Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

The progressive educator A.S. Neill (1883 -- 1973) was born in Forfar. The majority of his career was spent in charge of Summerhill School at Leiston, Suffolk -- run along very enlightened lines -- founded by him in 1921, still going strong.

 

[D6130]

Leiston was the only intermediate station on the Great Eastern Railway's branch line from Saxmundham to Aldeburgh, which is still used to this day as far as Leiston for the transport of nuclear flasks to and from the nearby power station at Sizewell.

 

[John Griffiths]

Garrett's of Leiston were major producers of traction engines and other mobile steam engines, as were Aveling & Porter, known particularly for road rollers, built at their works in the Medway town of Strood.

 

[Calthrop]

Leiston was the only intermediate station on the Great Eastern Railway's branch line from Saxmundham to Aldeburgh, which is still used to this day as far as Leiston for the transport of nuclear flasks to and from the nearby power station at Sizewell.

Respectfully -- in this game, is it not the convention: that basically all and any associations are admissible, except those involving specifically railway-related material / lore?

 

[D6130]

Respectfully -- in this game, is it not the convention: that basically all and any associations are admissible, except those involving specifically railway-related material / lore?

Apologies, I had forgotten that. I sometimes become confused by the rules of all the different games on the forum! May I suggest that @John Griffiths's previously redacted entry be reinstated and that we go forward from there?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Apologies, I had forgotten that. I sometimes become confused by the rules of all the different games on the forum! May I suggest that @John Griffiths's previously redacted entry be reinstated and that we go forward from there?

I have sent him a message to that effect as the strike-through needs removing in order for that to occur.

Can you please strike-through your posting # 21,092.

 

[D6130]

Can you please strike-through your posting # 21,092.

Thanks....have done.

 

[John Griffiths]

And I have unstruck. Let the games recommence!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garrett's of Leiston were major producers of traction engines and other mobile steam engines, as were Aveling & Porter, known particularly for road rollers, built at their works in the Medway town of Strood.

Tonbridge also lies on the line of the River Medway.

 

[Calthrop]

Until recently, a speciality of Tonbridge was the manufacturing of cricket balls. At the present day -- the firm of Price, of Bath, are active in the manufacture of balls for all manner of games.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chelsea also lends its name to a type of bun.

 

[Springs Branch]

Chelsea's famous Royal Hospital is in fact a charitable almshouse (retirement and nursing home in modern language) catering for British Army veterans, rather than a medical facility.
In Ireland there is a similar institution in a district of Dublin - the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darvel in East Ayrshire is another settlement with historical connections to the Knights Templar.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Scottish physician and microbiologist Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS was born on 6th August 1881 at Lochfield Farm near Darvel. He is best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 was made at the St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington, London.

 

[Calthrop]

Warrington, Cheshire, has a local nature reserve called Paddington Meadows.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Irlam in Greater Manchester also has a historical connection to soap manufacturing.

 

[341o2]

Port Sunlight on the Wirral was constructed to house the workforce at the Levers factory

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bournville is another settlement established to provide good quality housing for the workforce of a philanthropic employer.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ford in Northumberland is another settlement without a pub, because of the teetotal convictions of a nineteenth-century landlord.

B'ville may have one now, I haven't checked, but it used to be dry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cornhill-on-Tweed also lies on the line of the River Till.

 

[Calthrop]

Cornhill-on-Tweed and Coldstream are adjoining towns, one on each side of an inter-country border. A similar pair -- if rather smaller settlements -- on another border: are Knighton and Garth.

 

[Springs Branch]

Cornhill-on-Tweed is a small village in England just across the national border from a larger town (Coldstream) in Scotland.
Staunton in Gloucestershire* is another small English village, this time just across a national border from the larger Welsh town of Monmouth.

* - There are two Stauntons in Gloucestershire. This association is the Staunton near Coleford, not the one near Gloucester.

That was a coincidence! Let's continue from Knighton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cornhill-on-Tweed and Coldstream are adjoining towns, one on each side of an inter-country border. A similar pair -- if rather smaller settlements -- on another border: are Knighton and Garth.

Rhuallt in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Offa's Dyke Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Cornhill-on-Tweed is a small village in England just across the national border from a larger town (Coldstream) in Scotland.
Staunton in Gloucestershire* is another small English village, this time just across a national border from the larger Welsh town of Monmouth.

* - There are two Stauntons in Gloucestershire. This association is the Staunton near Coleford, not the one near Gloucester.

That was a coincidence! Let's continue from Knighton.

Great minds -- we know what they do...

Rhuallt in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Offa's Dyke Path.

Luton also has a pub called the White House.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedford has also lent its name to a commercial road vehicle.

 

[D6130]

Bedford has also lent its name to a commercial road vehicle.

As a result of its large population of people of Italian descent, Bedford hosts the UK Italian Consulate's passport office. Nottingham also has an Italian consulate office.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tavistock in Devon also hosts a Goose Fair.

 

[Calthrop]

Hermitage (Scottish Borders) is also associated with a folklore villain of considerable infamy. With Nottingham, it is of course Robin Hood's adversary the Sheriff; re the Scottish community -- Hermitage Castle, to which it is the nearest settlement, was the seat of Earl William de Soulis: an extremely unpleasant chap.

Just pipped at the post !

 

[Calthrop]

Tavistock in Devon also hosts a Goose Fair.

William Browne (1590 -- 1645), pastoral poet, was born in Tavistock; was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. (Had never heard of this gentleman before Googling some minutes ago, looking for inspiration concerning Tavistock -- seeing the name, my first thought was of Richmal Crompton's schoolboy "agent of chaos".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenny Compton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.