Mr Celine
Discordian
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- Waxing my moustache
Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I concur with @Mr Celine, and I can guarantee is the hills in both pictures remain the same shape.Oh, er, hang on...
The place I found looks just like picture #1, only that large building on the left across the water is not on the Street View picture. @Aravis - could you take a look and see if that building is still there?
Not 100% correct.
I'm hoping to see conclusive photographic evidence. It would of course be possible to reach the fully correct answer by guesswork, so from now on I think I'd better not respond to any solutions which don't include supporting pictures.
Anarchy isn't far off, I can feel it.
Mr Celine
Discordian
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- Waxing my moustache
I've added streetview images. The second one does look very like the Corran ferry viewed from Ardgour.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I assume that you are right. I was looking at the Skye Ferry. The view from the Skye side is similar to picture #1.
I was thinking that it couldn't have been Ballachulish because the bridge isn't in the photo but... the bridge wasn't built until the 1970s - it was a ferry crossing before that! D'oh!
That explains one of the stories that my mum told me about an uncle of hers...
During the war he worked at the aluminium works at Fort William. He would stay in digs during the week then cycle 61 km home on his fixed gear bike for the weekend. That was from Fort William, almost to Connel via the ferry at Ballachulish. One evening he was delayed and missed the last ferry, which left him no choice but to cycle round the loch via Kinlochleven, an extra 31 km with about 500 m of climbing. Halfway round that slog, he got caught in a torrential thunderstorm which thoroughly soaked him in near-freezing rain. No phones in those days, so the worried family were gathered, worrying about what might have befallen him. At long last he arrived, but was so exhausted that he couldn't even get off the bike. His brothers came out and carried him into the croft. My mum said that he was so cold that he had to be propped up in front of a roaring fire for several hours before he was able to speak!
Oh, and my researches have uncovered this little gem...
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
The second picture immediately rang a bell; an Austin Cambridge approaching a ferry took me back to the Jack Nicholson film "Five Easy Pieces" in which we see a blue and white Austin driving onto a ferry. A bit of googling tells me that was filmed on Vancouver Island.
I guess that's not the correct answer 😕
I guess that's not the correct answer 😕
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
That Ballachulish film is fantastic - the 1926 clip looks almost too good to be true. Images like that always make me think we've lost something. but I wouldn't want to be without the Internet...
But the problem at hand - no-one's asked about the status of the building in the second picture yet.
But the problem at hand - no-one's asked about the status of the building in the second picture yet.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
Are those power lines at the top of the second picture?
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
They are certainly overhead cables, but I couldn't say what their function is.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Hang on ... they're two different places?
So what happens if someone else gets the second one? Do they and @Mr Celine have to fight a duel?
Anyway, when I was a kid, my dad used to have a Morris Traveller just like the one in one of the pictures of one of the locations. But it definitely wasn't us. We never went to Scotland.
So what happens if someone else gets the second one? Do they and @Mr Celine have to fight a duel?
Anyway, when I was a kid, my dad used to have a Morris Traveller just like the one in one of the pictures of one of the locations. But it definitely wasn't us. We never went to Scotland.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
The winner is the first to identify both correctly.
@Mr Celine hoped he had both, so broke cover, as it were, thereby giving a strong hint to everyone else. But I've been careful not to confirm whether either suggestion was correct.
The registration number of the Traveller is 4501AC. If that does turn out to be yours the plot deepens considerably.
@Mr Celine hoped he had both, so broke cover, as it were, thereby giving a strong hint to everyone else. But I've been careful not to confirm whether either suggestion was correct.
The registration number of the Traveller is 4501AC. If that does turn out to be yours the plot deepens considerably.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
Stromeferry(noferry)?
Edit to add pick of Stromeferry (with ferry)
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
But @Mr Celine has identified one, so unless he also identifies the second, no one can win.
Edit: Which he appears to have done, so we are saved from the need for a duel.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
The telephone box IS there, but...
To which I suggest that it has done a runner!... no-one's asked about the status of the building in the second picture yet.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Well done @Mr Celine , I thought you were on the scent.
I've ridden both routes, but sadly using the up-to-date facilities rather than the ferries.
Although the Strome Ferry was replaced by a road as long ago as 1970, it has been reinstated following rockfalls on the replacement road as recently as 2012, although this was kept very hush-hush due to the limited capacity. The boat used was the Glenachulish usually employed on the nearby Skye ferry and once used at Ballachulish:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2808301
I've sometimes wondered why the Kylerea-Glenelg route remains in existence. The need to have a serviceable boat suitable for the Stromeferry route available at short notice, perhaps?
Finally, the reason I had to obscure the names of the boats. The link between the Glen Loy and Ballachulish is very easy to find:
Over to @Mr Celine. Perhaps I ought to pass my next turn having used two pictures this time.
I've ridden both routes, but sadly using the up-to-date facilities rather than the ferries.
Although the Strome Ferry was replaced by a road as long ago as 1970, it has been reinstated following rockfalls on the replacement road as recently as 2012, although this was kept very hush-hush due to the limited capacity. The boat used was the Glenachulish usually employed on the nearby Skye ferry and once used at Ballachulish:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2808301
I've sometimes wondered why the Kylerea-Glenelg route remains in existence. The need to have a serviceable boat suitable for the Stromeferry route available at short notice, perhaps?
Finally, the reason I had to obscure the names of the boats. The link between the Glen Loy and Ballachulish is very easy to find:
Over to @Mr Celine. Perhaps I ought to pass my next turn having used two pictures this time.
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Mr Celine
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- Waxing my moustache
When I used it there was still a £5 toll on the Skye Bridge. The Glenelg ferry was 50p more and took a lot longer, but it was a lovely day, a very scenic route and a minor protest against the iniquitous toll.
Now the bridge is free, but the ferry is still there. Probably for tourists who want to go 'over the sea to Skye.'
