Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[SteveH aka shetc]

Alton Towers

 

[duncan.brown]

@shetc has it! Former seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury, now a theme park.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

@shetc has it! Former seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury, now a theme park.

Owned by The Tussauds Group - used to know the CFO, way back when.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

 

[dirkomatic]

Anheuser-Busch, Williamsburg, VA?

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Anheuser-Busch, Williamsburg, VA?

It's a brewery alright but not that one.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Sierra Nevada in Mills River, NC?

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Sierra Nevada in Mills River, NC?

And we have a winner!

 

[3 Dawg Night]

I thought it looked familiar! It's such a cool place to visit. The gardens are just a really pleasant place to spend an afternoon.

Keeping with the brewery theme:

 

[duncan.brown]

That's an easy one, having been there. It's the Russian River pub adjacent to their new production brewery in Windsor, CA.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

That's an easy one, having been there. It's the Russian River pub adjacent to their new production brewery in Windsor, CA.

Covid ruined my plans to visit the Windsor brewery.

 

[dirkomatic]

And we have a winner!

Ugh. Haven't gotten there yet. They were considering building that one in my area when they decided on NC.

 

[duncan.brown]

Covid ruined my plans to visit the Windsor brewery.

Fortunately, I was working in Santa Barbara in summer 2019 so I made a few trips up there to stock up. Everyone (rightly, imho) raves about Pliny, but their barrel-aged beers are fantastic as well. I'm also a big fan of STS Pils. On one trip, I was lucky enough be there on a Sunday morning to get a one-on-one tour from one of the brewers (not Vinnie, though).

My only complaint about Russian River is that it's Pl-IN-ee, not Pl-EYE-nee

 

[3 Dawg Night]

I was enjoying my first-ever bottle of Pliny the Elder as I posted, so I figured Russian River was appropriate. I traded with another HBT'er out that way. He sent me a six of Pliny and a few other RR brews, including a Consecration. The Pliny absolutely lives up to the hype, and I say without hesitation that it's the best beer I've ever tasted. I can't wait to try the Consecration!

You're up, @duncan.brown

 

[duncan.brown]

I claim that there's a connection from the last picture to this one (but I'm probably the only person in the world who would know what it is, so no clue there...)

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I didn't answer Alton Towers as it was too easy for someone who'd grown up not that far away, and my dad had some professional dealings with them. This one's tougher - the landscaping looks very British, and that's supported by what looks like a Brodie helmet on what's presumably a war memorial. But I really don't recognise the orange stone, it's not from anywhere I've lived.

Clearly dates from after the repeal of the window tax, which was mid-19th century - but perhaps not much afterwards, part of the kickback against it? Those big windows feel like a school or hospital more than a council building.

 

[duncan.brown]

@Northern_Brewer is definitely on the right track. The right-hand side is the original facade from 1866-7. The left-hand side had an extra story added. Here's what the building used to look like before the modifications.

 

[duncan.brown]

And I believe the yellow-orange stone is Ancaster stone, but don't quote me on that.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

And I believe the yellow-orange stone is Ancaster stone, but don't quote me on that.

I couldn't resist.

 

[duncan.brown]

Having perused "The building magnesian limestones of the British Isles," a document that I never though that I would read, as well as a second document that I can't cite without giving away the answer, I now think that the stone is more likely to be Cadeby Formation building limestone from its the southernmost outcrop. This produces yellow-brown to orange, coarsely crystalline limestones with thin, discontinuous, pale greenish-grey clay seams. This stone was much in demand in the 1800s for housing, churches, schools and factories.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Essential reading - I think I have come across it before when trying to figure out water profiles for one of the Tadcaster breweries.

If it's Cadeby then that implies it's somewhere in South Yorkshire or the East Midlands which is a bit that I've never really had much contact with other than sometimes driving though. So I've no idea and it's late, so I'll say Burton even though it doesn't really "feel" like Burton, at least not anywhere in the centre.

 

[duncan.brown]

East Midlands, but not Burton.

The rooms on the ground floor of the east block (to the right in the picture) are where I first learned about Pliny the Elder.

 

[D.B.Moody]

But, sadly, there was neither girls nor magic there. I, on the other hand, met my wife because I sat behind her in 9th grade Latin class.

 

[duncan.brown]

Latin was actually one of my favourite subjects. We used the Cambridge Latin Course, which has a different textbook for each of five school years. The first-year books starts with basic phrases like “Canis in via est” which means the dog is in the street, and so on.

Over the course of the year you learn about a Roman family as you’re learning the language. It’s never really specified where they are, until the penultimate chapter of the year when you realize that it’s AD 79 and they are in Pompeii.

In the last chapter, Vesuvius explodes and kills them all! Brilliant! Unfortunately, it takes out Pliny as well.

So, yes, @D.B.Moody has it that this is “name that skyline where I went to school.”

 

[D.B.Moody]

In the last chapter, Vesuvius explodes and kills them all!

Well, your school certainly had a sense of humor. But I don't know it's name or its city.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

So it's not a uni, correct?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Okay, it's Nottingham High School, Nottingham, England.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Really? A freaking English high-school? I've been to Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, that I would have recognized.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Really? A freaking English high-school? .

Well, it does date back to 1513, and Henry VIII, whom my ancestor later saved from drowning, sealed the foundation deed. But the building pictured was first built 1866/7. Among the famous graduates, apparently, is our own @duncan.brown.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Really? A freaking English high-school?

High school doesn't mean quite the same thing here, most secondary schools are not called high schools. They're more likely to be "oddities" with some history behind them, as here.

And that's before we get onto public schools, which are all private schools...