Where Am I? - UK Quiz 3

[RobbieM]

We need to think geographically again...

...are you south of the latitude of Birmingham?

[greatkingrat]

We need to think geographically again...

...are you south of the latitude of Birmingham?

No (20/100)

To recap
I am North of a line from Holyhead to the Wash
I am South of Hadrian's Wall
I am closer to the West coast than the East coast
I am not in Yorkshire, Lancashire, or inside the M60.
My town does not have a railway station, but it used to.

[RobbieM]

I am North of a line from Holyhead to the Wash

Oops - I forgot that bit on my last question.

So might you be in the Cumbrian County?

[greatkingrat]

I am North of a line from Holyhead to the Wash

Oops - I forgot that bit on my last question.

So might you be in the Cumbrian County?

Yes, I am in Cumbria. (21/100)

[RobbieM]

Within a 10 mile radius of Keswick?

[greatkingrat]

Within a 10 mile radius of Keswick?

Yes (22/100)

[RobbieM]

Not the legendary Rexel Cumberland Pencil Museum, by any chance?

[greatkingrat]

Not the legendary Rexel Cumberland Pencil Museum, by any chance?

Yes! (23/100)

I am indeed at the home of the worlds longest coloured pencil. I'm impressed how quickly you got it.

[RobbieM]

Yippee Dippee DOO-Dah!

That's TWO "Where Am I?" competitons I've won in the last two hours!

The Pencil Museum seemed to fit in with all the clues. And I've visited the place. Twice...

[Edgemaster]

Someone was ranting and raving at me how good this museum was the weekend before last... Little did I know how useful it could have been...

[tubeguru]

I have visited the Pencil Museum once for what it's worth.

[RichieG]

I have visited the Pencil Museum once for what it's worth.

And what was it worth? :p

[RobbieM]

I have visited the Pencil Museum once for what it's worth.

And what was it worth? :p

Well, to me it was worth a lot at the time, because I used to collect pencils. But now that I'm older...

...I still do...

[Mitchell&BrownLook]

I too have visited the Pencil Museum and therefore can give it my thumbs up for the "slightly different but wonderful all the same" category of tourist attractions. Also gaining an emphatic thumbs for this award would be the British Lawnmower Museum in Southport and the European Unions' very own Permanent Toilet Exhibition at the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke. Prior to visiting I was dubious that it even existed and wasn't some form of send marketing ploy, or if it did exist it was just going to be a bit silly. (Toilet humour - perhaps?)

However I was found incorrect as the place does take itself seriously, instead leaving me incredulous that I was stood in a room full of old bogs and water closets (they were separated into their respective classes) while best of all was the Toilet of the future section which hypothesised about whether the Japanese or the Germans would be the first to build a high tech toilet with in built features, and a mock up of of what it may look like! The fact that Stoke City Council had to bid for it alongside other cities in the EU proves that little can happen there and that the Council was desperate, however it also means that we can legitimately call Stoke on Trent the Toilet of Europe. Presumably instead they think as themselves as the Throne of Europe.

[al]

...however it also means that we can legitimately call Stoke on Trent the Toilet of Europe. Presumably instead they think as themselves as the Throne of Europe.

I know where my vote goes on that one