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Local
History quiz (just
for fun)
Think you know all about the history
of this area?
Now you can prove it! Get
your name on our 'roll of honour'.
10
Questions follow - select your answer for each.
All the answers
can all be found on this website.
What was the name given to
the cooking pot produced by the
Champion works?
(Clue to get you started - look on Zinc
and Brass page)
The
Pound Pot The
Warmley Pot
The
Guinea Pot The
Penny Pot
How many children were on
the 'roll' when Warmley Church
of England School
opened?
35
55 65
105
What was the forename of
Champion, the founder of the Warmley
zinc and
copper works?
William
Thomas
Charles
Henry
Where was Crown Pit located?
Cadbury Heath Warmley
Bitton
Barrs
Court
Which construction company
built MOST of the homes in the
California Road
area of Longwell Green?
Laings
Barretts
Westbury
Homes Wimpy
How high above the floor
is the marker placed in the Midland
Spinner
public house to show the level of the 1968 flood?
About
3' About
5' About
7' About
9'
Where was this pub (The Union
Inn) located?
Warmley
Oldland
Cadbury
Heath Bridgeyate
What is the drop of the Dramway
as is passes from Mangotsfield
to the River
Avon?
40'
78'
155'
198'
Who was Coronation Pit named
in honour of?
Elizabeth
II Victoria
Edward
VII George
III
When Warmley FC played
Southampton in 1898/9, what was
the final
score?
A
draw
Southampton
won 1 - 0
Warmley
FC won 1 - 0
Match
cancelled because of snow
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have selected an answer for each question!
Now enter your details below and
submit your answers. If you get all the answers
right your name and location will appear in the
roll of honour on the right of this page. GOOD
LUCK!
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Local
History Quiz
Roll of Honour
Lynne
Watkins Kingswood
Janet
Wells Oldland
Jim
Barrett Newcastle
on Tyne
Sean
Casey Fishponds
Tony
Groves Longwell
Green
Rob
Groves Oldland
Common
Gary
Skuse Hanham
Eric
Hill Bridgeyate
Martin
Clough Barrs Court
all
the above scored 10/10
Well Done!
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Runners
up: (7,
8
or 9 correct)
S
Knight - Bristol (9)
Patricia
Lindegaard - Brislington (8)
Deryk Morris - Bristol (8)
A Carrasco
- Oldland (8)
Martin Nash - Warmley (7)
M J
Perrett - Cadbury Heath (7)
Alison Comley
- Bath (7)
S Rengland - Warmley (7)
'Also
rans'
E
Nash - Warmley
S C Lambert - Oldland
D
Napier - Bristol
G P Crimmins - Bristol
P
Lovell - Fishponds
Mary Lykes - Hertfordshire
Andrew
Gay - Welwyn Garden City
C Kidd - Oldland
S
Pople - Longwell Green
G Bennett - Bristol
R Turner - Tuscon
Ariz. (Ex Pat)
J Phillips - Cadbury Heath
R
A Milton - Newport (Wales)
Emma Fudge - North
Common
S Handford - Kingswood
M Vowles
- Longwell Green
C Moore - Cadbury Heath
C
Hennessy - Cadbury Heath
Tony Sheppy - Cadbury
Heath
Andy Tyack - Huddersfield
G Fry
- Kingswood
S O'Sullivan - Kingswood
L
Bowles - Warmley
J Coppard - Warmley
R
J Goscombe - Oldland
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