3 Watercolors, Irish, Scottish, Welsh?

Any suggestions on the nationality of the depicted people?
Thanks

 

Scottish fer sure.

 

Thanks.

 

Scotland forever!

 

And not an independent Scotland, it appears, since the referendum has rejected independence.

The UK remains the United Kingdom.

 

Is the count complete now, AF? Brother and SIL live in Scotland and they were definitely on the "no" side. Whew!

 

Not quite finished, but the result will be about 45% yes, 55% no.

Another daft idea kicked into touch.

Pound rises against the dollar.

 

I wondered If Scotland had become independent would it have affected Scotland Yard?

 

It would have been renamed Scotland Metre.

Luckily it is not used by the police anymore and is to be converted to make an hotel.
http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/Great-Scotland-Yard-to-become-100m-super-luxury-hotel

Not in the article but I suspect some of the original cells will be retained for visitors of a masochistic nature.

Guests named Poirot or Holmes will be barred, and an old Vice Squad tradition will be maintained as guests can pay with wads of notes in plain brown envelopes to be left undisturbed.

The term 'Flying Squad' will be retained for a number of vintage Wolseley 6/80 cars


Whose neatly uniformed chauffeurs will ferry guests to London Airport with nostalgic style.

American guests will assume the 'Regan' and 'Carter' suites are named after US Presidents, and no attempt will be made to disabuse them; all Londoners will know of 'The Sweeney' and its stars.

Inspector Regan Sgt. Carter.

Concierges will greet guests with the traditional Police greeting 'Hallo, hallo, hallo, whats all this then? and as they book in, a friendly 'You're nicked,chummy' will accompany their room key.

Automatic sensors in the lifts (elevators) will announce the traditional copper's triumphal call 'You're going down, you slag' if the guests are in fact descending.
A plan for the bellhops to escort guests to their rooms in handcuffs was shelved, as it was considered that many of the very rich guests would be all to familiar with this experience already.

Although senior hotel staff will be addressed as 'Guv' or 'Govner', plans to label junior staff with such traditional names for the police as 'The filth', 'the bill', 'Rozzers', 'The plod' (or 'Plonk' for female staff) were considered too extreme for overseas guests to understand although tradition will be maintained to some extent by a thin blue line on their Armani uniforms.
The flash suits will be another nod to traditional Vice Squad 'plain clothes' which usually cost a copper's annual salary, but attracted remarkably little attention.

This addition to London's many remarkable hotels will be studied closely by the hotel trade, and if it proves popular similar theme hotels may open in redundant police buildings in other countries, although few will have the long history and unblemished reputation of the police of the Great Metropolis, the Metropolitan Police.

 

Hi,
I noticed in a lot of the news coverage 90% of the Yes people were young. Most of the No people were older. It seems to me that the young are always on the side of something new since the old doesn't work. That is until they become older and likes the status quo.
greg

 

16 year olds were allowed to vote. But not to have a bevvy afterwards or to drive home.

In a way I regret the result, the alternative would have been an interesting slow motion car crash to enliven the news cycle.

 

Dibs on the Reagan; I love watching John Thaw in anything.

 

At a guess I'd say Dress Gordon, Royal Stewart, and Black Watch - all Scottish and all royal family tartans. Just a guess - not real clear from the photos. - cheers

 

Actually the Black Watch is not really a guess .


http://www.blackwatchshop.co.uk/

 

Isn't this John Thaw? And wouldn't he always be remembered as Morse? Never heard of The Sweeney, but I was an avid Morse fan. Still having doubts about this prequel with Shaun Evans.


American guests will assume the 'Regan' and 'Carter' suites are named after US Presidents, and no attempt will be made to disabuse them; all Londoners will know of 'The Sweeney' and its stars.

Inspector Regan Sgt. Carter.

Concierges will greet guests with the traditional Police greeting 'Hallo, hallo, hallo,

 

Isn't this John Thaw? And wouldn't he always be remembered as Morse?

That too, but The Sweeney came first and left an indelible impression. The big joke was the real Sweeney were as bent as a nine bob note. All Regan and Carter did was drink in the office, sleep around and be casually brutal now and again.
Still repeated on British television on obscure cable channels, the series has now got a strange period flavour to it, dress, haircuts, cars, all a blast from the past.