Topic:	Photo Quiz 3
chris Posts: 1405 Posted: 7.Dec 2005 - 17:36	OK, new rules. This one is going to stay up for at least a couple of days, as otherwise I'll be exhausting my supply of obscure Cornish locations very rapidly.
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 12:40	Phew. This is proving to be a stumper. I wonder how many of you panicked when you saw I had responded and thought, "OH NO! The Hen got it again!" I am still searching mind you.
chris Posts: 1405 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 12:42	QuoteI wonder how many of you panicked when you saw I had responded and thought, "OH NO! The Hen got it again!" Yerp! Have the next one lined up though, so wouldn't have been the end of the world! I'll give you a clue if no one's figured it out over the weekend
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 12:44	This is so cool. I love a puzzle. What I love best about it, is the amount of Cornish heritage and history I am learning through researching where this bloody spire is.
Joe Posts: 776 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 13:11	Is it somewhere on St Michael's Mount, hang on; it's in Restormel. The castle?
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 19:30	I thought St Michael's Mount as well. But I could not find any picture that showed a spire like that. I looked at as many piccies of the Restormel as possible and still couldn't find a spire like that. Though I may have just not seen good pictures of these places. Being a black and white photo, I was wondering if it was a spire that now no longer exists. Are there any famous historic sites in Cornwall that were badly damaged in WWII or by some natural disaster? (That would be a bugger to locate! )
chris Posts: 1405 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 19:34	Barking, wrong tree!!
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 19:45	Barking mad!
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 19:49	It's a folly of some sort. (I could be referring to either the structure here, or my attempts to needle out its location. I'm just not saying.)
Diane Posts: 789 Posted: 9.Dec 2005 - 23:02	Yep, Thought to got it hen, I have no idea where it is, and where's all the answers from the cornish who still live there? All quiet on the western front!
Joe Posts: 776 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 00:09	Is it that folly near the quarry on the back road to St Ives to Penzance. Robert's Folly? It's built on an old fort and it's near a really creepy derelict house.
Mike Posts: 2538 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 00:25	Is it the preferred design for the new Newquay sex shop? Just a thought.
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 01:18	I couldn't find any Roberts' Folly at all. Though this is a piccy of Rogers' Tower. Is that the one you were thinking of Joe? Cause if it was, then it aint Rogers'! Can anyone identify what type of tiles are on the roof? Would they be copper or lead? Is there any other substance they could be formed from?
chris Posts: 1405 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 11:31	OK, I've just changed the photo to make it a little easier. If you don't see an updated photo hit the refresh key (or F5). Rogers' Tower is up at Castle-an-Dinas and is the place in the pic from Hen. 18th century and on the site of an ancient hill fort. Well worth having a wander around there on a Sunday afternoon
Mike Posts: 2538 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 11:57	Readymoney Cove, Fowey
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 18:48	Good grief, chris. The image looks totally different when lightened. I was barking up a wrong tree. Mike, would that then make the structure part of St Catherine's Castle? I get references to Neptunes Point if it is. I can't reference any other image with a shot of that spire in it though if you are correct. Chris, what a brilliant pick. Out of interest, (and because I am not used to being around such wonderfully old built structures like Roberts Tower, and the like), if you were picnicing at such a site and your children wanted to run up and climb all over Rogers, would they be allowed? Knowing how my government regulates anything with any vague historical connection into our very meagre "Heritage" register, I am fairly certain that they would exclude climbing from the activities you could do there. (Hell, they may even put conditions on breathing!)
porthia1947 Posts: 705 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 18:57	Trevithick's attempt to get the first Cornish rocket into space (ie before Stephenson)?
Hen Posts: 772 Posted: 10.Dec 2005 - 18:58	( ^ - Now THAT'S Funny!)
chris Posts: 1405 Posted: 11.Dec 2005 - 11:56	Readymoney Cove, Fowey Good work Mike, it is indeed! I shall delve further into the C24 photo archives and find a new pic this evening
CJenkin Posts: 711 Posted: 12.Dec 2005 - 11:40	I knew this one, even before you changed the photo having walked past it at a Cornish Language weekend. Just couldn't remember the name of the cove!
chris Posts: 1405 Posted: 12.Dec 2005 - 12:22	QuoteI knew this one... .... Just couldn't remember the name...! That's what they all say!
HarvsPenzance Posts: 130 Posted: 12.Dec 2005 - 22:09	Chinny reckon, CJ! The bigger the fib the longer the chin gets. Anyone in Hobart wanna itch my chin?