Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
I thought it looked like somewhere in Swaledale but have failed to find it if so. Certainly does look very familiar and I'm expecting an 'Oh yes, of course!' moment when someone identifies it.
Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
same here!
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
It's the dead-end road to Booze in Arkengarthdale - another familiar James Herriot scene if you're old enough to remember that series:
Happy to pass if someone's got a good one.
Happy to pass if someone's got a good one.
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
Gaarrghhhh...... ! I cycled by the end of that about a week ago and several times in the last couple of months. A very distinctive pub sign and just out of shot.
Correct, I rode up there on the MTB just round the corner the road kicks up to the right, I scrambled for a lower gear but there were no more, the road peters out but there are moorland tracks through old mine workings to explore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langthwaite
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Or hold your breath until the remake of the remake (?) is broadcast on Channel 5 soon! (I don't watch much on Channel 5 but flicked channels the other day and saw an ad for the coming series.)
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I've just thought of my dad's extensive archive of colour slides, mainly from the sixties and seventies. We used to holiday in the UK, mainly in the sorts of places people like to cycle. And taking pictures of interesting looking roads is the sort of thing he would have done.
In the meantime, here's one of mine that has a few clues if you look closely:
In the meantime, here's one of mine that has a few clues if you look closely:
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
The pylon in the distance looks very much like those near the original Seven Crossing.
If that's right, looking at the shadows, we must be on the south bank.
But I can't find a likely location. Guess: New Passage Road, Aust, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Doesn’t look wide enough for near Severn Crossing. But it does look like looking across that river to Wales but further upstream.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
No need for me to add anything at this stage...
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I'm not sure my reply above was particularly helpful. I should have said you're both on the right track, and getting warmer.
My picture was taken in 2014.
My picture was taken in 2014.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Well, the clues upstream of the bridge and given the sodding great nuclear power station that leaves littleton on severn or oldbury on severn as the only options.
If so, I can't find a matching road.
If not, I'm stumped.
Best incorrect guess: Church Hill, oldbury
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
You have go further up the river to find more high wires crossing on tall pylons. Ordnance Survey is you friend...
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
I did look further upstream on OS, just not far enough it seems!
But now I am absolutely stumped. The shadows are long, and it's winter; it could be any time of day, but the sun cannot be in the North. Ergo, we're NOT looking East, and most likely looking West.
We can see one pylon but not two, so we're roughly looking at the span of the crossing ie we must be looking West.
However, the river is clearly to our right. There's no road heading West towards that span with the river to the right.
I'm stumped and must have my logic awry somewhere. No idea.
But now I am absolutely stumped. The shadows are long, and it's winter; it could be any time of day, but the sun cannot be in the North. Ergo, we're NOT looking East, and most likely looking West.
We can see one pylon but not two, so we're roughly looking at the span of the crossing ie we must be looking West.
However, the river is clearly to our right. There's no road heading West towards that span with the river to the right.
I'm stumped and must have my logic awry somewhere. No idea.
