The Smokin' Hot Where On Earth Thread Mk III

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I've been wombling round Volgograd on goggle maps for a while, yet I can't find that particular statue

[ian16th]

Nothing to hand.

OH.

[om15]

Fox, I can't find it either! I initially found the street scene in the suburbs, I think in the north east, but can't get back to it.

Edit, It must be one of these

«Great Lenin" - Liberty Square (the intersection of Victory Avenue and the streets of the World)
«Little Lenin" - the Children's park named after Alexander Pushkin.
A monument in the main building of the Volgograd State Technical University.
2 monuments in car-repair factory.
Lenin monument at the entrance of the Volga-Don channel - set in the Krasnoarmeysk area (height pedestal) - 30 meters, the sculpture - 27 meters. Sculptor - EV Vucetich. listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest monument of a man who lived reality[citation needed]. Earlier, on the same pedestal, there was a monument to Stalin.
In the central region on Lenin Square on the 90th anniversary of the monument to Lenin. Sculptor - EV Vucetic.
In the central region, in the park opposite the building of regional administration.
The Post Office building is a statue of Lenin.

[FD2]

It really is a small world C16.

If it's OH, another statue:

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[FD2]

England and an inventor who never got his due reward.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Well, that doesn't narrow it down much! Slightly more common that Lenin statues in Russia

[FD2]

Think of a cross between a donkey and a horse. That should narrow it down a bit!

[CharlieOneSix]

Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule?

OH if correct as I’m in my pit and about to nod off!

[FD2]

By gum 'e's got it - it's Samuel Crompton from Hal i' th' Wood! The statue is in Bolton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Crompton

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OH declared.

[CharlieOneSix]

This should last a few seconds... who is he?
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[om15]

He's a Halton Apprentice

[4mastacker]

K n C?

[CharlieOneSix]

He's a Halton Apprentice

But he only lasted two days at Halton.......

[CharlieOneSix]

So it looks as though this thread is running out of steam. I won't be around tomorrow a.m. to keep in touch so the answer is Sir Frank Whittle's statue outside the Coventry Transport Museum. om15 obviously knew the answer but declined to say it for some reason.

OH.

[llondel]

How about a plastic building.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

A Tesla factory?

[llondel]

A Tesla factory?

No, this is a Tesla factory. Looks way more impressive from above than it does when I drive past, too.

[om15]

Is it some sort of sports stadium, or a theatre?

[FD2]

A hull section of a ship?

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

That many doors with emergency bars on them would imply a large auditorium inside. Some sort of event venue.
The colours match the Greek flag; is that where we are?
Or maybe Israel, Nicaragua, or Finland.