"Where am I?" Game

[caja-dglh]

It is a very nice little town with a wonderful weir when you get to the water. I was about to write more on bank signage meaning it definitely wasn't the US but determined it was better to actually find the place rather than spout very boring specific details of useless.

[caja-dglh]

One of you ought to recognize this.

[caja-dglh]

After cheating you out of the hint of the vespa guy for a while last time, here is the 180. Ok, maybe I moved *slightly*

[Fussbudget]

Not only do I not recognise it, I'm not even sure what type of building I'm looking at. A row of cottages with a tower? Some overly earnest stately home? The gates to a castle?

If the flag in the second picture is a county flag it could be Flintshire but that's a big if

[ad hoc]

I'd say it's a gatehouse to some (presumably massive) stately home

[ursus arctos]

Or a very pretentious golf club

[caja-dglh]

It is fair to say that there is a fair bit of land and more stuff behind there, but it won't let me go there. As such, we are a bit down the road as all there was were cars really. I get that you would like some cars as that might help, so here:

[ursus arctos]

Classic 60s US suburban multifamily housing, at least in part intended for service providers to the manse.

It looks too big for my neck of the woods, so I am thinking somewhere a bit further west along the lines of Shaker Heights or Grosse Pointe.

[Fussbudget]

Ooh these look like British terraced housing transported to suburban America, I didn't realise youse had that type of housing stock anywhere

[S. aureus]

Classic 60s US suburban multifamily housing, at least in part intended for service providers to the manse.

It looks too big for my neck of the woods, so I am thinking somewhere a bit further west along the lines of Shaker Heights or Grosse Pointe.

Grosse Pointe, indeed. Edsel and Eleanor Ford house.

https://goo.gl/maps/nRQSv7b1Eyk8tgS26

[caja-dglh]

Remarkable work by Ursus. I was surprised he didn't recognize the Ford house (itself an incongruous piece of US architecture) and then completely nailed the 1960s looks-like-the-UK terraced housing.

[S. aureus]

You want next, ursus arctos?

[ursus arctos]

No thanks

[S. aureus]

OK, how about this then.

[ursus arctos]

Remarkable work by Ursus. I was surprised he didn't recognize the Ford house (itself an incongruous piece of US architecture) and then completely nailed the 1960s looks-like-the-UK terraced housing.

Having more than 100 university classmates from that kind of community provided me with a certain quantum of inside information

[ursus arctos]

The new looks very UK to me

[Fussbudget]

Definitely the UK and it feels quite northern English to me. It could be the approach to pretty much any farm shop or minor tourist spot in North Yorkshire

[S. aureus]

Not North Yorkshire, but there is a farm shop and a minor tourist spot nearby.

[S. aureus]

Moving directly across the roundabout visible in view 2 we get here:



...and keeping on brings us here:



(we're not looking back at the original location for obvious reasons).

[S. aureus]

Here's the back of the farm shop:

[Fussbudget]

Oh Jesus. When you put the first picture up I thought it looked like it could be within 20 miles of here and it is, just not in the direction I expected

It's Herrington Country Park with what I always think of as "the Bryan Ferry monument" behind us (I read a Roxy Music book ages ago which for some reason spent the first few pages going on and on about the monument like it was a big influence on his songwriting or something.) Incredible what a bit of sunshine can do for the place

[Fussbudget]

...and here's our starting point with a bit more Penshaw Monument action

Tell you what, I never noticed it doesn't actually have a roof. What a silly building

[caja-dglh]

Herod Builders would have given me a fighting chance.

[Fussbudget]

Onto our next exciting destination:

[Fussbudget]

And here's the little street to the right: