HAYES MEN’S FELLOWSHIP

Newsletter June 2020, edited by Allan Evison, HMF Honorary Secretary (Membership Enquiries: For more information on joining the Fellowship retired and semi-retired men can ring me for a friendly chat on 020 8402 7416, or please drop me an e-mail to [email protected])

CORONAVIRUS EXTRA 3 KEEPING IN TOUCH: The purpose of this mid-month Newsletter is to keep in touch with members of the Fellowship at a time when we are all social distancing and many may be self isolating. The Committee want to assure members that although there is little opportunity for face to face meetings at the moment, they have not been forgotten. Your Committee are happy to chat over the phone with any of you who may be feeling isolated at this difficult time. Their numbers are on your current Membership Card.

Things to do: As the remainder of the Programme for Fellowship year has now been cancelled we have missed another planned Outing and another Talk. The plan is to reschedule them but here we want to give members a taste of what has been missed/what is to come and also some things you might want to do in the meantime. So this Newsletter has:- • Things to occupy us! – If you like gardens or wildlife we have some suggestions for you this month. We have the usual quizzes and puzzles as well as the result of our Lockdown poem competition. (Page 3) • Outing – Deal and Walmer – some background on these historic coastal towns we were scheduled to visit. (Page 10) • Talk – – some of the history of this famous footballing venue. (Page 13) If you have a contribution for the Things to occupy us section, let us know. Contributions will be gratefully received!

LATEST NEWS Outings Update: As Colin Vivian explained in a recent email forwarded by Allan, there will be a meeting in a couple of weeks of the Outings Committee to put together a programme for our next session. The email includes a number of destinations being considered and you are encouraged to give your views on these and make other suggestions. It is a programme for you, so please let us know your preferences. And of course, under present circumstances, any suggested programme could be subject to change or cancellation. Funerals Update: Since our last Annual Service in October 2019 seven members have passed on. We are still planning to remember them, and any further names, in October 2020 providing the increasing likelihood that we can resume meetings by then. What concerns us at this time is that a substantial number of the seven have been laid to rest in the presence only of immediate relatives in a restricted total attendance of ten and

1 so without our customary HMF representation. This is the current list with asterisks against those names we were unable to witness to in person: James McGarey, Bill Morris, *Ian Pryer, Ken Truss, Clive King, *Len Hicks, *Tony Kite. Not all these deaths were shown to be connected with Covid-19 and we can be a little encouraged that the frequency of our losses has lessened. Nevertheless, each is more than a mere statistic. We wish to assure members that plans are in hand to ensure full remembrance in the usual way when circumstances permit and to say that our thoughts remain with the surviving relatives and friends. Daily Hope telephone line - 0800 804 8044: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has launched a free national phone line as a simple new way to bring worship and prayer into people’s homes while church buildings are closed because of the coronavirus. Daily Hope offers music, prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from the Church of at the end of a telephone line 24 hours a day. It has been set up particularly with those unable to join online church services during the period of restrictions in mind.

We leave you with the Government’s advice to stay alert. For most people of our age this entails staying at as much as possible (sounds familiar!), keeping your distance, limiting contact with other people and washing your hands regularly.

But don’t just stay alert - stay healthy in body, mind and spirit. We hope this Extra Newsletter helps with some of that!

Remember when we could do this???

Walk - May 2019, Crockenhill area

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Things to occupy us!

Remember - contributions for this Section will be gratefully received!

Lockdown Poem Challenge

Last month we left members with the difficult challenge of writing a poem related to the coronavirus and lockdown from a man’s perspective to rival the one by Pam Ayres entitled “Let’s all drink to lockdown”. We have had the entries assessed by an independent judge to come up with the best poem submitted - and here is the worthy winner My Lockdown by Ken Colpus I’ve been in lockdown now for so long, Now Tolstoy may have written Anna – when did his writing I can’t recall what’s right or wrong. cease, I know it’s right to say “thank you”, My taste in books is more refined than lengthy War and Peace. To good old Allan and Graham too. I know a Lleyn must be in Wales – where else would own They’ve really though of us so much, that name? The extra “Newsie” is proof of such. And Maria Sharapova is terrific at her game.

