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Re: The Smokin' Hot Where On Earth Thread Mk III

#3841 Post by om15 » Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:50 pm

Thanks, back to former locals, this is an easy one.

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#3842 Post by Smeagol » Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:40 pm

That looks very Scottish to me.
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#3843 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:30 pm

It is indeed Scottish - The Lossie Inn at Lossiemouth.
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Re: The Smokin' Hot Where On Earth Thread Mk III

#3844 Post by om15 » Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:24 am

My next clue was that it had been invaded by crabs, but not needed, C16 is right, it is the Lossie Inn, frequented by those who had been banned from the Steamboat, I lived about 50 yards away.

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#3845 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:50 am

Here's the next one - I took the photo in June 1973 but from looking online the buildings have not changed at all....
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#3846 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:25 pm

I am guessing Scotland. maybe incorrect because I can't find it. It is amazing the number of different designs of Lighthouses there are.
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#3847 Post by om15 » Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:34 pm

I have found one that may or may not be it, but the landing pad is grass with an H, not hard standing and the photo was taken some years ago, still looking.

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#3848 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:06 pm

Not Scotland.....
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#3849 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:11 pm

Fanad Head, Donegal?
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Re: The Smokin' Hot Where On Earth Thread Mk III

#3850 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:23 pm

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Fanad Head, Donegal?
Pretty sure you have it 4m. I should have thought of over there.
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#3851 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:29 pm

Yes, it’s Fanad Head, Co. Donegal. We used to night stop at a hotel near there in Gortahork before carrying on all round N & S Ireland to relieve other lighthouse keepers at the end of their shifts. A very enjoyable task – they were some of the nicest and most unassuming folk I’ve met.

Six months after the photo was taken, as the pilot and engineer walked out of the hotel after breakfast, Rose Dugdale and her IRA associates hijacked that helicopter and dropped a milk churn bomb onto the Police Station at Strabane in West Tyrone. The bomb failed to explode.

On 24 July 1984 the helicopter, re-registered from EI-AWB to G-AZOM, ditched 5 miles off Skegness when the tail rotor drive failed. Everyone got out but the helicopter was a total loss.

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#3852 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:35 pm

Thank you.

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#3853 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:44 pm

Is this a Russian Orthodox Church?
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#3854 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:59 pm

Not Russian ma'am.
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#3855 Post by Capetonian » Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:03 pm

Bulgarian Orthodox Church (more or less the same religion).

Edit : Alexandr Nevsky Church in Sofia.

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#3856 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:13 pm

You have it Cape. All yours.
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#3857 Post by Capetonian » Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:15 pm

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#3858 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:57 pm

55 Nevsky Avenue, St. Petersburg?
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#3859 Post by Capetonian » Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:17 pm

That went quicker than I thought, you are correct.

Obviously it wasn't the 'obvious' answer but I expected it to last a little longer. Well done and YHC!

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#3860 Post by CharlieOneSix » Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:33 pm

Thanks Cape. Try this one - some clues there but get the name of the person and it will lead you to the place where this bust commemorates his birth. They placed it right next door to the public toilets!!
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