Guess the City

wait that's doncaster isn't it?

ok now i'm misdoubting myself.

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).

this certainly is a good one

https://i.ibb.co/cXyp9qP/Screenshot-2022-10-27-at-10-26-06.png

four

What are the chances that this is on the outskirts of, say, Manchester?

xps hello from leamington spa btw!

I go to Leamington Spa every month (wife's doing an acupuncture degree course there) - seems nice.

I have a friend who lives there.

i once slept on a bench in leamington spa.

four = definitely not sheffield. looks too big for glossop, but too isolated/rural/small for anything else i can think of.

is this Brigadoon, the town that only appears once every 100 years? Since nobody seems to recognise it :-/

I get a 404 Not Found error when I try to see pic #4 so I think you're right

nottingham

he’s a real nowhere man, living in a nothing ham

https://i.imgur.com/MsEUEoX.jpg

I get a 404 Not Found error when I try to see pic #4 so I think you're right

Not sure what happened here, but yeah its gone - maybe was never there! Trying again w different host

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

Keighley near Bradford

https://goo.gl/maps/Xcr5PfizjYwWRznVA

OMG! Well done! I had given up.

view 3 https://goo.gl/maps/dFDygZEP5D6sEzr4A

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.

view 2 https://goo.gl/maps/A4QLoSNghNDUPgFfA

maybe that's the original McDonalds M

view 4 https://goo.gl/maps/sUvkeS9Jw2T81CA66

found it: https://goo.gl/maps/5ut569FyZocbbtQy8

and view 1 https://goo.gl/maps/8yPe792uM7WBJicf6

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

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

Ah good, glad someone finally got it. What was your path to it, ledge?

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.

Ha wow, all off the first pic we didn't even need the others!

> 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

no searching via architectural style or features though (looks like the tower block database doesn't have that either.)

ledge your go choose rome or paris or something.

lost city of gold pls

atlantis looks a little rough around the edges

not as grim as wensley upon heathshire though, at least there are blue skies

brb, googling 3d maps of middle earth.

I can post a (real) one tomorrow.

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 :(

#1

https://i.imgur.com/nHEdMvC.jpg

technical difficulties...

https://i.imgur.com/BbOiVnS.jpg

Kishoreganj, Bangladesh?

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

wtf!

lol nice

i officially retire in perpetuity from setting these, it's back to you cherry blossom.

also, how?

I didn't guess the city, zelda zonk did, I'd never even heard of it!

I just went to a satellite map of the city and went to where the water was

lol

Bit of a cheat really. I put the pic into Google lens which threw up other pics of watch towers, one of which was remarkably similar looking...

I don't have time right now to post a pic, if someone else wants to have a go you're welcome, otherwise I'll post something tomorrow.

Love this long running game btw, thanks to cherry blossom for keeping it ticking over...