Of course I know the Tempest is about Duke Prospero, I was so excited to get the billy-do, And that choux pastry is used to make a profitero. To make me happy with lots of things to do.

I started on visits to Museums near and far, I’ve toiled by day and slaved by night, The Opera House, the National Trust – but no one To get the blooming answers right. had a bar. My brain is slow – I’m nearing ninety-one, I know the answer to the Teaser as I sent the question in, But then I’m told “It’s really just for fun”. We’ve so much rice now, we’ve overflowed the tin. Here’s hoping the lockdown endeth soon, But don’t bet your fiver that it must be in June. Why am I expected to know answers to the Quiz? When more and more questions just get me in a tizz. I could go on but know I would bore you stiff, I never knew Victoria and I sure did not know which Don’t worry friends – I’m ending in a jiff, House. I find it hard to run this jolly rhyme, And snooker’s not my forte – I’d rather watch a Which surely means I will finish just in time, mouse. God bless and hold on to this greeting, Why should Caster and Pollux get my eyes aloft, I hope to see you all at the next meeting. While Lowry and his matchmen – they’re really rather soft.

Well done to all the entrants! But Ken wins the prize!!!

Things to entertain and enthuse you

We have already suggested a number of cultural activities that are available on the internet to occupy you during the lockdown – albeit one that is becoming slightly less strict. This month we feature gardens and wildlife. We recognise that some gardens and zoos are now reopening, but numbers of visitors allowed at venues are still strictly limited and require pre-booking, so some of our members may be happier viewing them from the comfort of their own homes for a bit longer yet!

• Chelsea Flower Show – the Chelsea Flower Show this year had to be cancelled but if you missed seeing it you can revisit the BBC’s coverage with highlights from previous years and 3

various interviews. You may need a BBC account to access this site. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007lyhs • Keukenhof Gardens – These beautiful Gardens in the Netherlands are offering a 360o tour as the gardens are currently closed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeI2iINhpY • Château de Villandry – amongst the most beautiful gardens in the world, Château de Villandry in the Loire region of France now offers a virtual tour. https://www.chateauvillandry.fr/en/explore/an-overview-of-villandry/virtual-tour/ • ZSL Zoo – Bringing the Zoo to us during lockdown, this offers webcams, animal antics and zookeeper interviews. https://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/virtual-london-zoo • Zoo – The most visited zoo in the country and featured regularly on TV. On their home page look at “Things to Zoo at home” and click on “Watch our virtual zoo”. https://www.chesterzoo.org/ • Taronga Zoo – Australia’s premier Zoo offering views over Sydney’s amazing harbour has set up Taronga TV to keep wildlife fans happy during lockdown with a similar range of facilities to ZSL. But with the time difference, their webcams offer the novelty of live coverage of nocturnal creatures during our day time! https://taronga.org.au/taronga-tv

Quizzes and Puzzles

Lots more quizzes and puzzles for you this month

Brain Teaser

Amanda lives with her teenage son, Matt, in the countryside—a car ride away from Matt’s school. Every afternoon, Amanda leaves the house at the same time, drives to the school at a constant speed, picks Matt up exactly when his chess club ends at 5 p.m., and then they immediately return home together at the same constant speed. But one day, Matt isn’t feeling well, so he leaves chess practice early and starts to head home on his portable scooter.

After Matt has been scooting for an hour, Amanda comes across him in her car (on her usual route to pick him up), and they return together, arriving home 40 minutes earlier than they usually do. How much chess practice did Matt miss?

Hint Consider the case where Amanda meets Matt exactly as she’s leaving their house.

See Page 17 for the solution

HMF Lockdown Crossword Puzzle

This month we are hugely indebted to Allan Evison for devising a specifically HMF themed Crossword puzzle to keep us amused during lockdown!!

