definitely china
― map ca. 1890 (map), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
I'm getting Chesterfield vibes, pedestrian rocking the tight black leggings and big foofy boots look noted.
― calzino, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
for a second I thought I saw a badge of the Barsnley fc mascot on the rear side window that little white car that looks a bit like a Clio. I magnified it and it seems more like Barney Bear.
― calzino, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
oops I forgot Chesterfield isn't a city, the famous spire made me think there was a cathedral!
― calzino, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
my final proper guess is going to be Nottingham
― calzino, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Not much to go on there, could be anywhere in England from the midlands up. Is that a St George flag in the back of that car? If so I'd may be rule out one of the larger,more cosmopolitan, northern cities and maybe guess Derby?
― or something, Monday, 8 March 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
there isn't an external intruder alarm box on every single house, it's some kind of utopia!
― calzino, Monday, 8 March 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Not Derby then
― or something, Monday, 8 March 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
Or Stoke-on-Trent.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Monday, 8 March 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
can't find exact spot on google maps but p sure its hell
― plax (ico), Monday, 8 March 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
Kingston-on-Hell?
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Monday, 8 March 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
Sorry, Kingston upon Hell
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Monday, 8 March 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
i feel like i say this for every question but is that sheffield (abbeydale, specifically)?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 March 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link
looks a bit flat for Sheffield but maybe that's why it was chosen
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 8 March 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
xps
if you guys think that place looks like hell, you should see Manor Park!
― calzino, Monday, 8 March 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
Vaguely reminds me of parts of Southampton and the geography mostly fits (the rising land in the distance).
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 8 March 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
Gonna go with Rochdale for some reason
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 8 March 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
how strict are we being about "city"?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 March 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
Guess the Census-Designated Place
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 8 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
No matter how lax you are Rochdale can never be a city.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
So far I've learned that there are endless minor variations of window lintels on terraced houses in the UK (but none quite like in the picture yet) and that Sunderland has a surprising number of single story terraces
― or something, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BYCP5B/creswell-model-village-derbyshire-england-BYCP5B.jpg
This is a pic of the Creswell Model Village in Chesterfield aka what was the poshest council estate in England I've ever seen. But some of the surrounding houses in the area looked a bit like the houses in that pic. But lol, that sure narrows it down.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
I think Giorgio de Chirico was a very mediocre artist but he did successfully visualise the claustrophobic angst of perspective in some way... not even sure if that makes any sense.. but anyway it's definitely Wakefield.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/1zK9dtVn/viewtwo.jpg
An alternate view
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
Doncaster?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/NfY7mC7g/Screenshot-2021-03-10-at-20-32-48.png
Bonus Beats, as alternate view is probably too similar to original view
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
I think it's already been mentioned by Tom D, Stoke?
― or something, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
looks a little like Bosom Manor to me
― map ca. 1890 (map), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
I've been combing through Stoke trying to find that terrace with no joy. The raised ground in the background reminded me of looking from Stoke towards Newcastle-under-Lyme
― or something, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
Portsmouth?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
84 Church Sthttps://maps.app.goo.gl/2auaoTQS9bZ9BReZ6
Googled Card Factory Stoke, now to find that terrace...
― or something, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
bloody card factory
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
Boom
27 Welby Sthttps://maps.app.goo.gl/Nf3EEJaDaJmhUbxg8
― or something, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
Hold on, did I get one right?
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
Oh no, I said, "It can't be Stoke then".
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
sorry stoke-on-trent but you're the first city in a while that i would not want to visit
― map ca. 1890 (map), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Stoke does look ever so slightly like bits Doncaster or Dewsbury or loads of other verified N shitholes. Vale Park is a nice place to go for an way trip, some decent pubs and utterly horrid people!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
(xp) Very wise.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
I was there at the early days of the Card Factory empire story. I worked for a company called Power Plus that at the time had the contract do the leccy installation stuff where they were opening up shops 15 metres from every Clinton's Cards in the North and aggressively undercutting them and putting them out of business. They got a lot bigger since then, the founder Dean Hoyle sold them for £400m about 10 years ago.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
or something PI is on a hot streak right now!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
I've got a lot of time on my hands
― or something, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
Good curries in Stoke is all I remember.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Stoke on Trent it is.
I thought the initial terrace might be too hard but couldn't tell. It felt like Stoke but at the same time if felt like both nowhere. Looking round it, it started to feel like this isn't anywhere it might be, and that only leaves Stoke.
Leaving in Card Factory in Bonus Beats might have been too big a clue, but refinding the original street even where I knew its location was tough, so good work to Or Something in finding that
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:27 (three years ago) link
― map ca. 1890 (map),
Whats Bosom Manor?!
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link
it's from a bit where Americans do British-isms to "hilarious" effect
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Thursday, 11 March 2021 09:30 (three years ago) link
I should have done a couple moves down the street to include that, might have made a touch easier - especially as people were in the right ballpark early on
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
Bosom Manor was coined by silby, iirc, to make fun of the endless churn of tv & film born out of nostalgia for the British aristocracy (your Downton Abbeys etc.), not to mock British-isms.
― rob, Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah but now it just gets deployed when Brits talk about TV shows or celebrities that the American poster hasn't heard of.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
It's a bit too LOL Funny Foreigners tbh.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
Okay, I looked through some old posts and you're both right. I guess I retconned it to make into a more useful joke. Also: apologies to NA, who actually came up with the original.
― rob, Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link