Sunday Times, Where Was I Answers

[Dave Allen]

Have enjoyed doing this one. Am 100% sure that Hastings is the correct
answers. Am 90% sure that Battle is the correct answer

THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Where is the ruined castle? ---------->> Hastings

Which town was once the centre of the gunpowder industry? ------->> Battle

THE PRIZE
to celebrate the start of the Open next Thursday, the Old Course Hotel Golf
Resort & Spa in St Andrews is offering a long weekend of golf and luxury in
one of their spectacular new suites. The resort, at the "home of golf",
enjoys a privileged location, flanking the fairway of the famous 17th (the
Road Hole) on the Old Course, and has its own private Duke's Course (on
which the first tee shot was struck by HRH the Duke of York), as an
alternative to the wealth of links golf in the area. The hotel also has a
luxurious spa and a choice of four restaurants. The prize includes dinner
and breakfast on all three nights, two half-hour spa treatments, a golf
lesson for two, and three rounds of golf for two on the Duke's Course.

For further details of the Old Course Hotel, call 01334 474 371. The prize
must be taken before February 28, 2001, excluding Christmas and New Year,
and is subject to availability.

ENTRIES
on a postcard to:

Where Was I? July 16, 2000,
PO Box 5078,
Leighton Buzzard,
Beds
LU7 7GB

Or e-mail: wher...@trip-wired.com by Wednesday evening.

Winners will be announced in next week's Directions. One entry per
household. Normal Times Newspapers rules apply. No correspondence will be
entered into.

LAST WEEKS WINNERS AND ANSWERS
THE ANSWERS to last week's quiz are Bodmin and Perkin Warbeck. The winner is
Heather Owens-Cooksey, who wins a seven-night holiday to Barbados, with
Thomson Faraway Shores (0990 502 399). The runners-up are M G Rowlands of
Royston and Belinda Perkins of London. They, like the winner, receive two
Rough Guides of their choice.

NOTES
Twittens can be found in Hastings.

Hastings has a 19th Century pier.

John Logie Baird broadcast the first television pictures in in Hastings in
1924.
Hastings has Europe's biggest beach-launched fishing fleet,

Hastings has a castle which was probably a wooden castle at first.

Hastings has two cliff railways, with one being the steepest in Britain.

Lewes is the gunpowder place

The Author got the train at ST. Leonards (Rider Haggard was the author who
wrote "She who must be obeyed", and he lived in ST. Leonards)

Battle is the third station from St Leonards. It was the centre of the
Gunpowder industry in the 17th century. Battle of Hastings took place here.