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A bandstand? a wooden building on pier? A station building? It has a half indoors half outdoors kind of feel about it
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Perhaps its not a building. Part of a boat, perhaps?
I would stick with your first line of thought Nigel. However, the solution to solving this doesn't involve trying to work out what it looks like. Concentrate on the "Where?" using Magritte thinking.
A bit more of a hint - "Where did it come from?" may be a better question to ask.
(oh, and I'm enjoying this - I'm not sure you lot will though when you find the solution...)
A bit more of a hint - "Where did it come from?" may be a better question to ask.
(oh, and I'm enjoying this - I'm not sure you lot will though when you find the solution...)
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MdB said:
The same place as this perhaps?
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Exciting, but unfathomable.
The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed, carved with marquetry, that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, England. Built by Hertfordshire carpenter Jonas Fosbrooke circa 1590, the bed measures ten by eleven feet and can sleep over 15 people at once. Many of those who have used the bed have carved their names into its posts.
Now, if you can work out how I worked out what Nigel's bed was, you will be well on the way of working out my question.
Now, if you can work out how I worked out what Nigel's bed was, you will be well on the way of working out my question.
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3580/3338737872_37758583d2.jpg
is also where it came from, but this doesnt help me track down the identity of the thing depicted. I tried the same thing with your Glasgow register office picture, without success.
is also where it came from, but this doesnt help me track down the identity of the thing depicted. I tried the same thing with your Glasgow register office picture, without success.
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For those that are going "huh?!?", my original picture wasn't stored on the PPUK website. It was linked directly from Flickr with the following URL http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3580/3338737872_37758583d2.jpg (If you click on this link it will take you to the picture.) This is the "Where" of the picture that I was going on about. (*)
Now, this doesn't help you directly as Nigel found, however if you do a google search on 3338737872, one of the links that comes up is that from the proper Flickr webpage here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wagsywheeler/3338737872/
This then gives you that the picture was "Looking up at the roof of the bandstand, Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham".
The same trick was used to find out about Nigel's massive bed. (Great bed by the way)
(*) To find the URL of an image in Firefox, just right click on the image and select View Image. In IE8, right click on the image and select Properties.
Now, this doesn't help you directly as Nigel found, however if you do a google search on 3338737872, one of the links that comes up is that from the proper Flickr webpage here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wagsywheeler/3338737872/
This then gives you that the picture was "Looking up at the roof of the bandstand, Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham".
The same trick was used to find out about Nigel's massive bed. (Great bed by the way)
(*) To find the URL of an image in Firefox, just right click on the image and select View Image. In IE8, right click on the image and select Properties.
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My way was much less elegent. I looked up the html source for the whole page and trawlled through until I found the link. Realising from your clue that it must be possible to find the full flikr page I fiddled about on google until I got there, rather than giving up as I did last time. I put the whole whole source reference shaved only of the http:// prefix into Goggle and pressed "Images". It came up as the only hit.
I initially thought your "where did it come from" was a play on words (Ware did it come from). It appears that there is a bandstand in Ware but I could not find an image on Google.
I initially thought your "where did it come from" was a play on words (Ware did it come from). It appears that there is a bandstand in Ware but I could not find an image on Google.
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Where did my grandfather's uncle carve his name in the 1840s? "Up" where would you be going if you passed this, and why might you be nervous if you were a chef on pancake day?
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Back to form, I think.
"Up School", horsehair reinforced pancake for the Greaze, which if not successfully tossed over the bar would result in the cook's being stoned with Latin primers. I understand they've introduced referees for 2009 to reduce the number of injuries... But of course, I'll leave saying where to someone else...
"Up School", horsehair reinforced pancake for the Greaze, which if not successfully tossed over the bar would result in the cook's being stoned with Latin primers. I understand they've introduced referees for 2009 to reduce the number of injuries... But of course, I'll leave saying where to someone else...
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Westminster 'up school' I think...?
The stone steps and entranceway to School have been attributed as the work of Inigo Jones, and are engraved with the names of many pupils who used to hire a stonemason for the purpose. The paneling "up School" is similarly, but officially, painted with the coats of arms of many former pupils.
The stone steps and entranceway to School have been attributed as the work of Inigo Jones, and are engraved with the names of many pupils who used to hire a stonemason for the purpose. The paneling "up School" is similarly, but officially, painted with the coats of arms of many former pupils.
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Well done Gareth! The photo was taken by my son who is following in his great great great uncle's footsteps. He tells me that the preposition "up" is often used in school jargon instead of "to". Thus a pupil may be instructed to go "up library" or "up school", school being the term for the old school room in Little Dean's Yard.
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It's Michelle's turn to post the next one
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Looking again at the Westminster inscription, H Sanders seems to have been a prolific graffiti artist.