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I've stared at this for a while and ponder a few points you might be trying to make but none of them really seem to fit. I'm hoping you're back later to enlighten us.
On any other forum I'd assume this was a reference borders, taking back control and all that flows from those triggers, but that just doesn't feel like DG.
Tunnel Bore | 08.04.18 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Clearly someone has stolen the road markings.
Still Anon | 08.04.18 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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@Still Anon...blame it on Brexit
Bruce Wayne | 08.04.18 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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Hmm - shallow puddles in the road indicating recent rain. Probably not the south-east, then, since we didn't have that amount of rain
The border with Wales, perhaps?
RayL | 08.04.18 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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A tease.... Normally DG gives us very high res photos, but this one is not... My guess is that those police cars have N Ireland registration plates, but I can't zoom in to check....
IslandDweller | 08.04.18 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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Lots of police vehicles there including a dog van. Were you near the police dog training centre on the border of Croydon and Bromley?
Jo W | 08.04.18 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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Ooh, I do like a dg puzzle.
Lots of police vehicles, but no others - at least not in shot. Looks a quite run down and low-key area - and semi rural. Could be coastal but you walked there... where from? I look forward to finding out - but not before reading some of the more outlandish guesses and comments.
Sarah | 08.04.18 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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My guess is Hendon (Police College), and a walk to Greater London’s border?
Joe | 08.04.18 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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Due to concern about the amount of blogging DG has been doing outside London the Mayor has instructed the Met Police to prevent him from leaving Greater London until futher notice
K | 08.04.18 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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I think DG is in Beszel and trying to enter Ul Qoma.
BlackCat | 08.04.18 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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Yellow bus in a bus washing machine. Several large vehicles with white roofs, probably also busses.
Wich opeator has a rual bus garage and this colors?
dg writes: Impressively wrong on almost every count.
MK | 08.04.18 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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So what does the brown touristy sign on the left say? It's been cropped from the downloadable image, which arouses my suspicions...
Betterbee | 08.04.18 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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A few observations.... brown tourist sign possibly with a fairground logo. Very tall flood lights. Hanger like buildings, Buses/coaches, vehicles with chevrons on the back. Could we possibly be close to The Channel tunnel? Part of France within the uk.
Scoop | 08.04.18 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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I reckon the police were there to separate two factions from the same side of said border, and that the border was relevant to the event that both factions had come for. ;)
Quizzical Eyebrow | Homepage | 08.04.18 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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It’s not looking like Hendon which is much more urban.
Robert Butlin | 08.04.18 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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Hummmm,that brown sign with fairground symbol reminds me that there is an overwintering sight near Layhams Road and the dog training centre,specifically for all the accoutrements of travelling fairs.
Well,DG,are we going to find out today,or do we have to wait five years as with you diary post?
I have a suspicion that DG does this sort of posting to up his sight visit numbers. 🤔🤔
Jo W | 08.04.18 - 10:59 a.m. | #
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The tourist sign looks like it's got the (geometrically incorrect) football pictogram, but the stadium-like structure in the second picture doesn't appear to be the grounds of Dover Athletic or Ebbsfleet United.
martin | 08.04.18 - 11:30 a.m. | #
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Crabble Athletic Ground? Although I don't know where's the connection with a border...
| 08.04.18 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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Deva Stadium, Chester.
hanlemic | 08.04.18 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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Aaaargh. Beaten to it by 1 minute. Def the Deva Stadium
Phil J | Homepage | 08.04.18 - 11:39 a.m. | #
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Yes, too easy...
None | 08.04.18 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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No sign of a wall being built. Guess it's not the USA/Mexico border...
solar penguin | 08.04.18 - 11:42 a.m. | #
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Anyone reading the comments above this one (the time at which the full post appeared) is going to wonder what on earth was going on.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.04.18 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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Yep, it was a tad confusing - but this is classic dg after all!
Rob Healy | Homepage | 08.04.18 - 12:31 p.m. | #
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Two wonderful things from this post: -
1. The term "psychogeographical flaneury"
2. A Citroen car dealership that appears to be named after a novel by Marcel Proust (minus an "n").
Waterhouse | 08.04.18 - 12:45 p.m. | #
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Yes indeed classic.
I note that DG is telling us that he expected to visit the football ground in its usual unoccupied state, travelling all the way from London to do so.
And yet by amazing co-incidence, he arrived at the exact moment of the most significant event ever in the lifetime of this relatively new stadium. Hmm.
dg writes:
a) Deva Stadium is 26 years old.
b) Not actually the most significant event ever.
c) Actual proper coincidence.
Malcolm | 08.04.18 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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The overhead picture looks like google maps or similar picture and does not look to be one of DG’s own pictures - however no accreditation given. For someone who is so angry when people appropriate his photos with no credit I think this does not make DG look good.
dg writes: I shouldn't try writing/updating posts in real time. This one wasn't yet finished. Click on the overhead picture and it now goes straight through to Google maps.
Messiah | 08.04.18 - 12:51 p.m. | #
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National League North is a graveyard for ex-League teams or phoenix clubs representing ex-League towns.
As a Brentford fan it wasn’t too long we were playing those teams week-in, week-out so never take our second tier status for granted.
Mark | 08.04.18 - 3:00 p.m. | #
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I know a MUCH BETTER place than taht: The Boat at Redbrook/Penallt
The pub is in Wales, the car-park's in England & the footpath between to two is strapped to the side of a disused railway bridge over the Wye
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T | 08.04.18 - 3:19 p.m. | #
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What a pity of bumping into a relegation being unfolded.
Maybe DG could visit the Stadium of Light in a few weeks so that he could witness a certain team higher in the football pyramid getting a back-to-back relegation.
Patrickov | 08.04.18 - 3:34 p.m. | #
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Not far down the road, perennial Welsh league toppers TNS play in England (Oswestry), with the ground even having been used as a home ground by England's schoolboys team.
Si | 08.04.18 - 3:50 p.m. | #
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Chester gets an honourable mention in Wikipedia's list of association football clubs playing in the league of another country.
martin | 08.04.18 - 5:07 p.m. | #
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Meh - Chester-schmester!
The ground for Notts. County is actually in the City of Nottingham; their great rivals, Nottingham Forest, play across the river (in the county of Nottinghamshire) in a stadium named the 'City Ground'.
Eddie Willers | 08.04.18 - 5:20 p.m. | #
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"The border with Wales, perhaps?" (comment 4) Ahhhh . . .
RayL | 08.04.18 - 7:12 p.m. | #
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Which all just shows how arbitrary and silly borders really are!
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 08.04.18 - 7:32 p.m. | #
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Why were you so scared of walking past the police dogs, if it was a proper footpath? Not carrying anything they might have sniffed out?
dg writes: The smell of raw fear, most likely.
martxw | 08.04.18 - 8:47 p.m. | #
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Listened to the match yesterday as per usual. There were 1,800 Tranmere fans and only 1,300 or so home fans. Still, sad to see local rivals go down.
Chris | 08.04.18 - 9:57 p.m. | #
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Yes, you chose a day when Cheshire police would have been out in force, though consider yourself fortunate that you didnt turn up when Wrexham were visiting otherwise there'd have been much more police for a real border skirmish.
Chester are in dire straits so kindly gave over two stands to Tranmere fans.
dogkennel | 08.04.18 - 11:12 p.m. | #
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