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Hi elle
Somewhere or other I have an album of old black and white photographs of our first family camping holiday - I was 7 or 8, I think. We went to Stonehenge, and there are snaps of us sitting one of the fallen stones, having a picnic. Nowadays they won't let you within 50 yards of them!

Hello, Elle!
I did not know that about Stonehenge.
I have heard of Wookey Hole but I could not say where it was.
I am with you regarding 1a.
I had "went back" for a while, but "left back" is a defender, hence fits the definition.
I can not parse it, too.
I think the setter is on a different level from me!
I have heard of kangaroo courts but not kangaroo justice.
I got the Cockney one at 16a.
Quite a good clue!
And I thought "jam jar" rather than "jamjar" for 6a.
"Jamjar" is new to me!

Hi Rusty
You've reminded me of one of my favourite "Alex" cartoons from the Telegraph (read in a compilation, you understand - I wouldn't buy that awful rag!)
Vince, the Cockney money man, is talking to his son:
"Let's see what those clever frogs have made - I've brought it back in my jamjar"
"It's a tad, it's a tad..."
"Yes?"
"It's a tad oaky - is it a chardonnay?"

Chris
I remember doing the same with my parents and we even took our dog, all standing by the stones. We had paid a shilling to a man in a kiosk !

I remember Wookey Hole, crawling into a very cramped space and getting claustrophobia ! Watching Doc........no funny names so far......

Hi, Rusty!
Now I haven't been able to do 16a?
I have A?I?
The "a" is from "reading lamp" and the "i" from "aborigine."
I am sure of the letters.
As far as I am concerned, the Central line is a red line on the Tube map!
It isn't just in E. London........
It has many more stops than eleven.......
I am completely at sea here?
Well, done you, for getting it (whatever it is?)



Chris, would you believe - according to Google - that it now costs £16-50 p.a., and £9-90 for a child, 5 years or over?
( Maybe you could sell your pics online?!)

I have just seen the prices for Stonehenge ! I've not visited since the 1960's and we were able to touch the stones. It is all too commercialised now.

We went to Wookey Hole on the same camping trip. I remember standing in a stream by the camp site there (in my wellies), and a Kingfisher flashed by me, just missing - the first one I'd ever seen! I was a keen birdwatcher even then.

We lived in Barnstaple then. We meandered eastwards and vaguely northwards. We went to Longleat (before the lions were there), got as far as Stratford-on-Avon, then wombled back. Another memory was the model village at Bourton-on-the-water.

Hello, Elle!
16,
I shall explain Cockney to you!
An East London chappie would not say "has".
He would say " 'as".
Eleven is X1, stopping "as".
Giving "axis" for Central Line.