carni 10,094 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Every Morning when i come down stairs, i only have to look on my wall and i have this print, taken from the original painted for my brother by the local artist, i can't read the signiture but it looks like PEG. Can you guess where it is?and have you got a reminder of your origins? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 too small to see it properly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Bet its All Hallows , Gedling ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Yup, I thought it was easy really!, I just wanted to put it on site, because i like it so much. Lol My next clue would have been Canon Watson! Sorry Fynger, I'm not clever enough to go back and resize it! Can't you do it for me? HaHar 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Can you guess where it is? Here? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Carni, am I recognising Gedling Village? - the Church looks familiar. PS: Sorry about that: Split second posting.............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Cliff Ton, Spot on. The artist must have been a bit further away to have got the water trough in ( i used to come flying down past the church on my roller skates, tied on to my shoes with bits of rag and grab onto that trough for dear life) and then my pals would crash into me and we would end up a giggling mass on the floor. Of course this must have been before i discovered boys were for snogging and not skating with. PS, I wonder if the trough is in the right place, I will look next time I visit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Can you guess where it is? Looking at my version again, I was a bit inaccurate. This is much closer - it shows the cottage in the painting, but the church spire is hidden behind the tree which has obviously grown since the artist was there. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fch782c 144 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 A beautiful early morning view of All Hallows Church Gedling Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted November 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 fch782c, Thank you for the image, I can't quite work out where the Picture of the church was taken from. I can make out what looks like fields in front of where the photographer would be standing, so would it be somewhere up the top of Arnold Lane or the other way and looking down from where I remember the Woods, over Greenies fields or one last angle from the top end of the 'Pit Estate'? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Is that Shearing Hill off to the right? It's 46 years since I've been there. Paternal grand parents lived on Burton Road/Main Street iin the late 1940s till 1959 then to Celia Drive off Carlton Hill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 I have a nice history of Gedling in my collection A History of Gedling By Charles Gerring Published in 1908 And enscribed byThe Rev Alberic Edward Bertie (rector & vicar of Gedling) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Is that Shearing Hill off to the right? In my Google image? No, that's Willow Lane. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 Fynger #2, you can make the photo/words larger or smaller by holding down Ctrl on your keyboard and moving the wheel on top of your mouse. Cliff Ton #5, How you found the location and photo so quickly was truly amazing. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 That last picture could have been taken from somewhere up near Harvey's Plantation, you are certainly looking down hill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted December 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Thank you to you all for the interest you have shown, That picture means such a lot to me, I glance at it often through the day, even now as i type this post. Soppy B...er mi Dad would say. Lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 This is a more difficult one , in fact I would say virtually impossible to guess as their aren't many clues . Its a copy of a water colour my brother did a few years ago and hangs at the bottom of our stairs , so like Carni , I see it everyday. I can't find a photograph of this place from this angle but will say (in case you can't make it out) , its barges moored on the river and some boats in a yard in front of the building . Any ideas ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted December 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Is it Trent Marina, Where the 'Pleasure Park' was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Nope , right side of town but further down river . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Looking at the round brown thingys its somewhere near a weir how about Holme Pierrepont or Gunthorpe ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Blimey Andy very good . Its Gunthorpe Lock , though from memory, its the view,standing from the side of the lock , looking through the trees to the river . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Is this close enough? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Well definitely the place but the view in the painting is looking through the trees on the right I think . I havent been for a few years so it's a bit hazy and have looked through numerous online images without finding a similar view . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 How's this? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 1, 2013 Report Share Posted December 1, 2013 Wow that's good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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