Sunday Times Where Was I? Holiday Competition

Near as I can figure it, through the possibly flawed perceptual filters of my own reality tunnel, the most likely answers this week, seem to me to be:


Q1. Percy Edgar Lambert 


Q2. Painshill park



Very tricky this week, a master stroke of misdirection, nacht and nebel, with many false leads to follow . Concorde Bravo Bravo Delta Golf has associations with Filton airfield in Bristol, Farnborough, in Hampshire and Brooklands, in Surrey, couldn't find a circa twelfth century Augustinian priory beside a river in Bristol or Farnborough, but did find one, ie 'Newark Priory', nestled on an island on the river Wey Navigation, which lies south west of Brooklands museum and disused airfield. The river Wey, according to some sources, was the second waterway in England to undergo transformation from un-navigable to navigable by barges, c 1635. The 'Tin Firework' G-BBDG, as these types of aircraft were known in the trade, was the second production Concorde, which appears to have been constructed at Brooklands c 1974, while another was manufactured in Toulouse. 

A motor racing pioneer who died at Brooklands trying to regain his speed record from a Peugot driver, who was clocked at 106.22 mph, was Percy Edgar Lambert, (aka 'Pearley', born c 5th Oct 1880 in Pimlico, according to some of his bios).

Travelling north east of the ruined priory, would bring us to the one hundred and fifty eight acre Painshill park, a grade 1 listed landscape garden, which seems to have been built c 1738, by the youngest of the fourteen children of the sixth Earl of Abercorn, one Charles Hamilton (baptised c 1704). The park appears to be managed by the Painshill Park Trust, which took it over (c 1981) and has a crystal grotto and many follys.