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By:
panglima
When: 03 Dec 09 14:06
WD the coneys
By:
redrich
When: 03 Dec 09 14:10
Pokermonster 03 Dec 15:06


Good afternoon Gentlemen.

I have enlarged number eight, but the resolution is too poor to be able to make out any writing in the picture.

Likewise, the van's numberplate is illegible. The only clue could be the amount of papers lying on the dashboard. When I drove a van I used to shove stuff behind the steering wheel rather than on the passenger side where it would fall off. If this is the case here we're looking at a right hooker, which would obviously suggest a resort in the UK.

My guess is Sidmouth.


:^0

Funnily enough, i did the same - enlarged it, checked number plate, tried to read the signs, but didn't go as far as to look at the newspapers. You're definately more of a detective than i am!
By:
billy hill
When: 03 Dec 09 14:11
van parked facing forward on LHS? of road, or facing backwards on RHS? of road. or photo flipped?

I think England then with a transit
By:
panglima
When: 03 Dec 09 14:11
I wonder if it could be Westcliff with that parade of fish bars
By:
panglima
When: 03 Dec 09 14:13
number 9 has the beach at Cannes got a well known name ?
By:
Pokermonster
When: 03 Dec 09 14:13
I thought of photo-flipping possibilities Billy, but the blue awning tells us we're looking at the photo the right way around.
By:
Pokermonster
When: 03 Dec 09 14:16
The biggest clue may come if Pump tells us where he found this montage.
By:
Pokermonster
When: 03 Dec 09 14:19
I think the red arched sign in the background street reads: RESTAURANT & BAR.

No help there then! :(
By:
billy hill
When: 03 Dec 09 14:26
Hmm those techies on CSI or NCIS would have this in no time.
looks like a fairly flat road onto a shingle beach, so presumably not much tide to worry about or seawall.
By:
redrich
When: 03 Dec 09 14:28
my best guess for no 8 is Bognor Regis - but still investigating
By:
Ken Masters
When: 03 Dec 09 14:29
I think I recognise the bloke on the left - Is it Worthing?
By:
History Maker
When: 03 Dec 09 14:29
1 Blackpool
2 Scarborough
3 Miami
4 Bournemouth
5 Rio de Janeiro
6 Brighton
7 Cape Town
8 Aldeburgh
9 Malaga

All except 1 and 5 are guesses.
By:
Pokermonster
When: 03 Dec 09 14:29
I thought that too Ken, but it's not him. I checked.
By:
panglima
When: 03 Dec 09 14:30
PM
Every year someone I know does a quiz for about two or three weeks just before xxmas, most days he sends pictures through, he lives in North London.
By:
Tevez is God
When: 03 Dec 09 14:37
Pretty sure 9 is Nice, not Cannes :|
By:
redrich
When: 03 Dec 09 14:39
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/248190780_64a248b680.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/16001990%40N00/248190780/&usg=__4C1EboO9naRttOsSxQj-6Fy31SA=&h=375&w=500&sz=161&hl=en&start=9&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=9JbJOa64kPUC4M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcannes%2Bbeach%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

^for Tev
By:
blackburn1
When: 03 Dec 09 14:39
No 10 is definitely not Margate
By:
Roger The Butler
When: 03 Dec 09 14:39
Pretty sure 1 is quite lovely, not Blackpool.
By:
blackburn1
When: 03 Dec 09 14:40
9 must be Cannes, Nice is shingle
By:
Tevez is God
When: 03 Dec 09 14:49
cheers red, fair enough :)
By:
jimmy69
When: 03 Dec 09 14:55
So we just need 8 then?
By:
curious-cat
When: 03 Dec 09 14:57
I'd go with no 8 for Bognor Regis ..... but it's only a guess.
By:
jimmy69
When: 03 Dec 09 14:58
Sidmouth has got iron railings so it can't be that.
By:
panglima
When: 03 Dec 09 15:10
just number 8 needed but I reckon its impossible unless someone recognises it as somewhere they have actually been.
By:
billy hill
When: 03 Dec 09 15:27
the clues seem to be there. Probably an English holiday resort, possibly shingle beach, road between the shop fronts and the "beach". cast iron railings a bit rusty from the sea weather. pull down canopies on the shops and cafes. somewhere you might go to as a couple by bike in shorts and t-shirt.
what looks like either "restaurant and bar" or "amusement arcade" in the background. and a dirty great pink apartment block / retirement flat /hotel behind it. Now thinking either one of the Butlins resorts, or perhaps South Wales somewhere
By:
Ken Masters
When: 03 Dec 09 15:32
I vote Southend:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.535086,0.693308&spn=0.001023,0.00177&t=h&z=19
By:
Ken Masters
When: 03 Dec 09 15:33
Red and blue canopies separated by one other, a road going behind the canopies with taller buildings beyond, the shadow of the railing matching the one in the pic, it's there I tell ye...
By:
Ken Masters
When: 03 Dec 09 15:36
I feel congratulations are in order.
By:
Pokermonster
When: 03 Dec 09 15:40
Congratulations Ken! :)

You are undoubtedly correct, sir.
By:
Ken Masters
When: 03 Dec 09 15:41
At last.

Thank you PM.
By:
STUDYFORM
When: 03 Dec 09 15:48
I can see where you're coming from, but there isn't much to go on, is it the Westcliff end of the prom? Very well done for sourcing that Ken, and not at all a waste of about 45 minutes.

Is No 1, Paris?
By:
billy hill
When: 03 Dec 09 15:51
http://www.flickr.com/photos/essexglover/3340097007/
By:
Ken Masters
When: 03 Dec 09 15:54
I think that's the Petronas tower in number 1 so it must be Kuala Lumpur.
By:
Pokermonster
When: 03 Dec 09 15:55
I hope that one is the same as Ken's overhead shot, Billy. Otherwise I have offered my congratulations prematurely! :0

That picture is definitely the one; you can see the RESTAURANT & BAR arch in the background.
By:
billy hill
When: 03 Dec 09 15:55
PM - yes same end of Westcliff on Sea
By:
Pokermonster
When: 03 Dec 09 15:59
Congratulations to you both then. :)

How Interpol have passed you two by I don't know.
By:
panglima
When: 03 Dec 09 16:00
WD on the picture billy & WD Ken
Though I did suspect as much

panglima 03 Dec 15:11
I wonder if it could be Westcliff with that parade of fish bars

Thanks all for your help
By:
billy hill
When: 03 Dec 09 16:08
KM was first, I was just looking for a follow up evidence from "ground level".

also some background on the Coney Island photo - Weegee
http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/weegee-collection/exhibits/crowd-at-coney-island-1940
By:
Big Charlie
When: 03 Dec 09 16:18
Tevez is God 03 Dec 15:37
Pretty sure 9 is Nice


course it is, the facking sun's out
By:
flushgordon
When: 03 Dec 09 16:45
son of a
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