Name the landmark
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Something rang a bell with that, but I cheated a bit with google. Anyway that box and similar ones appear to be located in Edinburgh, and something to do with Chris Hoy - who of course has had rather a lot of gold hung about his person.....Postboxer wrote:Here's another easy one.
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
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Close with Chris Hoy, not close with Edinburgh. All Team GB Gold Medallists from London 2012 got gold postboxes, usually in their hometown.
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Churchgate, Bolton. Gold post box for Jason Kenny.
Found by google rather than local knowledge .
Edit: tryping error
Found by google rather than local knowledge .
Edit: tryping error
Last edited by gaz on 26 Jan 2015, 10:21pm, edited 1 time in total.
High on a cocktail of flossy teacakes and marmalade
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Correct. Well done. Took the photo in a rush, if I do another I'll try to get more background in.
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Si wrote:Here's an easy one for you to name.....
A bit too easy, methinks, seeing as the name of the landmark is visible in the photo. Suggest you get down to a bit of blurring!
How about my contribution then, folks (a few posts back)? It's been languishing there so long, the rooster is losing its feathers....
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
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High on a cocktail of flossy teacakes and marmalade
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I wonder if anyone has ridden past this one...
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Well identified.gaz wrote:That would be Jacob's Post.
Symbolises a bit of our local history, marking the spot where one Jacob Harris aka Jacob Hirsch, was hanged in chains on a gibbet on the edge of Ditchling Common following the 'orrible murder of the landlord of the nearby Royal Oak Inn, along with his wife and maid - back in 1734.
The location is very close to the route often taken by London to Brighton cyclists, if you take the B2112 south from Wivelsfield, past the (now derelict) Royal Oak on a sharp RH bend, the Post is a few yards further south, on the west side of the road. It's hard to spot from the road, especially in summer, but if you go along a service road that leads to a row of cottages behind the trees, the Post is on a path just to the north of them. We live in the area, and we too had a hard job finding it at first! I believe it has been moved from its original location which appears to have been in a field. Also, the post itself and the iron cockerel (rooster!) are modern replicas, the original is kept in a museum.
The plaque next to the post (different wording to Gaz's link) appears to cast doubt on Jacob's guilt. He apparently was on the run following some more minor misdeed elsewhere, and was eventually brought to heels halfway up a chimney some distance away, in West Hoathly. He was Jewish, and it is suggested that he was merely the unfortunate victim of anti-semitic hysteria fanned up following the murder of a popular innkeeper of the district, and was in the 'wrong place at the wrong time'. Whatever, he met his fate at Horsham Gaol and was then hung up in chains as a gruesome 'example' to all...
Incidentally, if you Google 'Jacobs Post' most of the hits will refer to a modern pub in Burgess Hill which is named after this person.
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
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661-Pete wrote:A bit too easy, methinks, seeing as the name of the landmark is visible in the photo. Suggest you get down to a bit of blurring!
Look, I put a cone in front of it...what more do you want?
The real question was where is it and why is it there?
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mjr wrote:I wonder if anyone has ridden past this one...
That looks to me like the obelisk on the Holkham Hall Estate in Norfolk. I rode past it in August 2012. The weather that day was at least as pleasant as depicted in your photo.
Not like the weather about a year before that:
Can anyone guess where that is?
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That looks to me like the obelisk on the Holkham Hall Estate in Norfolk.
Yep, that's what I thought. But then I wondered if the drive looks too steep. Although, come to think about it we did get upto 30mph pretty easily on the tandem.
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here are 4. click to enlarge
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The top one is Trafalgar Square
Sherwood CC and Notts CTC.
A cart horse trapped in the body of a man.
http://www.jogler2009.blogspot.com
A cart horse trapped in the body of a man.
http://www.jogler2009.blogspot.com