Guess the City

Guess the Census-Designated Place

No matter how lax you are Rochdale can never be a city.

So far I've learned that there are endless minor variations of window lintels on terraced houses in the UK (but none quite like in the picture yet) and that Sunderland has a surprising number of single story terraces

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BYCP5B/creswell-model-village-derbyshire-england-BYCP5B.jpg

This is a pic of the Creswell Model Village in Chesterfield aka what was the poshest council estate in England I've ever seen. But some of the surrounding houses in the area looked a bit like the houses in that pic. But lol, that sure narrows it down.

I think Giorgio de Chirico was a very mediocre artist but he did successfully visualise the claustrophobic angst of perspective in some way... not even sure if that makes any sense.. but anyway it's definitely Wakefield.

https://i.postimg.cc/1zK9dtVn/viewtwo.jpg

An alternate view

Doncaster?

https://i.postimg.cc/NfY7mC7g/Screenshot-2021-03-10-at-20-32-48.png

Bonus Beats, as alternate view is probably too similar to original view

I think it's already been mentioned by Tom D, Stoke?

looks a little like Bosom Manor to me

I've been combing through Stoke trying to find that terrace with no joy. The raised ground in the background reminded me of looking from Stoke towards Newcastle-under-Lyme

Portsmouth?

84 Church St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2auaoTQS9bZ9BReZ6

Googled Card Factory Stoke, now to find that terrace...

bloody card factory

Boom

27 Welby St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nf3EEJaDaJmhUbxg8

Hold on, did I get one right?

Oh no, I said, "It can't be Stoke then".

sorry stoke-on-trent but you're the first city in a while that i would not want to visit

Stoke does look ever so slightly like bits Doncaster or Dewsbury or loads of other verified N shitholes. Vale Park is a nice place to go for an way trip, some decent pubs and utterly horrid people!

(xp) Very wise.

I was there at the early days of the Card Factory empire story. I worked for a company called Power Plus that at the time had the contract do the leccy installation stuff where they were opening up shops 15 metres from every Clinton's Cards in the North and aggressively undercutting them and putting them out of business. They got a lot bigger since then, the founder Dean Hoyle sold them for £400m about 10 years ago.

or something PI is on a hot streak right now!

I've got a lot of time on my hands

Good curries in Stoke is all I remember.

Stoke on Trent it is.

I thought the initial terrace might be too hard but couldn't tell. It felt like Stoke but at the same time if felt like both nowhere. Looking round it, it started to feel like this isn't anywhere it might be, and that only leaves Stoke.

Leaving in Card Factory in Bonus Beats might have been too big a clue, but refinding the original street even where I knew its location was tough, so good work to Or Something in finding that

looks a little like Bosom Manor to me

― map ca. 1890 (map),

Whats Bosom Manor?!

it's from a bit where Americans do British-isms to "hilarious" effect

I've been combing through Stoke trying to find that terrace with no joy. The raised ground in the background reminded me of looking from Stoke towards Newcastle-under-Lyme

I should have done a couple moves down the street to include that, might have made a touch easier - especially as people were in the right ballpark early on

Bosom Manor was coined by silby, iirc, to make fun of the endless churn of tv & film born out of nostalgia for the British aristocracy (your Downton Abbeys etc.), not to mock British-isms.

Yeah but now it just gets deployed when Brits talk about TV shows or celebrities that the American poster hasn't heard of.

It's a bit too LOL Funny Foreigners tbh.

Okay, I looked through some old posts and you're both right. I guess I retconned it to make into a more useful joke. Also: apologies to NA, who actually came up with the original.

much obliged guv'nah

anytime m'lud

Don't mention blood pudding.

https://i.postimg.cc/7h00LQCM/ploa.jpg

Time for a new city!

An improvement on Stoke-on-Trent for sure.

Lol funny foreigners ban not a great fit for brits tbh imo

xps my kind of town that

Im mad but its hardly as obvious as seattle

Oslo?

I think Oslo is flatter than that

First thought is it looks like a lake somewhere in the mountains, possibly in Asia or South America.

sorry about "Bosom Manor" folks!

I support the bosom manor meme strongly in all its forms

I also took absolutely minus zero offence from it.

Bosom Manor was coined by silby, iirc, to make fun of the endless churn of tv & film born out of nostalgia for the British aristocracy (your Downton Abbeys etc.), not to mock British-isms.

for a second I wanted to say Vancouver, but no.

Also, taking offense at "Bosom Manor" is absurd, it has nothing to do with "lol foreigners," it has to do with Brits on this board being like "oh this person played the hilarious maid in a show that was on for one year in the 70s for which I'm nostalgic" and USAmericans being like "y'all crazy"

it's incredibly funny, too, makes me smile every time i read it.