2018 Treasure Hunt Challenge

@MementoMori some great pictures on that set, and the locations stunning

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@BrianB, Thank you.
Finding the things on the list and then making them interesting is not always that easy I’m finding :laughing:


here we have a water tower up on clifton downs in bristol

a building of 10 stories sadly no history behind this one but it does have some pretty cool graphics in the other side, will try and get better pics showing the graphics another day

now we have some cooling tower at seabank power station in avonmouth. not the same spectaculer towers tha you see elsewhere but they installed these to bring down cost and improve cooling efficiency.

and last for today a windmill. this is a tower windmill origionally to gring corn built around the mid 1700 and conver6ted into a house in 1848. now a part of the windmill inn at portishead just outside of bristol.

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#1 Canal lock, 14 Locks Canal Centre, Newport

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#3 Clock Tower, Usk.
Not keen on this but it is what it is.

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#18 Windmill, Llancayo Windmill near Usk, the only one in South Wales that I can find, got more chance of finding a crop circle :rofl:

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Cracking windmill shots :clap::clap::clap:

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Thank you @BrianB

Leaderboard updated :+1:

@pilningpilot moves up to second place and is getting ready to challenge @OzoneVibe for the title! Great entries Jon!

@MementoMori increases the entries but stays in 4th place - but is now only one entry behind the 3rd place position :smiley:

Pier

Central Pier Blackpool

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UFO? No, #17 Water Tower, Radyr, Cardiff.

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@MementoMori that’s some really cool pics. I do like😁

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The Leamington–Rugby line was a 15-mile branch line built by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) and opened in 1851. The branch connected Leamington with the mainline from London to Birmingham (now the West Coast Main Line which had been opened in 1838 by the LNWR’s predecessor, the London & Birmingham Railway (L&BR). Leamington ended up with two stations - Leamington Avenue (sounds posh, but then this is Leamington Spa after all!) for the Rugby branch, and the GWR’s adjacent station (this is still there, serving The Chiltern Line).

One of the engineering features of the branch was the five-arch brick-built Offchurch Viaduct which carried the route over the Grand Union Canal and adjacent low ground: the arch above the canal itself was built with skewed courses.

It’s actually quite impressive. A fair bit of the branch (there was a branch branch slightly east as well) stayed open long after Passenger traffic ceased in 1959, serving the Long Itchington cement works until the mid 80’s. All goes by road now, but at least a lot of the track beds are open as cycleways.

Anyway, this is my first entry. No photographic masterpieces these, that’s just not possible with a springer spaniel in tow (11 miles and he’s STILL charging around the garden at 100mph!)

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Stockton Locks, Grand Union Canal. Eight locks here, with a rise of around 48 feet. At the bottom is the Blue Lias pub, named after the local clay which dates from the Jurassic Period (the pub sign is a dinosaur!). Actually, this section of the Canal is good for pubs, from the Two Boats by Long Itchington to The Boat at Birdingbury

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@pilningpilot, thank you :sunglasses:

Blackpool Tower
Tall Building



a steam train.unfortunately the best i could get as the forest of dean railway are not currently operating their steam engines due to the elevated risk of fire from the dry weather. i didnt realise until i looked at the first pic that it actually looks like a model railway. lolthese were take this morning from the railway carparkforest of dean railwat no operate from the lydney town up past whitecroft station and are continuing to ope up ne sections of track.

just thought i would update my selfie pics as well. for those of you that notice the t=shirt it reads"i may be an engineer but i cant fix stupid"

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While looking through what I have left to capture I realised that I already have a sandy beach shot of Fistral Beach from my trip to Newquay, Cornwall on July 3rd.

#11 Sandy Beach.

Here’s is the album if you want to see some more.
Newquay

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Welcome to the Challenge @Renni-Aire :+1:

I’m thinking that date is a typo? Did you mean July? I’m only asking, as the Flickr album is dated July :wink:

Entry accepted for now - let me know if you need to withdraw it? :+1:

That steam train has sadly seen better days, but a great photo nonetheless :smiley:

So!

Leaderboard updated!

@pilningpilot is really giving @OzoneVibe a run for his money now!

@MementoMori moves up in to 3rd place!

@Renni-Aire joins the Challenge and is immediately tied with @Woolnut!

:clap:t2: THERE ARE JUST TWO WEEKS AND TWO DAYS LEFT!! :clap:t2:

Yes, sorry, it is July 3rd.

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