Name a place that ONLY you has been to but no other Bluemooner has!

Another go.
I see a few prisons on this thread - so I offer HMP Brixton, in the Kitchens and HMP Nottingham in a cell on a wing.

The other two I can offer are which might get shot down are:-

Stockport Town Hall... in Stockport, New York - the clerk was totally stunned when I walked in and I said I was from Stockport England and dug out a black and white photo board from when the Queen Mother visited Stockport England.

Lastly, out in the Atlantic Ocean in international waters about 3 or 4 miles off the NW coast of Tenerife.
I was surveying a Drill Ship as big as the QE2 for fitting network cabling.
What3Words location somewhere around here ///adopter.throttle.reiterated
 
uncle fester said:
Had the chance to 'volunteer' for a bit of wet winching in Holyhead Harbour back in the day (I declined btw) in those days it would have been the old Westland Wessex
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Flown in a Wessex, but never dangled on the wire.

Worst experience going down the wire was double-stropped with a guy who was 6'4"(I'm 5'7") at the absolute limits if weather, both wind and visibility. Went the full lengt of the cable and was lowered (bounced) the last 30ft.

I can only imagine it like being thrown into a washing machine in spin cycle. It was absolute carnage.
 
Separated Sea, Thailand
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William Morris's grave in the churchyard at Kelmscott.
Talked to the gravedigger who was the grandson of the one who had buried Morris.
 
Eaststander1 said:
Not quite 'iconic', but Ullapool, Scotland ..... I've spent a few days there, but i dont recall any mention of Ullapool on anyone's travels on here, i could be wrong though.

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Stayed in The Arch Inn.

Had a question in the local pub quiz two weeks ago to place Ullapool on a UK map and was the fastest to get it right!!
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
From what I hear, lots of mooners have been there.

Sorry, sorry, sorry . . . kidding. It was such an easy ball I had to put my laces through i
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I expected a reply like that and got a reply ready in anticipation,

Don’t you mean her Fanny but you couldn’t arise for the occasion
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Flown in a Wessex, but never dangled on the wire.

Worst experience going down the wire was double-stropped with a guy who was 6'4"(I'm 5'7") at the absolute limits if weather, both wind and visibility. Went the full lengt of the cable and was lowered (bounced) the last 30ft.

I can only imagine it like being thrown into a washing machine in spin cycle. It was absolute carnage.
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Roped from a wessex in
Hong Kong
Bruni and NI
 
Vienna_70 said:
I can remember Concorde, during its test flights, flying over our farm in Cornwall , and being visible, as it wasn’t very high

Also, on clear nights, once it had started its regular service to the
States, the sonic boom, as it cleared land, was something we almost set our clocks by.
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Question.....my dad was asked to insure a warehouse in Cornwall under concorde test flight path but no one could do it because the roof kept shattering when it flew over, is this true....
 
Tuearts right boot said:
Question.....my dad was asked to insure a warehouse in Cornwall under concorde test flight path but no one could do it because the roof kept shattering when it flew over, is this true....
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It is. West Cornwall and towns such as Camborne were particularly impacted by the impact of the sonic boom and led to the issue being raised in parliament (1970's) and many claims for damages against the government being settled.
 
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