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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #117 on: Friday 29 May 15 17:14 BST (UK) »
I am sure you are right, but it really does look like an old woman sat in a chair staring wistfully out of the window!  Presumably though, it that were so, we would have a name for the house - Bates Motel!

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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #118 on: Sunday 31 May 15 04:49 BST (UK) »
I am sure you are right, but it really does look like an old woman sat in a chair staring wistfully out of the window!  Presumably though, it that were so, we would have a name for the house - Bates Motel!

I have been watching the current series of Bates Motel which I have to admit I'm enjoying.

Zooming in on very high resolution copy, it is as SL says, reflected trees, but ten points for imagination Spidermonkey!  ;D ;D
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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #119 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 22:27 BST (UK) »
Could it be a world War two medical facility?

Or  an Isolation hospital for TB  sufferers?
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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #120 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 22:32 BST (UK) »
I have seen something very similar to that.

It used to be  the Superintendents House    for an Isolation Hospital  in North Wales.
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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #121 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 22:56 BST (UK) »
Caz, not many curtains there, mainly roller blinds which perhaps makes it less like a home if you know what I mean, some sort of institution perhaps. But what??!!
This must be one of the most minutely inspected properties around. Have you noticed the most  unusual gable roofs over three of the dormers. I have been searching gable roof and dormers and I haven't seen one more example like this.
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One of my relatives once lived in a Nursing home  with a very similar  Side face like this building.   There had been a large Isolation hospital there at one time, probably in the 1930s.   This was the side of the house,   and there was a long fish pond behind that bank.  The lawn  in the foreground  was quite a large square lawn.

It had been the Hospital Superintendents house at one time, like 60 years ago.

It could have been a WW2   military convalescent home,  and this building  could have been  staff accommodation and a "mess"
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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #122 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 23:11 BST (UK) »
Some of you may have already tried this, but I have been searching using the term "cottage hospital" and it is bringing up some quite encouraging results, similar size and style of building, but as yet no luck  :(.   It's possible it's there but photographed from the other side.

It's something else to try if you haven't already  ;D
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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #123 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 23:14 BST (UK) »
Is it possible that the building  just visible behind the house  could be deceptively further away than it actually appears to be?
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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #124 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 23:25 BST (UK) »
Here is what I think it is   Fron Yw,  Llangwyfan.  near Llandyrnog LL16,   Denbighshire.

It used to be The Superintendents house  for the hospital.

I will try to get more  evidence tomorrow.

Behind the two park benches  do you think that wall surrounds a Fish pond or a lilly pond, about five feet wide but about 50 feet long.
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Re: Where Am I? No 12 (New)
« Reply #125 on: Wednesday 01 July 15 23:48 BST (UK) »
Official name of the Hospital  (If  I have the right location)

King Edward VII  memorial Hospital  for North Wales.
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