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« Reply #285 on: December 07, 2010, 01:27:58 pm »
Hooray!   One of the most important lighthouses in the UK Guarding the approach to the Thames Estuary.   Used to me my homing beacon when I was coming back from my sailing trips to the Continent!  Right at last.    ZXZ

Ormevixen ?  Haven't see her around on Oscar or anywhere for a time, must have come out of her lair.    aaa.gif

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« Reply #286 on: December 07, 2010, 01:40:28 pm »
Where is this? and what's its purpose ?
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« Reply #287 on: December 07, 2010, 04:10:55 pm »
I think it is a type of Sun Dial.  The months are down the centre, the hours are round the edge but not the complete circle just like a sundial.  It has pointers (decorative) of the four elements, sun, wind fire and water.

I believe one uses ones own body as the gnomon and ones shadow to tell the time.

I could be completely wrong of course!     >>>

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« Reply #288 on: December 07, 2010, 09:20:24 pm »
It is a human sun dail but where ?
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« Reply #289 on: December 08, 2010, 08:31:38 am »
No idea where it is.  There are 1000's in the World and unfortunately your picture does not give any sort of clue as to its location.   I will take my usual wild guess and say your back garden!     ZXZ

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« Reply #290 on: December 08, 2010, 09:07:31 am »
Think we might need a clue on this one, Pendragon.  )*)&

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« Reply #291 on: December 08, 2010, 01:40:59 pm »
I knew I would find it in the end.

The rotunda on Minehead's seafront has an analemmatic sundial, also known as  human sundial!       D)
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« Reply #292 on: December 08, 2010, 02:05:11 pm »
What are they building here?   And where is "here"?

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« Reply #293 on: December 08, 2010, 02:11:31 pm »
Looks like a Trojan horse under construction so I'll say Troy!

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« Reply #294 on: December 08, 2010, 02:46:12 pm »
Yes Yorkie it was Minehead, I lived there for 2 years when I left school  :D
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« Reply #295 on: December 08, 2010, 03:28:46 pm »
THe shape looks like The Angel of the North
Tyneside?
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« Reply #296 on: December 08, 2010, 04:08:38 pm »
Closer to home than Troy and a few years before the Angel of the North.

More picture clues available.  I will post when I feel you need help!     ££$

Clue number one.  And clue number two.  And clue number 3
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #297 on: December 09, 2010, 11:08:08 am »
Is it the Mulberry Harbours from WW 2 ?

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« Reply #298 on: December 09, 2010, 12:28:34 pm »
Not Mulberry harbours (cast in Conwy).    Another clue:

A strange bed-fellow:

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #299 on: December 09, 2010, 12:36:07 pm »
Hello,
Cleopatra's Needle, on the Thames embankment, London. Link:http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/CleopatrasNeedle.htm
Cheers,
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