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Allan’s HMF Lockdown Crossword

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

H M F 20 21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29

30 31 32

33 34

Across: 1. Venue for the HMF Annual Lunch at the New Inn. (6) 7. When we visited the London Gin Factory our pub lunch nearby offered eighteen different versions of this to mix with our free gin sample! (5) 10. See 4 down. (6) 11. Every activity seems to include drink and this. (3) 12. Ray used to, Tony does, current restrictions not permitting. (5) 13. Month in which our AGM is usually held. (4) 16. Was his ark an early example of isolation and social distancing? (4) 17. No outings possible, so contact with this is unlikely at the seaside. (4) 18. Where we usually hold our Annual Service. (2,4,3,6) 20. Familiar title, even without the apostrophe? (5,4,10) 25. Location of the Army Flying Museum we visited in November. (6,6) 28. See 3 down. (4) 30 and 34. Whose car park do we use for our meetings? (3,4,2,3,6) 32. ____ upon a time we were free – and will be again one day. (4) 33 and 9 down. The road in which we meet our coach for outings. (10, 8) Down: 1. Final destination for the February outing. (3,6,6) 2 and 15. Limited by 3 down. (2,3) 3 and 28 across. Clear first instruction under lockdown. (4,4)

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4 and 10 across. Our regular coach company for outings. (8,6) 5. Ideal greeting for shouted conversations at social distance? (3) 6. Our Secretary’s first name. (5) 8. Where we hold our meetings. (3,6,7) 9. See 33 Across. (8) 11. One of the many cathedrals we have visited over the HMF years. (3) 13. The month in which our Annual Lunch is usually held. (7) 14. Noise sometimes made by our sound system. (3) 15. See 2 Down. (3) 19. Another possible shouted greeting to preserve social distancing? (4) 21. Word for piece of turf. Gardening anyone to pass the time? (3) 22. Jellied dish on offer when we visited Essex on a coach tour. (3) 23. Could describe our Annual Lunch. (5) 24. Acronym for us retired and semi-retired members. (3) 25. President’s Afternoon is the highlight this month. (5) 26. Things to do, decorating perhaps? You could create these features by painting the lower few feet of your walls in a contrasting colour or facing material. (5) 27. We passed this river walking around the Limehouse area back in February 2017. (3) 29. In a word, covid-19. (5) 31. Well-known initials of a transport system connecting us, via Lewisham, to walks along the Thames and around East London. (3)

See Page 17 for the solution

Quizzes

Quizzes seem to have become much more popular during lockdown so we have two this month – the first is General Knowledge and the second is about which very improbable names belong to real beers.

Good luck

General Knowledge Quiz 1. Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky became the first winner of which BBC celebrity show in 2004? 2. How many different Olympic Equestrian events take place in the Olympic Summer Games? 3. Which is the largest planet in the solar system?

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4. Which country beginning with 'L' is positioned between Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south? 5. Which comedian appeared in the 'Travels with My Father' series with his dad Michael? 6. The UK sitcom 'Gavin & Stacey' was written by Ruth Jones and which other comedian? 7. In the Harry Potter book series, which character is described as having a “wild, tangled beard”? 8. Who became the first serving US President to appear on television during a 1939 broadcast from the World's Fair? 9. 'The Chronicles of Narnia' is a children's book series written by which author? 10. 'Anna', 'Civic' and 'Kayak' are all examples of what type of word which reads the same forwards as backward? 11. In which English city do the Blues and the Villans play football? 12. In which 1995 film does farmer Arthur Hoggett say "That'll do, pig. That'll do."? 13. Which British band released the album 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' in 2002? 14. Queen Victoria belonged to which ruling house of the British monarchy; Hanover or Stuart? 15. Ford were the first motor company to introduce which radical innovation in 1913?

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Good luck with this one as well!

Beer or Not Quiz This is a list of ridiculously improbable sounding names for beers? Do you know which 10 are the real beers and 5 are the A Real beer Don’t be silly! imposters? 1. Hoptimus Prime 2. Nasal Assault 3. Stupid Sexy Flanders 4. Shut Thi Gob 5. Badgers’s furry pocket 6. Waxey’s Dargle 7. Wonkey Donkey 8. Hapton’s Staff Position 9. Moose Drool 10. Bladder Challenger 11. Albino Squid Assassin 12. Tactical Nuclear Penguin 13. Stumpy’s Rusty Suds 14. Frothy Moth 15. Geriatric Hipster Club See Page 18 for the solutions to both these quizzes.

