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Who Is This Mystery Man?
Hilton Street Mosaic Mind-Bending Tile Phenomena
READERS are worried, people are walking round the Northern Quarter with creased brows, I-phones pointlessly punched.
Some folk are sick with worry. Who is this man high in the tiles made from tiles watching people out on the tiles?
Sleuth needs to help these people. Of course he has his usual casting couch on which to soothe the brows of the worried folk of city, especially the more attractive ones, but for once the City Detective has nowhere to turn, his knowledge is flaccid, his soldier's pole has fallen (that's a Shakespearian allusion by the way - look it up).
So who is this man?
Is it simply Mr Hilton?
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I live on Hilton Street and I have been asking this question for 18 months. Please find the answer!
Now to me, that looks slightly like a Cllr Karney..
How bizarre. He looks like some guy from the novel 1984 by George Orwell.
George Orwell said Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation. Not a lot of people know that.
Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell.
It's obvious. His name is under the mosaic. His name is Hilton Street. He was a cold war special agent.
Except he didn't say it, did he Sleuth. ;o)
TBLZEBRA: he wanted to.
Mark Kennedy would be the man to ask. It's his mosaic and his studio is over the road. http://www.markkennedy.co.uk
Is it definitely one of Mark Kennedy's? Also has the look of the work by (the fantastic) Ed Chapman http://www.edchapman-mosaics.co.uk/
Although I got the shock of my life when I went into the equally fantastic Doops sandwich shop on Peter Street (their steak and caramelised red onion baguettes should receive an honour from the Queen of England) and there was one of Chapman's mosaics... of Maggie Thatcher. Yikes!
Fab artwork, I've noticed this and think it's cool! Whichever street you view it from his eyes are looking at you....it's like the male version of the Mona Lisa!
WHO IS IT?????
Is it a Mark Kennedy piece? I love his work!
Nobody knows. This is weird. The story's been looked at by more than two thousand people and still we have no clue.
Wow! Who is it?? Do you know yet?
Is it Michael McIntyre, or Reece Shearsmith off of the League of Gentlemen & Psychoville?
Has anyone looked close enough to see if it's an army uniform he's wearing? It looks a bit kraytwinesk.
Its a picture of an old war veteran.
Its been there 6 weeks. I know because i fitted it!!!!
Thanks. But who. And why? Any details?
This is so fascinating, I love a mystery! Is it a manchester soldier?
Surely its Richard Leese isnt it? Or more likely a young Reggie Kray? And no, before you say it, im not going to make any juvenile and potentially libelous comments about them being one and the same thing. Cllr Leese is a lovely lovely man.
What I'd like to know is what Kevin Peel thinks he saw in that space in the 16 months and 2 weeks before it was (allegedly) 'fitted' by Nonymous?
Did we find any more sleuth? This has haunted me all weekend......Be great to unravel the mystery.
Sleuth asked mosaic man Mark Kennedy. He said: "Don't know. Who is it?"
I just found out who it is! But now I can't tell anyone :-(
Love this great addition to the northern quarter. Well done Mr. Kennedy if it is your work!
Anon I refer you to my earlier comment: 'Sleuth asked mosaic man Mark Kennedy. He said: "Don't know. Who is it?"'
looks like Keith who props up the bar in Sandbar
Has this been resolved? I really like it, great addition to the Northern quarter! Well done Mark ( If it is you?) and whoever put it up there!
Any news sleuth?
Anon, it's a mystery wrapped up in an enigma. Probably better for that. Nobody knows it seems
This continues to intrigue me?. Any more info on this?
It's Kim Jong Un...new ruler of North Korea....in't it?
I believe he's an anonymous soldier he was asked to do