Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[dirkomatic]

I've never been to Margate and really only know about it because of Peaky Blinders.... Looks like a fine town.

I imagine this one will be quick. It's a pretty common photo.

 

[D.B.Moody]

New River Gorge Bridge, West VA

 

[dirkomatic]

New River Gorge Bridge, West VA

That's it. Took this photo in the US's newest National Park yesterday.

You're up @D.B.Moody

 

[D.B.Moody]

another bridge:

 

[dirkomatic]

Longjiang Bridge Baoshan, Yunnan, China

 

[D.B.Moody]

Not China. The picture, by the way, is from 1970.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I've never been to Margate and really only know about it because of Peaky Blinders.... Looks like a fine town.

Heh, whatever the British tourist board people are paying Peaky Blinders, it's not enough!

Margate was a creation of mass railway travel in the mid-19th century, and lost its reason to exist with mass air travel in the 1960s, and hasn't had much money come into it since then, like a rust-belt town. So there's a lot of faded-grandeur to it - but in its day I guess it was London's answer to Coney Island, it had the UK's first rollercoaster etc. But now it's near the main immigration route and has lots of unused cheap accommodation, which means like similar towns it's become a bit of a dumping ground for immigrants and the drugs/petty crime that come in their wake - think some of the towns along the Rio Grande. But there's been some attempts to develop it as a weekend escape from the city, leading the regeneration with things like the art gallery in the same way that the Tate did for Cornwall, and improving rail links. It's worked a bit, but nothing like Cornwall, and it won't until they stop using it as an immigration dumping ground.

But yeah, rust-belt-Coney-Island-on-the-Rio-Grande gives you some idea of what Margate is like. Despite that, it does have a certain charm.

 

[Pkrd]

Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. Which I didn't get to bike over in 2013 because it was closed due to fires.

 

[dirkomatic]

Heh, whatever the British tourist board people are paying Peaky Blinders, it's not enough!

Margate was a creation of mass railway travel in the mid-19th century, and lost its reason to exist with mass air travel in the 1960s, and hasn't had much money come into it since then, like a rust-belt town. So there's a lot of faded-grandeur to it - but in its day I guess it was London's answer to Coney Island, it had the UK's first rollercoaster etc. But now it's near the main immigration route and has lots of unused cheap accommodation, which means like similar towns it's become a bit of a dumping ground for immigrants and the drugs/petty crime that come in their wake - think some of the towns along the Rio Grande. But there's been some attempts to develop it as a weekend escape from the city, leading the regeneration with things like the art gallery in the same way that the Tate did for Cornwall, and improving rail links. It's worked a bit, but nothing like Cornwall, and it won't until they stop using it as an immigration dumping ground.

But yeah, rust-belt-Coney-Island-on-the-Rio-Grande gives you some idea of what Margate is like. Despite that, it does have a certain charm.

Ha! Not a ringing endorsement... Peaky Blinders is a period piece... The last season occurred in the late 30s, I think, and Margate is a cursory location. I like learning about new places, but you've put Margate on the "no reason to go there" list.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Royal Gorge it is. Was it this kind of bike?

Canon City is near the Royal Gorge Bridge. Whether or not it was this type of bike, you're up @Pkrd.

P.S. @dirkomatic, it was this trip to Colorado that I referred to back when I inquired about you visiting colleges when you posted a picture of UVA. (The gorge, not the biker bar. There wasn't craft beer in 1970.)

 

[Andres Falconer]

Heh, whatever the British tourist board people are paying Peaky Blinders, it's not enough!

Margate was a creation of mass railway travel in the mid-19th century, and lost its reason to exist with mass air travel in the 1960s, and hasn't had much money come into it since then, like a rust-belt town. So there's a lot of faded-grandeur to it - but in its day I guess it was London's answer to Coney Island, it had the UK's first rollercoaster etc. But now it's near the main immigration route and has lots of unused cheap accommodation, which means like similar towns it's become a bit of a dumping ground for immigrants and the drugs/petty crime that come in their wake - think some of the towns along the Rio Grande. But there's been some attempts to develop it as a weekend escape from the city, leading the regeneration with things like the art gallery in the same way that the Tate did for Cornwall, and improving rail links. It's worked a bit, but nothing like Cornwall, and it won't until they stop using it as an immigration dumping ground.

But yeah, rust-belt-Coney-Island-on-the-Rio-Grande gives you some idea of what Margate is like. Despite that, it does have a certain charm.

Margate and its neighbor Ramsgate are among the most depressing seaside towns I have visited. No, scratch that. Definitely the most. Sad, because it’s easy to see the potential in the place. Nearby Whitstable still has plenty going for it.

 

[Pkrd]

Royal Gorge it is. Was it this kind of bike?

Canon City is near the Royal Gorge Bridge. Whether or not it was this type of bike, you're up @Pkrd.

Spent a few days bicycle touring after a course at Colorado Springs University.

Here's a not so easy panorama...

 

[dirkomatic]

Doesn't really look right, but I'm going to guess Crescent City, CA?

 

[Pkrd]

Not USA.

 

[Andres Falconer]

It’s a miniature of Gibraltar! Airstrip and rock included!

 

[Pkrd]

Otyer side of the globe to Gibraltar.

 

[beermanpete]

New Plymouth, New Zealand?

 

[Pkrd]

Wrong country.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Captain Obvious says Australia then?

 

[Pkrd]

Correct

 

[dirkomatic]

Nobby's Head and Newcastle Breakwall, Newcastle, NSW Australia

 

[Pkrd]

Newcastle it is.

 

[dirkomatic]

Probably another very quick one, but I like the photo

 

[D.B.Moody]

Probably another very quick one, but I like the photo

I like it too. Pittsburgh, PA

 

[dirkomatic]

Ha, yeah. I'm running out of photos again. Have to find some old ones and scan them. Go @D.B.Moody

 

[D.B.Moody]

Ha, yeah. I'm running out of photos again. Have to find some old ones and scan them.

I have the same problem, but I had this ready from 1988:

We'll now wait for Captain Obvious.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'll recuse myself on the grounds of, assuming it is what I think it is, once upon a time it was on my way home from the kebab shop, I've probably walked past there more often...err, "tipsy"... than sober.

Grand though that building is, you no doubt took a photo of a grander one from the same spot....

 

[D.B.Moody]

Grand though that building is, you no doubt took a photo of a grander one from the same spot....

Not quite the same spot, but like this?

And it is what you think it is.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Could be...

 

[duncan.brown]

Easy one for the posh Brits. Kings College, Cambridge.