Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[DBhomebrew]

sarajevo, bosnia

No

 

[bracconiere]

well it looked close, and it was the second citie named on a site of divided cities in europe....(berlin being first, but that wall doesn't look thick enough))

 

[govner1]

Belfast

 

[DBhomebrew]

Same head of state. Different country.

 

[bracconiere]

first metropolitan united church , xxx, canada?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Nope

 

[bracconiere]

this is a straw, belfast, maine?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Same head of state as Belfast, N Ireland. Different country, different placename.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Same head of state as Belfast, N Ireland. Different country, different placename.

Well that's opening multiple cans of worms, as to the definition of a "country" and the fact that half of Norn Ireland don't recognise her him as their head of state. [boy does it feel weird to write "him", you just can't imagine]

But that chapel/church in the background screams 19th century English Midlands to me, and the overall vibe with the plate glass and random 20th-century sculpture feels like some kind of academic campus, possibly school rather than university.

But if we're defining "country" as the UK rather than its subdivisions then it's somewhere in the Commonwealth knocking off the 19th century Midlands - Canada?

 

[cmac62]

Scotland?

 

[bracconiere]

Well that's opening multiple cans of worms, as to the definition of a "country" and the fact that half of Norn Ireland don't recognise her him as their head of state. [boy does it feel weird to write "him", you just can't imagine]

But that chapel/church in the background screams 19th century English Midlands to me, and the overall vibe with the plate glass and random 20th-century sculpture feels like some kind of academic campus, possibly school rather than university.

But if we're defining "country" as the UK rather than its subdivisions then it's somewhere in the Commonwealth knocking off the 19th century Midlands - Canada?

so who is this guy?

Michael D. Higgins

 

[DBhomebrew]

Well that's opening multiple cans of worms, as to the definition of a "country"

Fair enough. England, yes. Midlands, no.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

so who is this guy?

Michael D. Higgins

Not the head of state of Belfast, or anywhere in Northern Ireland. He's president of the Republic of Ireland ("southern Ireland"), the part of the island of Ireland that seceded from the UK a century ago.

So in North American terms, it's like you're saying that President Obrador is head of state of Arizona or California...

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Fair enough. England, yes. Midlands, no.

In that case it's probably 80/20 that it's west of the Pennines.

 

[DBhomebrew]

It's not west of the Pennines.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

It's the Peeing Boy of Wilmorton

 

[DBhomebrew]

It's not east of the Pennines either.

ETA given the edit above:
It is south of the Pennines, but not in proximity.

 

[tracer bullet]

Also thinking the idea of collegiate / university. Has that look and they are often tied in with churches.

Appears to be in England. No one knows where. I'm going to go with the big city and say... This picture was taken in London.

 

[DBhomebrew]

This picture was taken near London

Fixed that for you.

 

[DBhomebrew]

feels like some kind of academic campus, possibly school rather than university.

Also thinking the idea of collegiate / university.

Linked to a primary and secondary, but otherwise no.

 

[tracer bullet]

This one's pretty tough. Might need more clues.

Art museum?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Not an art museum. The late 20th-century office building carries the name of the more interesting building it replaced. The sculpture is a memorial/monument to the people who lived and worked there.

 

[DBhomebrew]

the people who lived and worked there.

I bet they would have been good friends with Aubrey and Maturin. They would have thoroughly enjoyed an evening together. Aubrey especially would have enjoyed a night into the early hours of morning.

ETA: Aubrey was  a good friend with one of them.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Might need more clues.

More?

 

[tracer bullet]

I bet they would have been good friends with Aubrey and Maturin. They would have thoroughly enjoyed an evening together. Aubrey especially would have enjoyed a night into the early hours of morning.

ETA: Aubrey was  a good friend with one of them.

Not familiar with them, if others are the same way I found this: "The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels"

A night into the early hours of the morning means something other than just drinking, I'd guess. Hmm, will think about that more.

I usually check or work on these at work when I have some down time but it's been busy lately. Others are either stumped or in a similar situation I guess.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Aubrey was an amateur astronomer and, apparently, a friend of Caroline Herschel, who showed him how to mount lenses. The picture is Observatory House at Windsor and Hershel streets in Slough, England, just outside London. I think the statue is for William for finding Uranus, but Caroline was an astronomer too.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Yes! Carrying the theme over from @bracconiere's Mt Lemmon Observatory. It's all yours, @D.B.Moody.

 

[tracer bullet]

Hilarious, I actually looked up "red brick baptist church london" on a whim but didn't find that one. Total guess on the denomination but it was actually right.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Hilarious, I actually looked up "red brick baptist church london" on a whim but didn't find that one. Total guess on the denomination but it was actually right.

I'm pretty sure it's Church of England, along with the parish's other churches: St. Peter's and the  much older St. Laurence where Sir William is buried.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Aubrey and Maturin are also very accomplished amateur musicians. Sir William was a published composer. I imagine an evening beginning with music, ending with watching Jupiter rising before dawn.