Guess the City

xp i feel like everywhere I've lived has has this view. thought it might be Exeter but it's not the bit I was half thinking of

it could be London or any other southern English city. Bristol maybe? The Kingsdwon Estate has similar mid-20th century housing

are the bins the only real clue?

are those bollards/poles uniquely shaped maybe? (dunno)

another photo pls?

https://i.ibb.co/tLvxJxv/Screenshot-2024-07-10-at-10-36-36.png

that blue sign with the yellow F seems like the only clue (not that I know what it means) maybe?

The sign his for Foxton's Estate Agents: London's Estate Agent.

("London's Estate Agent" is the tagline on their website FYI)

I am pretty sure I've been here but I can't put my finger on where it is.

Also a bus in those trees that gives it away. Not sure there's any clue more specific to what part of London, were one wanted.

randomly clicking around in Google Streetview and it could be any reasonably affluent suburb (found a street in Twickenham, but then a street in Chingford, and then everywhere - they all look the same :-) )

What's this? Is it the entry to a LTN or just parking restrictions?

https://i.imgur.com/ANKIHFZ.png

https://i.imgur.com/ANKIHFZ.png

is that a table tennis table on the right there? makes me wonder if it's somewhere around Wimbledon? which would also be topical just now of course. jumping around there and can't find anything so far tho

Looks a lot like where my pal lived between Twickenham / Richmond

It looks like there is a table tennis table but there are quite a few of those around (https://pingpongmap.net a subset of them here but after a cursory glance I could t see a good candidate).

it almost has to be Wimbledon since the tennis is on, innit - but I still can't find it :-)

https://i.ibb.co/rGf4m7w/www.jpg

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It's crazy to me, the interchangeability of any town-/cityscape in England. You could show me any picture of any High Street and I wouldn't be able to tell you if it was Bristol vs. Leeds or whatever

London. It's gotta be London, right? London's a city. I'm saying London.

damn. well done.

as per others honestly feel like i've been to all these locations. where? no idea. part of me wondered... oxford? but ledge's guess feels best.

https://i.ibb.co/XtY9n7D/oi.png

A view from above

It's pretty big wherever it is, with lots of council housing or apartment blocks in any case which makes me think maybe war damage - somewhere in south London?

My first thought was "how was this taken". I'm out of touch, but it looks too clean to have been taken with a drone, and in any case drones are stabilised, so it probably wouldn't be tilted. 2434x1164 isn't a standard resolution so it's not straight-from-the-camera. Is this the right-hand-side of a very wide, two-page panorama?

Did the photographer use a helicopter? It's a short exposure, but it looks too steady for that. So perhaps it was taken with an SLR from the viewing platform of a tall building. But it looks too low for The Shard, and that's not the view from The Shard. Or Horizon 22. It looks Southwark-esque, but that church isn't familiar.

Are there other cities in the UK with tall buildings? I don't know, I've never been anywhere else.

I will be amazed if this isn’t London but I can’t see any point blocks, and it’s really hard to see anything much by way of hills. Between those two things it’s it’s really hard to place

The gothic church dimly visible front and left has a surprisingly unusual combo of hipped tower above a story of three lancet windows. Hasn’t helped me feel fire out where it is though

https://i.ibb.co/HHgHrwx/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-09-47-22.png

A view from the ground

What are we even guessing now? A postcode? It's been nearly a month!

Those two point blocks look very much like the ones in the Hurst Street Estate, just over Dulwich Road from Brockwell Park.

And the church you can dimly see in the night time shot is the Holy Trinity on Trinity Rise, other side of Brockwell Park. I think the initial shots are on Tulsa Hill itself, with Cressingham Gardens on one side (the forthcoming loss of Cressingham Gardens will be an unforgivable act of philistinism IMO, but that's for another thread).

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4452602,-0.1097851,3a,75y,252.6h,115.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2pMDW0_2s9onEJ3Y9JlVdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

Oops. I mean: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4465865,-0.1127594,3a,90y,4.33h,82.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAvbPL1eXf3gsJwSHJLZ-fA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

ding ding ding!

Think the lesson here is that old South London suburbs are all much of a muchness

That's fair, but they are distinctively themselves too - this one felt like South London from the off (I live a couple of miles from this spot btw, but that doesn't make me the closest to this spot on this thread, even).

(This also felt like inner burbs from the start, I didn't think it would be any further out than (say) Catford, and no further in than Camberwell.)

Knew from the first pic exactly where it was as the nearby link to Brockwell Park was part of my bike commute a couple of years ago (I've modified this since as I pretty much gave up on being able to enjoy cycling through the park in commuter mode heh).

Too many pedestrians?

Pretty much! Also had a bad experience with a bike-hating dog (who wasn't on a lead) in there. Still London's best park tho imo.

Cressingham Gardens it is! Quite a difficult one to pick for, felt it might be too easy and too difficult at same time

i got distracted with all the Wimbledon talk

This does raise the question of where the OP's photograph comes from. The detail in the top-left is fascinating. It looks like part of a graphic element, or some kind of border - like how old film negatives used to have a border - but it's too regular to be analogue.

Tim at 11:39 29 Jul 24

(This also felt like inner burbs from the start, I didn't think it would be any further out than (say) Catford, and no further in than Camberwell.)

oh lol i uh... should have got this let's say, though that nighttime elevated pic is still a total mystery to me... must be looking south in tulse hill direction but avoiding radio masts, which would have given it away. pic 2 still a bit of a mystery as well actually.

this pic 2 ?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Urd2RKcdiGmKJTHG8

yes! thanks Stan! I mean I've walked down there. Not a lot, but, y'know, more than once. Embarrassing.

that nighttime elevated pic is still a total mystery to me... must be looking south in tulse hill direction but avoiding radio masts, which would have given it away. pic 2 still a bit of a mystery as well actually.

― Fizzles

I think it's looking roughly South-west and the town centre-ish set of lights you can see in the middle distance is probably Streatham.

...middle distance on the left, I mean

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4464383,-0.1090972,3a,75y,119.06h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipORbn7ai6nVC59U-yRz9vfMQGXoPHzlgC9BRIZp!2e10!3e11!7i8192!8i4096?coh=205410&entry=ttu

360 of the nighttime elevation