rARsh!

On second thoughts

Do you remember this post where I was looking for help identifying an old photo?

It’s taken three months to verify things but I can confirm that the slide

is NOT Tintagel.

Bollocks.

Any other suggestions?

[Update: Croila's put forward Dunottar Castle as the location and I think she's onto something there]

Tintagel Castle is, in fact, a bit of a disappointment - there’s so little of it remaining. It’s not the easiest location to reach, either - just look at those steps!

From Tintagel I headed south as far as Saint Agnes, looking for the definitive photo of Cornwall - a tin mine high on a rugged clifftop - at Wheal Coates. The photos are going to need a lot of work in PhotoShop, though. It seemed a lot brighter at the time and I’ve had to tweak these quite a lot to get them as “good” as this.

Where’s Loyd Grossman when you need him?

“Who would liiiiive in a caaastle like thiiiiis?” he’d be asking. So who knows?

[update] The answer seems to be “King Arthur”, as announced by Murph in the comments. For verification, I found this image at the Archaeology @ University of Glasgow site - the original photo having been taken from a point off to the left, you can see Merlin’s Cove in the original slide (so, ironically, my close-up was actually a hindrance to the identification).

Not going well

Ok. It’s the Schönbrunn
palace in ViennaThe photo identification session’s not going well.

“Any idea where that is?”

“No.”

“Munich? Berlin? Is is Berlin?”

“Could be, yes.”

“Have you been to Berlin, then?”

“No.”

“So the photo’s unlikely to be of Berlin.”

“Yes, very unlikely.”

Aargh!

Does anyone recognise the location?

…

My back? Well, it was fine until Dad decided to fall over. I leapt into action and did cushion his fall, but fuckdamnbuggerbollocksshite my back now smarts somewhat. Pass the ice pack …

[update] LSLP’s rung to say the photo’s of the Schönbrunn palace in Vienna (and thought we’d established that last night - I can’t have been paying attention).