Every Friday at 1300 hours, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. Don’t be shy. All are welcome to participate.
To fully defox the following geofoxer, identify all twelve locations plus the theme that links them.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s hive foxer theme: graves (defoxed by alison)
barrow (alison)
cist (Zwack23)
crypt (Nutfield)
fossor (Colonel_K)
hypogeum (Zwack23)
jar (Nutfield)
KV (a_monk)
known unto god (Whistler)
kofun (alison)
lara croft (Colonel_K)
mingqi (AbyssUK)
mortsafe (a_monk)
pleurant (a_monk)
potter’s field (alison)
shingo (a_monk)
six feet under (Colonel_K)
stone ship (Colonel_K)
transi (Colonel_K)
G: Carriage Works in Stoke Cross Boris & Trump kissing Mural
Westmoreland House, now demolished.
I: Map from above of Selsey and Wittering and Bognor Regis to the East
Manhood peninsula (“And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks / That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
E: Talbot St, Dublin
E – junction of Talbot St and Moland Place in Dublin – https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3508694,-6.2536525,3a,75y,120.55h,88.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sggzUSFJWWkDHnix-OaTRMw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
D: Disneyland Paris teacup ride – Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups – Fantasyland
J: i’m pretty sure is Edinburgh and is the Governer’s house and the Obelisk in front of it in the distance, but I’ll be damned if i can find the street it’s taken from.
There we go St Mary’s Street.
https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9505044,-3.1841241,3a,90y,358.37h,73.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF6uecVipjFdxzMHOhvFbzg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
It’s just beside the World’s End pub, I think? Haven’t checked!
That train station is driving me mental – a station with 6 platforms that has services to Loughborough/London and Leeds, there can’t be that many of those and I must have looked at dozens.
B – Exeter St Davids
L: The bus is Your Gateway to North Norfolk, but finding a flyover in Norfolk isn’t easy!
H: Looks like the Austrian or German lakes by the guy’s hat at the table, although Germans do like to visit Italy!
C: Pub name looked like the Crown or Sun Inn, but no luck on either
Same observations, then I Googled “Norfolk flyover”:
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6355902,1.2966575,3a,52.1y,323.79h,84.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-cizK63Ea1BSQFUtV5ivDw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
It’s taken from St. Crispins Road, the obscured name is Anglia Square
L is Anglia Square, Norwich.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6355902,1.2966575,3a,49.5y,336.86h,85.53t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1s-cizK63Ea1BSQFUtV5ivDw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i43
I think A. might be the cruciform tail of a Gloster Meteor.
A – Gloster Meteor NF.14 WS776 at Bournemouth Airport, Dorset
And to the left there’s a Bedford TK Mobile Control Tower.
H – Grandhotel Giessbach: https://goo.gl/maps/Y59zCYS1Mip4cFqRA
C – There is a house in Charming Town they call the Rising Sun: https://goo.gl/maps/z8dhnYKedZBUCPuQ7
Wonder if it’s anything to do with 60s/70s British cars?
Anglia, Talbot?
Or Ford Meteor, Ford Anglia?
I’ve got some answers to fit “Band of Brothers” TV mini-series.
OK, two so far.
Grand Hotel Giessbach = filming location
St Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V = origin of title
F – Vickers Warwick ASR. Mk.VI HG136: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/229658
More ‘St Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V’, then?
Sample quote:
“Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester”
ETA: Didn’t have Bedford Mobile Control Tower when I wrote the above, which is in it’s favour. Don’t seem to be able to wrangle Rising Sun in, though.
About The Rising Sun, it’s kind of implausible but it’s on Tiptoe road:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d
There’s also a mention of “flowing cups” that may be related to D.
And “From this day to the ending of the world” links to J
K. Fokker F28 FELLOWSHIP – a lot of looking at tailplanes today, and it has the sort of windows as in Fokker designs (80 and 100 as well).
“We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.”
Theater Alam Baturraden, cental Java, used as a movie theatre
https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.3137877,109.2291693,3a,49y,303.91h,86.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1se8W2ovTjunlAshnXU0lRGg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3De8W2ovTjunlAshnXU0lRGg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D159.36154%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192
The way our foxers jump on Roman’s riddles reminds me of how piranhas presumably pounce on porkchops. Impressive work, gang!
St. Crispin’s Day:
Agincourt…
…and the resignation of Jacob Rees-Mogg
https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/25/jacob-rees-moggs-hand-written-resignation-letter-is-slathered-with-pretention-17633956/