Sunday Times Where Was I? Holiday Competition

Looks like the Sunday Times have finally gotten their programmer out of bed to put the entry form and questions in now. Near as I can figure it, the most likely answers are:

Q1. Pershore Station, or a Liverish Journey First Class

Q2. Odda's Chapel


The initial clues place us in Pershore, the poem is by John Betjeman  and is called
'Pershore Station, or a Liverish Journey First Class'.The saucemaker was most likely to be Mr William Henry Perrins (b 1793), who together with Mr John Wheeley Lea, started producing Lea and Perrin's Worcester sauce, from a chemist  shop in Broad Street in Worcester (c 1837).The Lea and Perrin's factory is now in Midland street, Worcester.

William Henry Perrins originally entered into a partnership as a chemists and druggist with his
brother James. Their business was initially based in Evesham and this is where the next
set of clues take us to (Evesham is around seven miles east south east of
Pershore). The battlefield is most likely the site of the battle of Evesham (c 4th August
1265) where the 6th earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort (third son of the 5th earl of
Leicester, also Simon de Montfort) was killed. De Montfort was buried at Evesham abbey
until 'enry the eighth demolished it in the sixteenth century. Evesham abbey was founded
by Saint Egwin (feast day 30th December). I think the two churches are most likely to be
'All Saints' (active) and 'St.Lawrence's' (redundant).


Travelling around 13 miles south west of Evesham, takes us to the Tewkesbury area and
there is a saxon chapel near there, at Deerhurst, that most likely fits the description given by
the author. This is Odda's chapel, built c 1056 by Earl Odda who may or may not have been a son of
Ælfhere and according to the blurb on the English Heritage site, it was indeed subsumed
into a farmhouse and rediscovered in 1865 by a reverend George Butterworth.

The second riverside town is likely to be Gloucester, there is an Inn, which is said to
be in Gloucester, called 'The Bell' in a novel called 'Tom Jones' which also features a
character called Mr Allworthy.

The abbey church in the third town is likely to be Pershore abbey church. From the
records, it looks like a guy called Edgar the Peacable gave the abbey a charter c AD 972 and a large amount of lands (The danes had been over previously and trashed a church there c AD
958 while attending an unauthorized rave). A 10th century saint whose bones/relics are reputed to be buried there is St Edburga of Winchester, feast day 15th June

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