Inspired by that...'Wonders of Greece' Thread!

Not just beautiful buildings....but beautiful sights and pictures that sum up Britain in all its glory!

Feel free to add your own pics...I will be adding many more!

http://www.birkbinnard.com/europeweb/images/Big%20Ben.jpg
Houses of Parliment

http://www.bluehayes.co.uk/Images/PalmTrees.jpg
St Ives Beach

http://www.daido-it.ac.jp/~doboku/miki/bridge/forth-r2.jpg
Fourth Rail Bridge

http://college.hmco.com/history/west/mosaic/chapter3/images/hadrians_wall.jpg
Hadrians wall...75 miles Long...East Coast to West Coast

http://www.kbray.com/wp-content/newyear2005_fireworks.jpg
London Eye...New Years

http://www.buyimage.co.uk/photonet/southdevon/images/42.jpg
Brgh Island

http://www.newmarket-bsac.org.uk/divesites/2004/Scillies/05-AbbeyGardens/med-PICT1907.JPG
Tresco Scilly Isles

http://www.eden-project.co.uk/images/biomeview-b-8270003.jpg
Eden Project Cornwall

http://www.sportsvenue-technology.com/contractor_images/lighthouse/lighthouse3.jpg
Piccadilly Circus

http://www.city-sightseeing.com/Images/gallerypics/Brighton/royal_pavillion2.jpg
Royal Pavillion Brighton

that's a tourist brochure
architecture :dunno:

What you on about....There are some top Buildings in there!

And anyhoo....why not...that greek guy did it!

You could say...
Im trying to teach the world what britain actually is about...

Its not a damp cold old boring place where people travel everywhere by umbrella and drink tea 24/7

Great idea! I wouldn't agree that the isle of Jura, Brgh Island? and Picadilly Circus are the best of Britain though.

Canterbury
Leeds Castle
Stonehenge
Bath
Chester
Oxford
Cambridge
Aberystwyth
Shrewsbury

would all have been much more appropriate contenders for a best of british. A St Ives palm tree, best of british? You're drunk?

Giants Causeway:
http://www.sgj.us/photos2/giants_causeway_Ireland.jpg
The Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. It is made up of some 40,000 massive black basalt columns sticking out of the sea. The dramatic sight has inspired legends of giants striding over the sea to Scotland. Geological studies of these formations over the last 300 years have greatly contributed to the development of the earth sciences, and show that this striking landscape was caused by volcanic activity during the Tertiary, some 50–60 million years ago.

Durham Castle and Cathedral:
http://danny.oz.au/travel/scotland/p/4451-durham-cathedral.jpg
Durham Cathedral was built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the relics of St Cuthbert (evangelizer of Northumbria) and the Venerable Bede. It attests to the importance of the early Benedictine monastic community and is the largest and finest example of Norman architecture in England. The innovative audacity of its vaulting foreshadowed Gothic architecture. Behind the cathedral stands the castle, an ancient Norman fortress which was the residence of the prince-bishops of Durham.

Ironbrige Gorge:
http://www.shropshirerocks.org/assets/userfiles/000066.jpg
Ironbridge is known throughout the world as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution. It contains all the elements of progress that contributed to the rapid development of this industrial region in the 18th century, from the mines themselves to the railway lines. Nearby, the blast furnace of Coalbrookdale, built in 1708, is a reminder of the discovery of coke. The bridge at Ironbridge, the world's first bridge constructed of iron, had a considerable influence on developments in the fields of technology and architecture.

Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey:
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/site_372.jpg
A striking landscape was created around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey and Fountains Hall Castle, in Yorkshire. The 18th-century landscaping, gardens and canal, the 19th-century plantations and vistas, and the neo-Gothic castle of Studley Royal Park, make this an outstanding site.

Stonehenge:
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/site_373.jpg
Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical significance is still being explored. These holy places and the nearby Neolithic sites are an incomparable testimony to prehistoric times.

Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd :
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/site_374.jpg
The castles of Beaumaris and Harlech (largely the work of the greatest military engineer of the time, James of St George) and the fortified complexes of Caernarfon and Conwy are located in the former principality of Gwynedd, in north Wales. These extremely well-preserved monuments are examples of the colonization and defence works carried out throughout the reign of Edward I (1272–1307) and the military architecture of the time.

