Win "Your Maps Online 3" - and the winner is!

[Mike_E]

Thank you to everyone who took part or had a go at the quiz. I know it was a tough one, but it was a good prize. We are already working on another one which will be different again.

The answers were as follows:-
1 - TEWKESBURY
2 - STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
3 - ST.ANDREWS
4 - RICHMOND
5 - PLYMOUTH
6 - IRONBRIDGE
7 - HOLMFIRTH
8 - HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
9 - EDINBURGH
10- COVENTRY
11- ARUNDEL
ANAGRAM = PARISH CHEST

Frederick George Milsted and Martha Jane Smith were married at Bartlow Baptist Chapel, Ashdon, Essex on 15 September 1917.

Correct entries for the locations and Anagram were received from the following members:-
Staunton 20- 07-1917
ET in the USA 3 April 1915
Mutley 24 December 1915
AnnB 1st June 1915
Suedent 21/06/1917
Erika April 17th 1915
Summer 11/9/1914
Pam Downes 24 August 1917
Mona 3 June 1916

So Pam Downes is the winner getting within 3 weeks for the correct date.

[Jan1954]

Well done to Pam! |cheers|

|woohoo|

[suedent]

Congratulations to Pam

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[Jan1954]

Aaaaand.... a big THANK YOU to Mike for organising it all. http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee187/Jan_07/smilies-1.gif

[Davran]

Congratulations, Pam! |cheers|

[Bo Peep]

Well done Pam. If you PM me your address, I will get your prize in the mail.

[Pam Downes]

Thank you to everyone for your good wishes.
Thank you to Mike for an interesting - and at times quite challenging - competition.
Thank you to Bo Peep for arranging, and David Ford for donating, the prize.
And finally thank you to Neil Oliver, who gave me the answer to picture 5. :D
(The story is that I, along quite a few other women in the UK, rather fancy Mr Oliver, the main presenter of the last two series of 'Coast'. In one episode of the last series there was the promise of seeing him in a wetsuit when he visited the Eddystone lighthouse. He told the story of the original lighthouse, and then about what is now called Smeaton's Tower. After studying the photo for a second and third time, I realised the lantern top was that of Smeaton's lighthouse. By getting that letter I got the anagram and then just had to find the places to fit some of the other letters! )
Pam

[suedent]

Pam Smeaton's Tower was the place where I first discovered #2 son suffered from vertigo :(

I won't forget that day in a hurry. Picture harrassed mother leading one small boy down whilst carrying another small boy (howling) under her arm!

I wouldn't mind but he waited till we got to the very top before looking out & deciding that he really didn't like being up so high.

[Mutley]

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Pam

and thank you to

Mike

[Pam Downes]

Pam Smeaton's Tower was the place where I first discovered #2 son suffered from vertigo :(

I won't forget that day in a hurry. Picture harrassed mother leading one small boy down whilst carrying another small boy (howling) under her arm!

I wouldn't mind but he waited till we got to the very top before looking out & deciding that he really didn't like being up so high.
I presume lighthouse keeper wasn't high (sorry!) on his list of 'what I want to be when I grow up.' :D
Pam

[Pam Downes]

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Pam

and thank you to

Mike

I really think you have the wrong name Mutley. You should be either Tigger (because you're always bouncing around) or Heinz (because you're full of beans). :D
Pam

[suedent]

I presume lighthouse keeper wasn't high (sorry!) on his list of 'what I want to be when I grow up.' :D
Pam

OUCH!!
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[Mutley]

I really think you have the wrong name Mutley. You should be either Tigger (because you're always bouncing around) or Heinz (because you're full of beans). :D
Pam

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[Ladkyis]

Well done Pam!

[AnnB]

|jumphappy
Many congratulations Pam - don't suppose Neil Oliver gets many mentions in helping someone win competitions ;)

Also, thanks to Mike - look forward to the next challenge :)

Best wishes
Ann

[busyglen]

Congratulations Pam!!

|jumphappy

Glenys

[erika]

Congratulations Pam
:D:D:D:D
Erika:)

[staunton]

congratulations pam
Staunton

[v.wells]

:DCongrats Pam, you are a lucky one indeed!

[Pam Downes]

Thank you all again for your good wishes.
I love looking at maps, so I was really pleased to win this particular prize.
Maps are something you need to be able to look at and absorb, and unfortunately I've still only had time for a quick glance at the CD. It will keep me busy for quite some time as there are over 500 maps, plans and etchings of the UK, Ireland, and the world.
One of my favourites is the 1883 map of the railways of London and the suburbs. I've just been having another quick look and saw 'Spa Road'. Intriguing name for a station in the Bermondsey area of town, so that starts me googling, and I end up watching a video of a train going past /through the disused station, and then linking to a website of disused railway stations. :D
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/
Which is a 'sub-site' of
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/
which in turn leads us back to the thread of the other month about roads, leading off motorways and other main roads, which seem to go nowhere. :D
Pam

[Jan1954]

Oh Pam - thank you for posting these two websites |hug| They are fascinating!

I may be gone some time....