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Things to entertain and enthuse you from previous months Activities around your home • Have you revisited your photo albums either to sort them out or to remind you of the times before lockdown?? • Have you sorted out your shed or your garage recently?? • Have you written down your own family memories or your family history?? • Sort out the loft or the spare room – wherever things go that you are not sure what to do with! • “Spring clean” your paperwork – have you got bills etc going back years, well now is the opportunity to sort them out. • Revisit your bookshelves – which books have you not read yet? Which ones are well worth reading again? • Your own Repair Shop – we are unlikely to be visiting the Weald and Downland Museum in July where the BBC Repair Shop programme is filmed. Do you have a cherished item that is looking a little sad – a family heirloom or something that has special memories. Why not have a go at restoring the item to its former glory – it can be a very satisfying experience

Internet based opportunities • Glyndebourne Opera – video streaming of performances recorded in East Sussex – operas available change periodically - https://www.glyndebourne.com/on-screen/ • Berlin Philharmonic - Classical Music video streaming with a redeemable voucher which gives free access to their extensive archive - https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home • Guggenheim Museum, New York – Online access to their collection - https://www.guggenheim.org/collection-online • Rijksmuseum, - A variety of art works and articles to view - https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/rijksmuseum • Uffizi Gallery Florence – A variety of art works and articles to view - https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-gallery?hl=en • British Museum – Brilliant virtual tour of hundreds of artifacts in the British Museum identified by timeline, region or theme, each with pictures and explanations (in addition to Curators Corner below) - https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/ • English Heritage – For many of their properties there is a history and virtual tour, eg for Stonehenge and Dover Castle - https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/ • National Theatre – Live streaming of a different performance each week - https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home • Shakespeare plays – Clips from the RSC at https://www.rsc.org.uk/education/teacher- resources/online-performances or at The show must go on - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOAHj4ANGKw&t=3327s • Royal Opera House – Our house to your house series with regular changes - https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalOperaHouse • Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals – Regular weekly changes - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmPjhKMaXNNeCr1FjuMvag/featured • British Museum – Curators Corner videos which also change each week https://www.youtube.com/user/britishmuseum • Science Museum - Virtual tours etc https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencemuseum • National Trust – Regular podcasts available from the National Trust - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/listen-to-podcasts-from-the-national-trust

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Deal and Walmer

Our May Outing was scheduled to be to Deal and Walmer, two small towns a couple of miles apart on the East coast of Kent where the North Sea and the English Channel meet. Just one stop from each other on the railway line but with differing sizes - today Deal has a population of 30,000 while Walmer has just 8,000. Both are within the administrative area of Dover District Council.

Their histories are more intertwined. Deal is mentioned as a village in the Domesday book but archaeological evidence suggests its history stretches back much further. Julius Caesar is said to have landed on the Deal-Walmer coast in 55 and 54BC. Subsequently Deal and Walmer have both been key locations in the defence of our shores.

Here is a glimpse of what we missed.

Castles

Deal and Walmer both have Tudor Castles which were built along the Deal coast in 1539-1542 by Henry VIII because of the threat of invasion by France and . Their rounded walls were designed to resist cannon fire. When viewed from above they resemble the Tudor rose. Both Deal and Walmer castles are open to the public and managed by English Heritage.

Deal Castle is considered to be one of the finest Tudor artillery castles in England, and among the earliest and most Deal Castle elaborate of the chain of coastal forts, which also includes Walmer along with Calshot, Camber and Pendennis Castles. There was a further castle at Sandown of which only a few stones remain.

Walmer Castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Centuries of domestic refinements have transformed it from a fortress to an elegant stately home with Walmer Castle beautiful gardens.