St. Kilda
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/site_387bis.jpg
This volcanic archipelago, with its spectacular landscapes, is situated off the coast of the Hebrides and comprises the islands of Hirta, Dun, Soay and Boreray. It has some of the highest cliffs in Europe, inhabited by large colonies of rare and endangered species of birds, especially puffins and gannets. Very high bird densities occur in a relatively small area which is conditioned by the complex and different ecological niches existing in the site. The complex ecological dynamics in the three marine zones present in the site are essential to the maintenance of both marine and terrestrial biodiversity.

Blenheim Palace:
http://www.churchwell.co.uk/images/blenheim-palace.jpg
Blenheim Palace, near Oxford, stands in a romantic park created by the famous landscape gardener 'Capability' Brown. It was presented by the English nation to John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, in recognition of his victory in 1704 over French and Bavarian troops. Built between 1705 and 1722 and characterized by an eclectic style and a return to national roots, it is a perfect example of an 18th-century princely dwelling.

Westminster Palace:
http://www.fototime.com/3A0C61FF1A5715C/standard.jpg
Westminster Palace, rebuilt from the year 1840 on the site of important medieval remains, is a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture. The site – which also comprises the small medieval Church of Saint Margaret, built in Perpendicular Gothic style, and Westminster Abbey, where all the sovereigns since the 11th century have been crowned – is of great historic and symbolic significance.

City of Bath:
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/site_428.jpg
Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, under George III, it developed into an elegant town with neoclassical Palladian buildings, which blend harmoniously with the Roman baths.

Hadrian's Wall:
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/site_430.jpg
Built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian c. A.D. 122 at the northernmost limits of the Roman province of Britannia, the 118-km-long wall is a striking example of the organization of a military zone. It is a good illustration of the defensive techniques and geopolitical strategies of ancient Rome.

Tower of London:
http://www.londonbyclick.com/imgallery/london_tower/London-Tower.jpg
The massive White Tower is a typical example of Norman military architecture, whose influence was felt throughout the kingdom. It was built on the Thames by William the Conqueror to protect London and assert his power. The Tower of London – an imposing fortress with many layers of history, which has become one of the symbols of royalty – was built around the White Tower.

Canterbury Cathedral:
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/cathedrl.jpg
Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spiritual head of the Church of England for nearly five centuries. Canterbury's other important monuments are the modest Church of St Martin, the oldest church in England; the ruins of the Abbey of St Augustine, a reminder of the saint's evangelizing role in the Heptarchy from 597; and Christ Church Cathedral, a breathtaking mixture of Romanesque and Perpendicular Gothic, where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170.

Old & New town's of Edinburgh:
http://cap.ee.imperial.ac.uk/~tcg/My%20Pictures/Edinburgh%20Castle.jpg
Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a medieval fortress; and the neoclassical New Town, whose development from the 18th century onwards had a far-reaching influence on European urban planning. The harmonious juxtaposition of these two contrasting historic areas, each with many important buildings, is what gives the city its unique character.

Greenwich:
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/site_795.jpg
The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Queen's House (by Inigo Jones) was the first Palladian building in England, while the complex that was until recently the Royal Naval College was designed by Christopher Wren. The park, laid out on the basis of an original design by André Le Nôtre, contains the Old Royal Observatory, the work of Wren and the scientist Robert Hooke.

Orkney Island:
http://whc.unesco.org/sites/images/514g.jpg
The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5,000 years ago.

New Lanark:
http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/scotland/lanark2.jpg
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism.

Liverpool Waterfront:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/worldheritagecity/graphics/large/threegraces.jpg
Six areas in the historic centre and docklands of the maritime mercantile City of Liverpool bear witness to the development of one of the world’s major trading centres in the 18th and 19th centuries. Liverpool played an important role in the growth of the British Empire and became the major port for the mass movement of people, e.g. slaves and emigrants from northern Europe to America. Liverpool was a pioneer in the development of modern dock technology, transport systems, and port management. The listed sites feature a great number of significant commercial, civic and public buildings, including St George’s Plateau.

I was also going for Beautiful britain aswel as 'best of'

Manchester, the world's first industrialised city... I mean just check out the photos thread in my signature!

http://www.city-sightseeing.com/Images/gallerypics/Bath/Roman_Baths.jpg
The Roman Baths...in Bath

Was Bath named after the Baths...or are Baths...named after Bath?

http://www.webcom.com/~trw/London/images/38331915.jpg
Royal Albert Hall, Built 1860s

http://www.ashlintree.com/Paris%20to%20London/1726%20St%20Pauls%20Cathedral.jpg
St Pauls Cathedral....the most loved building in England!

