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Sir Humphrey Davy?

Opsboi wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:44 pm

Sir Humphrey Davy?

Yep---you beat me.....you got it.

Sir Humpty Dumpty it is, and it is located in Market Jew St, Penzance. The figure has a miners lamp in his right hand. Davy was apprenticed to an apothecary at a shop about 20m from the statue which remained a chemist (pharmacy) for a couple of centuries but is now a charity shop. How times have changed!

Over to Opsboi.

Time for a bridge

Pont du Gard, three-tiered, ancient, Roman aqueduct, arch bridge, Gardon River, Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Pretty sure correct. If so OH as we are going into the bush.

Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:07 pm

Pont du Gard, three-tiered, ancient, Roman aqueduct, arch bridge, Gardon River, Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Pretty sure correct. If so OH as we are going into the bush.

Yep, near Nimes

OH declared

I looked at that picture and wondered which bridge of the three you were asking about.

They engineered-in redundancy in those days.

As a couple of days have elapsed and no-one has responded to the OH I will put this up. Apologies for the quality, it is copied from a 40 year old slide. I don't think the place will have changed much.

Japan?

No, not Japan.

Korea?

Not Korea either, much further south.

Tanah Lot Temple, Bali?

Spot on FD2, Tanah Lot it is. Had a company paid flight there from Sumatra in the company aircraft a Fokker F27 about 40 years ago when I took the pic. Wonder how many F27's are still around?

All yours FD2

Smeagol wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:04 pm

Wonder how many F27's are still around?

How many F27 still flying?

Per The Google Machine_TM:
As of August 2022, less than 20 Fokker F27 aircraft (Cargo and military variants only) remained in airline and military service around the world. Few airlines operate numbers of the type as they are used only for cargo and military operations.

PP

Any truth to a story I was told?
An F27 pilot rather smashed his aircraft into the runway, I think in The Netherlands, and the radio calls were:
Tower:"That was a bit of a Fokker"
Pilot:"Yes. Nearly the end of a beautiful Friendship"

Thanks Smeagol. Here's an easy one for some on this site:

It's been viewed 81 times and no responses.

It's Banks' Peninsula just south of Christchurch, New Zealand. The inlet top left is Lyttelton Harbour and the port which serves Christchurch. The other one at the bottom is Akaroa Harbour where Shackleton's captain Frank Worsley was brought up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Worsley

The city of Christchurch is plainly visible top left.

Banks' Peninsula is named after Sir Joseph Banks who accompanied James Cook on his first voyage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Banks

Cook made a remarkably accurate map of New Zealand with only two errors which were understandable because of the weather keeping him further offshore - Banks' Peninsula he thought was an island and Stewart Island he thought was a peninsula.

Open House declared.

FD2 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:45 pm

It's Banks' Peninsula just south of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Open House declared.

I had no ideas......on the same theme, lets try this one:

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