Cinque Ports

The origins of the Cinque Ports, a historic series of coastal towns in Kent, Sussex and Essex, can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon times, when certain south-east ports were granted the local profits of justice in return for providing ships for military and trade purposes. By 1100, the term Cinque Ports had come into use; and in 1155 a Royal Charter established the ports to maintain ships ready for The Crown in case of need. The chief obligation laid upon the ports, as a corporate duty, was to provide 57 ships for 15 days' service to the king annually, each port fulfilling a proportion of the whole duty. In return the towns benefited from extensive privileges. The leeway given to the Cinque Ports, and the turning of a blind eye to misbehaviour, led to smuggling, though common everywhere at this time becoming more or less one of the dominant industries (see Smuggling below).

The ports lie at the eastern end of the English Channel, where the crossing to the continent is narrowest. The name is Norman French, meaning "five ports". They were: 10

• Hastings • New Romney • Hythe • Dover • Sandwich

Rye, originally a subsidiary of New Romney, was raised as one of the Cinque Ports once New Romney was damaged by storms, its harbour silted up, and the River Rother shifted course closer to Rye. As a result, New Romney rapidly lost importance in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Cinque Ports Coat of Arms

The five ports are supported by the two so-called Ancient Towns of Rye and Winchelsea, whose councils traditionally maintained defence contingents for the realm of England.

There are seven other members of the Confederation, which are considered to be Limbs of the other towns. These are: • Lydd (Limb of New Romney) • Folkestone (Limb of Dover) • Faversham (Limb of Dover) • Margate (Limb of Dover) • Deal (Limb of Sandwich) • Ramsgate (Limb of Sandwich) • Tenterden (Limb of Rye)[3]

While military in origin, the Confederation of Cinque Ports is now entirely ceremonial. As already mentioned, Walmer Castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and has had some very notable occupants. William Pitt the Younger lived here with his niece Lady Hester Stanhope. She acted as his society hostess and was responsible for much of the original layout of the gardens.

Other notable Lord Wardens include the Duke of Wellington, Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother. All have left their mark and mementoes from their time are on show, including Wellington’s boots!

Smuggling

Deal really started to flourish in the mid 1600s. In the age of sailing ships the sheltered Deal coast was a haven for ships. At times there would be hundreds of ships anchored off the coast bringing business and prosperity to the area. But with its proximity to the Continent, it can hardly be surprising that Deal and Walmer also became infamous for smuggling. The Deal Maritime museum has many relics from the smuggling era.

In January 1784 the rampant smuggling prompted Prime Minister William Pitt to send soldiers to Deal. Due to a storm all the boats were on the shore and the soldiers set light to them but the prosperity of the smugglers meant that this was only a temporary inconvenience! 11

Many of the houses in the seafront conservation area have the remains of old tunnels and secret hiding places used by the smugglers. The Rattling Cat in Walmer, an old coaching inn, is said to get its name from the fact the owner kept many cats with pieces of bone attached to their collars. When strangers appeared in the area the cats would run home and the rattling of their collars would alert everyone that there might be Excise men in the area.

Emergence of Tourism

With the advent of steam ships in the 19th century, passing ships no longer needed to take shelter at Deal and the importance of the town as a port began to wane.

During the Victorian era Deal began to emerge as a tourist resort. The first wooden pier was built in 1857, this was later replaced by an iron pier in 1864. The current pier was opened in 1957 and had a new end of the pier restaurant in 2008.

What Deal and Walmer offer today

Looking back at the town from the end of the pier gives a snapshot of Deal’s varied past. The beautiful old houses along the seafront form the backdrop for the vibrant bustle of the town and all the facilities Deal and Walmer provide to tourists which include:- • Deal Maritime and Local History Museum which contains the last remaining Deal oared galley and a collection of historic model boats as well as other Walmer Beach artefacts and documents illustrating Deal's history. • Kent Museum of the Moving Image which provides a journey through the history of cinema. This new addition to Deal’s list of attractions is a lovingly curated collection of movie memorabilia. • Deal Pier is a significant local landmark and public amenity offering excellent views of Deal sea front. It is internationally recognised as an angling venue and features a glass-walled café-bar at the end of the pier. • Betteshanger Park just outside Deal covers 365 acres on the site of a former colliery spoil tip. The park provides many activities including walking, cycling, fossil

hunting, duathlon (running and cycling), orienteering Deal Pier and geocaching. Families can also enjoy the play area (close to the visitor centre and car park).