(This building was recently cleaned....anyone got pictures of Clean white St Pauls?)

http://www.sunnyworld.org/images/photo/2003LondonDad/126TrafalgarAndNelsonsColumn.jpg
Trafalgar Square

http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff/photos/uk/London1a/NelsonClose.jpg
Lord Nelson....Britains Hero

that manchester bird is getting on my tits!
polperro
hove
deal

Was Bath named after the Baths...or are Baths...named after Bath?
read history!

http://www.mendipsociety.org.uk/Photos/Scenery/Cheddar_Gorge_610wide.jpg
Cheddar Gorge

thank you!

Dartmoor
Offa's Wall
Monmouth
Land's End

http://www.abc.net.au/postcode/behind/img/burnout_horse.jpg
The Uffington White Horse...2000 Years Old

http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/jpgs/secc_angledext.jpg
SECC Glasgow

St Pauls Cathedral....the most loved building in England!

(This building was recently cleaned....anyone got pictures of Clean white St Pauls?)


It's still in the process of being cleaned. They haven't even started on the dome yet. They hope to have the whole thing finished in time for the 300th anniversary of its construction in 2008.

View from Fleet Street taken by LSyd.

"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" on the left is a very famous pub that's been going since the 1500's and was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666.



http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/33220333.jpg

http://www.picturesofgateshead.co.uk/angel_of_the_north/angel35.jpg
The Angel of the North

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/photos/white_cliffs.jpg
White Cliffs of Dover

Portsmouth Millenium Tower



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/midgeblackandwhite/Picture028.jpg

God I love this country.

God I love this country.

Post a pic of your favorite bit then :D

http://www.ecvimcongress.org/images/glasgow/Loch%20lomond.jpg
Loch Lomond

http://www.middlewoodfarm.fsnet.co.uk/gallery%20jpegs/abbeyreflection.jpg
whitby Abbey....Built 657AD....Destroyed by those darn Vikings in 750AD



Requests for this thread...a decent pic of the Blackpool illuminations and Deal Caste

Whitby Abbey was much later than that... the original abbey was built 650AD, but the ruins you've pictured are only about 7/800 years old.

Oh yeah my mistake...the ruins in the pic are of the rebuilt abbey....1087 apparently!

Still...1000 years old :eek:

Surprisingly, I've seen most of those places in the pics with the exception of a few. The UK will be more appealing if it had better weather, hehe. I love the Lake District and the Highlands, lovely places.

The weather aint that bad, people! It has been 20 deg C (and thats in the north) this weekend, and we're only just going into British summer time (BST)...

Its been hitting 20'C here most of March (I Live in South Lincolnshire)

Surprisingly, I've seen most of those places in the pics with the exception of a few.


I was actually counting the places ive seen....about 3 I think :(

http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/peckham/angleelev.jpg
http://www.archidose.org/Jul00/alsop1.jpg
Peckham Library
http://www.sp3ccylad.com/lincoln-cathedral.jpg
Lincoln Cathedral...Former Worlds Tallest Building

http://www.greatdreams.com/arthur-court.jpg
Caerleon amphitheater

I was actually counting the places ive seen....about 3 I think :(

Don't worry, hopefully you'll see more soon :).

http://www.maythorp.worldonline.co.uk/picnicpics/humberbridge.gif
Humber Bridge...The worlds longest Suspension Bridge...Maybe 2nd or 3rd at the moment....I havnt Checked!

2220M...7283ft long


Ive been there...Infact thats the furthest north ive ever been....Furthest south...Cairo

London

http://www.globalphotos.org/london/20041226/DSCN4606.jpg

http://www.thefilebin.com/userfiles/britain2004/dec30/DSCN6141.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/london/20041226/DSCN4743.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/london/20041229/DSCN5747.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/london/20041228/DSCN5323.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/london/20041228/DSCN5341.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/london/20041228/DSCN5327.jpg

http://www.thefilebin.com/userfiles/dublin2004/dec28/DSCN5435.jpg

^^That's one crazy trafffic light. Wouldn't like to be stopped at that thing.

