PARWICH.ORG received this photo today. The person who sent it will donate £5 to Project Parwich, provided that someone can guess the identity of the young man in the picture.
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Aha…….this is a famous Atkinson double triple bluff….it’s actually you Mike! I know that because you are displaying that manual dexterity, mechanical affinity and aptitude we’ve come to know and admire in you. Fancy – trying to cut your next door neighbour’s road roller brake pipes, just ‘cos they didn’t approve of you playing “Puppet on a String” at full bore on your new “Dansette”!
Sheepish but hopeful emoticon………..(Ctrl Alt F6)
No way, he’s not wearing glasses.
Can we have a clue please?
Is he as cute looking now as he was then?
It wasn’t me, mister! That “tying a bit of string round your trouser legs” look was never for me…. 😉
In fact, I haven’t got a clue who it is!
OK, so its not Mike….is it Brian Beasley showing an early aptitude for a career in the dressed stone industry? I’m sure I’ve seen him with a bit of string round his trouser leg too.
It’s Yosser Hughes,from a 1938 episode of “Boys from the Blackstuff”. Broadcast from Alexandra Palace, and there fore only seen in the London area
But Yosser didn’t have a job! – this young man seems to be gainfully employed fixing a road roller. – P’raps Yosser did actually have a job in 1938?
Could this be a young Peter (propshaft) Evens at the start of his apprenticeship
On the basis that there’s £5 at stake for Project Parwich, and there appear to be few rules in this competition, why aren’t people just posting up names of all the people in the village? – we’ll get there in the end.
On the basis there is no rule about how many attempts we can have, I’m gonna keep posting names till we get there.
So following on from my original unsuccessful guess, – I now think it’s Don………………………
I’m going to plump for… erm… let’s see now… John Fuller-Sessions?
No luck so far? – OK, it’s gotta be Chistopher Harrison (the tied trower leg is a dead giveaway – early Christian tradition, – plus he’s obviously annointing the road roller).
Yep. – the random typo introducing algorithm is still working well – I wish I could get our s/w writers to write such a bullet proof piece of code!
For trower read trowser.
Could it be……………..John Kirkham… without pipe!!
(Ted said that!)
Perhaps we need to be systematic. What are the clues?
– Slim (could have changed)
– Fair-haired (likely to have got a bit darker, but not too dark)
– Male (not likely to have changed)
– Interested in things mechanical
– Age? (Was photo taken when such were still in use, then he is over 60, or was the young Mr X from a background likely to be involved in displays, carnivals etc, then he could be any age?)
Who comes along the History Society visits to such as Friden Brickworks; we might get a clue on the visit to Leawood Pump Shed but that is not for several months.
My first thoughts included Jonathan Marshal (trains), Stuart Williams (trains), Peter Evans (too young but maternal grandparents had Sykes’ Fair and already mentioned), John Peel (auto electrics too young unless parents interested), Christopher Duffel (engineering, but too young), Colin Powell (right colouring but too young, don’t know of any family links) or John Black (also too young). Of these my guess is:
Stuart Williams
“bob” You are wrong! Of course it is Yosser Hughes, – It’s the last time he worked.
Who is Yosser Hughes?
Jane,
Go back to the first mention, that might help
Yoosser Hughes – unemployed scouser from “Boys from the Blackstuff” by Alan Bleasdale whose catch line was “Gis a job – I could do that”. A gritty back comedy reminding us (never too late) that 4m+ unemployed and 15% inflation and interest rates are a thing of the past. Oh, sorry the last ten years have been an unmitigated economic disaster. What a disaster – full employment and interest rates at 5% – sack the architect of that!
You know its Friday night past 10pm :o)
I think it has to be a young scarecrow before he met Dorothy and the Tin Man and Lion….he’s definitely looking for something??
So, let’s see who we’ve ruled out:
Mike Atkinson, Brian Beasley, Yosser Hughes (!), Peter Evans, Don, John Fuller-Sessions, Christopher Harrison, John Kirkham, Stuart Williams.
Also mentioned: Jonathan Marshall, John Peel, Christopher Duffel, Colin Powell, John Black.
Any more thoughts? It couldn’t be Rob Francis, could it? After all, the string round the leg could be an early attempt at improvising a morris dancer’s outfit… OK, I’m clutching at straws here…
could it be Abel Shipley
I reckon it’s Stephen Dale with a new truck!