It's a while since we had one of these...

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

it is after three weeks of fog

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:01 pm

Great photo that Gremmlin, thought it was the 'Space Needle' I could see in Seattle at first. . . . . then had to do a bit more research!! :laugh:

Where's that then?

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:11 pm

Dover

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:14 pm

Nope.

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:24 pm

Yup. . . . In St. Augustine.
Damn, you're good. . . . . or I'm not. . . . . don't know which :laugh:

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:15 pm

That's August Rodin's 'The Thinker' and I'm guessing Paris!

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:19 pm

I shall investigate further when I get back in in an hour or so. . . . if no-one has beaten me to it :coool:

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:36 pm

Fook me, that took a bit of doing . . . .

Plaza del Congreso, Buenos Aires.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:41 pm

How are youse lot doing this?

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:16 am

Think this one will be a bit easier. . .

bresslaw · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 2411

I think this should be limited to photos taken by our goodselves only

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

Joel's back yard :razz:

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

bresslaw wrote:

I think this should be limited to photos taken by our goodselves only

this could be right up your street 2 i took earlier not the same place though

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:41 pm

bresslaw wrote:

I think this should be limited to photos taken by our goodselves only

1) I don't take photos.

2) Anyway, why?

Gremmlin: wherever it is they don't seem to have any booze.
Now if you'd shown a waterfall I might have been able to hunt it down!!

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

hunt the waterfall sounds like a good idea, sorry that the hostelries i put up would be local to Hartlepool

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:37 am

Mr Barnes, I think I must have looked at every double worforl in the world but I ain't found tha'n

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

Are they the Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon ?

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:12 am

Bugger, I was just going to put that..... sadx

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

Apologies Kev - if it's any consolation I wasted most of my night trying to find it .... + thanks Gremmlin

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:35 am

gremmlin wrote:

hunt the waterfall sounds like a good idea, sorry that the hostelries i put up would be local to Hartlepool

Was your first pic this closed and now reopened Pub on the Headland?

The Globe.

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:49 am

andyp wrote:

Are they the Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon ?

Bang on!!

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

gremmlin wrote:

hunt the waterfall sounds like a good idea, sorry that the hostelries i put up would be local to Hartlepool

Was your first pic this closed and now reopened Pub on the Headland?

The Globe.

yes mr BP but do you know the other one

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:33 pm

Is the other one The Nursery Mr Gremmlin?

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:45 pm

That's a nightmare that one andyp.

Shot in the dark - Runswick Bay??
Think this one will run and run . . . .

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:03 pm

Well, let me see: pebbly beach, not-so-high cliffs, what could perhaps be described as a kind of pit-yakker gloom - would it be Blackhall Rocks by any chance? The Michael Caine ones?

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:24 pm

gremmlin wrote:

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

gremmlin wrote:

hunt the waterfall sounds like a good idea, sorry that the hostelries i put up would be local to Hartlepool

Was your first pic this closed and now reopened Pub on the Headland?

The Globe.

yes mr BP but do you know the other one

Is it upstairs in The Bridge?

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:31 pm

I thought andy's bay was Runswick too at first, but it can't be because there are houses right along the cliff tops there. Don't think it's Blackhall...I guess it's in the Marsden Rocks area

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

PoolieBarnes wrote:

That's a nightmare that one andyp.

Shot in the dark - Runswick Bay??
Think this one will run and run . . . .

Aye - you're right - it's one of those places you'd probably need to have been ....

Though having said that, you're actually only 3 letters out with Runswick Bay !!

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

The Globe.[/quote]
yes mr BP but do you know the other one[/quote]

Is it upstairs in The Bridge?[/quote]

i would concur
we seen billy west play in that room

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

Is it upstairs in The Bridge?[/quote][/quote]
too easy for you aint it clappp

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:24 pm

I've only been up there once, for my cousins 25th Anniversary Party, a few years ago.

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

andyp wrote:

PoolieBarnes wrote:

That's a nightmare that one andyp.

Shot in the dark - Runswick Bay??
Think this one will run and run . . . .

Aye - you're right - it's one of those places you'd probably need to have been ....

Though having said that, you're actually only 3 letters out with Runswick Bay !!

never been but is it Cayton bay where the caravans live

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

Fraid not ... no caravans up here

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:16 pm

Is it Selwick Bay?

