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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    So is the answer not Hall?
    Dunno Flay - apparently I'm invisible

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    • 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

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26536

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        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
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26536

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          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
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Nick Armstrong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 26536

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            I have some lovely aquilegias
            Oh where to start, where to start ... ?!?!?!

            But my ocelot requires urgent attention...

            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

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

              I can't find any information

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26536

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                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])"
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Oh where to start, where to start ... ?!?!?!

                  But my ocelot requires urgent attention...

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    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

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                    • Nick Armstrong
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26536

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      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)
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        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

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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          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!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26536

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            Just as well Flay got in first - you and your ocelot seem in a very frisky mood this afternoon!
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Anna

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              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?

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                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

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