Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[dirkomatic]

@DBhomebrew got it quickly! Vancouver WA, it is!

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[3 Dawg Night]

That's the Vancouver Steam Clock.

 

[DBhomebrew]

That's the Vancouver Steam Clock.

Gastown Steam Clock, Vancouver, BC

Yer up!

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Keeping with the steam theme:

 

[bracconiere]

i'm just chiming for a giggle, "Maytag Dairy Farm"?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Feels British and vaguely familiar - Peak District/Dales?

Road markings imply driving on the left, looks like a track has been converted to cycle/footpath.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

The building on the left looks like it could be a pumping engine and the white structure could be a small hauling mechanism. I'm thinking more likely a mining museum than a railway station? Early years, maybe in Cornwall somewhere?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Not a dairy farm.

@Northern_Brewer is on the right track. Peak District is within about an hour's drive (according to Google).

@bruce_the_loon is also on the right track. It is a type of engine (there's a hint in my original post), but it's not in Cornwall.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

A steam engine in a building next to a railway, suggests a stationary engine for helping trains up hills?

All those signboards feel very "heritage"-touristy.

If not the Peak District, then Yorkshire?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

It is in Yorkshire.

Heritage-tourism is a good description.

It is a steam engine, but (new hint) it's not a Watt steam engine (and this one wasn't for helping trains up hills).

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Also, correcting what I told @Northern_Brewer earlier, it's only about 20-30 minutes from Peak District National Park. (Sorry, I was working on my phone earlier.)

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Also, correcting what I told @Northern_Brewer earlier, it's only about 20-30 minutes from Peak District National Park. (Sorry, I was working on my phone earlier.)

About 6.5 miles as the crow flies (is that a saying in the UK, or just the US?).

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Part of the Elsecar Heritage Center featuring a Newcomen Beam Engine that had pumped out the New Colliery at Elsecar.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

About 6.5 miles as the crow flies (is that a saying in the UK, or just the US?).

Yep, it's in Dickens and goes back earlier than that, not that they fly in a particularly straight line.

Part of the Elsecar Heritage Center featuring a Newcomen Beam Engine that had pumped out the New Colliery at Elsecar.

Elsecar Heritage CentRE

Other side of the Peak District to where I grew up, so I don't know it so well although the feel is similar.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Ooo, a close one! @bruce_the_loon got it first, but @Northern_Brewer got the "correct" spelling!

It is, indeed, the Elsecar Heritage Centre/er. That is a Newcomen atmospheric engine, which was invented 50 years before the Watt steam engine. It worked by filling the raised cylinder with steam, then injecting cool water to allow the atmosphere to press down on the cylinder, raising the other end of the beam. There are several working Newcomen engines still out there, but the one in the picture is now powered by hydraulics for demonstration purposes.

I guess I'll give it to @bruce_the_loon, since he got it first (and I agree with his spelling)!

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Here goes another one. Sticking a bit to the theme.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Ooh, I recognise that straight off, it's one of the pumping stations for London's water system.

(bit of a search)

Ah - here we go, Abbey Mills, Bazalgette's "Cathedral of Sewage" just downstream from the Olympic Park. Now supplemented by a rather more mundane pumphouse in 1997. They certainly don't make 'em like they used to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Mills_Pumping_Station

 

[bruce_the_loon]

And Northern Brewer has it. They built with style in the old days, now you're lucky if they paint the precast concrete walls they crane into place.

I can just imagine some bean counter reading about wooden balustrades in the sewage pump station and losing his mind.

You're next NB.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

We had near-identical balustrates in one of my schools, it's weird seeing them here.

Apologies for the slowness, I was away for the weekend, but here we go -

 

[beermanpete]

I have no clue. Is it a Muslim mosque?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It is.

 

[cmac62]

In the middle east, looks like they are wearing burkas and the robes the men wear.

 

[cmac62]

I believe I found it. Googled Mosques with square towers and then opened 50 most beautiful mosques and there it was.

Edit: Error, I highlighted the wrong one: It was the green band near the top that gave it away.

Conakry Grand Mosque, Guinea

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Not Nizamiye - a dome surrounded by four minarets is a reasonably common configuration.

 

[cmac62]

Not Nizamiye - a dome surrounded by four minarets is a reasonably common configuration.

@Northern_Brewer I edited my post. I mistook weather the name was at the top or the bottom of the entry.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It is the Grand Mosque of Conakry, the main port of Guinea in western Africa. It's the biggest mosque in sub-Saharan Africa, built with Saudi funding in 1982.

Its garden houses what is effectively the national mausoleum of Guinea, which among others has the remains of Ahmed Sékou Touré. He was the first president of independent Guinea, and would have celebrated his 100th birthday last Sunday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Sékou_Touré
@cmac62, you're up.

 

[cmac62]

here you go

a blast from my past.

 

[pvpeacock]

Los Angeles has a number of similar looking buildings, but I can't put my finger on which one this is. Looks similar to the Jonathan Club, but I don't think it is.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Is that a railway on the right? In which case it's a station with a hotel on top? But looks way too young for that?