Birmingham & Wolves Landmark Challenge 2013
Work out the locations, ride your Triumph to each of them and take a photo of it there, send in your entry!
The Rules:
- Work out the location of the "Landmark" from the given clue and grid reference.
- The good bit. Ride your Triumph to the location and simply photograph your pride and joy there as proof of achievement.
- Sent your entry comprising photographs, cheque for £5.00 payable to 'Bham and Wolves TOMCC', and an SSAE to:
Landmark Challenge, 2 Waterworks House, Cresswell Lane, Cresswell, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST11 9RE.
The Clues:
| No. | OS Sheet | Grid Ref | Clue |
| 1 | 193 | ST499172 | Very famous people hang around upstairs |
| 2 | 179 | TR359433 | The first electric one |
| 3 | 97 | SD472622 | Remember how we used to set to sea |
| 4 | 198 | TQ473072 | Gage home since Tudor times |
| 5 | 176 | TQ172730 | Gammon Villa? |
| 6 | 188 | TQ540543 | A room for every day of the year |
| 7 | 168 | TL928175 | Tallest Tudor gatehouse in England |
| 8 | 172 | ST502724 | Former home of the guano king |
| 9 | 27 | NH980577 | Bread set coil (anagram) |
| 10 | 90 | NY478269 | The manor in the valley since Saxon times |
| 11 | 104 | SE174314 | A stronghold during the siege of Bradford |
| 12 | 142 | TL195985 | Final resting place of Katherine of Aragon |
| 13 | 181 | ST047407 | Finest cloisters in England, some say |
| 14 | 178 | TQ956730 | A place of worship since 664 A.D. |
| 15 | 127 | SO625002 | Where 16 monks can wash at once |
| 16 | 84 | NX965663 | We’re the baby’s tea (anagram) |
| 17 | 65 | NT055802 | The ship that never sailed |
| 18 | 153 | SP993527 | Only complete spinner left in Beds |
| 19 | 203 | SW402288 | Runny ace (anagram) |
| 20 | 195 | SY975775 | Quaff amongst the fossils and rocks |
| 21 | 175 | SU901811 | Brunel’s lovely, low arches |
| 22 | 30 | NJ999677 | Once a castle - lit up in 1787 |
| 23 | 133 | TG195394 | Goths would like the library |
| 24 | 64 | NS688594 | two aren’t ill at the fort |
| 25 | 196 | SU593020 | Been a-round to keep the French out |
| 26 | 88 | NZ201559 | The world’s first railway bridge |
| 27 | 166 | TL297237 | Knocked about in 1212 |
| 28 | 158 | SN136004 | The good life - 500 years ago |
| 29 | 151 | SP268609 | Sup with the old farmer’s trade unionist |
| 30 | 141 | SP747713 | Worship here for fourteen centuries |
| 31 | 129 | SK314152 | Blast! Only worked for eleven years |
| 32 | 115 | SH588690 | Seven spans still stand, but no chuffing noise anymore |
| 33 | 122 | TF222581 | Single handedly telling the time |
| 34 | 173 | ST919685 | Remember Fox - Talbot’s efforts in the darkroom |
| 35 | 94 | NZ896096 | cycles overhead now where once were trains |
| 36 | 38 | NJ796005 | Fortified percussion |
| 37 | 177 | TQ651753 | Defending London since the 16th century |
| 38 | 152 | SP755582 | Cruciform memory of a dead queen |
| 39 | 145 | SN152487 | Pop it in the water to save lives |
| 40 | 98 | SD907978 | A bleat from on high entices ewe to spend |
| 41 | 147 | SN731715 | y oh y oh y are there no vowels? |
| 42 | 198 | TQ322280 | 37 spans to get across the valley |
| 43 | 96 | SD226739 | Ten lad coast (anagram) |
| 44 | 96 | SD427644 | Poirot would stay here, when it was the end of the line |
| 45 | 136 | SO055712 | Founded in 1143; though not much still standing now |
| 46 | 184 | SU213248 | Keeps you sneezing? |
| 47 | 144 | TL985875 | Still an uncommon sight South of the border |
| 48 | 113 | TF125885 | The Lincolnshire gallop |
| 49 | 141 | SP919809 | Remember the B17s |
| 50 | 110 | SK149825 | Cave lets peril (anagram) |