wiki-illiam q17

[dubdobdee]

i: what terminus is ursine?
ii: where does the canal lack the grandeur of its namesake?
iii: who would appear to have places at Smithfield and the Strand?
iv: which district derives its name from the appearance of St Mary Matfelon?
v: where might an obelisk be perceived as a memorial to a North African seamstress?
vi: which establishment, in the interest of political rectitude, discarded its Bavarian name for that of a
Gaelic province?
vii: what former hostelry was not the residence of a former Foreign Secretary?
viii: where do frequent delays recall a famous late arrival over 200 years ago?
xi: from what corner of London is it possible to see Copenhagen?
x: whence the ill-fated Liza Kemp?

the rules:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

i is surely paddington? is this things to be found in london?

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

or cliffords inn? (let us work our way around the inns of court shall we?)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

list of all the Foreign Secretaries up until 2006

There is a Grey (as opposed to Gray)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

= who sed: "the lamps are going out all over yerp what iz it HALOGEN BULB"

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

LJR!

oh hold on that's a current hostelry...