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Christmas Quiz

Second part of timeline
1834 Town Hall opens
1838 First train at Curzon Street
1852 St Chad's becomes a cathedral
1877 Assay Office moved to Newhall Street
1884 Acme Thunderer invented
 
Last part of timeline
1900 Joseph Chamberlain is chancellor of Birmingham University
1906 First game at St Andrews
1911 Warwickshire CC won first title
1920 WBA won first division
1928 Oscar Deutsch opened first cinema
 
Picture quiz
Picture F St Edburgha's church Yardley number 12
Picture J Ward End Park number 9
Picture L Serbian Orthodox Church number 19
Picture M Bloomsbury Library Nechells number 8

I have no real idea of the station in picture D but it vaguely reminds me of Tysley which is roughly where number 15 is on the map.
 
Pedrocut said:
Here come the Cavalry, a recap…

Birmingham Areas…

1. No skip and no jump needed here.
(Not Hopwas)

5. Keeps Lassie in….
(Not Dogpool, Sheepcote, Woodgate, Fox Hollies, Penn, Kenilworth.)

8. Idiots but they're ok.
9. Where Jack would keep his mother-of-pearl.
(Not Tenacres)

10. A site to see in Carcassonne.
11. Adventurous nothing more.
12. Jim finish it.
(Not Jamesbridge)

Opposites….

10 Bullmetal.
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Opposites has been solved but think we still have the others unanswered plus most of the Street Quiz to go.
 
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pjmburns said:
Picture quiz
Picture F St Edburgha's church Yardley number 12
Picture J Ward End Park number 9
Picture L Serbian Orthodox Church number 19
Picture M Bloomsbury Library Nechells number 8

I have no real idea of the station in picture D but it vaguely reminds me of Tysley which is roughly where number 15 is on the map.
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All correct (including D and E) except F which is not St Edburgha's.
 
pjmburns said:
In that case it must be what was my first thought - St Nicholas King's Norton. Number 20 on the map.
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just beat me to it jan...its on the green kings norton and the only reason i knew it is because i recognised the black and white buildings that are still there..that and my sister lives very close

lyn
 
That was one of the ones I hoped my fool people a little, along with Ward End Park White House which I thought might be confused with Soho House and Bloomsbury Library which I thought might be mistaken for several others.
 
MWS said:
That was one of the ones I hoped my fool people a little, along with Ward End Park White House which I thought might be confused with Soho House and Bloomsbury Library which I thought might be mistaken for several others.
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Must confess I had to do a lot of looking up for some of the answers but I did learn about some places I never knew existed.
 
Street map number 4
Weaman Street which ran from Bath Street to Steelhouse Lane.

Number 15 Temple Row from Colmore Row to Waterloo Street
 
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Next instalment of Street answers (I Hope)
number 9 Masshouse Lane linking Dale End to Diuddeston Row
number 12 Edgbaston Street from Pershore Road to St Martins (cricket link?)
number 13 Meridan Street from Digbeth to Bordesley Street (ref Meridan as centre of England?)
number 14 Loveday Street from Bath Street to Steelhouse Lane

that leaves numbers 5, 6, 7 and 8 I think.
 
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