Virtual Treasure Hunt.

[Gramaisc]

Here we go.

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That's a good one - I do know where it is, but we'll see who else does.

I wonder if somebody pinched the lead off the right-hand side?

 

[age'd parent]

If it's the lich gate i think it is, it's still got the lead on google earth...
Castle church?

 

[Gramaisc]

If it's the lich gate i think it is, it's still got the lead on google earth...
Castle church?

I'm sure you're right - subject to @YorkshirePud's confirmation.

Get a picture sorted.

 

[YorkshirePud]

Correct. I'd thought of using this inscription on the archway as the clue, but thought it might be too difficult.

 

[Gramaisc]

Correct. I'd thought of using this inscription on the archway as the clue, but thought it might be too difficult.
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Presumably that date is 1846?

They haven't quite finished the first two Cs off properly...

 

[Thehooperman]

Here's one to keep you ticking over until @age'd parent posts another.

Sorry the photos a bit dark.

 

[Gramaisc]

Here's one to keep you ticking over until @age'd parent posts another.

Sorry the photos a bit dark.

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Corner of Gaol Road, where the Beth Johnson flats are now.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...4!1su5B0NUR_SaLQmkhxFOu4hA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

That's the lintel from one of the central windows - you can just make out the engraving here - https://www.search.staffspasttrack....D=13559&PageIndex=31&SearchType=2&ThemeID=366 - it wasn't demolished until 1984.

 

[age'd parent]

It's a bit of a mucky pic ...
but it has been there for a long time

 

[Gramaisc]

Mmm, it has the look of the sort of thing that might be involved with the Astonfields Balancing Reservoirs, although I didn't think that it was, and a brief, but life-threatening, expedition has confirmed that it seems to be that it isn't.

Other similar locations may need to be investigated yet...

 

[Lucy]

Isn't this by the Waterfront? It's near where the bridge over from old Tesco to Riverside was.

 

[age'd parent]

Isn't this by the Waterfront? It's near where the bridge over from old Tesco to Riverside was.

It is near a supermarket, and a "village" of "ladies of the night"

 

[Pooryorick]

Council escape tunnel?

 

[Gramaisc]

Isabel Trail, from Blackberry Lane - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...4!1sZgZEB_RL2gd16Pxy6YdsPg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 - a place of many doxeys...

 

[age'd parent]

Isabel Trail, from Blackberry Lane - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...4!1sZgZEB_RL2gd16Pxy6YdsPg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 - a place of many doxeys...

Got it, your turn.

 

[Gramaisc]

I've never actually seen it from that side, well, not for many years - I did clean out the far side of it about twenty years ago. I thought it might be there, but I couldn't see a reason for the nearest of the railings - doh!

 

[Tilly]

 

[Thehooperman]

Is that Lotus Records in Mill Street?

 

[Gramaisc]

There's a good bit over a decade between those two records.

 

[Gramaisc]

OK, a nice, easy one to be going on with.

 

[Withnail]

https://goo.gl/maps/dt5k3vFPUoJ2
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