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?
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (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.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (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
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 22 October 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
actually is that don valley, i.e. sheffield? chimney could be chimney house?
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (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
Spotted this from the train today:
https://i.imgur.com/aTc6JXR.jpg
Woah, I thought, have I cracked the case wide open? But no, far too flat around there (Leamington Spa).
― ledge, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
this certainly is a good one
― StanM, Thursday, 27 October 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/cXyp9qP/Screenshot-2022-10-27-at-10-26-06.png
four
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 27 October 2022 08:31 (one year ago) link
What are the chances that this is on the outskirts of, say, Manchester?
― ledge, Thursday, 27 October 2022 08:39 (one year ago) link
xps hello from leamington spa btw!
― nxd, Thursday, 27 October 2022 10:47 (one year ago) link
I go to Leamington Spa every month (wife's doing an acupuncture degree course there) - seems nice.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 27 October 2022 11:30 (one year ago) link
I have a friend who lives there.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 27 October 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
i once slept on a bench in leamington spa.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
four = definitely not sheffield. looks too big for glossop, but too isolated/rural/small for anything else i can think of.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
is this Brigadoon, the town that only appears once every 100 years? Since nobody seems to recognise it :-/
― StanM, Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
I get a 404 Not Found error when I try to see pic #4 so I think you're right
― rob, Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
nottingham
― ๊ฎ (map), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
heโs a real nowhere man, living in a nothing ham
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MsEUEoX.jpg
Not sure what happened here, but yeah its gone - maybe was never there! Trying again w different host
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 06:08 (one year ago) link
although wait, caek was able to see it, so it was there and then disappeared.
I'll just leave this one for now and add another when I find one
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 06:10 (one year ago) link
Keighley near Bradford
https://goo.gl/maps/Xcr5PfizjYwWRznVA
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
OMG! Well done! I had given up.
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:29 (one year ago) link