LOL....no its a roundabout sculpture

http://www.bofthebang.com/weblog/images/091204/091204_06_480.jpg
Tallest Sculpture in the UK 'B of the Bang' 185ft

I bored...so I thought I would grace you all with some more pics of Britain!

http://www.view.captureweb.co.uk/images/photographer/images/24/211.jpg
Great Court British Museum
http://www.rafocus.org.uk/files/images/b6aa139715ec75b5feeb27396289e80b.jpg
Imperial War Museum North
http://www.archimage.co.uk/Images/Architecture/003Architecture.jpg
Laban dance School
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/pglondonHYDEPARKserpentine.jpg
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
http://www.culandsoc.com/~culandsoc/uploaded-images/Arena_small.jpg
Sheldon Square
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/Imax_cinema.jpg
Imax Cinema London
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/Hoover_headquarters.jpg
Hoover Building
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/london_taxi.jpg
London Taxi

WANTED....MORE PICTURE OF SCOTLAND, WALES, N.IRELAND

http://www.southbeds.gov.uk/local-business/images/language_gfx/white_lion.jpg

Chalk Lion, Bedfordshire.

http://www.chetwynd.info/images/crags/cornwall/lands_end_air.jpg

Lands end, Cornwall

http://www.aetheronline.com/mario/images/GSC/GSC3.jpg

Science Centre, Glasgow

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/newquay/17.jpg
Coolest house in the UK....Towen Beach

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Warning: 56k'ers, phonelines may melt.

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland:

http://www.toscotland.com/images/hometop_1.jpg

http://www.shef.ac.uk/jhj/aonach.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1373750-Reconstruction_of_Iron_Age_Crannog-Scotland.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1479655-Winter_Scenery_Tranquil_Beauty-Scotland.jpg

http://www.visitscotland.com/i/hmiwa.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1481300-glencoe_close_up_rugged_beauty_and_history-Scotland.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1625582-Pinus_Sylvestris_plantation_conifers_and_snow_cap-Scotland.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/423000-General_Tips-Highland.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1967807-Campsite_View-Highland.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1981229-The_Camping_Experience_Loch_Duich-Highland.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1981255-Free_viewing_without_the_crowds-Highland.jpg

[The isle of Staffa]
http://p.vtourist.com/389317-Travel_Picture-Staffa.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/389320-Travel_Picture-Staffa.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/409835-Travel_Picture-Staffa.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/558840-Travel_Picture-Iona.jpg
[/The Isle of Staffa]

http://p.vtourist.com/410000-Travel_Picture-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/410010-Travel_Picture-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/410128-Things_To_Do-Inverness.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/463816-Travel_Picture-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/463820-Lough_Corruisk_on_the_Isle_of_Skye-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/463823-Transportation-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/558827-Travel_Picture-Handa_Island.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/558856-Travel_Picture-Glenelg.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/643360-Ben_Nevis-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/735877-The_Old_Man_of_Storr_interesting_rock_formation-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/735887-Driving_through_Glencoe-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/735920-Travel_Picture-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/777264-The_Cuillin_mountains-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/810672-Things_To_Do-Inverness.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/861712-Glen_Coe-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/870539-Travel_Picture-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/903557-View_of_Mull_from_Iona-Iona.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1003342-Rannoch_Moor-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1003343-Travel_Picture-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1235982-Travel_Picture-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1344823-Ben_Nevis-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1430637-View_from_the_foot_of_the_ramp-Applecross.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1472168-On_the_way_back_from_Kylerhea-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1503673-Other_Worldly_Trotternish_here_Quiraing-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1557835-Cliffs_on_Ben_Nevis-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1622731-sunset_over_skye_and_raasay-Applecross.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1663620-Ooooh_Scottish_rocks-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1746522-River_Ness_and_Church-Inverness.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1763588-Jason_I_walking_towards_FW_from_Steale_Gorge-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1880592-Lighthouse_and_Eigg-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1919266-Take_in_that_view-Fort_William.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1921150-The_view_from_Torrin_to_Blaven_m-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1921980-Sunset_New_Years_Day-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/2018968-Travel_Picture-Isle_of_Skye.jpg

No visit is complete without meeting the locals:

http://p.vtourist.com/530442-Eileen_and_Jackie-Inverness.jpg

MANCHESTER

Cross st

http://img213.exs.cx/img213/3503/crossst0es.jpg

Exchange Square

http://img213.exs.cx/img213/4752/exchangesquare7pn.jpg

Lowry Theatre

http://img213.exs.cx/img213/8044/lowry3sc.jpg

Lowry Bridge

http://img213.exs.cx/img213/1306/lowryb5hi.jpg

St Anns Square

http://img213.exs.cx/img213/2746/stanns6qw.jpg

Manchester Town Hall

http://img213.exs.cx/img213/8848/townhall6he.jpg

War Museum North

http://img213.exs.cx/img213/8814/warmuseum7sa.jpg

Wow....Manchester is soon becoming a world class city!

