Corona Quiz 03

[oldboots]

I knew that, plus bits and pieces of some of the others. (How many questions does Q10 consist of????)

Bit of a Round Britain Quiz one that, so anywhere between 1 and 5 points.

[oldboots]

Answers:

1. John Smiths - Heinekin, Samuel Smiths - Mr Humphrey, Tower Brewery - Molson Coors.

2. Penrhos Court.

3. London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, run by the Midland Railway from 1912 (no beery conection except perhaps through the Midland Railway beer traffic from Burton to London). Aqualung was close with the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway which was a joint venture between the Midland and the LT&SR and so fits the bill too.

4. Sean Franklin, the brewery was originally called Franklins but after he returned to brewing he called it after his favourite John Wayne character Rooster Cogburn, some of the beer names also had their roots in the film True Grit.

5. Brass Castle.

6. Thomas Hardy, author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, was an apprentice architect, one of his jobs was to supervise the disinterment of bodies at Old St Pancras churchyard when St Pancras station was built. Eldridge Pope of course produced Thomas Hardy Ale to celebrate his life and works. Fun Fact: - the arches under St Pancras station were spaced to allow the easy storage of beer casks between them. "The Field of Waterloo" is an inventive answer, it is a small part of a larger work called The Dynasts and a little obscure, but full marks as an acceptable answer.

7. David Bruce.

8. Kilderkin, Barrel, Hogshead. I discounted the Anker as that's a bit foreign.

9. Shepherd Neame always claim to be the oldest (1692) but Three Tuns in Bishops Castle claim to have started in 1642. They don't actually dis' Shep's on their website. Bit like "The Oldest Pub In England" saga.

10. The Ealing comedy "The Titfield Thunderbolt" was filmed in and around Monkton Combe, the locomotive used came from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and was really called Lion, the Lion is a famous pub opposite Liverpool Exchange station. Fun Fact: - In the film the railway is financed by Mr Valentine who agrees only because he can drink in the buffet car whenever the railway is running. (Ealing is a London suburb and "the show" refers to the film).