The "guess the place" thread

[Jurek]

'Tis the lifting bridge over Deptford Creek.

The same 

[Adrian]

'Tis the lifting bridge over Deptford Creek.

I've been under there loads of times. I would never have made the connection.

[Jurek]

Viewed otherwise here:

[Adrian]

Yeah, that's more like it. Does it all actually move still?

[Jurek]

Yeah, that's more like it. Does it all actually move still?

No. I think the rails are now probably continuous over the gaps between the lifting section and terra-firma. But you can see the rudimentary pulley and cable system leading up to the motor room(s) at the top of the gantry.

[Sergeant Pluck]

Lots of interesting history, that neck of the woods. And if you ride around the back streets around there you can see small sections that have not altered much in a couple of hundred years. All to be flattened and built on soon, no doubt.

Earlier version of that lifting bridge used to be hand-operated (16 hands in fact).

Looking through my photos, I have a mixture of too obvious and totally unidentifiable, so someone else feel free to go next.

[Adrian]

Looking through my photos, I have a mixture of too obvious and totally unidentifiable, so someone else feel free to go next.

To you maybe. Give one a go.

[Sergeant Pluck]

Ok, I'll use two of my mum's photos:



This ought to help. Bonus point for the story:

[Sergeant Pluck]

I take it that the silence is a sign that clues are required?

Island, volcanic in origin.

[jogler]

I'll have a really really wild guess at the grave.
is it that of the Scottish lass (Flora Macdonald?) who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie flee the conquering sarsenaches?

[clarion]

No, that's rather grander IIRC.

[Rig of Jarkness]

Just guessed it from the above.

[pdm]

That looks a lot like St Helena. Jamestown, to be more specific?

Don't know what the fenced ?grave? is about...

[clarion]

It's got to be Napoleon, then, hasn't it?

[Jurek]

I think the ship is the RMS St Helena. But that's not guessing the place 

[Sergeant Pluck]

All correct, RMS St Helena in James Bay. Napoleon was exiled on the island from 1815 until his death. He remained in that grave until the FRench managed to get his remains returned for a state funeral.

Only reachable by sea at present, but it looks as if that may change soon when an airport is built. The world gets a little smaller.

pdm up next, by my reckoning.

[gordon taylor]

I offer this one:



There are several clues in the picture. 

[David Martin]

Middle east?

[gordon taylor]

Middle east?

Nope. Look on the far left horizon for a clue.

[Deano]

A volcano?  Iceland?

[gordon taylor]

A volcano?  Iceland?

Yes and no.

Another clue? Its last big eruption was 1980.

[Jaded]

Mount St Helens?

[gordon taylor]

Mount St Helens?

Yep.    So what's the big river and can you identify the little town?

Clue 2: There's a state line down the middle of the river.

[Jurek]

 So what's the big river and can you identify the little town?
There's a state line down the middle of the river.

Swift River
Northwood
Washington / Oregon

[gordon taylor]

 So what's the big river and can you identify the little town?
There's a state line down the middle of the river.

Swift River
Northwood
Washington / Oregon

No, No, Yes!