(Some text courtesy of www.aboutdeal.co.uk, www.dover.gov.uk Wikipedia.)

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Wembley Stadium

Overview

The site has been at the centre of the country’s major sporting events for almost 100 year. The original was known initially as the Empire Stadium first opened to the public in April 1923 in time for the British Empire Exhibition which ran until 1925. It hosted its first Cup Final in the year it opened. The capacity in those early years was 127,000 but the move to all seater eventually reduced that to 82,000. It went on to host Olympic Games and the World

Cup as well as several other sports – some well known like Old Wembley with the Twin Towers Rugby League others less so like Hurling and Gaelic Football (in their Wembley Tournaments held from the late 1950s until the mid 1970s).

But the design of Stadiums had improved dramatically since the Empire Stadium was built at a cost of £0.75m in 1923. Greater capacity, more space and better facilities for spectators and competitors alike. So the time had come for the iconic twin towers of the stadium that the fabulous Brazilian footballer Pelé once described as “the cathedral of football" to be replaced.

So out went the iconic twin towers to be replaced by the equally iconic arch visible from a much greater distance. The new stadium is much more spacious than its predecessor but has only increased seating capacity to 90,000. Construction took place from 2003 to 2007 and the eventual cost was £798m – quite an increase over the original.

Some interesting facts

Before we get into some more detail, here are ten interesting facts about the two stadiums:- • Old Wembley had a design capacity of 127,000 but for the first Cup Final held there in 1923 (see White Horse Final below) admissions were not well controlled and it was estimated that over 250,000 attended. • Old Wembley’s pitch covers the site of Watkin’s Tower which was designed as a taller copy of the Eiffel Tower. The tower was never completed due to financial difficulties and safety issues and abandoned in 1907. • There is more leg room in every seat in New Wembley than there was in the Royal Box of the old stadium. • New Wembley has 107 steps in the trophy presentation route – the old stadium had 39 steps. • The new pitch is four metres lower than the previous pitch • New Wembley is one of the largest stadiums in . With 90,000 seats (all with unobstructed views), it the largest stadium in the UK and second largest in Europe. Only ’s Camp Nou is bigger, with a total of 99,354 seats. • New Wembley’s Arch is huge. It is 134 metres tall, has a diameter of over 7 metres, and could comfortably fit a train running through it. You sit the London Eye underneath it. • New Wembley’s pitch combines synthetic grass with the real Wembley grass to strengthen the playing surface. New Wembley with its Arch

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• New Wembley’s iconic sliding roof covers every seat in the stadium, making it the largest fully covered stadium in the world. In fact, the roof covers a total of 11 acres. • New Wembley has a circumference of 1km and encloses 4,000,000 cubic metres inside its walls and under its roof – the equivalent of 25,000 double-decker buses.

The Empire Stadium

The stadium's first turf was cut by King George V, and it was first opened to the public on 28 April 1923. Much of Humphry Repton's original Wembley Park landscape was transformed in 1922–23 during preparations for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924–25. First known as the British Empire Exhibition Stadium or simply Empire Stadium, it was built by Sir Robert McAlpine for the British Empire

Exhibition of 1924 (extended to 1925). Aerial view of the Empire Stadium, Wembley

The stadium cost £750,000 and was constructed on the site of an earlier folly called Watkin's Tower. The architects were Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton and the head engineer Sir Owen Williams. It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson[citation needed], a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition. The ground had been used for football as early as the 1880s.

The stadium's distinctive Twin Towers became its trademark and nickname. Also well known were the 39 steps needed to be climbed to reach the Royal box and collect a trophy (and winners'/losers' medals). Wembley was the first pitch to be referred to as "Hallowed Turf", with many stadia around the world borrowing this phrase. In 1934, the Empire Pool was built nearby. The "Wembley Stadium Collection" is held by the National Football Museum. The stadium closed in October 2000 and demolition commenced in December 2002, completing in 2003 for redevelopment. The top of one of the twin towers was erected as a memorial in the park on the north side of Overton Close in the Saint Raphael's Estate.

