The Capetonian WOE Thread

[DBx]

Not a watchtower om but it is by the sea.

[Ex-Ascot]

Holland?

Water tower?

[G-CPTN]

Is it a khazi?

[DBx]

These are all interesting and plausible suggestions but are all wrong. It is actually difficult for me to give its actual function as I can't tell you! I think it is probably best described as a pointless artistic folly.

[DBx]

Another pic taken nearby:

30 years ago you would have had to be in a boat to take a shot from this spot.

[ian16th]

Somewhere in Holland?

[4mastacker]

I've been fishing near there....don't know about Ribrash though!

[DBx]

Not Holland, there is a significant French connection.

[DBx]

Find a 'Dreadful Trade' mentioned in Act IV, Scene VI, Lines 14-15 of a classical Regal play.

[DBx]

It's in the UK. The title of the regal play mentions a make of private jet.

[G-CPTN]

Is this a Dagger I see before me?

[DBx]

[4mastacker]

Samphire Hoe, Kent. Built from the spoil of the Channel Tunnel. Fished it once....never again! Fishing in that area is over rough ground so plenty of lost tackle is a given.

[DBx]

Exactly so 4mast. All yours.

As I am sure most realised the play was King Lear. The quote is: "Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!"

[4mastacker]

Thanks DBx.

Should be an easy one. Second highest spire in its county. Town shares its name with another about 50 miles away.

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[Smeagol]

Can't find two UK towns of same same within 50 miles of each other!

[4mastacker]

Try a couple of adjacent counties.

[Ex-Ascot]

Can't find two UK towns of same same within 50 miles of each other!

+1

[G-CPTN]

Several Low Rows in north-east England - admittedly not 'towns'.

[Ex-Ascot]

There are many with parts of the name the same but not exactly the same. Stratford and Stratford upon Avon for example.