Guess the City

I'm curious about that strange gate in the fence. Is that perhaps a gate to a dog run, designed to keep dogs from running out while the gate is open? I've never seen that design before. That might explain the small garbage bin on the fence (for dog waste) vs the larger bin outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_gate

The name comes from the gate merely "kissing" (touching) the inside of the enclosure.

What nonsense. As I tell all my friends whenever we come across such a gate, it comes from the fact that you have to give the person in front a kiss before they allow you to pass through.

what kind of track is that? BMX would be partly dirt, right?

Not necessarily, see e.g. the last Olympics! I've been searching for (grim) pump track (wales).

oh right, pump track is a variety too - thx

thanks for the dn

lol

I feel like that fancy rectangular garbage thing (if it is one) is pretty distinctive maybe, no?

do the wind turbines mean "near a coast" ?

Not necessarily, they're all over the country here. Maybe the bin has some distinguishing features up close but it wouldn't look out of place to me anywhere in the UK.

okay, I hoped my questions would help but they don't :-)

I don't know, it feels very flat for Wales - unless I've happened to only have clicked on more hilly parts

I've definitely seen those bins in Wales. This looks like it could be somewhere like Caerphilly.

i agree this might be wales, but i've seen those bins all over. very generic uk bin imo.

https://wybone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Wybone-LBV6-Victoriana-Litter-Bin-for-web.jpg

https://wybone.co.uk/product/lbv6-closed-top-litter-bin/

https://cdn.britannica.com/20/153520-050-177A78E4/Kabah-hajj-pilgrims-Saudi-Arabia-Mecca.jpg

if that’s a hint that narrows it down to either:
https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/06/ca/05/ef/mecca-bingo.jpg?w=1200&h=-1&s=1
Wrexham, or:
https://playingbingo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/swansea-mecca-bingo-carmarthan-road.jpg
Swansea

nah I was just riffing on the design of the bin!

That's an awkward gate for a BMX track - tricky getting your bike through it. If it's Wales, then there can't be that many BMX tracks in Welsh cities, but buggered if I'm going to look through them all.

Not that it helps really, but in the mid-distance in the 2nd pic there's a playing field with lights, which may correspond to the seating and lights of the first pic.

you can see the building from pic 1 (and the playing field) in the background of pic 2.

its possible that the kissing gate, while normally meant for cattle, has been adopted here to keep motorbikes off the pump track.

nah I was just riffing on the design of the bin!

this is hard

Bearsden has a pump track that looks right but Street View has a hedge rather than a fence. Also another one in Greater Glasgow that has the right buildings but downhill instead of uphill.

Whew, this one is hard, even with a hint!

https://i.ibb.co/xjyfDRj/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-06-44-27.png

three

Tow Law Town FC! Christ these are getting smaller and smaller cherry blossom

11 Ironworks Rd
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KDwmcGyVrbSHhAur7

3rd pic

5 Valley Cl
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YgPz5kFDhxL3Vb239

wow! well done! I had given up

and the pump track

33 B6297
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2hXNWSicWyeqUNKc9

definitely a niche one for the UK crew. without a bit of knowledge of English non-league football teams you'd be looking for it forever (tho with that knowledge i feel i should have found it sooner, was clear from the first pic that there was a football ground and it was prob key)

This is also the very first time I hear about a place called Tow Law. Was the parking violation solution invented there?

Wikipedia on Tow Law Town (the football club) has this line: "However, not all of the club's fans are hooligans"

Do any Britishers want to talk about what that part of England is like? I have my guesses but maybe I'm being a dumb American

It looks pretty bleak tbh

Though also rather pretty. It seems "bleak but pretty countryside surrounding" is a descriptor of many small cities and towns in the UK and everywhere else, too.

right that was my impression for sure

"it's grim up North" is a well-worn English cliche

Local boozer looks quite pretty

https://goo.gl/maps/9xFsQrXT45q9Jad67

https://i.ibb.co/Sy2tc64/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-21-45-26.png

Ha'way

https://i.ibb.co/YPHckd9/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-21-48-17.png

cold

After looking at way too many pump tracks to do me good, I am glad someone got it. at times I was near and plenty of time very far away.

I introduced this game on another board as they are a good group to play it.

Someone got this on picture 1, within an hour.

You're obviously dealing with pros. How did they get it so quickly? Through the ground?

She was as a surprised as anyone. It is a soccer board. her words were “I was only checking Tow Law because it’s the right type of town and their ground is famously on a hill”.

They are from the North East UK, so the famously can be treated with a suitable amount of salt.

Well, "right type of town" is the kind of intuition that goes a long way

https://i.ibb.co/ZHgVrTk/Screenshot-2022-08-16-at-09-19-33.png

Tuesday

The lighthouse (if that's what it is) looks pretty distinctive and could be the key. I see a couple of towers in the distance that look like cathedral steeples, and a couple of other steeple-like constructions. I'm guessing it's a coastal city somewhere in Northern Europe, on the North or Baltic Seas or something.

There are a lot of striped lighthouses out there, I'm learning

Other distinctive factors: strange fin-like thing centre-left; incredibly long (but well-trimmed) hedge; apart from a red people-carrier, all the cars seem to be white, what are the odds of that? Row of flags has me thinking we're at one of those "international" hotels, so maybe the white cars are rentals.

Man centre-right with flaming red hair - although the apartment blocks on the left don't look too Irish to me