jaapv Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3901 Posted March 15, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Near the Severn... How more easy must I make it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 15, 2010 Posted March 15, 2010 Hi jaapv, Take a look here "Do you know the world ?" -- Competition --. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
vertekijker Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3902 Posted March 15, 2010 Tortworth Court Wotton-Under-Edge? ------------------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3903 Posted March 15, 2010 Yes- finally Over to you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3904 Posted March 15, 2010 That was a hard one, Jaap! Thanks to your additional tips, and to Google... I'll dig up something from the 'archives'... ---------------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3905 Posted March 15, 2010 It may not look like it, but famous writers and heads of state have stayed in this place. Frans Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/75648-do-you-know-the-world-competition/?do=findComment&comment=1260254'>More sharing options...
ianman Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3906 Posted March 15, 2010 South coast of Devon ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3907 Posted March 15, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) No, not in Devon. ------------------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suilvenman Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3908 Posted March 15, 2010 The newsvendor suggests USA and the air-conditioning units might mean somewhere south? I'm just fishing, Frans. Cheers, Ken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3909 Posted March 15, 2010 (edited) Yes, the USA is right. Good fishing, Ken! I hesitate to say that it is in the south - my knowledge of American history is too limited to confirm that. But is definitely not the deep south. ------------- Frans Edited March 15, 2010 by vertekijker Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3910 Posted March 15, 2010 The question whether this place lies in the north or in the south, is actually quite pertinent in this case... (hint hint) -------------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3911 Posted March 15, 2010 Your hint suggests Virginia or there abouts. But that's all I have. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 15, 2010 Share #3912 Posted March 15, 2010 Getting warmer, Stuart! ---------------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taildraggin Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3913 Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) It looks like Hill Top House, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. There should be a stone turret to the left, I believe. Sadly, the last I'd heard, they were going to tear it down. That was a very difficult test. It's a delight that Americans can't spot it and it was identified as Devon. There is an English Channel light to that image. The only connection I have is having ridden an old Triumph up there a couple of hot and hazy weekends. - Charlie Edited March 16, 2010 by taildraggin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquire53 Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3914 Posted March 16, 2010 It's a delight that Americans can't spot it and it was identified as Devon. There is an English Channel light to that image. - Charlie the AC should have made it clear that it is can't be Devon or Cornwall. I would have thought more North, like Rhode Island or so.. Cheers Uwe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suilvenman Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3915 Posted March 16, 2010 Harper's Ferry is a very important location in American history. Cheers, Ken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3916 Posted March 16, 2010 It looks like Hill Top House, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. There should be a stone turret to the left, I believe. Sadly, the last I'd heard, they were going to tear it down. That was a very difficult test. It's a delight that Americans can't spot it and it was identified as Devon. There is an English Channel light to that image. The only connection I have is having ridden an old Triumph up there a couple of hot and hazy weekends. - Charlie Excellent, Charlie! I stayed in the place a few years ago - it is falling apart and there is a danger that part of the hotel will break off and fall in the river... It was built in 1888 and famous people stayed here like Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, Carl Sandburg, Pearl S. Buck, President Woodrow Wilson and many others. A place with history, American history. There is also an amazing view over the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. Furthermore, Harper's Ferry is a most historic place, as it is in Harper's Ferry that the American Civil War started. Is there no money to restore this hotel? Bit surprised that the American members didn't recognize this right away. Your turn! ---------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3917 Posted March 16, 2010 Harper's Ferry is a very important location in American history. Cheers, Ken. Yes indeed, Ken, with the story of the abolitionist John Brown and all that. Just a few lines from Wikipedia to whet the members' appetites: 'John Brown was an American abolitionist, and folk hero who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. President Abraham Lincoln said he was a "misguided fanatic" and Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." His attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia electrified the nation. He was tried for treason against the state of Virginia, the murder of five proslavery Southerners, and inciting a slave insurrection and was subsequently hanged. Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that a year later led to secession and the American Civil War.' ---------------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertekijker Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3918 Posted March 16, 2010 I'm not sure that Charlie knows it is his turn. But with his 'nom de plume', no wonder he drags his tail a little ---------------- Frans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taildraggin Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3919 Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) I was going to do another place, but you have insulted my taildragging airplane, Pepe, The Little Mule. Name the city... - Charlie Edited March 16, 2010 by taildraggin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted March 16, 2010 Share #3920 Posted March 16, 2010 Talk about subtle. My first thought is someplace in the Caribbean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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