Best known for football, Wembley Stadium has hosted almost every significant game for both the England International side and English club competitions. The first event held at the stadium was the FA Cup Final on 28 April 1923 between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United. This is known as the White Horse Final. Such was the eagerness of fans and casual observers to attend the final at the new national stadium that vast numbers of people crammed through the 104 turnstiles into the stadium, far exceeding its official 127,000 capacity. The crowds overflowed onto the pitch as there was no room Billy the White Horse, saviour of the 1923 FA on the terraces and a white Police Horse helped push them Cup Final back onto the terraces for the game to start. In the end Bolton Wanderers won 2-0.

Subsequently it has hosted FA Cup, League Cup (and successors) and EFL Play off finals. In addition there have been international club games too with five European Cup finals and two European Cup Winners' Cup finals.

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The last FA Cup final played at the old Wembley was on 20 May 2000, and saw Chelsea defeat Aston Villa with the only goal scored by . The final competitive club match there was the 2000 First Division play-off final on 29 May, between Ipswich Town and Barnsley, a 4–2 win resulting in promotion to the for Ipswich. The Chelsea FC – Community Shield last club match of all was the 13 August 2000 Charity Shield, Winners 2000 in which Chelsea defeated United 2–0.

England played 223 matches at the old Wembley. They played the other home countries there every other year as part of the British Championship, Scotland since the 1920's and Wales and Northern Ireland since the 1950's. For that reason, Scotland played the most matches against England at Wembley, 30, followed by Northern Ireland, 18, and Wales, 16. Outside the home countries, Brazil and /West Germany led the way with nine matches each. England played 51 representative teams at Wembley.

The Old Wembley saw plenty of England goals over the years. Our near neighbours came in for some harsh treatment with heavy defeats for Scotland (9-3 in 1961) and Northern Island (8-3 in 1963) – where were the goalkeepers for those games!? Most of the other big scores were against relative footballing minnows such as Luxembourg (9-0 in 1982) or Austria (7-0 in 1973), but also some bigger fish such as Mexico (8-0 in 1961) or Turkey (8-0 in 1987). But England, who brought Football to the world, did not win them all. A change in the world order was heralded by a momentous 1953 match in which England fell 6-3 to Hungary. That latter side still hailed more than half a century later as the "Magical Magyars”.

However, England's most memorable victory at Wembley is still, of course, the 4-2 extra-time win over West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final. It is still discussed in England since it remains the national side's only victory in a World Cup final. But the continuing controversy over whether England's third goal--the first in extra-time--crossed the goal line has ensured the match also remains known throughout the footballing world Booby Moore with the World Cup in 1966 to this day.

The last international match was on 7 October 2000, in Kevin Keegan's last game as England manager. England were defeated 0–1 by Germany, with Dietmar Hamann scoring the last goal at the original Wembley. On that day, Tony Adams made his 60th Wembley appearance, a record for any player. Adams also claimed England's final goal at the stadium, having scored in the previous home fixture against Ukraine on 31 May. Didi Hammann scores at Wembley,2000 The New Wembley

Wembley Stadium replaced the old stadium with the same name that had stood in its place since 1923 and had been host to many cup finals. The old Wembley Stadium was demolished in 2003, after which construction of the new stadium started. After several delays, postponing the opening of the stadium for almost two years, the New Wembley stadium was finally completed in 2007. It officially opened later that year on the 19 May with the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester United (1-0).

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The new stadium was designed by architecture firms Foster and Partners and Populous and is estimated to have cost a total of £798 million. Most iconic feature of the stadium is its 133 metre tall arch, that, with its span of 315 metres, is the longest single span roof structure in the world. The all-seater stadium is a bowl design with a capacity of 90,000, protected from the elements by a sliding roof that does not completely enclose it. But it does cover every seat in the stadium, which makes Wembley the largest fully covered stadium in the world. Aerial view of New Wembley Stadium

It can also be adapted as an athletic stadium by erecting a temporary platform over the lowest tier of seating – though no athletics tournament has taken place there to date. This ability to adapt its use was apparently a condition of Lottery funding.

