| AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 00:31, 2nd December 2024 |      |
Rows 1 to 5, columns A to E. Maximum 2 each please (today) 2nd December as there's an awful lot of these! If you're on a small screen, all the images unfolded are at https://www.wellho.info/pix/wq00.jpg
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 00:38, 2nd December 2024 | |
Row 2, column C: Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833)
There are several others there who I sussed out straight away, but I'll give everyone else a chance first.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by PrestburyRoad at 03:56, 2nd December 2024 | |
Row 1, column 5: our very own Mark Hopwood if I'm not very much mistaken. His face is fresh in my memory from watching Geoff Marshall's recent YouTube video of the Marlow branch starring Geoff, Mark and the branch's signalling technology.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by PhilWakely at 06:40, 2nd December 2024 | |
Row 3 Column 4: Dr Richard Beeching;
Row 5 Column 3: Richard Branson.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by ChrisB at 07:34, 2nd December 2024 | |
2E is Jane Jones
4E is Christian Wolmar
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by eightonedee at 07:53, 2nd December 2024 | |
1C Oliver Bulleid
3B Sir Nigel Gresley
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Red Squirrel at 08:03, 2nd December 2024 | |
Ok:
3E David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA
5B Peter Hendy
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 08:23, 2nd December 2024 | |
1C Oliver Bulleid
3B Sir Nigel Gresley
3B Sir Nigel Gresley
Slight typo in one of those? But impressive knowledge of some of the historic faces
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 08:31, 2nd December 2024 | |
I have set myself a real challenge in umpiring the answers here, haven't I?
Here is the original graphic with a green dot added on each correctly identified so far to help you check whether a person has been identified; full listing to follow at the end?
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by eightonedee at 09:12, 2nd December 2024 | |
Oh, there seems to be a different layout on my smartphone screen. Mark H is in a row on his own.
Sir Nigel is just to the left of Trevithick
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Red Squirrel at 09:30, 2nd December 2024 | |
I’m going to bet a fiver that no one gets A2…
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 09:42, 2nd December 2024 | |
Oh, there seems to be a different layout on my smartphone screen. Mark H is in a row on his own.
Sir Nigel is just to the left of Trevithick
Sir Nigel is just to the left of Trevithick
Ah - screen width and you are correct then. See https://www.wellho.info/pix/wq00.jpg for the alternative smartphone layout.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by stuving at 10:22, 2nd December 2024 | |
2D is Sir Daniel Gooch
3A is Lord (Andrew) Adonis
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by DR7835 at 10:29, 2nd December 2024 | |
B4 = Daniel Gooch,
D3 = Rev. Wilbert Awdry
oops. Mixed up using letters for rows and number for columns! What I meant was:-
2D = Daniel Gooch,
4C = Rev. Wilbert Awdry
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by johnneyw at 10:31, 2nd December 2024 | |
Row 4, Col C: Rev W Awdry
Row 5, Col D: Jenny Agutter
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by lympstone_commuter at 11:05, 2nd December 2024 | |
1A: George Stephenson
1D: Heidi Alexander
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 11:18, 2nd December 2024 | |
1A: George Stephenson
1D: Heidi Alexander
1D: Heidi Alexander
8 to go, including 3 which are so blindingly obvious that I suspect that everyone is leaving them in favour of giving more obscure answers.
I did wonder how long it would take for our new Secretary of State for Transport to be identified.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by AMLAG at 11:53, 2nd December 2024 | |
3B = Colonel Holman Stephens
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by PrestburyRoad at 11:59, 2nd December 2024 | |
Try as I might I can't see Charles Tyson Yerkes. (OK, I confess that I'm a fan of Jago Hazzard's YouTube videos, in which CTY is frequently mentioned, often along with a mention of his financial 'reputation'.)
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by AMLAG at 14:08, 2nd December 2024 | |
3C = Tom Hanks
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Red Squirrel at 15:20, 2nd December 2024 | |
Going back to A2, are there some barons building Denmark in the background?
[Edit: The cryptic crossword clue should probably read something like 'Barons building Denmark engineered a railway (8,7,6)']
[Edit: can't count]
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:53, 2nd December 2024 | |
Row 2, Column A: Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)
CfN.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by bobm at 16:55, 2nd December 2024 | |
First face on the last row is former Secretary of State for Transport, Stephen Byers.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Bob_Blakey at 17:57, 2nd December 2024 | |
4A is Magnus Volk.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Western Pathfinder at 19:02, 2nd December 2024 | |
https://www.wellho.info/pix/wq30.jpg
A2 Sir Nigel Gresley when do I claim my Fiver Tim...
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:14, 2nd December 2024 | |
Erm ... I rather think you're getting your rows and columns mixed up: we are all desperately trying to identify the apparently Victorian character in Row 1, Column B.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by Western Pathfinder at 19:37, 2nd December 2024 | |
I K B only real picture of him known to exist he's standing in front of the drag chains that would eventually help with the delayed launch of the Great Eastern.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by ChrisB at 19:42, 2nd December 2024 | |
4B Thomas the tank Engine
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 23:12, 2nd December 2024 | |
4B Thomas the tank Engine
When I see how many different names some locomotives have been through in their lives, I wonder how Thomas has managed to go unaltered for so many years.
Just two left ... bottom right and just up from there - the ones without the green dots:
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by stuving at 00:36, 3rd December 2024 | |
I was looking at 4D and thinking he does look familiar, when it struck me - it's Colin Rosenstiel, isn't it?
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by TaplowGreen at 05:39, 3rd December 2024 | |
First face on the last row is former Secretary of State for Transport, Stephen Byers.
.....famously described himself as a "cab for hire" and was banned from Parliament, as was Geoff Hoon.........what is it about Labour Transport Secretaries that sees so many of them leaving under a cloud?
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 06:58, 3rd December 2024 | |
I was looking at 4D and thinking he does look familiar, when it struck me - it's Colin Rosenstiel, isn't it?
No, it isn't. Both of the remaining gentlemen are names that I (and many members here) are and will be familiar with, but where the cause is / was so much more than the person, and it strikes me from a quick read that Colin was along similar lines - though before I became quite the activist I am these days.
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by ChrisB at 15:51, 3rd December 2024 | |
or even Stephen Joseph?
| Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? Posted by grahame at 16:03, 3rd December 2024 | |
