Saturday 3 December 2022

I am editing the draft text for Milton Keynes The City Of Legend planning to publish everything with Amazon in January to celebrate our City's fify-sixth birthday but I keep getting ideas for new chapters. Sixty-eight so far coming to 174,404 words ! Here's something I have just written - STILL IN DRAFT FORM but have a look and see if you can wave to some of our neighbours. ANSWERS TOMORROW.



QUESTION ONE:

Which football club did a bespectacled pop singer zoom into ?

QUESTION TWO:

With what industry in days gone by would you have associated Luton ?

QUESTION THREE:

Which group of Leighton Buzzard residents told Shep to get down ?

QUESTION FOUR:

Name the once celebrated artist and singer took up residence for a time in a Bicester gaol.

QUESTION FIVE:

With what industry in days gone by would you have associated Northampton ?

QUESTION SIX:

Stoke Hammond, how many canal locks fronted the waterside pub ?

QUESTION SEVEN:

Which former Milton Keynes member of parliament lived at Headington Hill Hall in Oxford ?

QUESTION EIGHT:

A B C. If B stands for Brewery and C for Company, what is A all about ?

QUESTION NINE:

Which celebrated writer’s former garden shed can be found in a museum within Great Missenden.

QUESTION TEN:

Milton Keynes may be the New City of roundabouts but which town owns the magic roundabout ?

QUESTION ELEVEN:

Why may it be an idea to nick-name MK Dons as The Wombles ?

QUESTION TWELVE:

What is possibly the most notorious case tried at Aylesbury Crown Court ?

QUESTION THIRTEEN:

Which football club was supported by one half of a mega popular TV comedy duo ?

QUESTION FOURTEEN:

Who was the last  person to be executed at Bedford Prison ?

QUESTION FIFTEEN:

Who designed the gardens at Stowe House near Buckingham ?

QUESTION SIXTEEN:

What association does Stoke Manderville Hospital in Aylesbury have with the Paralympic games ?

QUESTION SEVENTEEN:

What colour would you associate with motor racing ?

QUESTION EIGHTEEN:

In neighbouring Towcester what form of racing would you associate this friend with ?

QUESTION NINETEEN:

In the days of 8mm home movie making where would you send your reels of film to be processed ?

QUESTION TWENTY:

Who was Walter Tull and which neighbour would you associate him with ?

QUESTION TWENTY-ONE:

Which neighbour has an Old Gaol in the middle of its modern-day shopping area ?

QUESTION TWENTY-TWO:

What is a Stoic ?

QUESTION TWENTY-THREE:

Which motor manufacturer would you associate with Luton ?

QUESTION TWENTY-FOUR:

Which neighbours hill is said to be the most haunted in the country ?

Neighbours everybody needs good neighbours
With a little understanding
you can find the perfect blend

Neighbours should be there for one another
That’s when good neighbours
become good friends



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