The stadium hosted the 2011 Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United (3- 1), and two years later the 2013 Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund (2-1).

Other events too

Both Stadiums have hosted a wide range of sporting and other events. For sports, the list is huge: • Olympics - as the main venue for the 1948 Summer Olympics • Football • • Rugby League • American Football • Boxing • WWE Wrestling • Gaelic football and Hurling • Speedway • Stock car racing • Greyhound racing 1948 Olympics opening ceremony Wembley

The music events are too numerous to list but include Queen and (who appeared 15 times, selling over a million tickets). But probably most famous is the British leg of Live Aid which was performed there in 1985.

(Some text courtesy of Wikipedia, www.wembleystadium.com, www.englandfootballonline.com and www.stadiumguide.com .)

Live Aid 1985 Wembley

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Answer to the Brain Teaser

Matt missed 1 hour and 20 minutes of chess practice.

Method - Let’s call the spot at which Amanda and Matt meet on the road, point M. In this problem, Amanda drives from their home to point M, where she picks up Matt, and then drives back to their home. Let’s call the time it takes her to do this “T”. We don’t know T, but we do know the time it took Amanda to do this is 40 minutes less than the time it usually takes her to drive back and forth from school. From this, we can infer the back-and-forth trip she did not drive (from M to school and back to M) must take 40 minutes. Since she drives at a constant speed, the one-way trip from M to school must therefore take 20 minutes. Since we know Amanda times her day to arrive at school for pickup at exactly 5 p.m., she must have reached M at 20 minutes before pickup, or at 4:40 pm. Now, we know from the problem that Matt left chess club one hour before he met Amanda at point M. Thus, he must have left at 3:40 pm. Since chess typically ends at 5 pm, we have our answer: Matt missed 1 hour and 20 minutes of chess practice.

Solution to Allan’s HMF Lockdown Crossword

1R E 2G A N 3S 4P 5A 6A 7T 8O N I 9C A O T 10T R A V E L L R F 11E A T E E 12L E A D S E M 13J U L Y M A C S U A Y 14H I 15O 16N O A H C 17S A N D U E U U E E U 18S T M A R Y T 19H E V I R G I N U A E A C T M R H M I F H 20H A Y E 21S M 22E N S 23F E L L 24O W S H I P E O E E A C N 25M I D 26D L E W A L 27L O P 28H O M 29E D A A S E O N 30O U R L A D Y O F T H E 31D 32O N C E N C O L L M 33H U S S E Y W E L L 34R O S A R Y

Answers to the General Knowledge Quiz

1. Strictly Come Dancing, 2. Six, 3. Jupiter, 4. Latvia, 5. Jack Whitehall, 6. James Corden, 7. Hagrid, 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 9. C. S. Lewis, 10. Palindrome, 11. Birmingham, 12. Babe, 13. Coldplay, 14. Hanover, 15. The moving assembly line.

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Answers to the Beer or Not Quiz

Believe it or not, these are the answers! 1. Hoptimus Prime – Real! - an intense golden amber coloured IPA . 2. Nasal Assault – Not real! 3. Stupid Sexy Flanders – Real! - a traditional Belgian Style Oud Bruin beer 4. Shut Thi Gob – Real! - a type of brown ale from Yorkshire. 5. Badgers’s furry pocket – Not real! 6. Waxey’s Dargle – Real! - pale ale brewed with Irish Whiskey malts. 7. Wonkey Donkey – Real! - a “new age” best bitter from Guernsey 8. Hapton’s Staff Position – Not real! 9. Moose Drool – Real! - an American Brown Ale 10. Bladder Challenger – not real! But then again this would describe most beers! 11. Albino Squid Assassin – Real! - a Rye style beer 12. Tactical Nuclear Penguin – Real! - at one time the world’s strongest beer 13. Stumpy’s Rusty Suds – Not real! 14. Frothy Moth – Real! - a blonde ale from 15. Geriatric Hipster Club – Real! - an American Strong Ale style beer

And finally another reminder of happier days

Outing – March 2019 Shepherd Neame Brewery, Faversham Kent

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