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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3281 Post by Smeagol » Tue May 31, 2022 6:16 pm

Thanks Hydro

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#3282 Post by Smeagol » Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:36 pm

No guesses?
This is what you would see turning through 180 deg.

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#3283 Post by DBx » Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:51 pm

That'll be Cromer I think.

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#3284 Post by Smeagol » Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:10 am

Got it in two DBx, Cromer it is.

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#3285 Post by DBx » Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:42 am

Thanks Smeagol. Thinking about this one I'm not sure if it's not a bit obscure but let's see how it goes. I'll therefore give some pointers - the pic shows all that now remains of an industrial site in a rural part of the UK. Production ceased at the end of the last century and as you can see the whole site bar these buildings has been cleared and landscaped:

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The railings on the right are on the end of a bridge over a river.

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#3286 Post by DBx » Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:30 am

The brick building was the admin block for the site which in it's production days used a lot of water and energy. There is no other habitation in the immediate vicinity and it took the name of a village (pop about 1,500) just under two miles to the NW. As can be seen it had a rail connection to a main line not far away in the same direction. In the other direction there is a motorway about half a mile away which gets very busy in the Summer months.

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#3287 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:50 pm

Silverton Paper Mills in Devon?

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#3288 Post by Woody » Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:55 pm

4mastacker wrote:
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Silverton Paper Mills in Devon?

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#3289 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:05 pm

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Silverton Paper Mills in Devon?

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#3290 Post by DBx » Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:48 pm

Yes, Silverton paper mill, nice one 4mast! OH it is then.

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#3291 Post by Smeagol » Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:11 pm

4m appears to be correct (and welcome back!). I was born less than 3 miles from there! Always known by the locals as Bridge Mill.
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#3292 Post by Wodrick » Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:41 pm

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#3293 Post by fin » Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:17 pm

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#3294 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:55 pm

France? I recognise it but can't pin it down.
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#3295 Post by fin » Tue Jun 07, 2022 3:25 pm

Much closer to you than ffrance!
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3296 Post by talmacapt » Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:02 am

I am sure I have stayed there, try Capetown.

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#3297 Post by fin » Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:44 am

Much closer. One can see elephants from the swimming pool. But they are in a zoo.
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3298 Post by talmacapt » Thu Jun 09, 2022 7:20 pm

Need to think about this from the clues.

Nearer Botswana than France implies not likely in Europe and possibly in Africa.

Nearer to Ex A, although not stated, than Capetown.

Looks UK colonial and the greenery, jacaranda trees?, means, maybe southern africa.

Perhaps Zimbabwe.

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#3299 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:49 am

I agree with your logic TC but we do not have zoos down here. Reserves and game parks but not zoos.
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3300 Post by talmacapt » Fri Jun 10, 2022 1:12 pm

I did wonder about Nairobi, there was/is some kind of zoo there (a flight engineer stroked my back while we were looking at some snakes, nearly had a heart attack!), and we used to stay in a hotel next to the zoo in Khartoum.

I cannot recall a pink building in either place though.

If, on the other hand, he means my guess was nearer maybe we are in South Africa but not Capetown.

I'll try, in South Africa?

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