Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
Somewhere with a jail. Or a rubber band factory.
Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
You'll be wanting information to narrow down the search then. The road formed part of the route of a recent edition of the Tour of Britain. I would of thought my earlier clues were more directly helpful, but we shall see.
Perhaps I should emphasise that @Dogtrousers was getting very warm in post 5086 until veering off in the final paragraph.
Perhaps I should emphasise that @Dogtrousers was getting very warm in post 5086 until veering off in the final paragraph.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
The answer to your cryptic clue came to me just when I went to bed.
Juggle a german motorbike, ie an anagram of motorrad.
Dartmoor.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.5...3P6nD17eabXU2TxFfT_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Looked at Princeton, no joy.
Bugger I looked at the other B road then moved on to another prison…
Bugger I looked at the other B road then moved on to another prison…
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
I thought of that straight away, and dismissed it as I thought it'd never be that obvious.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Exactly, hence emphasising language a few posts later.
I was surprised no-one commented on the 40 markers in both directions on a road which doesn't really look as though it needs them. The section of the cross-Dartmoor road near the prison doesn't shriek "National Park" as all other sections do, nor does it perhaps give much impression of its altitude.
Well done, and over to you again.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
A slide I took on my mum's camera. I rode here on my Dawes Kingpin, but wouldn't recommend it now.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I’d imagine it’s dual carriageway now
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I'm guessing it's something like the A74(M)... old pictures of the M6 when it was just the Preston or Lancaster bypass look a lot like that.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Reminds me of old A30
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I thought my second para was spot on: Road on a plateau, not the Yorks Wolds. That fits Dartmoor.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I'm 90% certain that it's around junction 10 on the M90... but the place has changed so much it's hard to find the exact location of Mr Celine's shot.
I reckon it's either about here, or somewhere completely different.
https://www.google.com/maps/@56.368...4!1s6lwBZcKccjSuwngff2zYBw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
the bridge with its wonky stilts is obscured by the trees and that truck... this is a little further back:
I reckon it's either about here, or somewhere completely different.
https://www.google.com/maps/@56.368...4!1s6lwBZcKccjSuwngff2zYBw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
the bridge with its wonky stilts is obscured by the trees and that truck... this is a little further back:
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Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Shows I ought to read a little more carefully at times.
I think I was distracted by the several references to Yorkshire things, after you'd seemed to have the motorrad anagram within your grasp.
Smack on wrist.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
@MontyVeda has it.
If you use the history on streetview the 2009 image is a bit better, the fields on Moncrieffe Hill in the background match.
My photo was taken in 1978 the weekend before the M90 opened between junction 10 and what was at the time junction 11, the Broxden Roundabout on the A9.
The slip road the photo was taken from comes from the Friarton Bridge, which opened six months later as the M85, but was subsequently renumbered as M90. All the slip roads in this interchange were originally marked out as two lanes, which was always a bit tight.
A bit of a contrast from the Roman road in my last entry.
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I vaguely recalled someone saying they'd cycled on a motorway before it opened and must've remembered that they'd also mentioned the bike, because that's exactly what i searched for...
Luckily for me @Mr Celine, you even told us the junctions
Luckily for me @Mr Celine, you even told us the junctions
