E: 29/09 Win £250.00 with Cash Hunt (Help Needed)

itsinthemail

I think we got it right, but only time will tell. I will keep having a bit of a google though.

The confusion over this being in regular comps might have arisen because when Kragen duped Bob's post, he put it in regular comps - naturally enough as it is regular! Bob's was in Competition time. I suspect when it was merged it all got moved over to regular comps by mistake.

I'm getting really bugged about last months - surely answer should have been posted by now

Marg2k8

When I saw last night that you had got there, I was too tired to read all through. I have now been going through it and I'm with you all up to the point that Olive Grove was Sheffield Wednesday's old ground.

I may be being a bit obtuse, but can someone please explain how you got from there to Westoe Lodge. I think if I have understood the trail, then it is because there was an H Winterbottom that used to play for Sheffield Wednesday (in their first game?), that then lead on to another guy called Winterbottom, who had something called Winterbottom's Sign named after him. This seems a bit of a tenuous link to me, or am I missing something?

"A surname, a sign and a master at work"

So if the surname is Winterbottom, the sign is Winterbottom's Sign, what is the master at work? Is this a mason?

Please someone explain if I'm missing something obvious.

Marg2k8

As for Westoe Lodge not being an actual place, that is similar to what we were discussing about a golf club not being the same as a golf course. If the answer to last time's is something golf club, then by the same argument, this time's could be Westoe Lodge.

itsinthemail

The master at work could be from his middle name (Masterman) or it could be from Grand Master - head of a masonic lodge - or it could be from something else entirely :rotfl:

kragen_ironfist

Marg2k8 wrote: »

When I saw last night that you had got there, I was too tired to read all through. I have now been going through it and I'm with you all up to the point that Olive Grove was Sheffield Wednesday's old ground.

I may be being a bit obtuse, but can someone please explain how you got from there to Westoe Lodge. I think if I have understood the trail, then it is because there was an H Winterbottom that used to play for Sheffield Wednesday (in their first game?), that then lead on to another guy called Winterbottom, who had something called Winterbottom's Sign named after him. This seems a bit of a tenuous link to me, or am I missing something?

"A surname, a sign and a master at work"

So if the surname is Winterbottom, the sign is Winterbottom's Sign, what is the master at work? Is this a mason?

Please someone explain if I'm missing something obvious.

well as I see it...

First time saw H for Home here in the ground

refers to the H Winterbottom on the first team playing at home at Olive Grove.

the

A surname, a sign and a master at work

well taking winterbottom and googling comes up with winterbottom's sign and then the master at work could refer to either his mother's maiden name masterman or that at the age of 93 he was the oldest doctor in britain.

then he settled in westoe in 1803 I am pretty sure that Westoe Lodge is the correct answer I know its technically not the name of the building but if you wrote to them, the address would be...

[Name of recepiant]
Westoe Lodge
Freemasons Hall
Ingham Street,
South Shields
South Tyneside
NE33 2DQ

therefore I agree that with the possibility of last months solution being a "golf club" that Westoe Lodge" is a sound conclusion to come to

just wish I'd actually solved some of the clues myself lol.

anyways I suggest that should anyone from here be the lucky winner they might want to share the good fortune with those that discovered the answers

Cmdr Bond, bargainhuntergal, reniannen and itsinthemail

should I be lucky enough to win - you will all be getting a message from me with regards to sending you your share of the dosh.

bargainhuntergal

I've found a couple of other possibilities, not really sure how they'd link in fully bar Westoe being in the name, or being in Westoe, but:

If 'do leg' does mean lodge, but lodge then means hotel it could be Westoe Hotel? (Link shows pictures titled 'Westoe Hotel 1900' and 'Westoe Hotel 2007'

Or I found this

Jarrow Lodge, Westoe

from here although further on it says the address is misleading

The address above is misleading. At that time Westoe signified the greater part of what we would now regard as the town of South Shields, and included East Jarrow within its boundaries. It was not until 1933 that East Jarrow became a part of the Borough of Jarrow. Jarrow Lodge was, as its name implies, originally the residence of a wealthy family.

Cmdr_Bond

bargainhuntergal wrote: »

I've found a couple of other possibilities, not really sure how they'd link in fully bar Westoe being in the name, or being in Westoe, but:

If 'do leg' does mean lodge, but lodge then means hotel it could be Westoe Hotel? (Link shows pictures titled 'Westoe Hotel 1900' and 'Westoe Hotel 2007'

...

I think that could be a possibility, but at the bottom of that page is a bit of text reading

Bornyesterday.org.uk wrote:

Thomas Hogg Allan outside 3 Westoe Terrace (Wyvestoe Lodge) in 1904.
He seems to be driving a type of early delivery van.

I am thinking this is a different building to the Westoe Hotel, and therefore I think Westoe Lodge is probably the correct answer. But then again, maybe not :cool:

Cmdr_Bond

about spoiler tags not hiding links...

here is a work around

ALWAYS "Go Advanced" when you want to post a spoiler with a link it, and before you start typing scroll down and uncheck "Automatically parse links in text"

Now type away, although links will not be clickable, they will be hidden in the spoiler.

Marg2k8

kragen_ironfist wrote: »

should I be lucky enough to win - you will all be getting a message from me with regards to sending you your share of the dosh.

I think that you might be breaking forum rules here, as I think that we are not supposed to exchange personal details such as names and addresses. Also, I might be wrong, but I think that there has been discussion of this sort of thing before on the forum and the majority of people decided it would not work. Remember, loads of people read these forums and enter the competitions and they don't have to even be a member of MSE. I see where you are coming from, but I don't think that you enter many of the other competitions on the forum and if you did, you would see that there are a lot of people that put an awful lot of effort into posting other competitions that take a lot of work, such as take a break, puzzler etc. and they don't get any reward from this. (Shoot me down in flames if you wish).

thingamaBob wrote: »

Being as they say you can enter daily, do people keep entering the answer every day for the rest of the month?

For last months competition, I made guesses on about half of the possible days, just guessing various golf clubs etc., in the hope that one of them might be right.

itsinthemail

kragen_ironfist wrote: »

should I be lucky enough to win - you will all be getting a message from me with regards to sending you your share of the dosh.

Jolly decent of you to suggest it, but all posters have the option to "go it alone" or post knowing that they might not win if they do, thats the same for all the comps on here. I don't think I would have got to the end of this without everyone's contributions, and of course where would we be without the awesome reniannen. I did make a small contribution to this one, but there have been many months when I hadn't got a clue.

If you do win, raise a glass :beer:to your fellow lunatics who could probably have entered 100's of comps with possibly a far better return than £250 if they'd given this one a miss.