h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not that Taff.

is the windsor swing, hanging poachers cought in the royal park

Nice idea, but no.

There is a 'Windsor Chair'


Any closer???


GT

Is it something to do with Rock n Roll?

*hides from the under her Matt*

I've never heard of the Windsor Chair, so I think probably not.

Hi Lil. Not rock n roll, but also not klaxonned.

Time for a bit of a clue. Perhaps if everyone looked more at the clue rather than the title...

Different tack here....

Can we today, see some of their 'Brothers'?




GT

Is this to do with letting parents know where sex offenders live?

Gary Glitter was a popstar, I think Ian Huntley was a caretaker and I seem to remember something in the news recently about a rapist posing as a pizza delivery man or somesuch.

If I'm right, then I sort of worry about myself for making the link but I would also the subversiveness of the question.

Van

The Windsor Chair is a particular style and was manufactured by many people in the area around High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire but named after the (Queenie's home) town in Berkshire.

At that time, landowners would post their intention to open a tranche of woodland and craftsmen would stake claims and pay for the privilege of felling and using those trees.

The design used the green (unseasoned) wood in such a way as to need no nails or glue.
The whole thing was built around the seat, usually elm, which was cut and shaped then had holes drilled in it to take the legs and the back and sometimes arms.
Depending on the particular design, the top of the back would be in elm too.
The turned parts, legs and struts and the back members were turned on treadle lathes.

Assembly of members to the seat was in such a way that the grain of the turned members fitted into the elm parts so that as they dried out the joint became tighter - tight enough to last many, many years.

Considering that once cut, green wood quickly dries enough to start splitting (except elm, which has interlocked grain and lasts longer), the organisation must have been tricky and one can only imagine considerable cooperation between craftsmen.

American versions, using different woods sometimes used wedges driven into the member ends.
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Phew! Enjoyed that. (don't complain if I got bits wrong - all from memory) (but you're allowed to put me right...).

GT

Nope, sorry.

Van.

Nothing to do with sex offenders, though a clever link. Feel free to worry about yourself

Rod. Absolutely nothing to do with it, but fascinating none the less.

QI bonus +6

Please don't take that as a cue to start posting unrelated fascinating facts

Please don't take that as a cue to start posting unrelated fascinating facts
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Shame, I had a fascinating article on the changing tastes in tree species used for the manufacture of wooden legs for the Royal families of Europe 1850 to 1910.


I am still looking for an opportunity to shoe horn in a dissertation on my favourite topic: "A history of Anoraks 1945 to 1990"

And I'm really wishing I'd klaxonned "Royals" instead of what I actually did klaxon.

Reading through the last few posts, I was struck by a feeling of guilt, so:

gandalfstwin +1 DGI Windsor chairs

Even though it has nothing to do with the answer, it did spark off RodTheBrit

http://www.no-wood-unturned.com/chairmaking.html

And that's more than enough kindness.

Not enough klaxons found so here is my contribution. Feel free to play the klaxons in stereo or even quad.

Should we see them, or should they stay hidden?
They are currently hidden

If they do show themselves, what will they look like?
ET? Zaphod Beeblebrox?

Or will we just think they're pretty seedy?
Like the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Or the Triffids

Let's try to hunt down just one of them.

Who? Aliens,
Doing what? Body snatching

Not a single !

Nothing to do with aliens. However, paradoxically, the Body Snatcher pod reference is kind of in the right area for the "pretty seedy" bit, so I'll give that a

DGI +1

Having said that, I think if you tried to follow that lead, you'd end up lost in the woods.

Just to clarify things a bit, the "Who" in the original question, is a specific person.