Author Topic: The "guess the place" thread (Read 903162 times)

Jaded · « **Reply #6150 on:** 03 August, 2015, 02:05:11 pm »

Quote from: windy on 03 August, 2015, 01:04:47 pm

Quote from: Jaded on 03 August, 2015, 12:49:05 pm
It isn't Lews Castle.

You've been down the road, but not that far. Further along the road past the 'tennis court'

I found it by virtue of cheating, and I still cannot spell it!

JStone · « **Reply #6151 on:** 03 August, 2015, 03:21:45 pm »

Strangely enough, I *can* spell it without googling - but only because we passed it several times when staying nearby on hols last year.

Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Harris

Basil · « **Reply #6152 on:** 03 August, 2015, 03:25:21 pm »

Blimey. I could pass that 100 times and still be unable to spell it.

Ian H · « **Reply #6153 on:** 03 August, 2015, 03:28:36 pm »

Is that pronounced 'Am wincy' ?

JStone · « **Reply #6154 on:** 03 August, 2015, 04:23:33 pm »

Assuming Amhuinnsuidhe is correct (ok, windy?), then here's one a couple of hundred miles nearer Bristol

Where's this Manchester?

IanDG · « **Reply #6155 on:** 03 August, 2015, 04:28:20 pm »

Aye, it is (and the spelling)

Otto · « **Reply #6156 on:** 03 August, 2015, 05:04:23 pm »

puff pant puff pant wheeze

David Martin · « **Reply #6157 on:** 03 August, 2015, 08:27:06 pm »

Quote from: JStone on 03 August, 2015, 03:21:45 pm

Strangely enough, I *can* spell it without googling - but only because we passed it several times when staying nearby on hols last year.

Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Harris

I thought it was Glen Bogle House.

JStone · « **Reply #6158 on:** 04 August, 2015, 05:38:55 pm »

Quote from: JStone on 03 August, 2015, 04:23:33 pm

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Where's this Manchester?

Time for a couple more clues - it's got this grande place, and the Manchester district commemorates the support and money raised in Manchester for reconstruction of the town after WW1

Ian H · « **Reply #6159 on:** 04 August, 2015, 06:02:29 pm »

Could it be somewhere like Rouens?

JStone · « **Reply #6160 on:** 04 August, 2015, 06:22:50 pm »

Right country, and it's also on a river - but go about 300k further east

Peter · « **Reply #6161 on:** 04 August, 2015, 06:49:25 pm »

To me (admittedly, it's just a feeling) it looks more Belgian than French.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6162 on:** 04 August, 2015, 06:59:26 pm »

Presumably somewhere that got a pasting in WW1...

JStone · « **Reply #6163 on:** 04 August, 2015, 07:04:01 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 04 August, 2015, 06:49:25 pm

To me (admittedly, it's just a feeling) it looks more Belgian than French.

Not Belgium, but less than 20k from the border

JStone · « **Reply #6164 on:** 04 August, 2015, 07:04:33 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 04 August, 2015, 06:59:26 pm

Presumably somewhere that got a pasting in WW1...

... and also in WW2

jsabine · « **Reply #6165 on:** 04 August, 2015, 07:17:14 pm »

Looks a bit like Arras with the arcades, but I don't think the roofs are right.

JStone · « **Reply #6166 on:** 04 August, 2015, 07:24:55 pm »

Not Arras.

Jaded · « **Reply #6167 on:** 04 August, 2015, 10:29:49 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 04 August, 2015, 06:02:29 pm

Could it be somewhere like Rouens?

It can't be, it's been rebuilt!

Ruthie · « **Reply #6168 on:** 04 August, 2015, 10:58:54 pm »

Brussels

mcshroom · « **Reply #6169 on:** 04 August, 2015, 11:41:35 pm »

Does using those clues, looking on google map for a town that fitted and finding that square on Streetview count as cheating?

JStone · « **Reply #6170 on:** 05 August, 2015, 07:51:43 am »

Using info freely available to all is not cheating, so go ahead.

JStone · « **Reply #6171 on:** 05 August, 2015, 07:53:52 am »

Not Brussels

Ian H · « **Reply #6172 on:** 05 August, 2015, 09:47:59 am »

Pure guess: Lille?

fuzzy · « **Reply #6173 on:** 05 August, 2015, 09:52:11 am »

Charleville- Mezier?

JStone · « **Reply #6174 on:** 05 August, 2015, 10:06:45 am »

fuzzy has it (give or take a couple of accents and a final 's')

I rode through it on Bastille Day, and was intrigued to see the sign with the name of my home town.

The square is the place Ducale, and the Manchester link is explained here:

Mézières (which became Charleville-Mézières in 1966) was deeply affected by the First World War and was ravaged by bombs that destroyed the hospital and much of the town centre.
On 10 June 1920 Manchester officially adopted Mézières under the authority of the then Lord Mayor Tom Ford. This lead to an outpouring of generosity from the people of Manchester, who raised money to help rebuild the French town. To this day Mézières boast a Manchester district in honour of the city’s generosity.
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/news/article/7160/central_library_exhibition_to_celebrate_the_link_between_manchester_and_m%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res