sunday times where was i ?

[mdwright2]

anyone got the village? know its in sussex.

[Top Cat2]

Doing the quiz now. The ANOB must be Chichester Harbour and the king (Aella) must have landed near or at Selsey. Royce is the engineer and I think he had a home in West Wittering - but not confirmed.
I am guessing the answers are 1. Selsey and 2. Chichester.

[chere]

hi one and all,
Think the village is Pevensey, but double check yourselves.
Chere.

[Top Cat2]

Not sure how it can be Pevensey. Can you say how or why you chose this answer?

[basil24]

Only problem is that Selsey is more of a small town - population of 9000.

[Top Cat2]

Chichester is definitely the city. The other clues point to that - Saint Richard, Gustav Holst, the composer buried in the cathedral. The canal is the Chichester Ship canal. Who was he film director?

[over18]

Film director was John Baxter

[Top Cat2]

In another thread just found the film director as John Baxter. But don't know where he had a home.

[Top Cat2]

It does seem that Cymenesora near Sidlesham has the greatest claim to the landing location of Aella and his crew.
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/AVB57.html

[fillprovider]

Selsey I think is both too large to count as a village and too far (remember it's supposed to have been a 5 mile diversion - not 7.5 miles - although if you consider distance as the crow flies from Chichester Marina it would be about 5 miles...). Also, Selsey's most notable resident by far is clearly Sir Patrick Moore the astronomer. Sidlesham is only 4.5 miles from the A286/B2201 road diversion at Kingsham, and approx. 3 miles by air from the Marina. The text is obviously a bit ambiguous about this. However there is a charming country inn (The Crab & Lobster) at Sidlesham, which would fit in well with a lunch stop. The historical info about King Ella is, truth be told, not helpful in deciding the location, and we are agreed that the net doesn't offer useful info linking John Baxter with either Selsey or Sidlesham. For me it must be the latter.

[fillprovider]

By the way, the timesonline link to entering the comp is currently out of action (404 error) - this has happened to me before. Anyone else getting through?

[bradleyjohn]

Just back from a visit to Leeds Central Library.

The National Dictionary of Biography contains an entry for John Philip Baxter that mentions 'his home in Selsey'.

However, it also mentions that following his death his friends and colleagues had to correct numerous inaccuracies in his obituaries!

I thought I'd post this before the closing date in fairness.