Where Am I? No 12

[ScouseBoy]

There must have been a fashion for towers at one time.
The  daily mail Saturday supplement  1860  must have had a feature on towers, I guess?

[ScouseBoy]

How soon will it be. Before. This thread has 10,000 hits?

[arthurk]

Hmm is this number 12 after being through the cold rinse?

http://www.francisfrith.com/us/ilkley/ilkley-hollybrook-guest-house-c1955_i6017

 

Even more 

Interested to see this one as I grew up less than a mile from there. However, I moved away before it was demolished, and I don't actually remember it anyway.

There must have been a fashion for towers at one time.

The thing about towers like that (which I gather are also called belvederes or lookouts) is that they were intended for looking out of. The Ilkley house was right on the edge of Ilkley Moor and would have had a superb view over it to three sides, and in the other direction a wide view over the town and Wharfedale to the hills beyond. It is said that York Minster, 35 miles away, can be seen from Ilkley Moor, though possibly not from every point on the moor. The other thing about this one is that you can admire the view in safety while not wearing a hat 

Anyway, I'd been wondering whether WAI No.12 might be somewhere similarly elevated or coastal, where there were good views. It wouldn't surprise me if it was somewhere like Ashdown Forest, near where I also once lived. (And Tudor House No.19 might not be out of place there too.) Maybe an expotition is called for.

Arthur

[cazza59]

How soon will it be. Before. This thread has 10,000 hits?

Wow, 656 hits in 3 days….hope that means there are another 656 pairs of eyes out there looking… 

[groom]

How soon will it be. Before. This thread has 10,000 hits?

Wow, 656 hits in 3 days….hope that means there are another 656 pairs of eyes out there looking… 

It could just be that, like me, everytime they get notification of a post, they rush over to see if it's been solved. 

[Treetotal]

  ...Count me in on that too Jan 
Carol

[Mike in Cumbria]

And me.

Click! Another view.

[janan]

And another one

I think it may well be in Surrey/Kent where there seem to have been a huge number of large properties, with and without towers, many now seem to have been demolished. One small area in Chislehurst had several all gone remembered only by road names and not it seems always recorded on photos, at least none that made it to the internet. Sadly I think number 12 may be no longer or if it is it will have continued to be altered and may be unrecognisable.

Jan

[ScouseBoy]

Hmm is this number 12 after being through the cold rinse?

http://www.francisfrith.com/us/ilkley/ilkley-hollybrook-guest-house-c1955_i6017

 

Even more 

Interested to see this one as I grew up less than a mile from there. However, I moved away before it was demolished, and I don't actually remember it anyway.

There must have been a fashion for towers at one time.

The thing about towers like that (which I gather are also called belvederes or lookouts) is that they were intended for looking out of. The Ilkley house was right on the edge of Ilkley Moor and would have had a superb view over it to three sides, and in the other direction a wide view over the town and Wharfedale to the hills beyond. It is said that York Minster, 35 miles away, can be seen from Ilkley Moor, though possibly not from every point on the moor. The other thing about this one is that you can admire the view in safety while not wearing a hat 

Anyway, I'd been wondering whether WAI No.12 might be somewhere similarly elevated or coastal, where there were good views. It wouldn't surprise me if it was somewhere like Ashdown Forest, near where I also once lived. (And Tudor House No.19 might not be out of place there too.) Maybe an expotition is called for.

Arthur

Excellent logic. Excellent  deductions.   I think that when proof is found  that you will be on the money with your theory.

We would all have been a good team  on photographic interpretation  with the RAF  during WW2 don't you think?