Trivia Investigation Team

[mickthemaverick]

[mickthemaverick]

Or you could play it the way I do:

[myglaren]

[Peter.N.]

If I can go back to the swans for a minute, when we first moved down here in 1970 we used to have the occasional day out around Slapton Sands which many of you will know has a freshwater lake running parallel with the sea. We stopped to feed the birds one day and a youngster crept up on our lad on our lad who was probably about 4 or 5 and took half a slice of bread out of his hand which startled him a bit. He was telling everyone for the next few days he had been bitten by a magnet.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

The aforementioned Finland One Euro Coin with a Pair of Whooper Swans, The National Bird of Finland.

They are winter visitors to the UK, as photographed here by yours truly. The Whooper swan can be described as a large swan with a yellow bill with a black tip. The very similar Bewick's Swan has a black bill with a yellow base.



As far as I can tell, Charles III has no ownership claim to the migratory Whooper or Bewick's Swans who are mainly winter visitors to the UK.

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I don't think the King owns this one:

Swan retro kettle

[myglaren]

[Peter.N.]

Nice music, didn't know that's what it was called. Super audio quality too.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

Probably not a lot of trivia to be found, but a caption on a 1924 picture a ship called the Bernicia at Newcastle Quayside was...

The Bernicia at Newcastle Quayside ready to sail Newcastle United fans to Wembley in 1924 for the FA Cup final against Aston Villa

I have found out only a small element more. The service was provided by the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company and cost 25 shillings (£1.25p) for a first-class return ticket. At that price in 1924, maybe it was only the well-heeled who made the journey.

There is a bit of information on the ship itself on Tyne Built Ships here

https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/B-Ship ... a1923.html
Built at R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd Hebburn, for the Newcastle to London service with accommodation for 150 1st Class & 100 2nd Class passengers. In its latter days it was bought by Greek shipping companies and met its end on 14/12/1944: Wrecked at Arcaki Islet, near Skiathos On a voyage from Salonica to Piraeus carrying passengers.

It must have been almost brand new for the journey in 1924 carrying Newcastle fans down to London for the FA Cup final having been launched just the previous year on May 1st 1923.

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Didn't know before this morning but this prominent building in City Road was the former HQ of the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company operators of the Bernicia. Regularly used to have a Citroen H van parked down the side of it.


Hotel du Vin, City Road - geograph.org.uk - 1777142
Andrew Curtis / Hotel du Vin, City Road

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Meanwhile, the Match....wiki comes up with a couple of trivia items

The final became known as

" the "Rainy Day Final" due to the weather that day, a consequence of which has led to there being very few good condition programmes left for the game (many fans used their match programmes as makeshift umbrellas). The value of the programme is the highest for any Wembley final with recent sales attaining over £6,000 at auction.


1924 fa cup programme
Here, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

The value of the programme is the highest for any Wembley final with recent sales attaining over £6,000 at auction.

Neil

Or you could settle for a reproduction for a fiver!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201300678080 ... R8L-mYvDYw

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Road to Wembley involved a close game with Watford at vicarage road...Newcastle sneaked it 1-0. Demolished Liverpool 1-0 in the quarter , and Manchester City 2-0 in the semi-final on the way.

https://toon1892.com/detail_match.php?id=4639

Neil

Corrected. Wiki got the score wrong in their page on the cup final 1924 for the Liverpool quarter final. Not 5-0 only 1-0

[NewcastleFalcon]

This is a particularly nice sign. It adorns the wall of a Quayside Restaurant now in Newcastle.

The original sign and all its patina was removed and taken to Beamish Museum, and a recreation commissioned from Ashley Willerton, a local renowned heritage sign writer.

Would be nice to get a Falcon original of it but for now a link to a chronicle article on it

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/no ... e-26380445

This is a previous copy of the original sign, now replaced

Advert for Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Company, King Street

© Copyright Andrew Curtis and
licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Neil

[Gibbo2286]

My home team on the cover Aston Villa, they lost that one 2-0 but when I was a lad we were able to brag that our team had won the cup more times than any other
More trivia, how many teams wore claret and blue?