Q1. Nottingham
Q2. (Sir) Peter de la Mare
The initial clues place us on a street called 'The Gt Northern', in the city of Nottingham. The Great Northern Railway was according to some sources, established by the Great Northern Railway act c 1846. Some references claim that London road high level and London road low level stations in Nottingham, were constructed by the GNR and opened c 1857. The low level station was said to have been closed to passenger c 1944 and the high level closed to passengers c 1967. Travelling west on 'The Gt Northern' street and crossing over London road, brings us to Station street and Nottingham station .
Travelling north from the station takes us across Nottingham canal (the other canal referred to in the puzzle, is most likely the Erewash canal, which lies to the west of the city and is said in some references to have opened c 1779 and to be 12 miles long.
Moving west along Canal street takes us to Castle street and Nottingham castle, which was constructed by William the Conqueror as a motte and bailey wooden structure c 1067. The current edifice, is believed to have been built by the Duke of Newcastle, Henry Cavendish c1674 - 1679. A queen born c 1295 who was holed up here with her lover, Roger de Mortimer (born c 1287), was queen Isabella. They were arrested by Edward III and his goon squad, after they used 'Mortimer's hole', allegedly an underground way into the castle, to gain access. Some references claim that Edward III founded the order of the garter.
A king (parents Annabella Drummond and Robert III of Scotland) who was incarcerated in Nottingham castle for around two years, after his ship got into difficulties and ran aground off Flamborough head, was James I of Scotland. Two people were elected speaker of the House of Commons in 1377, Sir Thomas Hungerford and Sir Peter de la Mare. I couldn't find a reference on Hungerford being locked up in the castle but found several which claim that Sir Peter de la Mare was, by John of Gaunt (for something involving the King's mistress). A tobacco manufacturer (born c 1839) who trademarked an image of the castle, is likely to be John Player.
Wandering north east from the castle takes you across Maid Marrian way and towards the Victoria shopping centre, which is built on the site of the old Victoria station and does seem to have a 100 foot clock tower close to it.
Lotto machines generate words as a co product of their normal operations, the Eastender's data mining explorations have found that there can be as many as twenty two possible letters which could form words, if they appeared in the next game and combine with the existing data and it is no good betting when this is the case, however, charting the number of possible letters vs number of letters which actually appear, shows that there are instances, where the number of possible letters, comes close to converging with the number which actually appear and it is here that a low cost bet can sometimes produce positive results. You can also sometimes let your unconscious mind/intuition suggest a word, in the case below, taking a punt on the letters that complete the word DORSEY, from the game played on Wed 07 Aug 13, would have gotten you two winning numbers in the game played on Fri 09 Aug 13...(don't discount the power of the unconscious mind, it is very good at seeing patterns in data)
DORSEY - Tommy Dorsey, American Jazz Trombonist.
[O] [E]
[D] [R][S] [Y]
Fri 09 Aug 13 B [E] [O] V 29 G
Wed 07 Aug 13 [D] [R] [S] [Y] 31 E
Here's a phrase that showed up in previous games
DEJA VU - from the French, literally, 'already seen'
Fri 06 Apr 12 [A] Q [V] X 37 L
Wed 04 Apr 12 [ D E J] [U] 34 E
The original UK Thunderball data below, was substituted as follows:
A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7, H=8, I=9, J=10, K=11, L=12, M=13, N=14, O=15,P=16
Q=17, R=18, S=19, T=20, U=21, V=22, W=23, X=24, Y=25, Z=26
Fri 09 Aug 13 02 05 15 22 29 07
Wed 07 Aug 13 04 18 19 25 31 05
Fri 6 Apr 2012 01 17 22 24 37 12
Wed 4 Apr 2012 04 05 10 21 34 05
Wed 4 Apr 2012 04 05 10 21 34 05
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