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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:35 pm

Probably wrong, Leamington Bridge (Leamington Lift Bridge) has Two Towers, one at each end.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Glengavel » Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:47 am

Tinto63 wrote:
CharlesT wrote:
Tinto63 wrote:Sir Hugo de Gifford consorted with the passed in Goblin Ha' and is immortalised in Marmion.


Excellent! Quick and wholly correct. :clap: :clap: :clap: Your go.


Thanks Charles, I was a bit lucky with this one, by coincidence we lunched at the eponymously named Goblin Ha' Hotel in Gifford on Saturday, and while I knew a little about Yester Castle and Sir Hugo's necromancy, I did a little more digging into the history after we got home. :D

Now try a bit more recent history: There are TT at LB.


Is B a geographical feature? Beach, bay?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:14 am

Sgurr wrote:The only village I can find in Scotland that is an LB is Lower Breakish, and can't find any TTs there. Not Tom Tits? So probably isn't a village.


Not there

CharlesT wrote:Probably wrong, Leamington Bridge (Leamington Lift Bridge) has Two Towers, one at each end.


Not there

Glengavel wrote:Is B a geographical feature? Beach, bay?


Getting warmer, it is a beach, but the location is not usually known as a beach, think of the vegetation above the tideline.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:58 pm

Are TT tank traps and LB possibly Longniddry Beach?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:41 pm

CharlesT wrote:Are TT tank traps and LB possibly Longniddry Beach?


TT are indeed tank traps and Longniddry Beach is technically correct, but is locally known as Longniddry Bents, hence my reference to the vegetation. There are still dozens of tank traps on the beach and nearby in various states of deterioration.

Over to you.

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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:54 pm

Many thanks, unaware of the Bents name. More brain clutter.

TGB has a unique function.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:58 pm

CharlesT wrote:Many thanks, unaware of the Bents name. More brain clutter.

TGB has a unique function.


And a very useful one, as we are on an island.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:34 pm

You aren't thinking into the future and suggesting The Galloway Bridge, are you?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:50 pm

Sgurr wrote:You aren't thinking into the future and suggesting The Galloway Bridge, are you?


No, this is in the present, but it us transport related.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby FraserHughes » Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:12 pm

Does Barra Airport (the one where you land on the beach) have another name?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:21 pm

FraserHughes wrote:Does Barra Airport (the one where you land on the beach) have another name?


Yes, it's on The Great Beach, An Traigh Mhor in Gaelic. A Google search would have given you that, but you've identified the location, so your go now.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby FraserHughes » Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:26 am

My Google skills are obviously poor. I did a search and got Traigh Mhor which I, embarrassing, failed to translate! :roll:

This is my first attempt at one of these so hopefully it's neither too easy nor too obscure...

TP could lead in more ways than one.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:49 am

Not Timothy Pont map maker and traveller?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby FraserHughes » Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:34 am

Afraid not, more recent...
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby rohan » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:52 pm

Toward Point?
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