1888 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 hoping someone on here can identify it castle on the right may be the best clue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-QUORK Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Can you provide any context or do you nothing absolutely nothing about the pic? In which case, why the interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 It says Ballachulish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1888 Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 It says Ballachulish. Ballachulish is my login on photobucket its from an old postcard I have ,but there are no details on the back identifying it I suspect its in England somewhere due to the style of the castle I just like solving puzzles and thought some of my English brothers on here may recognise it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Ballachulish is my login on photobucket its from an old postcard I have ,but there are no details on the back identifying it I suspect its in England somewhere due to the style of the castle I just like solving puzzles and thought some of my English brothers on here may recognise it Doh! I googled that and there was a castellate house so I assumed that's where it was. Back to the naughty step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 What's that in front of the buildings? Is it a rocks sloping down to a river (or maybe the sea)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-QUORK Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Looks a bit like an Indian temple, maybe something from the Raj era? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ian Chesterton Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 It says Ballachulish. I assume you've never been to Ballachulish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I wonder if it's some kind of exhibiton? The main building's all lit up and it looks as if there's festive lighting all along the side of the river (or whatever it is). The big building also looks kind of temporary: if you look round the side then it just seems to be entirely plain, in contrast to the fancy front. Do we have any castle experts? The castle looks a little strange. It looks in pretty good repair, even to the point of having a conical (slate?) top on the tower. Google doesn't come up with many castles in Britain with features like that. Note also that it looks as if the outer part of the wall has been built up to protect the conical roof; this looks like a slightly weird feature that might be easy for an expert to track down. Edit. Oh yes, and the river, if that's what it is. There appears to be rock sloping quite steeply down to the water, which kind of suggests that the river's tidal, so we must be close to the coast (I suppose the water could be the sea, but then it might well sweep over the edge in stormy weather). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkman Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 hoping someone on here can identify it castle on the right may be the best clue The mud on the river/sea bank looks very English, as does the castle. If by the sea, the mud looks like it's from the West coast. Lancashire area etc. If it's on a riverbank, could be anywhere, including the Thames. Just my thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1888 Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 thanks for the replies my 1st thoughts were the Thames but I've scoured google earth to no avail I would think its a river rather than sea due to what may be a bridge on the far left of image(unless its a crane ) if its a bridge then it seems to be a tight bend just after the buildings I'll try Lancashire now I may be some time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissy_fit Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 So what is the activity/chore that you should be doing which you are replacing with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 thanks for the replies my 1st thoughts were the Thames but I've scoured google earth to no avail I would think its a river rather than sea due to what may be a bridge on the far left of image(unless its a crane ) if its a bridge then it seems to be a tight bend just after the buildings I'll try Lancashire now I may be some time Are you sure it's in Britain? Does the postcard say anything on the back at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1888 Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 So what is the activity/chore that you should be doing which you are replacing with this? I have no chores for the next 2 weeks mother in law has arrived God bless her cotton socks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Noodle Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I have no chores for the next 2 weeks mother in law has arrived God bless her cotton socks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 This is a bit like the good old days before we had the internet. It used to take ages to find stuff out. I think we've been spoiled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skinty Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Ballachulish is my login on photobucket Now over in the corner sat three men fae Auchtertool They were playing games for money, in a Snakes and Ladders school The fourth man was a Southerner, who'd come up from MacMerry He'd been a river Gambler, on the Ballachulish ferry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I'll try Lancashire now I may be some time I've just been looking at a page about North-West piers. I hadn't realised how elaborate some of these were. Here's a photo of the pier at St. Annes: The pier featured a Moorish pavillion and a mock-Tudor entrance gate! I don't think it's a pier in your original photo, but it could well be a bunch of fake buildings on the waterfront somewhere. It looks as if people were quite keen on knocking up ersatz buildings to keep the holidaymakers entertained, so a home-made castle isn't out of the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 The mud on the river/sea bank looks very English, as does the castle. If by the sea, the mud looks like it's from the West coast. Lancashire area etc. If it's on a riverbank, could be anywhere, including the Thames. Just my thoughts. Agree that it looks English or British, very few parts of the world get our sort of tides. That's estuary mud so a big tidal river. My punt is east coast but I've had a poke about and couldn't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caramba Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 If you blow the picture up there appears to be at the side of the white building a two bar cross called either of cross of Lorraine, the patriarchal cross or the archiepiscopal cross. Could be Greek, Russian or more like with the castle Hungarian or east european. Only a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Some sort of problem with the camera. Got one of those funny filters on. Next time take the pic at full resolution, then we can zoom in on the small bits to give us clues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Generation Game Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Definitely looks like riverside rather than seaside to me. Also note the bandstand/pavillion on the left but I guess those are ten-a-penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Staines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Definitely looks like riverside rather than seaside to me. Also note the bandstand/pavillion on the left but I guess those are ten-a-penny. I'm wondering if it's even a real castle. Planting your castle on flat ground next to a tidal river that might be prone to overflowing doesn't seem like a very smart move. You'd usually put it on top of a hill and get lots of extra defensive power for free. Mind you, the Tower of London's a major counterexample to that theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.C. Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I'm wondering if it's even a real castle. Planting your castle on flat ground next to a tidal river that might be prone to overflowing doesn't seem like a very smart move. You'd usually put it on top of a hill and get lots of extra defensive power for free. Mind you, the Tower of London's a major counterexample to that theory. I was thinking the same thing, it is an old style castle from the lack of windows but seems in very good condition. it might just be painted plywood for the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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