Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Northern_Brewer]

Much though I'm enjoying some of these answers, the last two were even colder than Chernobyl.

 

[GnenieGone]

Detroit

 

[6Tap]

A place that was built in the 70’s, has some native/ deciduous trees, and is now a place where people like to destroy chain link fence..... [emoji848]

Los Angeles, CA?

 

[CKuhns]

Flint Michigan

 

[@RoyalGallon]

There’s no doubt in my mind this is in the UK. The style of building is something you see all over - It’s like a polytechnic or an old agricultural college or something similar.
Racking my brain to try and think what it might be though?

 

[GnenieGone]

Syria

 

[Northern_Brewer]

All those US ones are just as cold as each other, but @RoyalGallon is on the right track.

There is a beer connection.

 

[Pkrd]

That’s Coors product improvement HQ.

 

[NickTheGreat]

There’s no doubt in my mind this is in the UK. The style of building is something you see all over - It’s like a polytechnic or an old agricultural college or something similar.
Racking my brain to try and think what it might be though?

It really reminds of of an agricultural college I spent some time at a decade or two ago.

Wild guess, UQ-Gatton, Gatton, Queensland???

 

[Northern_Brewer]

No, RoyalGallon was correct that it's in the UK.

There's a field off to the right that has played a significant role in beer history.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It’s like a polytechnic or an old agricultural college or something similar.

It really reminds of of an agricultural college I spent some time at a decade or two ago.

These in particular were close.

 

[@RoyalGallon]

These in particular were close.

I’ve just noted your avatar - I don’t know what it looks like but is this Wye college - the hop research centre?

I wouldn't have thought it would be derelict though?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Yep, the answer was literally in front of you all this time! These are the labs and offices of the former hop research unit at Wye, where Ray Neve bred Challenger, Target and many other hops.

Technically this was a government unit that was an offshoot of Wye College proper (which is the other side of the hop field off to the right), but MAFF ditched it in the 1980s and after passing through HRI and ADAS it was finally shut down in the late 1990s. Thereafter the entire UK hop breeding effort consisted of Peter Darby, who managed to find a farm a few miles away to maintain breeding stocks, and he's set up some kind of relationship with Farams to market his new varieties, keeping the name Wye Hops even though nothing happens in Wye any more.

The College was taken over by Imperial College in 2000 but it never really worked and it was finally shut down in 2009 (having roots going back to 1447). Developers are currently trying to negotiate planning permission for houses over much of the former college site, including the land in the picture and the historic hop field where everything from Brewer's Gold and Northern Brewer to Boadicea and First Gold were bred - real shame.

 

[GnenieGone]

It's not fair for older eyes! Can't even read your avatar! [emoji17]

 

[Pkrd]

Why aren’t those buildings covered in hops then?

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Yep, the answer was literally in front of you all this time! These are the labs and offices of the former hop research unit at Wye, where Ray Neve bred Challenger, Target and many other hops.

Technically this was a government unit that was an offshoot of Wye College proper (which is the other side of the hop field off to the right), but MAFF ditched it in the 1980s and after passing through HRI and ADAS it was finally shut down in the late 1990s. Thereafter the entire UK hop breeding effort consisted of Peter Darby, who managed to find a farm a few miles away to maintain breeding stocks, and he's set up some kind of relationship with Farams to market his new varieties, keeping the name Wye Hops even though nothing happens in Wye any more.

The College was taken over by Imperial College in 2000 but it never really worked and it was finally shut down in 2009 (having roots going back to 1447). Developers are currently trying to negotiate planning permission for houses over much of the former college site, including the land in the picture and the historic hop field where everything from Brewer's Gold and Northern Brewer to Boadicea and First Gold were bred - real shame.

seems such a shame that history is just discarded like that. Hopefully whatever housing development is put up there it’ll have some link to the past and call out what used to be there. Be a shame to lose that link to the past.

Ok then try this...

 

[jack13]

Granada, Spain.

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Granada, Spain.

Nope.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Church spires imply Christian country.
Houses at the front make a nod towards Dutch - but the hills behind don't look very Dutch - Ardennes maybe?
Looks like a white stadium in the distance - doesn't look quite right proportions for a "pitch", looks like the longer kind of thing you get for eg horse/motor racing. Spa-Francorchamps perhaps? But maybe it's a train station or something.

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Church spires imply Christian country.
Houses at the front make a nod towards Dutch - but the hills behind don't look very Dutch - Ardennes maybe?
Looks like a white stadium in the distance - doesn't look quite right proportions for a "pitch", looks like the longer kind of thing you get for eg horse/motor racing. Spa-Francorchamps perhaps? But maybe it's a train station or something.

Right continent - wrong country.
It’s not a train station...

 

[Imhoppy]

It's not fair for older eyes! Can't even read your avatar! [emoji17]

Haha, just a reminder for old people... Don't buy green bananas.

 

[Pkrd]

Looks German to me.

 

[BruceH]

Looking for a clue, is it somewhere in the Benelux area?

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Looking for a clue, is it somewhere in the Benelux area?

@Pkrd is on the right line...

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Maybe another clue.

I took that photo on a very beer focused weekend late last month.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

So Munich?

 

[jack13]

Pilsen, CR

 

[Bilsch]

Bitburg

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Not Munich, Pilsen or Bitburg - but in the ball park...

 

[jack13]

Salzburg, Austria

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Nope - wrong country.
(I should have said the for Pilsen too...)

 

[BruceH]

Dortmund.

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Not Dortmund - we’re going to run out of German cities at some point!
Here’s a vague memory of the place I have...

 

[drchris83]

Hallertau?

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Hallertau?

Nope.

 

[BruceH]

Augsburg?

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Augsburg?

Nope - here’s another photo clue.

 

[jack13]

Berlin?

 

[@RoyalGallon]

Berlin?

Nein, mein Freund.

 

[jack13]

Nein, mein Freund.

Oh, good. It would have been annoying if it was Berlin all along.