From those pic i can see why some people call it the UKs second city!

http://www.fiskeri.no/Observasjoner04/RockAll.jpg
Rockall....the most remote Island in the world...300 miles from mainland GB!

Haha, a rock is the best of Britain ... ooook!

Its there because of its amazing history! LONG BUT FUNNY!

The complete history of Rockall
You couldn't make this stuff up
by Kieren McCarthy
It may be just 83 feet across, 65 foot high, 100 foot wide and the most isolated island in the world but never has a rock has such a deep and fascinating history. Well, not a rock that no man has ever lived on anyway.

It has been invaded by the SAS, caused the death of hundreds of people, provoked international disputes over ownership, put an Act through Parliament and become one of the richest pieces of land in the Northern Hemisphere.

According to legend, Rockall is the last remnant of Brazil (the Western Land of Eternal Youth), although the Irish reckon it came from a pebble thrown from some no-doubt inebriated compatriot called Finn McCool.

Clearly that's all bollocks. Rockall is, and always will be, a ruddy big lump of rock sticking out the sea about 300 miles from Scotland. Actually, it's the tip of an old volcano made of three-material granite quartz rock that erupted round about 50 million years ago.

It has no soil. Which has put off those that have ever seen it from living there. So no one ever has. Limpets have never been keen on soil anyway so they often hang around playing in the surf, while sea birds occasionally go there for a holiday (usually the depressive types, like gannets).

The first person that decided while it was there he'd get on top of it was back in 1810. He wasn't very impressed so he left. Someone else tried fifty-two years later but he couldn't get up the side of the rock and left in a foul temper. Then an old sea dog, bored with sailing up and down all day, sweating and hauling huge amounts of heavy fish only to go home to his nagging wife in Grimsby (who wasn't half as attractive as she was when he married her – and she was no looker then either) thought he'd liven up his day a bit and he climbed on top. In 1888.

"More people have landed on the moon than have landed on Rockall," Mr William Ross, MP for Kilmarnock, 1971. He was right at the time too.
It was only in the 1900s that Rockall really took off – with eight landings in a whole century. The limpets formed a union to complain – though sadly by that time Margaret Thatcher has brought in new anti-union legislation and it was dismantled before the first meeting was held.

So what has made Rockall such a problem and why do the UK, Ireland, Iceland and Denmark and a mad old Scottish bastard from the Mackay clan all reckon they own it?

Well, the fact that it just sort of pops up unexpected like has been one main problem. A huge number of ships have forgotten about it only to be reminded that volcanoes are not renowned for their rubber-like characteristics. In 1824, the Helen of Dundee hit it by mistake but very hard. The crew managed to survive but the passengers weren't so lucky. Not learning from this lesson, the Norge hit it in 1904 and 600 people, most of whom could swim, drowned.

"There can be no place more desolate, despairing and awful," Lord Kennet, 1971. Silly old bugger, what does he know?
The Queen claimed it for the UK on 18 September 1955. Liz Two formally annexed it "to eliminate the possibility of embarrassing counter-claims once the Hebridean guided missiles project was underway". She always has been a very considerate monarch like that.

The HMS Vidal landed on Rockall, cemented in a brass plaque, hoisted up the Union Jack and Lt Commander Desmond Scott (from Whitstable) claimed it for the UK. He then got back on the boat and fired a 21-gun salute at it. [This was when the limpets decided enough was enough and called for a meeting of the molluscs.]

But when J Abrach Mackay of the Mackay clan heard about it, he went mental and insisted the Admiralty hand it back to him because his father had claimed it in 1846. They wisely ignored him and he shut up.

Then, 15 years later, word got out that Rockall may in fact be sitting on top of billions of pounds worth of natural gas. And would you believe it but suddenly everyone seemed to have a claim on it. The Danish and Icelandics weren't interested in the gas of course, they just wanted fishing rights. You see, a lot of fish hang around Rockall too in the hope that a ship will crash and they'll get the chance to smugly blow bubbles in fishermen's drowning faces (fish are vindictive like that). Oh, and there's some oil as well.

Such was the fuss that the UK government thought it ought to make its ownership claim formal and passed the Rockall Act in 1971, pushed through by Lord Campbell of Croy. The official explanation was that the British Navy used it for target practice. The Queen gave it Royal Assent on 10 February 1972 and it became part of Invernesshire (top left of Scotland).

