Can You Tell Where It Is Yet?

[GordonS]

On a similar theme...

[Fullerene]

3 hours ago, GordonS said:

You're one of the few (only?) people here who blur out details in pics (learned that the hard way with "Little Island", didn't I?) so I thought you were throwing us an easy one.

Some pictures I posted were solved too easily by the globe at the bottom right (page 2) or who took the picture (page 23 Jon Scheyer Pitcairn Island).

The Stonewall Jackson one was tricky.  It was on North Braddock Street and Winchester is one of the few places to have a street like that.  The sign out front says Stonewall Jackson Museum.  I should have paid more attention to the Pizza Parlour. 

The museum has old wallpaper in a sealed unit (again the poison thing).

Stonewall Jackson suffered the same fate as the casualties on Kiska.  Blue on Blue.  ..or should I say Gray on Gray.  Incidentally the civil museum in Winchester indicated that it took a while for the two sides to agree to uniforms that were totally different and flags that were totally different.  Imagine Celtic playing Buckie Thistle if you might.

Winchester is the original home of Patsy Kline.  No interest to me apart from a brilliant song by Ricky Warwick.

Harper's Ferry and Winchester do have something in common.  I will leave that one with you.

[jimbaxters]

On 30/01/2021 at 14:57, welshbairn said:

There's a theory that Napoleon died from arsenic in the wallpaper.

I genuinely read that as walloper. Probably says a lot about me.

[101]

Bump, can anyone identity what/where the hill is far in the distance? Interested to know how far you can see from top of NQ/Invk/Rosyth

 

Edited April 15, 2021 by 101

[Fullerene]

[Hillonearth]

41 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

I think that might be Greenland...Nuuk?

[Hamish's Passenger]

Bump, can anyone identity what/where the hill is far in the distance? Interested to know how far you can see from top of NQ/Invk/Rosyth
 

I’m guessing it’s either Ben Lomond or Ben Ledi. Ben Ledi is just past Callander beside Loch Lubnaig.

[101]

2 minutes ago, Hamish's Passenger said:

 

I’m guessing it’s either Ben Lomond or Ben Ledi. Ben Ledi is just past Callander beside Loch Lubnaig.

 

I think they are both too far north, this would be due SW/SSW, my friend thought it was Arran but that seemed a little far.

[Fullerene]

1 hour ago, 101 said:

I think they are both too far north, this would be due SW/SSW, my friend thought it was Arran but that seemed a little far.

If you look at the crane to the right of the ship, you are seeing it end on. 

That suggests to me that the view is almost directly West.  If so, then it is too far south to be Ben Lomond but not that far off.  Maybe Beinn Dubh.

Edited April 15, 2021 by Fullerene

[Fullerene]

[Shandon Par]

23 minutes ago, 101 said:

I think they are both too far north, this would be due SW/SSW, my friend thought it was Arran but that seemed a little far.

From SW Fife, Ben Lomond is the most obvious one you can see before the hills to the left block the view. Ben Ledi is off to the right of it, not quite as prominent but they’re the two that stand out. On a really clear day you can see over to Arran but probably need to be a wee bit further inland and higher up (eg Saline or up behind Knockhill).

ETA, if it’s a clear enough day to see Arran the hills beyond Ben Ledi also appear. 

Edited April 15, 2021 by Abby Normal

[101]

9 minutes ago, Abby Normal said:

From SW Fife, Ben Lomond is the most obvious one you can see before the hills to the left block the view. Ben Ledi is off to the right of it, not quite as prominent but they’re the two that stand out. On a really clear day you can see over to Arran but probably need to be a wee bit further inland and higher up (eg Saline or up behind Knockhill).

ETA, if it’s a clear enough day to see Arran the hills beyond Ben Ledi also appear. 

Cheers that's helpful

 

[Hamish's Passenger]

I think they are both too far north, this would be due SW/SSW, my friend thought it was Arran but that seemed a little far.

If you look at Google Maps in the direction you are facing, it’s more of a WNW direction. Following a straight line from the shore line of the docks, it’s certainly more likely to be Lomond that Arran.

[Hamish's Passenger]

If you look at the crane to the right of the ship, you are seeing it side on. 
That suggest to me that the view is almost directly West.  If so, then it to far south to be Loch Lomond but not that far off.  Maybe Beinn Dubh.

That’s a shout actually.

[101]

9 minutes ago, Hamish's Passenger said:

 

If you look at Google Maps in the direction you are facing, it’s more of a WNW direction. Following a straight line from the shore line of the docks, it’s certainly more likely to be Lomond that Arran.

 

 

1 hour ago, Fullerene said:

If you look at the crane to the right of the ship, you are seeing it side on. 

That suggest to me that the view is almost directly West.  If so, then it to far south to be Loch Lomond but not that far off.  Maybe Beinn Dubh.

Cheers guys that's really helpful 50 miles as the crow flies it pretty decent when you are only 50m above sea level.

[GordonS]

1 hour ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said:

Battle of Langside memorial, won by the Earl of Moray in the 1560s(?), and Linlithgow sheriff court, the window of which he was shot from in the first recorded political assassination by firearm.

Nailed it.

I'm so happy to see my favourite thread resurrected too!

[GordonS]

17 minutes ago, 101 said:

 

Cheers guys that's really helpful 50 miles as the crow flies it pretty decent when you are only 50m above sea level.

I think it's definitely Ben Lomond. It's exactly the right shape and from your view it's just to the right of the Longannet chimney, so it's bang in the right place. 

[GordonS]

1 hour ago, Fullerene said:

https://goo.gl/maps/9gfHyt4u3BAn4tpE7

I've been to this one, but I didn't recognise it.

[GordonS]

7 hours ago, Fullerene said:

https://goo.gl/maps/VUfVNrFvWTEYgwC29 

[Fullerene]

2 minutes ago, GordonS said:

https://goo.gl/maps/9gfHyt4u3BAn4tpE7

I've been to this one, but I didn't recognise it.

I have been to all four places.  This is probably the least scenic.

Still struggling with your recent one - maybe a mine in Linlithgow or Leadhills?