Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 907851 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4750 on:** 01 February, 2012, 05:10:20 pm »

I've worked at an arboretum: Westonbirt. But I don't think it's that.

Peter · « **Reply #4751 on:** 01 February, 2012, 05:12:19 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2012, 05:10:20 pm

I've worked at an arboretum: Westonbirt. But I don't think it's that.

See how close that is to Hestonbirt? Spooky

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #4752 on:** 01 February, 2012, 05:13:35 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2012, 05:10:20 pm

I've worked at an arboretum: Westonbirt. But I don't think it's that.

You're wrong there, because it is Westonbirt, and that's a Wollemi Pine, Hester bought one early on, you can get them for about £50 now.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4753 on:** 01 February, 2012, 05:14:14 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 01 February, 2012, 05:12:19 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2012, 05:10:20 pm
I've worked at an arboretum: Westonbirt. But I don't think it's that.

See how close that is to Hestonbirt? Spooky

Spooky yurgh! You're making me feel bad about that job now!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4754 on:** 01 February, 2012, 05:15:27 pm »

Quote from: Exit Stage Left on 01 February, 2012, 05:13:35 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2012, 05:10:20 pm
I've worked at an arboretum: Westonbirt. But I don't think it's that.

You're wrong there, because it is Westonbirt, and that's a Wollemi Pine, Hester bought one early on, you can get them for about £50 now.

Oooh, is there a special prize for being right while being wrong?

Peter · « **Reply #4755 on:** 01 February, 2012, 05:20:06 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2012, 05:15:27 pm

Oooh, is there a special prize for being right while being wrong?

Yes! You get free admission to Psychics Anonymous! (As if you didn't already know)

Jaded · « **Reply #4756 on:** 01 February, 2012, 05:43:11 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2012, 05:15:27 pm

Quote from: Exit Stage Left on 01 February, 2012, 05:13:35 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2012, 05:10:20 pm
I've worked at an arboretum: Westonbirt. But I don't think it's that.

You're wrong there, because it is Westonbirt, and that's a Wollemi Pine, Hester bought one early on, you can get them for about £50 now.
Oooh, is there a special prize for being right while being wrong?

You get to look at some Acer leaves at Westonbirt,

and a lit up tree there.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4757 on:** 01 February, 2012, 09:40:14 pm »

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4758 on:** 19 February, 2012, 09:39:11 pm »

Time for another from the archive...

David Martin · « **Reply #4759 on:** 19 February, 2012, 10:23:35 pm »

The steam railway in the lake district - runs up to the base of windermere. This is the platform at the other end.

Peter · « **Reply #4760 on:** 19 February, 2012, 10:32:27 pm »

I think it's Haverthwaite, David.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4761 on:** 20 February, 2012, 07:00:14 am »

No, it's not that one

David Martin · « **Reply #4762 on:** 20 February, 2012, 08:22:04 am »

Doesn't look like the Bo'ness and Kinneil railway either - right type of bridge but the wrong place.

T42 · « **Reply #4763 on:** 20 February, 2012, 10:27:26 am »

How about this one?

Tom B · « **Reply #4764 on:** 20 February, 2012, 04:27:28 pm »

Ballon D'Alsace?

Reminds me of Ventoux, tho

hatler · « **Reply #4765 on:** 20 February, 2012, 04:32:45 pm »

Is the platform the one used in The Railway Children ? North York Moors Railway ?

clarion · « **Reply #4766 on:** 20 February, 2012, 04:37:31 pm »

Railway Children was filmed on the Keighley & Worth Valley, with Haworth masquerading as Oakworth for the duration.

But I don't believe it's there. There aren't many clues, but there seems to be a big building in the background. I think that rules out the Bluebell and the Severn Valley, too.

David Martin · « **Reply #4767 on:** 20 February, 2012, 04:46:59 pm »

Broomhill (glenbogle)?

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4768 on:** 20 February, 2012, 06:32:25 pm »

Quote from: David Martin on 20 February, 2012, 04:46:59 pm

Broomhill (glenbogle)?

Very close !

Adrian · « **Reply #4769 on:** 20 February, 2012, 08:49:35 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 20 February, 2012, 04:37:31 pm

there seems to be a big building in the background.

That is a flying saucer.

Rig of Jarkness · « **Reply #4770 on:** 21 February, 2012, 06:45:43 am »

Quote from: Adrian on 20 February, 2012, 08:49:35 pm

Quote from: clarion on 20 February, 2012, 04:37:31 pm
there seems to be a big building in the background.
That is a flying saucer.

Or it could be just the steam obscuring the skyline hills.

The area became very famous in 1954.

clarion · « **Reply #4771 on:** 21 February, 2012, 09:24:37 am »

Well, I, for one, welcome our new trainspotting overlords.

Steph · « **Reply #4772 on:** 21 February, 2012, 10:07:09 am »

Boat of Garten. 1954 is when the ospreys came back.

ETA: I thought you meant 1945 and Carnforth at first, but 1954 stuck in my mind, and then I remembered the ospreys and looked at the map...

David Martin · « **Reply #4773 on:** 21 February, 2012, 01:16:44 pm »

Ah.. the dislocated loco distracted me so I thought it was the end of the line.

Steve GT · « **Reply #4774 on:** 21 February, 2012, 03:26:01 pm »

Quote from: Rig of Jarkness on 19 February, 2012, 09:39:11 pm

Time for another from the archive...

Pickering or Grosmont Station?