AliM
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Deadline 5 January 2014
Send your answers to Jan Harber, by PM
Please have a go - even if you can manage only a few - wild guesses are very acceptable!
Jan Harber has selected a number of Where-is-it photos, from which I have chosen just 28.
They are arranged in groups:
Pubs (5)
Marks, i.e. Navigation marks (4)
Aerial photos (4)
Buildings (5)
views (5)
Statues (and plaques) (5)
They are on
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/alisonmainwood/slideshow/ECF Christmas quiz 2013
(This gives you a slideshow. Click on the camera icon to get to individual photos and their titles.)
Then, Jan has also set some literary questions:
Three with Pin Mill connections
1. Who wrote the two children’s books that start from Pin Mil in The Goblin, and what are the titles?
2. This quote is from a novel set in Pin Mill between The Wars, what is its title and who is the author?
(She also wrote several other novels, one of which, Four Frightened People, was made into a film.)
“The big boats of the first race had now been gone for over three hours; we knew that they must have
been getting a tremendous dusting out in the open sea by the Cork light vessel…”
3. He lived in Pin Mill at one time. Who wrote?:
“…and I daresay the old barge justified the compliment as she heeled to the breeze, her gilt scrolls and
varnished spars bright in the midday sun. The last of the sailormen indeed…”
Four at the Bar
Authors of each the following descriptions:
4. “At last in the gathering dusk, we approached Orford Haven. Against the dark line of the beach and the
pine trees beyond we could see the line of white that marked the entrance – on a boiling cauldron of water
wherein, here and there, shingle banks rose up like the backs of whales…” (1920s)
5. ”…with an onshore breeze of any strength the area around Orford Bar becomes a seething mass of
tormented water, the incoming tide, rending and tearing at the defence in depth, pulls down, undermines it,
casts it aside, shifts it from one place to another. All is chaos…” (1940s)
6. “Is that our centreboard grating on the sand? We ask anxiously, but before we have time to reply
the water deepens… we are running up quite close to the beacon and North Weir Point is almost behind us.
The passage perilous is won; we have conquered the Alde…” (1890s)
7. “…there’s not a lot of water on the bar, he said, but she won’t hurt… then all of a sudden the miracle
happened… the sea had gone… it was a marvellous transformation. We were inside…” (1950s)
8. Author and title of this Victorian melodrama:
“…and her mother, in a boat with sail and jib and spritsail, flew before a north-east wind down the Mersea
Channel, and doubling Sunken Island, entered the creek that leads to Salcot and Virley…”
9. What building is J. Wentworth Day talking about? And where is it?
“…at the eastern end of this once beautiful waterfront they have reared a monstrous grey and glittering
erection of concrete and plate glass… It looks like a cross between a football grandstand and a town hall
of Teutonic conception. It houses a horde of would-be yachtsmen, mainly prosperous tradesmen, who
diligently flail up and down this narrow river in their shiny little boats…”
10. Which of Charles Dickens’ novels is thought to be set around Hoo St Werburgh?
11. Who is buried in Boulge churchyard near Woodbridge and sailed a boat named Scandal?
12. Who wrote a number of books about sailing and cruising and was a founder member of the North Fambridge
Yacht Club?
Send your answers to Jan Harber, by PM
Please have a go - even if you can manage only a few - wild guesses are very acceptable!
Jan Harber has selected a number of Where-is-it photos, from which I have chosen just 28.
They are arranged in groups:
Pubs (5)
Marks, i.e. Navigation marks (4)
Aerial photos (4)
Buildings (5)
views (5)
Statues (and plaques) (5)
They are on
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/alisonmainwood/slideshow/ECF Christmas quiz 2013
(This gives you a slideshow. Click on the camera icon to get to individual photos and their titles.)
Then, Jan has also set some literary questions:
Three with Pin Mill connections
1. Who wrote the two children’s books that start from Pin Mil in The Goblin, and what are the titles?
2. This quote is from a novel set in Pin Mill between The Wars, what is its title and who is the author?
(She also wrote several other novels, one of which, Four Frightened People, was made into a film.)
“The big boats of the first race had now been gone for over three hours; we knew that they must have
been getting a tremendous dusting out in the open sea by the Cork light vessel…”
3. He lived in Pin Mill at one time. Who wrote?:
“…and I daresay the old barge justified the compliment as she heeled to the breeze, her gilt scrolls and
varnished spars bright in the midday sun. The last of the sailormen indeed…”
Four at the Bar
Authors of each the following descriptions:
4. “At last in the gathering dusk, we approached Orford Haven. Against the dark line of the beach and the
pine trees beyond we could see the line of white that marked the entrance – on a boiling cauldron of water
wherein, here and there, shingle banks rose up like the backs of whales…” (1920s)
5. ”…with an onshore breeze of any strength the area around Orford Bar becomes a seething mass of
tormented water, the incoming tide, rending and tearing at the defence in depth, pulls down, undermines it,
casts it aside, shifts it from one place to another. All is chaos…” (1940s)
6. “Is that our centreboard grating on the sand? We ask anxiously, but before we have time to reply
the water deepens… we are running up quite close to the beacon and North Weir Point is almost behind us.
The passage perilous is won; we have conquered the Alde…” (1890s)
7. “…there’s not a lot of water on the bar, he said, but she won’t hurt… then all of a sudden the miracle
happened… the sea had gone… it was a marvellous transformation. We were inside…” (1950s)
8. Author and title of this Victorian melodrama:
“…and her mother, in a boat with sail and jib and spritsail, flew before a north-east wind down the Mersea
Channel, and doubling Sunken Island, entered the creek that leads to Salcot and Virley…”
9. What building is J. Wentworth Day talking about? And where is it?
“…at the eastern end of this once beautiful waterfront they have reared a monstrous grey and glittering
erection of concrete and plate glass… It looks like a cross between a football grandstand and a town hall
of Teutonic conception. It houses a horde of would-be yachtsmen, mainly prosperous tradesmen, who
diligently flail up and down this narrow river in their shiny little boats…”
10. Which of Charles Dickens’ novels is thought to be set around Hoo St Werburgh?
11. Who is buried in Boulge churchyard near Woodbridge and sailed a boat named Scandal?
12. Who wrote a number of books about sailing and cruising and was a founder member of the North Fambridge
Yacht Club?
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