Help wanted - Where is this?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:41 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: The skyline doesn't match on the other suggestion - I think! My initial streetview link is pretty much close to the spot where I think the film still is taken. Agreed the skyline in my google still is early 20th Century Housing so it must have been there in the 70's too but the straight line continuation of that stretch of Dewsbury Road would be into what Google describes as Park Wood or I would describe as the loer portion of Middleton Woods. There are several other strange effects on the cine image including that it certainly doesn't look like its uphill (but it is).@Kango Blakey suggested the blind said dewsbury road but it may have been subliminal influence of being Hunslet because agreed even in the improved image that Blakey hadn't seen the destination board is very blurred. I'm guessig its a 20 and Moortown Corner is the destination

kango · Post by **kango** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:44 pm

That seemed to have worked, back in My callow youth the new building You see there was a yard full of trees (Our old smoking den)It's My estimation the camera was set up in that yard.Pan around right to see the hordings and the grass banking which was as seen in the film clip not as it is now.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:46 pm

Yes, it was the far end of the road skyline I was referring to, rather than the nearby housing.If you follow the road from the current street view, the woods or park in the distance should still be there, and they're not.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:46 pm

kango wrote: Thanks for that tyke Bhoy HERE GOES NOTHING!http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Dob ... 9,,0,-1.96 Well done but I think you are too far up Dewsbury Road. The hoarding on the near right is roughly where the hoarding on the original shot was and that was between the Conny club and Dewsbury Road

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:48 pm

kango wrote: Thanks for that tyke Bhoy HERE GOES NOTHING!http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Dob ... 9,,0,-1.96 That still looks uphill to me. I dunno now.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:53 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: Yes, it was the far end of the road skyline I was referring to, rather than the nearby housing.If you follow the road from the current street view, the woods or park in the distance should still be there, and they're not. Beg to differ.http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dewsbur ... 15Dewsbury Road is pretty much straight from Moor Road to Tunstall Road before taking a slight right turn (note that the original image has a right bend in it).Continue the straight line above and it crosses Middleton Grove at approximately Lockwood Close continue onwards and you at least brush the western extreme of the woods. Other than a slight dip between Parkside Lane and Middleton Grove its up hill all the way

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:56 pm

I'm still not convinced at all, and non of the old maps match what I'm looking at on the film clip either. The bus scene itself can be seen here without having to scroll through the whole video to find ithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_de ... t=774sIt's a shame it's such a short scene.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 28 Jan, 2012 11:57 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: kango wrote: Thanks for that tyke Bhoy HERE GOES NOTHING!http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Dob ... 9,,0,-1.96 That still looks uphill to me. I dunno now. It is uphill. That's what makes the original still so intriguing. It's got to be an optical illusion as that stretch of Dewsbury Road southbound is uphill or borderline flat a bit lower down towards The Junction

kango · Post by **kango** » Sun 29 Jan, 2012 12:01 am

.I'm basing where this is on having lived walked and worked there man and Boy and seeing that view from that very spot whilst having a crafty drag! but obviously some more tangible proof is needed.on the road is a couple of arrows denoting what is, I believe, the start of the bus lane, do they tally with the present day ones?Also the two bus stops shown one was the 2/20 the other I seem to recall was for the No3.I knew it's hard looking at what's there now to understand what was there then, but I honestly don't know how to prove it so best it's I take a back seat on this I think.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sun 29 Jan, 2012 12:03 am

tyke bhoy wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: Yes, it was the far end of the road skyline I was referring to, rather than the nearby housing.If you follow the road from the current street view, the woods or park in the distance should still be there, and they're not. Beg to differ.http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dewsbur ... 15Dewsbury Road is pretty much straight from Moor Road to Tunstall Road before taking a slight right turn (note that the original image has a right bend in it).Continue the straight line above and it crosses Middleton Grove at approximately Lockwood Close continue onwards and you at least brush the western extreme of the woods. Other than a slight dip between Parkside Lane and Middleton Grove its up hill all the way That link takes me to the map view, could you post the street view again? I'm getting lost now with all these links. What I was meaning was when you follow the road as if you're in the street view I was expecting the distant woods to appear on the horizon and they didn't, unless I've been using the wrong link. Mind, I've had a couple of Saturday night gin and limes.