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

Close - wrong 3 letters Grabey

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:46 pm

To be fair, one cliff looks pretty much like another, and a lot depends on your angle as well.

For example, that photo of Saltwick Bay doesn't show there's an offshore rock just round the corner.

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

Who mentioned anything about being fair ?? :wink:

But I take your point - I just liked the picture

It's round the corner from here

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:12 am

Make that Rackwick Bay then 'cos that's the old man of hoy innit. :grin:

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

That's the fella .... fantastic beach - your shot Mr H ....

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:02 am

OK then let's have a bit more local flavour:

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

Is that Billingham Synthonia ?

andyp · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:54 am **Posts:** 856

From that cooling tower I think it is .... apologies for jumping the gun if it's not ...

So a bit more industrial grime ....

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

we have had this one before but Brenda Road is my guess and the slag banks were on the right.

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:13 am

Mainsforth Terrace?

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

PoolieBarnes wrote:

Mainsforth Terrace?

can't be as the sinterplant belt would be the other way round
now ask me what the sinterplant is? rolfl

Frodraff · **Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:26 am

Sinter plant
In order to enhance the productivity of blast furnaces, a high percentage of sinter charge is a prerequisite. Sinter is an agglomeration of iron ore fines, coke and limestone in the form of cakes. To ensure sinter burden in the blast furnaces at 75 per cent, a total of 3 million tonnes of sinter was envisaged for a production of about 2 million tonnes of hot metal. A technologically modern and fuel efficient sintering machine having 198 square metres sintering area has been added as part of the modernisation scheme to produce 1.7 million tonnes of sinter. The balance requirement will be met from the revamped old sinter plant.

Sinter mix, a mixture of fines of iron ore, limestone, coke, dolomite and flue dust, blended proportionally at the RMHC, is a prepared material which is self fluxing. In ignition strands it is burnt under controlled conditions to form a porous cake type substance called sinter, which used in blast furnaces enhances productivity and reduces coke rate.

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

Frodraff wrote:

Sinter plant
In order to enhance the productivity of blast furnaces, a high percentage of sinter charge is a prerequisite. Sinter is an agglomeration of iron ore fines, coke and limestone in the form of cakes. To ensure sinter burden in the blast furnaces at 75 per cent, a total of 3 million tonnes of sinter was envisaged for a production of about 2 million tonnes of hot metal. A technologically modern and fuel efficient sintering machine having 198 square metres sintering area has been added as part of the modernisation scheme to produce 1.7 million tonnes of sinter. The balance requirement will be met from the revamped old sinter plant.

Sinter mix, a mixture of fines of iron ore, limestone, coke, dolomite and flue dust, blended proportionally at the RMHC, is a prepared material which is self fluxing. In ignition strands it is burnt under controlled conditions to form a porous cake type substance called sinter, which used in blast furnaces enhances productivity and reduces coke rate.

what he said :uhoh:

I only knew it as one of the dirties jobs in the "WERKS" the blokes who were bad time keepers and often took shifts off were given the job of keeping the belt clear
glad to say i never had that job.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:43 pm

Well Mr P, we've sorta had this photo before in a nostalgic photos thread, in fact, it's the wallpaper on my computer!
Though there's no proof, it's pretty certain the photo was taken from lower Windermere Road. I managed to examine an old map that supports this theory.

Gremms: Brenda Road is parallel to the werks not pointing at them!

By the way, "From that cooling tower I think it is ...."
I thought that might help. :wink:

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

sorry to disagree sir richard but that chimney you are looking on the left is i think the paper mill chimney
while i agree that Brenda road is parralell with the works i think that building in the left which looks like a pre fab is the site of the old steelworks test house
somewhere near to where Tones garage is now. I say it has to be taken from somewhere past the roundabout with Seaton Lane Brenda Road coming into the town
more research needed.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:15 pm

Look at the old OS map rather than relying on memory gremmly and you'll see. The iron and steel works are both indicated.
Windermere Road (just south of "LONGHILL" on the map) points directly between the steel plant (on the left/north) and the iron plant (on the right/south). It MIGHT be the parallel Thomlinson Road, but due to the angles I think it's more likely to be Windermere.

The only way that chimney could be Durham Paper Mills is if the photo was taken in Burn Road, but Burn Road misses the blast furnaces by a mile.

Hope this helps.

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