puns or petty jokes.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jun 2, 2020 11:57:31 GMT
This is not a thread for puns or petty jokes. OK - serious effort - Labour leadership election.
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