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23/02/2015 & Borrowed & Blue There are 3 separate sets of initial(s) per statement and in each statement at least one of the sets includes the word ‘old’ or ‘new’ (sometimes on their own and sometimes as part of another word).

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1.

1596: Debut of SJF (originally SJO) as KHTFPO published

Sir John Falstaff;

Sir John Oldcastle;

King Henry the Fourth Part One

2.

1710: In DTN creates the first practical SE for PW

Dartmouth (or Devon) Thomas Newcomen;

steam engine;

pumping water

3.

1766: JES (known as JTTTOP) dies in R

James Edward Stuart;

James the Third the Old Pretender;

Rome

4.

1911: KGTFAQM lay foundation stone for ND which is to be planned by AEL

King George the Fifth and Queen Mary;

New Delhi;

architect Edwin Lutyens

5.

1933: Based on RRR (the 3 ‘R’s) FDRLTND to beat TGD

Relief Recovery Reform;

Franklin Delano Roosevelt launches the New Deal;

the Great Depression

6.

1941: LBOT causing move of MUHG to MR until 1949

Luftwaffe bomb Old Trafford;

Manchester United home games;

Maine Road

7.

1981: BSPHASM leave JD to form NO

Bernard Sumner Peter Hook and Stephen Morris;

Joy Division;

New Order

8.

1992: After EPE for 23 years RI launches TO

Editing Private Eye;

Richard Ingrams;

The Oldie

9.

1994: Modification of CF announced BTBALPC as slogan ‘NLNB’ makes its debut

Clause Four;

by Tony Blair at Labour Party Conference;

New Labour New Britain

10.

2003: KS appointed as AD of the OVC in London

Kevin Spacey;

Artistic Director;

Old Vic Company