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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    edited March 2022
    TheBigBean said:

    The location game is much easier with half the street name included. The bottom car, and possibly the second, were there when Google drove past.


    So these are all on different roads. Only the Beatle is on Gatcombe Road. The Triumph may well have also been parked on Gatcombe Road when Google went by though.

    Unless you're telling me you know where the Triumph is, in the photo above, but I think it's something else under that cover when looking on Google!
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    Ben6899 said:



    @pblakeney I recognise the location, but cannot quite place it.

    I can't remember anyway! 🤣🤣🤣
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    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Ben6899
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    pblakeney said:

    Ben6899 said:



    @pblakeney I recognise the location, but cannot quite place it.

    I can't remember anyway! 🤣🤣🤣

    FFS man! :lol:
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    Ben6899 said:

    pblakeney said:

    Ben6899 said:



    @pblakeney I recognise the location, but cannot quite place it.

    I can't remember anyway! 🤣🤣🤣

    FFS man! :lol:
    I can't help either. Unless it is trickery from the camera angle, the road looks wide which should narrow it down. As should the red brick building next to office blocks. But the key question is whether it is actually London.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    edited March 2022
    Oh, it is definitely London.
    Probably Holborn to Spitalfields but we were on walkabout.

    Major clues. The saved shots either side.




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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    edited March 2022
    Bottom shot is Look Mum No Hands. Top not sure.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Bottom shot is LMNH.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    This isn't helpful. Now I want to know where that clock is!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    TheBigBean said:

    This isn't helpful. Now I want to know where that clock is!

    I'm not going to spoon feed you. 😉
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    Apologies for my speed. I'm still blaming post covid brain fog.

    It's a clock in Smithfields market. So you walked from there to LMNH.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    And this is your car shot on St John St

    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5205994,-0.1016061,3a,75y,299.37h,86.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJl0V6fGc8Y1NweyercwnqA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    That'll be the one. 👏👏👏
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  • Ben6899
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    I'm impressed.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    Ben6899 said:

    I'm impressed.

    You shouldn't be. I've walked down there many times and still needed the clues to get it!
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    edited March 2022
    Anyway, to get the thread back on track, here's a photo of exactly four years ago... it still fascinates me how it looks like I've B&W'ed the rest of the photo, leaving the phone box in colour.



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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,680
    It looks like a set in a studio.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    I think you win on the photography, I win on the snow levels. 😉
    A bit more colour in this one from today 4 years ago.


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  • briantrumpet
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    pblakeney said:

    I think you win on the photography, I win on the snow levels. 😉
    A bit more colour in this one from today 4 years ago.



    Haha, yes. Any snow at all in Topsham is remarkable... only had a few proper ones in my 30 years here.
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,802
    edited March 2022
    I've always liked historical industrial B/W photos, foundries, shipbuilding, factories etc.
    I like the chap's attitude to safety painting Blackpool Tower and that munitions factory looks like a relaxing place to work.



  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    Indeed:


    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614

    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    Nobody questions how these photos were taken.


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  • Ben6899
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  • seanoconn
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    Ben6899 said:


    I miss old Fred. Fair enough being confident on a ladder and standing at height on a fairly narrow edge. But add swinging a heavy hammer into the mix! No thank you.
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,802
    seanoconn said:

    Ben6899 said:


    I miss old Fred. Fair enough being confident on a ladder and standing at height on a fairly narrow edge. But add swinging a heavy hammer into the mix! No thank you.

    Yeah, I liked Fred's no nonsense approach.
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,802
    A steam hammer with a 100 ton blow. I bet that made your ears ring!

  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    seanoconn said:

    Ben6899 said:


    I miss old Fred. Fair enough being confident on a ladder and standing at height on a fairly narrow edge. But add swinging a heavy hammer into the mix! No thank you.

    Yeh God bless him. Took his wife to Rochdale steam fair every year, for their holiday, and couldn't understand why she left him.
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  • webboo
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    masjer said:

    A steam hammer with a 100 ton blow. I bet that made your ears ring!

    I did my apprenticeship at a place with several of those. On a still night I could hear them at home 4 miles away.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    It became pretty obvious that the sunset isn't going to come to anything so....


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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,802
    Nice post!

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