What & Where? #05

munki · Post by **munki** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:26 pm

Identify this architectural feature, taken up close & out of context. Extra point this time if anyone can tell me who the chap is... If you have a picture you would like to submit to the competition, please send it direct to me at [email protected] rather than posting it up yourself. I will upload it once #05 has been answered.

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:32 pm

I think this is above the takeaway opposite the Library pub in Hyde Park, I can't remember it's name though. (and not sure who it is, looks a bit like my dad but I think it's unlikely to be him!)

munki · Post by **munki** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:35 pm

The name of the take away to win, please...

munki · Post by **munki** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:40 pm

This is his wife, I think.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:43 pm

Flying tandori?

munki · Post by **munki** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:45 pm

Hm, right cuisine. Wrong name.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:46 pm

Darbar?

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:47 pm

Is it Nafee's?

munki · Post by **munki** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 4:49 pm

Wow, fast work, Anna. Your name goes on the League Table. Do we have a rival for PhilD?THERE IS STILL AN EXTRA POINT AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE WHO IDENTIFIES WHO THE TWO FIGURES ARE...You are all making me work hard with pictures here! #06 will be posted when I take a picture for it, or when someone else sends one in to [email protected]

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Wed 09 Jan, 2013 4:20 pm

munki wrote: Wow, fast work, Anna. Your name goes on the League Table. Do we have a rival for PhilD?THERE IS STILL AN EXTRA POINT AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE WHO IDENTIFIES WHO THE TWO FIGURES ARE...You are all making me work hard with pictures here! #06 will be posted when I take a picture for it, or when someone else sends one in to [email protected] Plenty of life left in some of these (very) old ‘W&W’ threads. Amongst the mysteries that they evoke is whatever happened to Anna, who in the early days looked as if she might turn out to be the Angelina Jolie to Phill’s Brad Pitt in this field of expertise. She amassed an impressive score in the category when ‘Secret Leeds’ was in its salad days.Anyway, still a couple of questions which need answers in W&W#05. Namely, who were the subjects for the over door architecture at what eventually became Nafee’s curry house on Raglan Road.I have some suggestions but have no way of knowing if any are correct. I have no other rational explanation for reviving this poser other than I just want to know who those two people are. All contributions would be greatly appreciated.So here – in no particular order, as they say on Crapola TV these days - are my ideas on the who, and a bit of the why.But first, a bit of information on the house. After looking at some old maps I have come to the conclusion that the house was built during the 1860’s. It looks as if the first resident was a Joseph E. Binns who ran his building firm from the address. He was born in Holbeck in October 1829, and moved into Raglan Road from Woodhouse Street.Trawling the internet leads to the discovery (I hope) that he was married to Hannah Senior in December 1850.So the first stab at identification is Joseph and Hannah Binns, whose firm may have built the house for their own occupation so he took the ultimate ego-trip of hoisting himself and the little lady above the two (?!) entrance doors.However, the two subjects look a little grander than a Leeds builder and his wife might have done in 1866 so this idea may be a little wide of the mark, which brings me to my next guess.The heir-apparent of Queen Victoria in those days was Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. He married Alexandra of Denmark in March 1863. The gentleman in the picture bears some resemblance to the future Edward VII, but at the time of the wedding he did not have a full beard. Later on in life he did of course, but in 1866…..? And the two figures do seem to have some sort of ‘regalia’ on.Last but not least, I turned to some ‘local’ royalty, namely the occupant of stately Harewood House just up the road during that period. This sounds like a long shot, as indeed are the other two flights of fancy but here goes anyway.Henry Thynne Lascelles was the fourth Earl of Harewood. He was born in 1824 and inherited the title when his father died in 1857. His first wife, Lady Elizabeth Joanna de Burgh who presented him with six children had sadly died in 1854. In 1858 he married (secondly, as they say on Wikipedia) Diana Smyth, who was born in 1838 and subsequently did the decent thing, duly presenting the good Earl with two more children than his first wife had done!And the reasons for this choice? HTL wore a full beard and the two faces look as if they may be a few years apart in age.So there are my suggestions. If nothing else the exercise has passed an hour or two on. And this recall must have beaten the previous best for ‘thread in hibernation’.Anybody else? Don’t all rush at once.