Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

So is the answer not Hall?

Dunno Flay - apparently I'm invisible

[Anna]

Just come in from bramble and ivy wrestling for a cuppa - I was looking for a North Wales town that is only known by an English name! Conwy never crossed my mind <doh emoticon> as it's never called Conway. And, London concert halls, I only know the RAH so would have got hopelessly lost on the Circle Line Or even the Piccadilly Line! I think Norfy went before he saw Ammy's answer .... How goes your gardening Flay? I have some lovely aquilegias

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, my back gets stiff and sore too

Damn you, Flay... just catching up and was planning a cunning quip on reading Anna's post!! You're way ahead of me

[Nick Armstrong]

So is the answer not Hall?

It's not?

Actually I think it's simply cross-posting...

I'd start planning an I if I were you

[Nick Armstrong]

I have some lovely aquilegias

Oh where to start, where to start ... ?!?!?!

But my ocelot requires urgent attention...

[mercia]

please - was Barbican a particular thoroughbred or a generic name ?

I can't find any information

[Nick Armstrong]

please - was Barbican a particular thoroughbred or a generic name ?

I can't find any information

What do you mean by thoroughbred there, mercs?

Because it's called that (and the housing estate around it) as a result of being built on the site of the fortifications adjacent to the old Roman wall (hence the street London Wall nearby)... and

"A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages (perhaps deriving ultimately from Arabic or Persian cf. bab-khanah "gate-house" and "towered gateway"[1] or from the mediaeval English burgh-kenning[2])"

[amateur51]

Oh where to start, where to start ... ?!?!?!

But my ocelot requires urgent attention...

[mercia]

Because it's called that (and the housing estate around it) as a result of being built on the site of the fortifications adjacent to the old Roman wall (hence the street London Wall nearby)... and

"A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages (perhaps deriving ultimately from Arabic or Persian cf. bab-khanah "gate-house" and "towered gateway"[1] or from the mediaeval English burgh-kenning[2])"

all very interesting but I don't see the connection to "a thoroughbred horse" which was the clue [I think] to Barbican in the original question

[Nick Armstrong]

all very interesting but I don't see the connection to "a thoroughbred horse" which was the clue [I think] to Barbican in the original question

Ah! You mean you can remember the question??

(Sorry, been tuned out today)

[mercia]

please - was Barbican a particular thoroughbred or a generic name ?

to answer my own stupid question, it looks like Barbican is yer akshul horse that is running at York today

http://interactiveracecard.bluesq.com/horse/63137-barbican

[Anna]

Damn you, Flay... just catching up and was planning a cunning quip on reading Anna's post!! You're way ahead of me

Just as well Flay got in first - you and your ocelot seem in a very frisky mood this afternoon!

[Nick Armstrong]

Just as well Flay got in first - you and your ocelot seem in a very frisky mood this afternoon!

[Anna]

all very interesting but I don't see the connection to "a thoroughbred horse" which was the clue [I think] to Barbican in the original question

mercia, William Earl of Cadogan was Colonel of "Cadogan's Horse" (now the 5th Dragoon Guards). I don't know if this has anything to do with the answer but is this the horse in the original question?

[mercia]

mercia, William Earl of Cadogan was Colonel of "Cadogan's Horse" (now the 5th Dragoon Guards). I don't know if this has anything to do with the answer but is this the horse in the original question?

thanks - I think Cadogan was the Room 118/Oscar Wilde arrest clue

I guess we shouldn't dissect the question too much