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30/10/2017 Connecting Wall The answers can be arranged into 5 groups of 4 whereby each answer in a group has a word or part of a word (sometimes in sound, rather than spelling) in common with the other answers in that group.  The 5 shared words/part-words belong to an overall theme.

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A

B

North Salford area; scene of 1885 colliery disaster

C

Stepney, Poplar and Bethnal Green

D

 

The Seven Year Itch

(film poster featuring Marilyn Monroe)

 

Clifton

(Clifton Hall Colliery)

 

Tower Hamlets

 

Austin 7

E

1857 novel satirising Church of England factions

F

Elgar wrote a musical piece called Sospiri; what does ‘Sospiri’ mean?

G

1685 trials following Battle of Sedgemoor

H

Vietnam war film based on book by Ron Kovic

 

Barchester Towers

(by Anthony Trollope)

 

Sighs

(from Italian sospiri)

 

Bloody Assizes

(Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion)

 

Born on the Fourth of July

I

David  Copperfield character; runs off with Little Em’ly

J

Chris, Vin, Bernardo, Lee, Chico et al

K

Forsyth novel title based on 1968 Nuclear Treaty

L

Catholic Cathedral of Bristol

 

(James) Steerforth

 

The Magnificent Seven

(first names of 5 of the 7 characters)

 

The Fourth Protocol

 

Clifton Cathedral

(Cathedral of SS Peter & Paul)

M

Magnox & PWR between Aldeburgh and Southwold

N

1947-1958; Ramadier to de Gaulle

O

Finished 2nd in last 4 series of Strictly

P

Between Chalk Farm & Hampstead on the Northern line

 

Sizewell

(Nuclear Power Station on Suffolk coast)

 

The Fourth Republic

(French Government & first/last Prime Ministers)

 

Kevin Clifton

(with S Reid, F Bridge, K Bright & , L Redknapp)

 

Belsize Park

Q

R

St Helens-born comedian; looks after Oswald

S

From Battle of Jumonville Glen to Treaty of Paris

T

 

The Tower of Babel

(by Pieter Brueghel the Elder)

 

Bernie Clifton

(Oswald is the ostrich he rides in his act)

 

The Seven Years’ War

(1756 – 1763)

 

Alton Towers

(logo of amusement park)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seven / Severn: A - The Seven Year Itch; D - Austin 7; J - The Magnificent Seven; S - The Seven Years’ War

Clifton: B - Clifton; L - Clifton Cathedral; O - Kevin Clifton; R - Bernie Clifton

Tower: C - Tower Hamlets; E - Barchester Towers; Q - The Tower of Babel; T - Alton Towers

Size / Sighs: F - Sighs; G - Bloody Assizes; M – Sizewell; P - Belsize Park

Forth / Fourth: H - Born on the Fourth of July; I - Steerforth; K - The Fourth Protocol; N - The Fourth Republic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Severn Bridge (x 2); Clifton Suspension Bridge (Avon, Bristol); Tower Bridge (Thames, London); Bridge of Sighs (Oxford & Cambridge); Forth Bridge (x 3)

…. all names of UK Bridges