Pub Quiz thread

[yorkshirehornet]

A welsh bank to enable drovers taking cattle down to London to get credit to buy the cattle in Wales and bank their income in London when they sold the cattle so they owuldnt be robbed on the way home and pick up their profit back in Wales

Story is very interesting

https://www.localdroveroads.co.uk/the-bank-of-the-black-ox/

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Ingenious idea in dangerous times.

Back to you.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Ingenious idea in dangerous times.

Back to you.

Where I lived in England, a road that the drovers used was known as Welsh Lane, a main route on the way to London. Along the length of the road, you can still see the stone enclosures where the cattle or sheep were safely kept overnight. I didn't know about the money though.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What do Wrexham and newcastle United have in common this season?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What do Wrexham and newcastle United have in common this season?

Footballing

 

[yorkshirehornet]

a league

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Wrexham top

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Newcastle bottom

 

[yorkshirehornet]

younger

 

[yorkshirehornet]

No takers for this one??

 

[Bolton's Boots]

No takers for this one??

Was tempted to say something about similar strips but a) they're not and b) can't find anything they have in common at all.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

A league

 

[Bolton's Boots]

They were in the same group in the Football League Trophy?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

They were in the same group in the Football League Trophy?

Just a tad more detail?? Who exactly?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Wrexham and Newcastle U21s - finished top and bottom respectively

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Wrexham and Newcastle U21s - finished top and bottom respectively

yup..... over to you.........................

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Cheers Yorkie.

What record does an Aston Villa player hold that can never be broken - and which player?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

is is musical?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

is is musical?

It might have been when it happened - but no, nothing to do with music.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Peter McParland was the first Villa player who went to the World Cup Finals with Northern Ireland in 1958, or David Platt being the first Villa player to score for in England in a World Cup in 1990