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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 16:30:51 GMT
I think the adjoining Browns Bridge Road is so named because it had to go over so very dodgy landfill ground and had to be piled in places so is in effect a bridge? That's a rather more colourful and vivid explanation than saying it simply heads in the direction of Browns Bridge - the crossing over the railway line next to what those, of a certain vintage, may still refer to as the "isolation hospital". |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 18:04:32 GMT
A particularly good shout, sir, as would be anything relating to that often-forgotten, underestimated, rather special corner of Torquay. Well, that's what one of the elders of this site is prone to tell us anyway. I certainly wouldn't have known the answer had I not taken the picture. A few views that haven't yet been tackled. More overlooked corners perhaps? |
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Post by rjdgull on Dec 31, 2012 19:07:19 GMT
I make it 10,11,16,17,19 & 20 to get!
Is 17 by St Matthews Church on the green between Vicarage and St Matthew's Road?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 19:15:24 GMT
Number 17 is St Matthew's Road, Chelston. One of my favourite bits of Torquay.
Now that one's been answered I'm confident of a full set....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 21:21:43 GMT
I make it 10,11,16,17,19 & 20 to get! Is 17 by St Matthews Church on the green between Vicarage and St Matthew's Road? To keep this on the boil. Dave offered Belgrave Road for 19. Not quite the answer I'm seeking! TEN ELEVEN SIXTEEN NINETEEN TWENTY |
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Post by Budleigh on Jan 3, 2013 21:36:32 GMT
Sixteen...
Middle Warberry Road, at the junction with Higher Warberry Road.
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Post by Jon on Jan 3, 2013 23:16:49 GMT
You were standing right next to the corner flag of the old Chelston FC ground, bulldozed in the 50s, when you took this one! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 9:35:23 GMT
Sixteen... Middle Warberry Road, at the junction with Higher Warberry Road. Correct, sir. I knew you'd know your Warberries. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 20:45:25 GMT
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Post by Dave on Jan 5, 2013 21:32:35 GMT
I will get this one started with no36. It is the road off Main Ave to the left of this picture is a row of houses that are on what is called the shelf the road ends and then there is 142 steps that take you down to Chatto road. I once lived on the shelf and had to back a three and a half ton lorry down that slope when I moved in. Half way down the air brake buzzer came on I thought I was going to die lol
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 21:40:32 GMT
If picture 35 ain't Blindwylle Road, Chelston, my name ain't Wildebeeste.
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Post by rjdgull on Jan 5, 2013 21:59:01 GMT
You have been busy Barts. Surely 37 has connection to your user name. The final picture is from Warberry hill looking towards wellswood with the trees on the crown in OXlea road having been thinned out during the great storm of 1990
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Post by Dave on Jan 6, 2013 8:01:54 GMT
I knew I just had to know no 27, finally tracked it down thanks to Google. Alpine Road
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Post by Dave on Jan 6, 2013 8:09:10 GMT
21 Carlton Road
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 16:20:53 GMT
Nice progress and good to start with tales of "The Shelf". And, if we were talking football, on which ground was "The Shelf" a feature?
A wholly gratuitous - and incorrect - reference - to Blindwylle Road from Wildebeeste. I could sense that Phil was incredulous. Had Fawlty Towers enjoyed that view there would have been no need to refer to wildebeest.
37 - the road to Barton Downs indeed.
Excellent detective work on what lies at the top of Stentiford Hill and, yep, that's Oxlea copse as photographed from flats on Higher Warberry Road.
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