Time for another little quiz?

[BMcD]

Nigel Watts wrote:

The answer is in what one has to wear to go there.

Do you mean the Nazi uniforms?

 

[Penners]

OK - a big clue. Here's another building at the same place:

 

[MdB]

Well that bridge is a Palladian Bridge. There is this one in bath:

and this one in at Wilton House

Very similar and it is difficult to tell which one from the small picture.
I think its the Wilton House one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilton_House
Can't find a picture of the room though.

 

[MdB]

Close but no biscuit...

There is another Palladian Bridge at Stowe House which the wiki page has Penner's picture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowe_House

Flickr gives us a picture of the room in question:

so this confirms Stowe House as the answer though it doesn't give us a name for the room.

The Stowe House Building Tour, http://www.architecture.com/RegionsAndInternational/UKNationsAndRegions/England/RIBASouth/WhatsOn/Seminars/2009/StoweHouseBuildingTour.aspx, gives us a potential name of "Marble Saloon". Nothing on Flickr but google leads us to here:
http://www.wmf.org.uk/projects/view/stowe_marble_saloon/overview
I guess £40,000,000 well spent.

Ok. A few odds and ends.

BMcD's Nazi picture is using Stowe House as a back drop. I can't remember the Germans making it to Buckinghamshire so it must be a film. This site, http://www.stoweevents.co.uk/filming/index.html, gives us that it was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The Gareth Hughes globe was found on the wiki page for Stowe House and is identified as the The Cook Monument.

Penner's second picture turns out to be the The Gothic Temple.

 

[BMcD]

Stowe house is quite correct but in particulr, The Marble Saloon

http://www.wmf.org/UK_stowe.html

 

[Moo]

Didn't Penners have some connection with Stowe in his youth?

 

[MdB]

Didn't Penners have some connection with Stowe in his youth?

http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9589&p=109414&hilit=stowe#p109414
http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8382&p=96071&hilit=stowe#p96071

I confess to having spent five of my formative years at Stowe.

Well remembered Moo. I had certainly forgotten those threads...

 

[FamilyWiggs]

So what was the Whig reference all about?

 

[Gareth Hughes]

So what was the Whig reference all about?

Stowe is a political statement, celebrating the Whig virtues of British parliamentary freedom and economic liberalism, against the Tory and Jacobite support of the combination of Crown, Church and State. Hence the Temple of British Worthies, the Gothic Temple (with the inscription "I thank God I am not a Roman" which can be read as having several meanings), etc. However, the family then fell out with Walpole over his dictatorial ambitions, so the perfect, classical Temple of Ancient Virtue in the garden http://www.follytowers.com/stowetrail32.html was once accompanied by a Temple of Modern Virtue - a ruin, with a headless statue of the Prime Minister in the middle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdJ6wj6vEs4

 

[Nigel Watts]

The answer is in what one has to wear to go there.

The answer is in what one haS TO WEar to go there.

Presumably one also has to wear a school uniform?

A bit laboured possibly

 

[DaveBrigg]

The answer is in what one has to wear to go there.

I was thinking of this place
View attachment 1
The home of the Earl of Cardigan, although it may have been here
which was home to the Duke of Wellington

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Not Lord Sandwich's place then !!

:lol:

 

[Penners]

Well done, MdB. First in the bullseye. You get the points, which puts you in the promotion zone for next season.

Nigel's evil clue merits a Mention in Dispatches. And BMcD correctly named the room.

Needless to say, Gareth was in the know all along. One day I'm going to find a building he doesn't recognise. :evil:

A small point relating to the uniform question: actually no - there is no Stowe School uniform as such. Jacket, trousers (both to your taste, provided nothing too outrageous) and one of the many different school ties.

Well, that's how it was 50 years ago, anyway!

 

[MdB]

Well done, MdB. First in the bullseye. You get the points, which puts you in the promotion zone for next season.

I think Gareth and BMcD got the answer correct first but I don't mind sneaking in the next question:

Where is this? and why has a roof beam got a hole in it?

 

[BMcD]

That to me looks suspiciously like Dunster Yarn Market, where during the civil war, a cannon ball shot a hole in the roof beam

http://www.dunstertithebarn.org.uk/history-dunster.htm

 

[MdB]

Well that didn't last long. I was thinking about just posting a picture of the roof beams inside but I thought that would have made it too hard. I think I would have been proven wrong...

 

[Moo]

I thought that would have made it too hard....

You should know by now that it's unwise to underestimate the omniscience of the average* PPUK poster.




*I count myself as one of the well-below-average clan, just in case that sounded as though I have ideas above my station.

 

[Penners]

You should know by now that it's unwise to underestimate the omniscience of the average* PPUK poster.

Yes, but what about us below-average types? (And that doesn't include you!)

 

[Moo]

Oh, yes it does!

But, come to think of it, do you mean that it doesn't include me because I'm well-below-average, as opposed to really clever people who are only below average?

 

[BMcD]

Well, from one who got lucky, I'd like to propose this one.

where is this?