Britain! Yellow back plates. But other than that, no idea.
― StanM, Monday, 19 September 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
netherlands also has yellow plates but this looks too dreary to be anything but britain
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 September 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
those flats look like many in the central belt of Scotland
― or something, Monday, 19 September 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
definitely getting scotland vibes
― micah, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
I think it's Wolverhampton judging by the church, but I'm having trouble replicating that view
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link
Britain! Yellow back plates.
how on earth can you even detect that? what computers/phones/other gear do you people all have?
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
I opened the pic in a separate tab on my PC and zoomed in a bit? No fancy graphics workstation, just a pc
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
i concur on Wolverhampton. the indoor market building also visible and the relative positions of both suggest the view is from somewhere between the stadium and the university. the forklift might give it away.
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
isn't Wolverhampton flatter than this? I can't seem to make it work
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
Wolverhampton is much flatter. I think the photo is further north than that.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 22 September 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link
Not anywhere specific, but it gave me Scottish central belt vibes at first too. The low stone wall feels more Northern England though somehow.
It's a slightly bleak but comforting vista.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
Do we need another hint?
― StanM, Sunday, 25 September 2022 06:33 (one year ago) link
yes
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/3dG5FP4/abd.jpg
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 11:12 (one year ago) link
Almost certainly Sheffield, think I know the general area too but need to dig a bit.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 11:29 (one year ago) link
Endcliffe/Crooks I reckon
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 11:33 (one year ago) link
landscape looks like sheffield. crookes is a good shout. i'm not 100% convinced by the housing, but difficult to see where else it could be. too big for glossop, too hilly for the other cities in that part of the world.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
reminded me of bits of lancaster but that's way too big
― nxd, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
I hoped there would only be two cobbled streets in Sheffield but no
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1TAvQu8VYx5IipZ1k4BXhPvSOblA&hl=en_US&ll=53.386901067877645%2C-1.4742244808702964&z=14
― StanM, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
Reminds me of some views of Bath.
― o. nate, Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
My wife said Bath to be fair, I've just been busy and didn't look into it further.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
There is one tower block in Bath and I've just scouted all the straight across crossroads that could face it with no success.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
is it bristol aka the sheffield of the south?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 13 October 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
Nah, that's not Bristol (he says only to find out he's wrong).
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 14 October 2022 07:12 (one year ago) link
There's two somewhat distinctive looking churches in the first pic. The square tower and smoke-blackened exterior of the one on the left are not uncommon, i haven't found anything that really matches the squat character of the one on the right.
― ledge, Friday, 14 October 2022 08:17 (one year ago) link
In terms of synchronicity I have just seen this on twitter via a retweet taken in Crookes which only makes me think I was right first time
Grouse moors on fire in the Peak District near Sheffield. Environmental destruction and carbon emissions through the roof for the sake of birds bred to be shot by toffs! @GreenpeaceUK @friends_earth @XRebellionUK @shefgreenpeace pic.twitter.com/WKjqdgGEGm— Anne Grange (@anne_grange) October 13, 2022
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 14 October 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
based on the Bole Hills Aerial Scenic Point (360 aerial photo on google maps) I'm going to guess that Sheffield is slightly flatter than these two pics.
― StanM, Friday, 14 October 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
the tower blocks look kind of weird for sheffield in that they seem quite a long way out of town. still wondering if it's a smaller city.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 October 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
Daughter thought it was Ponderosa but it doesn't look exactly right
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 14 October 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
this guy would destroy us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5Eb4OSZCs
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/Qn6xG7b/Screenshot-2022-10-21-at-10-45-14.png
View III
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 21 October 2022 08:56 (one year ago) link
Think that might be Barrow Bridge Chimney in Bolton and there is generally a run-down Lancashire feel, but had a look and can't find any vantage point anything like that
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 October 2022 09:18 (one year ago) link
i could be wrong but that chimney looks pretty square. not that i have any better suggestions, google (or yandex) pretty hopeless at showing tall square red brick chimneys in a search for same.
― ledge, Friday, 21 October 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
Hang on, where was view II?
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 21 October 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link
Wait my bad, I hadn't realised the one we discussed a fair bit about was a second picture
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 21 October 2022 09:55 (one year ago) link
oi cleanshirt!
― kinder, Friday, 21 October 2022 09:55 (one year ago) link
Oldham maybe?
― kinder, Friday, 21 October 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
not that many square (hexagonal?) chimneys left in run-down hilly industrial towns in northern Rngland, surely?
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 October 2022 10:02 (one year ago) link
i mean it looks a lot like Bradford but surely, with all the cities in the world, we're not doing Bradford again
― or something, Friday, 21 October 2022 10:22 (one year ago) link
a few chimneys just north of Bradford at Shipley in the Aire Valley looking interesting and the area looks right but starting work now and can't pin it down
― or something, Friday, 21 October 2022 10:39 (one year ago) link
full respect to cherry blossom for keeping this game running but it does seem to be a british city almost every other go.
― ledge, Friday, 21 October 2022 10:58 (one year ago) link
it does seem to be a british city almost every other go.
I was beginning to think the same thing! But checking back through the 2022 entries and it turns out that 5 of the previous 24 cities were British (bolded) so it might be they stick in the memory more
Lisbon, Shreveport, Margate, Sapporo, Iasi, Shrewsbury, Brest, Maracaibo, Preston, Kryvyi Rih, Lanzhou, New Rochelle, Kampala, Brussels, Warrington, Ketchikan, Tow Law, Ostend, Wuppertal, Riverside, Moncton, Tuzla, Montbeliard, Setubal
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 21 October 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
No idea where this is but after taking a close look at the white van's rearviewmirror I'm convinced there's a yellow-ish ghost in there.
― Dinsdale, Friday, 21 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Since I still have no clue I've been clicking around and most places feel too flat. The only thing that felt remotely like "this is the kind of hills & city size we're looking for" was Huddersfield.
― StanM, Saturday, 22 October 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
I looked at Huddersfield before, there's a church that could be the one in the first pic, and two chimneys that look right, but I can't find the other church or make it fit.
― ledge, Saturday, 22 October 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
very confident this is not sheffield now
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 22 October 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
actually is that don valley, i.e. sheffield? chimney could be chimney house?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 22 October 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
I've tried to search Sheffield and surrounding conurbations inc. Rochester, and indeed most other northern towns, for churches like the one in the first pic but not very systematically. There's two in Sheffield that could fit but they're too close to the city centre, which is much more built up than
― ledge, Sunday, 23 October 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
wait that's doncaster isn't it?
― Fizzles, Sunday, 23 October 2022 11:23 (one year ago) link
ok now i'm misdoubting myself.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 23 October 2022 11:26 (one year ago) link