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
view 3 https://goo.gl/maps/dFDygZEP5D6sEzr4A
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:35 (one year ago) link
I want to find that symbol on the building in front of the left hand chimney, looks like a yellow M, near impossible without the 3d. map though.
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:39 (one year ago) link
view 2 https://goo.gl/maps/A4QLoSNghNDUPgFfA
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
maybe that's the original McDonalds M
view 4 https://goo.gl/maps/sUvkeS9Jw2T81CA66
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:46 (one year ago) link
found it: https://goo.gl/maps/5ut569FyZocbbtQy8
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link
and view 1 https://goo.gl/maps/8yPe792uM7WBJicf6
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
xpost - nice one! zoomed out, that does look like the McD golden arches, doesn't it
xpost: nevermind view 1, that was the one Ledge posted
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
kudos, ledge! was this the longest it ever took to solve one?
I'm happy to report the building in pic 1 can indeed be found in the Tower Block UK database that I've been consulting every time a promising-sounding city was mentioned:https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/ebenezer-square
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 12:34 (one year ago) link
Ah good, glad someone finally got it. What was your path to it, ledge?
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
clicking through 14 pages (out of 25) of 368 photos tagged 'church with square tower': https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=168441618&page=14
a proper database of uk churches would have been helpful.
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
Ha wow, all off the first pic we didn't even need the others!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
> a proper database of uk churches would have been helpful
i'm pretty sure there is one - i remember reading something about church near home and it was stupidly detailed, like someone had been around and taken notes.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1153103?section=official-list-entry
"Anglican parish church. C12, C13, late C14, and C15, restored 1889 and 1931, small mid-late C20 extension. Nave; random limestone. Clerestory; coursed squared and finely dressed limestone and sandstone. South porch and tower; large blocks coursed finely dressed limestone. Artificial stone slate roof to chancel. Leaded roof to nave. Red tile roof to C12 nave with C15 clerestory. Nave south wall; two raking buttresses (possibly added C14). Narrow C12 round-headed window with cable moulding at top. Early studded plank door with strap hinges and later fillets within a pointed casement-moulded surround within porch..."
x 10
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
no searching via architectural style or features though (looks like the tower block database doesn't have that either.)
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
ledge your go choose rome or paris or something.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
lost city of gold pls
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
atlantis looks a little rough around the edges
― ๊ฎ (map), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
not as grim as wensley upon heathshire though, at least there are blue skies
― ๊ฎ (map), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
brb, googling 3d maps of middle earth.I can post a (real) one tomorrow.
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
OMG - someone on Twitter posted a picture of some cobbled street and I googled the shop name in the background to find out where it was and it was only bloody KEIGHLEY, NR BRADFORD! I don't deserve to post on this thread :(
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
#1
https://i.imgur.com/nHEdMvC.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 08:57 (one year ago) link
technical difficulties...
https://i.imgur.com/BbOiVnS.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
Kishoreganj, Bangladesh?
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:26 (one year ago) link
thats right
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.4399936,90.7760848,3a,75y,130.04h,87.93t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPu5O6yQc0GDTvZHbV-F2t1mKHZ4HsCK98Kmexk!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPu5O6yQc0GDTvZHbV-F2t1mKHZ4HsCK98Kmexk%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya154.02943-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:35 (one year ago) link
wtf!
― ledge, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:36 (one year ago) link
lol nice
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:36 (one year ago) link
i officially retire in perpetuity from setting these, it's back to you cherry blossom.
also, how?
― ledge, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link