Scottish Towns

[joanmm]

1. Strong Men hire here?
2.What Raleigh supplied to the Queen?

[scorpiojo]

1 Musselburgh?

[joanmm]

Understand Mussel but can't see where "hire" in the clue fits in. Thanks!

[elliemay1]

2 Coatbridge?

[scorpiojo]

Nor me ...back to the drawing board :)

[Svejk]

2. coatbridge

[TOMMO33]

Why not? A borough where you can hire strong men.

[TOMMO33]

Thank you, joanmm. I'm honoured.

[elliemay1]

What happened to MY Best answer?!

[joanmm]

Sorry, yours was the best up to that point. Maybe I din't understand how this works. No offence intended.

[TOMMO33]

Oh dear, joanmm. I'll happily share with elliemay1 and scorpiojo. I've often wondered how you're meant to select best answer when lots of them qualify. Delicate ground, obviously.

[Svejk]

If your sister wants to give you best answer, tommo, it's up to her. ;-)

[elliemay1]

It doesn't bother me at all! I was only joking. No offence taken.

[murraymints]

would the clue not be..strong men for hire here ? I read it that strong men do the hiring !

[TOMMO33]

Joanmm and scorpiojo both had doubts about it, but the answer looks too good not to be right. Perhaps Strong Men Hire, like car or boat hire. I doubt if there's a better, though 'for' would have made it clearer..