Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent - it was home of Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry, who died there in 1928.
Chris Hall
@chrishall62.bsky.social
Retired (former Librarian). History and genealogy lover and Man of Kent
90 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Figaro, Orion, screen. 12 bonus - Cale/Kale, Pieta, Marie Curie, Crane, Strawberry Fields Forever, Chocolat, Ingmar Bergman, Durch, Wordsworth, Byron, Heriot-Watt, Poppy
Goodnestone Park Gardens near Canterbury. Visited by Jane Austen
Thirsk, North Yorkshire - St Mary's Church and the World of James Herriot Museum
A few photos of York from my trip there a couple of weeks ago
St Martin's Church, Canterbury - reputed to be the oldest parish church in England in continuous use
St Martin's Priory, Canterbury - house of Tudor origin with later additions, now belongs to Canterbury Christ Church University
95 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Hills, Bay, Radetsky March, Arles. 11 bonus - Galileo, Downs, Valley, Victor Emmanuel III, Sousa, Nicaragua, Benedict, Respighi, Lichtenstein, Gully, Third Man
Today 25th July is the Feast Day of St Christopher - here is an image from Southwark Cathedral plus a stained glass window from the Church of SS Peter and Paul, Appledore, Kent
95 on tonight's #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - absolute, Nottingham, Napoleon/Pitt, Gilbert and Sullivan. 11 bonus - woad, Stirling, host/ghost, Ruffalo/Gruffalo, Lord Byron, Kaiser Bill and Bismarck, Disraeli, Cardigan, John of Gaunt, Portugal, Henry the Navigator
Catching up with last week's #UniversityChallenge - I scored 100. 3 starters - Whistler, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Flodden. 14 bonus - Albatross, Alcatraz, The Leopard, Death in Venice, Buckingham, Henrietta Maria, Dvorak, Polonaise, Potiphar, Smuts, Taekwondo, Rondo, 2007, 2015
Managed to get 45 on #UniversityChallenge final thanks to a set of bonuses on Zimbabwe. 2 starters - Wagner and Dom. 5 bonuses - mistletoe, Ian Smith, ZANU-PF, Ndebele and Charlie Parker
60 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Beethoven and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 8 bonuses - Graham Hill, Lester Piggott, Volga, Bernini, Bologna, Quo Vadis, Ecce Homo, De Profundis
95 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Denmark, Barcelona, Version, Torque. 11 bonus - Norway, Cromwell, Kaliningrad, New York, Couperin, Blondie, Grapefruit, Seville, Holbein, Eifel/Eiffel, Pole/Poole
100 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - percolation, Smiley, Balkan/Levant, DH Lawrence, Buenos Aires. 10 bonus - Navajo, Ash, World Series Cricket, Tony Greig, West Indies, Nicaragua, San Marino, Mary Magdalene, Amiens, Rebecca West. Plus my birthplace Ashford, Kent got a mention!
95 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Black, Psalms, Col. 13 bonuses - Gorgons, Far From The Madding Crowd, Pride and Prejudice, Festival of Britain, Clerk, R.L. Stevenson, Rotterdam, St Francis of Assisi, Liszt, Mary I, Act of Settlement, Male primogeniture, Charlton Athletic
65 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - Mendelssohn and British National Grid, 9 bonuses - Monteverdi, Aphra Behn, Bute, Mull, Crucifixion, Devonian, Orkney, Elgar and Malawi
85 on #UniversityChallenge 5 starters - York Minster, Colonel, Vulgar, Hogarth, King John. 7 bonus - Gaucho, waltz, Ravi Shankar, Burne Jones, Titian, Ken Russell, speedway
75 on #UniversityChallenge 2 starters - 800m and Roger Bannister. 11 bonus - Jesuits, Preston, Ballarat, Toronto, Pastels, Constantinople, Kind Hearts and Coronets, It Always Rains on Sunday, Ealing, Jack Draper, Tom Daley
95 on #UniversityChallenge 6 starters - A Suitable Boy, White Heat, 4th, Camera Obscura, Vienna, Greenwich. 7 bonus - John Clare, Autumn, Petra, Trappist, Leicestershire, Damien Hirst, Canaletto
The Nailbourne chalk stream in East Kent has re-emerged in the last few days. Also known as the "Waters of Woe"
65 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Rubens, Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1840s. 7 bonuses - New Zealand, Verdi, The Rachel Papers, Henry James, Millais, Constable, Pontius Pilate
85 on #UniversityChallenge 3 starters - Gustave, celluloid, veld. 11 bonus - Elizabeth Barret Browning, Idi Amin, Kinsey, Alice Springs, Lady Day, Candlemas, Lammas, Cherbourg, Norman, Age of Innocence, Carmen
100 on #UniversityChallenge 4 starters - Desmond, Richard III, Odense, Portugal. 12 bonus - Arsenic and Old Lace, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Rochester, Brecon, Bury St Edmunds, Tennyson, Josephine Baker, Boar, Doncaster, Henry IV
60 on #UniversityChallenge - only 2 starters Turin and Apricot. 8 bonus - Nightingale, Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Sydney, Duke Ellington, Carmen Jones, Passchendaele, Edward IV
110 on #UniversityChallenge 7 starters - BRIX, Pius, Bosnia War, Erskine, Holbein, Chas I, Alexander. 8 bonus - Goethe, Crystal Palace, Arrabbiata, Clipper, Van Gogh, Garrick, Rosalind, All About Eve
100 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 3 starters - Bristol/Bath, Margaret Mitchell, Beamish. 14 bonus - Britten, Robert Redford, Alan Ladd, Leo DiCaprio, Salome, Neon, Hoover, Chrysler, Baikal, herbal, Hemingway, Thurso, Sunderland, Yttrium
165 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 8 starter - Schubert (Unfinished), Belgium, E-U, Thomas, Warfarin, John Ruskin, R. L Stevenson, Snapdragon. 17 bonus - Waterloo, Latvia, Slovakia, Murmansk, Lithuania, Millennium Stadium, Dvorak, pomegranate, partridge, Audobon, Burne Jones, Durer, Jimmy Connors
205 on #ChristmasUniversityChallenge 31/12/25 13 starters - Cubism, Vilnius, vector, Sound of Music/Silence, nick, Charles I, Steffi Graf, starling, lungs, Istanbul, Stockton/Darlington, Houdini, 2. 15 bonus - Jaws, John Williams,Waterford,Genoa, St Helena, Scott Mctominay, Barbizon,Angelus,Van Gogh