Sunday Times Where Was I

[comerton45]

Travel SectionPage 22

Where Was I?

2nd Question. Who was the queen?

[Flonska]

Look for a well known football stadium - not Wembley - but similar.
It has the same name as the railway station.

Once located, find the bandstand which has a commemorative plaque to a musician, who was one of those playing on the Titanic when it sank on 15 April 1912.

From there locating the two castles is relatively easy.

An invasion force landed on a beach near to one and the army spent the night there before moving on the next day "keeping an eye out" for their next "battle."

As well as the Queen referred to, King James I of Scotland, who was captured while en route to France in 1405, and Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York were also imprisoned in the castle.

[goodgoalie]

As I've suggested before, comerton, when you asked for the answer to this puzzle, the idea is that you do some digging (easy with Google, but more enjoyable with a real map and books) and enjoy a gentle tussle with the setter, while finding out interesting things about the UK.

Flonska has kindly posted some helpful clues, and I'd suggest that if you still can't solve it after using them, then it really isn't the puzzle for you

[Flonska]

Hello Comerton . . .

I really have to concur with GoodGoalie. . . .

This puzzle is quite different to most and cannot really be compared to, say, asking for help with the odd clue to complete a crossword.

You are, as GG says, testing your wits against the puzzler, to work out the answers whilst avoiding any red herrings/distractions or other dimensions that are so often included.

The goal is to find the answers (usually) to two succinct questions but there is so much to uncover about where we live from the incidental clues. That is, in itself, both a fascination and attraction.

Some of us having been doing this puzzle for many years now and the introduction of t'internet has undeniably helped. Nevertheless, searching for the information you need to complete the puzzle is still a test and this will actually improve your skills in refining the way you search for and obtain the critical data you look for.

I do hope that you do not think I was being deliberately obstructive in not giving you the answers directly but to have done so would, for me, and possibly others who have "worked" through the detail of the puzzle might have seemed to demean their endeavour.

I am sorry if this is one puzzle that doesn't, as they say, "float your boat" but if you are encouraged to pursue solving this week's puzzle, I hope that additional information provided has helped.

kind regards

p.s. if your name appears in the winner's circle next Sunday, I shall expect to receive my boarding card toute de suite!

[Tobyjug1969]

joan of valois ?

[Flonska]

Joan of Valois (Jeanne) was the Queen's mother - given in the clues.

[Garmouth]

I'm with the first few commenters. There are two reasons to do this puzzle - one is because it's fun and challenging and the other is to win the prize. Just getting the answer(s) from somebody else is no challenge and no fun. And entering an answer that you were just given isn't very fair in that it reduces the chances of winning for those who did actually use their brain to solve it. So if you can't work it out for yourself then the thing to do is to wait till next week's paper comes out.

Anyway, given that you presumably know the station, then you can find the castle where the queen was imprisoned (because there are pretty exact directions to it in the clues) and then all you have to do is look up the history of the castle to find which queen it was.

[Mamyalynne]

Welcome to AB - you may think helping out with this particular one is not the done thing but hopefully you can have a good and helpful time elsewhere on the site.