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Barr Beacon

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Can get very blowy up there. Where we walk our little dog and Doe Bank the little park down the road from there. Galloped a horse many a time over there too happy memories.
 
I have some very nice photographs that were taken there in the 1930s of my Nan and Grandad, with my late father (when he was just a lad). It is nice to have the countryside so near to the city. As Pedrocut has said @ #368 they do claim that you can see 11-15 counties from there. I think that you would have to have a very clear day and very good eyes, to see anything near that many (as well as being able to know where one county ends and another one starts). I remember being told that as a schoolboy and trying to get my bearings. In the end, I gave up and just accepted that you could see "many a mile". ;)
 
John L said:
I have some very nice photographs that were taken there in the 1930s of my Nan and Grandad, with my late father (when he was just a lad). It is nice to have the countryside so near to the city. As Pedrocut has said @ #368 they do claim that you can see 11-15 counties from there. I think that you would have to have a very clear day and very good eyes, to see anything near that many (as well as being able to know where one county ends and another one starts). I remember being told that as a schoolboy and trying to get my bearings. In the end, I gave up and just accepted that you could see "many a mile". ;)
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how lovely to have those family photos john...they are so precious to have...i know many people who have very few or none at all

lyn
 
How far can you see from the top of Barr Beacon, a height of 227m ?

There is a site to calculate the distance to the horizon from an observation height. For 227m it calculates 53.8km. So presumably if we centre a compass on the map we would be able to find out how many counties.

 
nursesue said:
Langstraat - were you resident in Great Barr area during 1960s-70s?? Which schools did you attend?? Sounds like we were in the same neighbourhood and am just wandering if we possibly know each other?? I'll understand if you don't wish to give personnal info. I went to St Margarets school and the Dartmouth High (Wilderness lane) from 1965ish -1977. I was in Elgar house !!! I remember Holy Name church andthe Saturday club in the old Beacon Cinema to watch banana splits and the double-deckers:D We used to cut threw St Mags hosital to avoid a police speed camera spot. The hospital did have a fearsome and scary personna but all they had were learning difficulties and some were just unmarried mums shunned by society. Wasn't the hospital originally a stately home for the Scott family - hence the Scott Arms precinct and pub??
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Welcome to the Forum, blueboy77777.

Were you trying to make a comment on nursesue's post? (I think she is no longer a member of the Forum. Neither is Langstraat. Their posts go back a long way!)

Chris
 
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