"How many British ministers have visited Rockall in each of the last 10 years?" Mr Corbyn. "None," Mr Fatchett. Hansard, 1 December 1997.
In 1974, the UK decided that no one else was allowed within 50 miles of Rockall and the shit really hit the fan. Brilliantly, the navy installed a temporary sentry box and flag and stuck two Royal Marines in full ceremonial dress next to it to guard it. The picture was only released 10 years later as part of another celebration of the rock's Britishness.

Also, the UK pointed out, quite reasonably, that since Rockall was part of the same land mass as Scotland, all these arguments were academic. Had that been true, it would have been right. On the 10 December, Denmark got diplomatic. The UK ignored it.

Until one year and eight days later when the UK started making noises about just how much it owned Rockall. The Danes became suspicious and, sure enough, very soon after the UK issued petrol drilling licences around the area. The Danes came steaming back claiming 300,000 square kilometres on one side of Rockall – which of course, the UK and Ireland had already put claim to.

Iceland, not to be beaten, started drawing maps of which bits it owned – which, of course, the UK and Ireland already had put claim to. The wind of change was flying against Britain. The Economist magazine – which can sometimes be so right and other times so wrong – said Britain "hoped it had got away with a claim to a swathe of the Atlantic waters by incorporating the far-flung inhabitable island of Rockall into the Scottish county of Invernesshire". It did make up for the blunder though by saying Ireland's claim was "as scientifically unimaginative as it is legally impeccable". The Irish had simply drawn a line 200 miles from its coast and said everything between it belonged to it. They didn't want Rockall though, so sod em.

Denmark began a new argument that Rockall wasn't even an island and so all claims were off. And then, with a stroke of genius, the UK put an end to it all.

They asked former SAS man, survival expert, lone Atlantic sailor and all-round good guy Tom Mclean to go live on the rock. So he did – from 26 May to 4 July. In a shed. Since Tom had lived there for over a month, it was clearly an island. And not only that but one owned by the UK. That shut the Danes up. Ireland also gave up whingeing and came to some kind of agreement. [But that didn't stop a couple of modern-day Finn McCools trying to get on Rockall in 1992 and again in 1994 though. Both attempts failed miserably.]

All the UK had to do now was ignore the international legislation the Law of the Sea – forever – and it was home sailing. It has yet to do it. And long may that treaty remain unsigned.

But just when Liz Two and the Royal Navy thought it was all over, in came the environmentalists. Greenpeace to be exact. What Greenpeace doesn't realise (and it would be hurt if it knew) is that marine life and sea birds as a whole can't stand it. They find the whole organisation rather patronising and would rather be left to sort out their own arguments – but Greenpeace will insist on getting involved.

Anyway, interfering for the umpteenth time, three Greenies landed on Rockall from a helicopter (wimps) on 10 June 1997 and stayed in a capsule for 42 days. But since this was longer than Tom Mclean, they reckoned they now owned Rockall. One of the meddlers said: "By seizing Rockall we claim her seas for the planet and all its peoples. No one has the right to unleash this oil into our threatened climate." Of course, we only have it on their word that they said this.

The transcript of still-classified tape from a bug planted into Rockall several years earlier recorded no such event, merely lots of griping about how cold it was and could you please look away when I'm going to the toilet. Christ, how much longer do I have to sit in a capsule with you? And please put on some deodorant, you smell worse than the gannets.

Anyway, far from sending the Navy in to arrest and detain the Greenies, bods from the Foreign Office had a meeting a few days later when "People sitting on Rockall" came up as item number fourteen to be discussed. A junior minister explained that while having a cigar and brandy in the club last night, he'd come up with rather a funny idea. He told the assembled meeting, they roared with laughter, put a statement out to the press and Greenpeace was suitably chastised.

Of course, that civil servant hadn't thought of it – his rather more witty friend in the Treasury had, but it did his career no end of good. And it was this: "Rockall is British territory. It is part of Scotland and anyone is free to go there and can stay as long as they please."

And so, armed with a couple or blankets, thick woolly coats, a small camping stove and some computer equipment, we took the UK government up on its offer and started an online newspaper to best represent the view of all Rockall's residents (us).

It had to be done over the Internet because the publishers said the paper would get too soggy otherwise.

How strange...

How about this then.....a Chapel built by Italian soldiers during WWII....On the Orkney Islands!

http://www.ourpasthistory.com/churches/Image5.jpg
http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~bc/italchap02m.JPG
http://www.scotlandforvisitors.co.uk/italianchapel.jpg
http://www.celticemporium.co.uk/images/gallery/full/Pix_ItalianChapel.jpg

Manchester modern architecture is just great!!!!

http://carnets.de.route.free.fr/Photos%20gf/Londres/Tate%20Gallery.jpg
British Tate Gallery!

