Game: Name that road!

[GuyBoden]

I knew it had a fair, but alas, I've never gone to it.

Yes, it did have a fayre..............

Are you going?

 

[MontyVeda]

Am i feck it's in yorkshire!

 

[GuyBoden]

Simon & Garfunkel stole all of the royalties from Martin Carthy.

 

[GuyBoden]

I'm going to tell you the whole sorry saga..................

"In the early 1960s Martin Carthy found Scarborough Fayre in a book called The Singing Island, a collection of English and Scots folk songs compiled by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl. Carthy gave the song a highly distinctive ostinato guitar riff and recorded it for his first solo LP in 1965. Then a year later the song appeared on the hit Simon & Garfunkel LP Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme (the title taken from the song's lyrics) complete with Carthy's beautiful guitar riff. It also featured not once but twice on the best-selling soundtrack album to the hit Dustin Hoffman film, The Graduate.

And it made a fortune."

But, not for Martin Carthy.

 

[Venod]

i had to select a new photo, the first one selected from Google Maps had nearly the exact image in a Google Lens search, so try this.

 

[ColinJ]

I'm going to tell you the whole sorry saga..................

"In the early 1960s Martin Carthy found Scarborough Fayre in a book called The Singing Island, a collection of English and Scots folk songs compiled by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl. Carthy gave the song a highly distinctive ostinato guitar riff and recorded it for his first solo LP in 1965. Then a year later the song appeared on the hit Simon & Garfunkel LP Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme (the title taken from the song's lyrics) complete with Carthy's beautiful guitar riff. It also featured not once but twice on the best-selling soundtrack album to the hit Dustin Hoffman film, The Graduate.

And it made a fortune."

But, not for Martin Carthy.

Before starting to look for Venod's latest road...



I learned a new word today - ostinato!

 

[MontyVeda]

My mate used to have an ostinallegro

 

[GuyBoden]

Before starting to look for Venod's latest road...



I learned a new word today - ostinato!

Truthfully, I'm more of a Legato player myself. Too much picking isn't for me.

 

[ColinJ]

Truthfully, I'm more of a Legato player myself. Too much picking isn't for me.

I really should make more effort to learn the guitar and bass (and piano!) before I pop my clogs from old age! I like fingerpicking but never really perfected it.

 

[Venod]

Another bit of Simon and Garfunkel trivia.

Homeward bound was written on Widnes railway station.

 

[MontyVeda]

i had to select a new photo, the first one selected from Google Maps had nearly the exact image in a Google Lens search, so try this.

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such a posh looking bridge looks like the road could pass close to a country estate? And that riverside walk with what appears to be a lifebouy suggests a popular tourist spot?

 

[ColinJ]

I have done a quick search up and down the 5 or 6 most likely rivers but haven't spotted it yet. I'll check in again later to see if this one is still going.

 

[GuyBoden]

such a posh looking bridge looks like the road could pass close to a country estate? And that riverside walk with what appears to be a lifebouy suggests a popular tourist spot?

That's my thinking too. But, it's not Bolton Abbey.

Edit: Balustrades is the key.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It does look like a river junction which might be a strong clue.

 

[Venod]

It's not a river, but there are two becks (not brooks) that converge just West of the pic and enter the lake just East of the pic, also behind right is a large cafe often visited by cyclists and behind left a bit further up the road is a smaller cafe often visited by cyclists.