Guess the City

yeah that could be anywhere north of derbyshire.

looks like some sort of abandoned facility behind there whatever it is, or else seasonal (fairgrounds?)

certainly has a football ground type vibe to it

yeah I've been looking for football pitches on the outskirts of the likes of Rochdale, Oldham, Buxton, Blackburn and Burnley but nothing as yet

I wonder if the wooden repairs to the (canteen?) mean that there was a fire there (somewhere before 2019 as that is the Google copyright date) & this window+roof are new but then the budget was gone? (Or that I just have an over-active imagination)

Not much to go on, other than it looks like the north of England. And even that doesn't seem certain, I mean it could be Ireland or Scotland.

Also looks very Welsh valleys

If it wasn't for the car parked the wrong way, it could even be Brittany!

https://i.ibb.co/Ln5DmmG/Screenshot-2022-08-08-at-10-59-53.png

yyy2

That's definitely Wales I reckon

... what is that green box/object ? A fancy garbage bin, so close to another one just outside the park?

I'm curious about that strange gate in the fence. Is that perhaps a gate to a dog run, designed to keep dogs from running out while the gate is open? I've never seen that design before. That might explain the small garbage bin on the fence (for dog waste) vs the larger bin outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_gate

The name comes from the gate merely "kissing" (touching) the inside of the enclosure.

What nonsense. As I tell all my friends whenever we come across such a gate, it comes from the fact that you have to give the person in front a kiss before they allow you to pass through.

what kind of track is that? BMX would be partly dirt, right?

Not necessarily, see e.g. the last Olympics! I've been searching for (grim) pump track (wales).

oh right, pump track is a variety too - thx

thanks for the dn

lol

I feel like that fancy rectangular garbage thing (if it is one) is pretty distinctive maybe, no?

do the wind turbines mean "near a coast" ?

Not necessarily, they're all over the country here. Maybe the bin has some distinguishing features up close but it wouldn't look out of place to me anywhere in the UK.

okay, I hoped my questions would help but they don't :-)

I don't know, it feels very flat for Wales - unless I've happened to only have clicked on more hilly parts

I've definitely seen those bins in Wales. This looks like it could be somewhere like Caerphilly.

i agree this might be wales, but i've seen those bins all over. very generic uk bin imo.

https://wybone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Wybone-LBV6-Victoriana-Litter-Bin-for-web.jpg

https://wybone.co.uk/product/lbv6-closed-top-litter-bin/

https://cdn.britannica.com/20/153520-050-177A78E4/Kabah-hajj-pilgrims-Saudi-Arabia-Mecca.jpg

if that’s a hint that narrows it down to either:
https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/06/ca/05/ef/mecca-bingo.jpg?w=1200&h=-1&s=1
Wrexham, or:
https://playingbingo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/swansea-mecca-bingo-carmarthan-road.jpg
Swansea

nah I was just riffing on the design of the bin!

That's an awkward gate for a BMX track - tricky getting your bike through it. If it's Wales, then there can't be that many BMX tracks in Welsh cities, but buggered if I'm going to look through them all.

Not that it helps really, but in the mid-distance in the 2nd pic there's a playing field with lights, which may correspond to the seating and lights of the first pic.

you can see the building from pic 1 (and the playing field) in the background of pic 2.

its possible that the kissing gate, while normally meant for cattle, has been adopted here to keep motorbikes off the pump track.

nah I was just riffing on the design of the bin!

this is hard

Bearsden has a pump track that looks right but Street View has a hedge rather than a fence. Also another one in Greater Glasgow that has the right buildings but downhill instead of uphill.

Whew, this one is hard, even with a hint!

https://i.ibb.co/xjyfDRj/Screenshot-2022-08-12-at-06-44-27.png

three

Tow Law Town FC! Christ these are getting smaller and smaller cherry blossom

11 Ironworks Rd
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KDwmcGyVrbSHhAur7

3rd pic

5 Valley Cl
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YgPz5kFDhxL3Vb239

wow! well done! I had given up

and the pump track

33 B6297
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2hXNWSicWyeqUNKc9

definitely a niche one for the UK crew. without a bit of knowledge of English non-league football teams you'd be looking for it forever (tho with that knowledge i feel i should have found it sooner, was clear from the first pic that there was a football ground and it was prob key)

This is also the very first time I hear about a place called Tow Law. Was the parking violation solution invented there?

Wikipedia on Tow Law Town (the football club) has this line: "However, not all of the club's fans are hooligans"

Do any Britishers want to talk about what that part of England is like? I have my guesses but maybe I'm being a dumb American

It looks pretty bleak tbh

Though also rather pretty. It seems "bleak but pretty countryside surrounding" is a descriptor of many small cities and towns in the UK and everywhere else, too.

right that was my impression for sure

"it's grim up North" is a well-worn English cliche

Local boozer looks quite pretty

https://goo.gl/maps/9xFsQrXT45q9Jad67