:eek: nice pics people :okay:

Nice to see people out of the UK enjoying this thread!

http://www.cocozzacollection.org.uk/images/leicester/cityscape/sculpture.jpg
A sculpture on a UK street depicting our 3 main sports...Football, Cricket and Rugby!

http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/dali_sculpture.jpg
Crazy Dali Sculpture

http://www.green-shoots.org.uk/photo_section/16Wales_holiday/sculpture.jpg
Britains world famous old ladies check out a seaside sculpture!

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t039/T039430A.jpg
Robin Hood Statue...Nottingham

http://www.paintedbylight.co.uk/flowers/images/Thatched%20Garden.jpg
Thatched roof house street!

Wow....Manchester is soon becoming a world class city!

From those pic i can see why some people call it the UKs second city!

some people maybe but not george alagaya on bbc news ...he knows that brum holds that title hee hee

good for him. anyway nice pics everyone. i especially like the highland ones, very very nice.

http://www.intermac.co.uk/homepage/photographs/glasgow/university.jpg
Glasgow University

http://www.city-sightseeing.com/Images/gallerypics/Glasgow/City_Chambers.jpg
Glasgow City Chambers

http://www.bioscience2006.org/images/artgalmuskel.jpg
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

The Peak District

http://www.torrac.co.uk/temp/ladybower1.jpg

I know I know....one of these pics are of Ireland....but still, close enough!

slieve league....the highest sea cliffs in europe!
http://marette.free.fr/irlande/images/03%20Slieve%20League.jpg

Newquay...world famous for its surfing culture!
http://www.newquay-cornwall-holidays.co.uk/images/surfing.jpg

http://server.boardgamestuff.com:8000/gray/homepage/pix/Stonehenge.jpg
Stonehenge....5000+ years old ill have you know :D

http://gallery.devco.net/albums/Bridges/albert_bridge3.sized.jpg
Albert Bridge London

http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Trips/Mull/SimonSheppard/PhoneBox1.jpg
Lonely red phone box....rare these days...many are Grade II listed buildings!

http://www.buyimage.co.uk/photonet/thameswalk/images/28.jpg
Trafalgar Square Christmas Time

http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~djandyp/nz/2000images/devilspunchbowl.jpg
Devils Punchbowl

http://www.buyimage.co.uk/photonet/engslides/images/3693.jpg
Hunstanton Beach Cliffs

http://www.guru.net.nz/albums/UK_Kent/Canterbury_Cathedral_Entrance.jpg
Canterbury Cathedral Entance Archway

http://www.chycor2.co.uk/westcountryviewscornwall/towns/portisaac/portisaac01.jpg
Port Isaac Cornwall

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albums/albup26/canarywharf1.sized.jpg
Unicyclist Canary Wharf Fountain London

http://www.chetwynd.info/images/rock/sea_stacks/st_johns_head.jpg
St johns Head

http://ssw.countryside-properties.com/nvbuildings/images/home6.jpg
The Lowry Manchester

http://www.manchester.com/gallery/gallery19/7.jpg
Imperial War Museum of the North

What you on about....There are some top Buildings in there!

And anyhoo....why not...that greek guy did it!

You could say...
Im trying to teach the world what britain actually is about...

Its not a damp cold old boring place where people travel everywhere by umbrella and drink tea 24/7

Those pictures really don't show what britain really is about. It is a damp cold, old place. Boring at times yes, but Britain does have alot of gems, both architectural and natural. The weather is a joke though. It's been pissing it down for the past month! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Bring back the sunshine please! =P

if it carrys on pissing pissing down feel free to piss off

Sounds like you live up north, you should move down south where its nice and warm :D

Is here....sunny most of the time....pretty much every day this month its been 15'C+

They don't say 'it's grim up north' for nothing.

http://img220.echo.cx/img220/2250/flagstaffmi561ez.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Nice Thames view!

Leeds, 4th/5th city of the UK. A few of it's best bits.

