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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3901 Post by DBx » Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:17 am

Not a time ball tower but at a stretch I suppose it could be said to be distantly related.
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#3902 Post by Rossian » Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:19 am

Wotabaht a shot tower where molten lead is dropped into water so that is is spherical, but where it is, I don't have the faintest idea.

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#3903 Post by DBx » Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:30 pm

Interesting but unfortunately incorrect suggestion Rossian.

The tower is now unique and is the only survivor of a number of similar towers built just over two hundred years ago by the military as part of the response to a probably genuine threat from another country. It has been described as once being a cutting-edge building at the forefront of technology.
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#3904 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:40 pm

Is this Chatley Heath Semaphore Tower, built as part of a chain to allow a rapid alert to London of Napoleon's fleet arriving off the South Coast?
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#3905 Post by DBx » Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:13 pm

It is Fox3. OH then.
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#3906 Post by Smeagol » Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:02 pm

Just to stop this thread falling off page 1, try this.
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#3907 Post by talmacapt » Sat Jan 07, 2023 11:18 am

Reminds me of Honfleur or somwhere nearby.

I'll go for western seaboard France, Brittany, Cherbourg area.
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#3908 Post by 1DC » Sat Jan 07, 2023 1:25 pm

Maybe the palm trees would put it further south
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#3909 Post by Smeagol » Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:39 pm

Not France. 1DC is correct, it is further south.
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#3910 Post by talmacapt » Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:37 am

How about the Ponte Romana bridge, Tavira Portugal.

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#3911 Post by Smeagol » Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:05 am

talmacapt is correct, it is Tavira, one of the less commercialised towns in Portugal.

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#3912 Post by Woody » Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:31 pm

Fair Deal Frank would get this straight away, others may take slightly longer :D

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#3913 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:57 pm

Blackpool, I presume
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#3914 Post by Woody » Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:12 pm

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:57 pm
 Blackpool, I presume
Junction of Cocker Square with the Prom?
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#3915 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:16 pm

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#3916 Post by Woody » Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:20 pm

You have the tiller, wonder if the helicopter is airworthy?
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#3917 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:46 pm

I'm sure some likely lads will probably have go at finding out, probably after 10 pints of Boddy's each ;)

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#3918 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:13 pm

Montreal?
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3919 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:12 pm

No.
Christmas was last month!

Not Nova Scotia either.
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#3920 Post by Opsboi » Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:53 pm

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:12 pm
 No.
Christmas was last month!

Not Nova Scotia either.
Er, Bank Junction

In, um, Barclays, California

Or somewhere else in the NatWest

Surely?
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