Here is over behind those apartments over on the left, looking back at the field.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThanks, Fussbudget
A bit more on my process:
The youth baseball field is 100 percent North American, and the combination with the football/soccer field is very USIan.
The flag on the right in the third photo is a New York State flag.
The beige sign on the right of the first photo was a bit of a red herring, as it looks very much like a California State Historical Marker
though the surroundings are very much not the Sierra Nevada, the locus of the only ski jump in California.
Why not mark the landmark?
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostIt was the Manor Place Baths (which included an industrial laundry) and was also used for public meetings and boxing matches. Sadly and unsurprisingly, it has now been converted into flats, offices and retail
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_Place_Baths
https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/b...od-23-05-2018/
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I lived around the corner from it and never really knew what it was, or if I had known back then I'd so completely forgotten that even Ursus's links didn't trigger any residual memories. I did think it was interesting enough in Streetview that it might be something some of our SE postcode dwellers might recall walking past, but that was it
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It's made more difficult by train operating companies failing changing so often that if the StreetView is a few years old it could be an old livery. Also the line is electrified but this particular train might not be so again hard to narrow down the type of rolling stock. The windows remind me a bit of old Mark 3 carriages but not sure any current livery matches that.
Agree that it looks like a mainline, or maybe the approach to a largish station
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Originally posted by Fussbudget View PostIt's made more difficult by train operating companies failing changing so often that if the StreetView is a few years old it could be an old livery. Also the line is electrified but this particular train might not be so again hard to narrow down the type of rolling stock. The windows remind me a bit of old Mark 3 carriages but not sure any current livery matches that.
Agree that it looks like a mainline, or maybe the approach to a largish station
Anyway, it certainly looks like a four-track main line and the gantries holding the wires look quite substantial - those for more recent electrifications such as the ECML are lighter in structure. This has the look (to me) of the West Coast Main Line out of Euston, possibly in NW London somewhere.
Last edited by Capybara; 06-10-2022, 14:49.
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Oh. I hadn't actually spotted that there were two railway lines in the first photo.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4485...7i16384!8i8192
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Yes, a rather heavy traffic one at that. The house with the white door was my grandparents home (where my mother grew up) - sleeping there was an interesting adjustment due to the trains. The field opposite has been one of BB&F matchday fields and was very popular for picking magic mushrooms.
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You can't compete with the railway folk, San Bernardhinault. I actually started looking nearer whereabouts you lived (I would expect) but I didn't find anything too fun to work with. Though the Streetview was all shot at a time that makes the Toastrack almost invisible until you are right by it.
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And the street signs are dark blue so we're probably at least technically in France. I'll be honest, I wouldn't have pegged this as a French location at all without those clues and suspect we're not in metropolitan France. The building and vegetation on the right look like something you'd find in a colonial location/overseas territory and the cars also seem too big. The quality of the image suggests somewhere that doesn't have a lot of good quality StreetView
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