Name the landmark

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pete75 wrote:
gaz wrote:Yew Tree Avenue, Clipsham

Looked familiar but I had to google for it, about twenty years since I was last there.


Yep and it was bit different back then - the old guy who did them shaped some like well known parts of human anatomy... :D

What about this - land mark, sea mark and greatest of English towers....

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TrevA wrote:Boston - confirmed by the URL in your link!

doh! I was thinking North Sea because of the poser in the foreground but it's been a long time since I've seen it that close - there's usually a bigger expanse of water in front of it :lol: I feel like I should ride there this year, but it's 40 miles away, with only Long Sutton of any size in between (and even that can be avoided by riding nearer the coast!).
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iviehoff wrote:
matlockmark wrote:
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There's a well-known landmark there behind the fog and the scafolding...honest. I thought it would be too easy if it wasn't hiding slightly.
A couple of clues:
- at the time I took the photograph (August 2011) the landmark had been under repair and closed to the public for about 2 years
- The presence of my mountain bike indicates that it is close to one of my favourite bridleway routes

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Correct!

There's a lovely view from it - but not on the day I visited.
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This one is not my photo, I'm afraid, and I've only passed this landmark by car, not cycling, but I thought I'd post it out of interest. Clue: it's in France.
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661-Pete wrote:This one is not my photo, I'm afraid, and I've only passed this landmark by car, not cycling, but I thought I'd post it out of interest. Clue: it's in France.

Monorail? (or Aérotrain to give it its proper name - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain says one of the old tracks is now walkable, but I don't think it's that one.)
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mjr wrote:Monorail? (or Aérotrain to give it its proper name - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain says one of the old tracks is now walkable, but I don't think it's that one.)

Correct: well done. It's a picture of (well, I assume it's a picture of) the one we're familiar with, which extends for several miles just north of Orléans, and which was originally intended to extend all the way to Paris as part of a new high-speed levitated train network. The whole scheme was abandoned in the 1970s in favour of the TGV, and the structure now stands derelict.

I've only seen the track from below, so I don't know what state the upper surface is in, but you'd have to hone your jumping skills* if you wanted to try walking (or cycling) along it - there are gaps in the structure, partly where it has collapsed of its own accord, and partly where it's been demolished to make way for motorways and conventional railways.

Incidentally, a test section of this track features in the 1960s movie version of Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut.

*As in the movie Speed :lol: .
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Not a landmark itself, but on a landmark... and may contain spoilers


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Think this was taken July/August last year (or was it 2013)
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Beamsley Almshouses, at least that's what pops up on the screen when I hover the cursor over the picture :wink: .
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gaz wrote:Beamsley Almshouses, at least that's what pops up on the screen when I hover the cursor over the picture :wink: .

HoHo - the colleague who set the office Christmas quiz made the same sort of mistake, meaning I was able to answer the 12 picture questions correctly and so submitted a sheet with 100% correct answers. However justice was served as my sheet joined all the others in a draw and was not picked out... :lol:
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gaz wrote:Beamsley Almshouses, at least that's what pops up on the screen when I hover the cursor over the picture :wink: .


I forgot it does that :oops: :oops: :oops:


Still, it's a beautiful building, a couple of miles south-west of Bolton Abbey
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Here's one to ponder. At least this one is in the UK, though not in my part of the country:
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