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Offline Wiggy

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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 26 February 15 21:03 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Hibee on Thursday 26 February 15 15:38 GMT (UK)
That castle wall is a good half mile long - and maybe then some.

Certainly not Scotland, and I don't know of anywhere vaguely like this in the British Isles.

The seaward bits look a bit concrete-y.  Maybe WWII additions.

Hibee

I too wondered about WWII fortifications, with all that concrete around. 
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 27 February 15 10:30 GMT (UK) »
Which would make it more likely the continent?   Haven't had a chance to scroll any more sites, but not giving up!

Caz
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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 27 February 15 10:35 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Cazza59 on Friday 27 February 15 10:30 GMT (UK)
Which would make it more likely the continent? 

Caz


Would it?? 
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 27 February 15 10:47 GMT (UK) »
That's my question to you  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Well I would think so, not that I know every square inch of the UK's coastline of course, but I don't think it's the south coast of the UK.

More than happy to be proven wrong!  ;D
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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 27 February 15 15:56 GMT (UK) »
Interesting...I did a google search for a visually similar image and the hits were all warships! Long, low and horizontal with a craggy thing sticking up in the middle ;D
Moore/Paterson~Montreal
Moore/Addison~New Brunswick
Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

King~Bedfordshire~Hull
Jenkins~Somerset
Sellers~Hull

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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 27 February 15 15:59 GMT (UK) »
Yeah me too China and I got ships at sea and not a castle in site  ::)
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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 05 April 15 02:03 BST (UK) »
Bringing this back up as people have expressed further interest.

Caz
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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 05 April 15 08:53 BST (UK) »
I've not found a great match for the photo but I think this may be Thurso castle. Photos of it in a ruined state seem to show the same side and wall, older photos taken from the landward side show the frontage reflecting the details visible from the side.

What do others think?

S_L

Not sure this link will work, george washington wilson archive, university of aberdeen, thurso castle from terrace http://digitool2.abdn.ac.uk/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1428220735783~124&locale=en_GB&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/singleViewer.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=10&application=DIGITOOL-3&forebear_coll=1054&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

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Re: Where am I Number 5?
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 05 April 15 09:49 BST (UK) »
Still_Looking, yes ! I have to agree with you on Thurso Castle, well done,  ;D ;D.   Caz' s mysteries are all being solved one by one.  There's a photo on this site and more on Google images.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/thurso/thurso/
And here
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurso_Castle
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton
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