City Square

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v435/davidlufc/57291b45.jpg

Leeds Town Hall

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v435/davidlufc/Leeds2.jpg

K2

http://www.mcfade.com/images/LeedsAt/images/The%20Cube%20in%20Sepia.jpg

Leeds County Arcade

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/LeedsCountyArc17.jpg

Waterfront

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid101/p3cd9d1be3bc127db75ae51e2b59b3725/f9d1ae2a.jpg

Great stuff.....Well I just spent about 1hour putting pics on here and when I clicked post relply the site couldnt be found so ive had to do it again :(

Anyhoo....you really should visit southers England....1000's of Plam Trees and beatiful plants....warm....amazing beaches with crystal clear water!

http://www.arees.freeserve.co.uk/2003/1/4.JPG
St Marys, Scilly Isles

http://www.arees.freeserve.co.uk/2003/1/3.JPG
Old Town Church graveyard, St. Mary's

http://www.toms-home.de/Pictures/England2002/Pic_0188.jpg
Morrab Park Penzance, Cornwall

http://www.chinesewhispers.info/p7250037.jpg
Harbour Devon somewhere!

I'd say Leeds is 6th/7th, not 4th/5th. I'd place London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh above it for certain, plus possibly Liverpool too.

well, IMO, Leeds is above Manchester!






hehe

uh o, everyone run, we can see where this is going

Sounds like you live up north, you should move down south where its nice and warm :D

Is here....sunny most of the time....pretty much every day this month its been 15'C+

In terms of rain it isn't really a north/south divide but a west/east divide, the west of the country gets more rain than the east and mountainous areas get the most as this map shows.

http://www.british-towns.net/english/british_precipitation.jpg

Rainfall in the UK isn't actually that high by international standards, even cities with a rainy reputation like Manchester have less annual rainfall than places like Sydney, New York or Milan. Rain tends to be light and persistent and the reason the UK probably has its rainy rep is because of the number of rainy days rather than the actual amount of water that falls.

London has 153 average with rainfall over 0.25mm, York has 187 and Oban in Scotland has 222! In the West rainfall tends to be heavier in the winter and lighter in the summer while in the east the summers are often wetter than the winters.

The temperature in the Summer is generally warmer in South and Central England while in the winter the eastern half of the country tends to be colder as it is more affected by weather coming in from Scandinavia and Russia. These are two old maps unfortunately but they show the general pattern of temperatures in January and July.

January

http://www.scotclimb.org.uk/images/uk-jan-temp.jpg

July

http://www.scotclimb.org.uk/images/uk-jul-temp.jpg

Overview of the British climate from the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/country_guides/country.shtml?tt=TT003790)

Whatta joke!!!
Pictures of buildinghs lit up at night to disguise their utter ugliness! (I'm referring to atrocities like the Lowry Rheatre in Manchester). Eh, oop, Choock! Ah'm nt bahn et!

Contrast that with the tate Britain picture. Basically, there oughta be a rule whereby pics should be of buildings in daylight, on a dull day. IF they still look attractive, ok. Otherwise, it's basically a commentary on the lighting. Innit?

Oh, and the *bleep*ing Peckham Library. They had to SHUT IT DOWN to change LIGHTBULBS!!! Nice one, eh? All silk frock and no knickers!
Is this, by any chance, a 'fawn over every single new building' forum? Any place for a grumpy old SOB like yours truly? Hmmm....

Oh, and the *bleep*ing Peckham Library. They had to SHUT IT DOWN to change LIGHTBULBS!!! Nice one, eh? All silk frock and no knickers!
Is this, by any chance, a 'fawn over every single new building' forum? Any place for a grumpy old SOB like yours truly? Hmmm....

Personally I like both the Peckham library and The Lowry, I'm sure there is a 'hate progress or anything modern/fawn over Doric columns' forum if you search for it.

Yes theres room for many styles of architecture. We need not be constrained by any magic/golden ratio...

http://www.toms-home.de/Pictures/England2002/Pic_0257_small.jpg
Men-An-Tol
http://www.toms-home.de/Pictures/England2002/Pic_0280_small.jpg
Boscastle Gift Shop
http://www.toms-home.de/Pictures/England2002/Pic_0036_small.jpg
Mermaid Street, Rye
http://www.herstmonceux-castle.com/images/castle.jpg
Herstmonceux Castle, West Sussex

I'd say Leeds is 6th/7th, not 4th/5th. I'd place London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh above it for certain, plus possibly Liverpool too.

Can't you just go one thread without this pathetic city bashing. I made the statement quite ambiguous to prevent this kind of nonsense. Seriosuly, what is your problem? Can't we just have one thread celebrating Britain as a whole instead of resulting to this petty one up manship.

Here's a couple of my pics:

Mumbles, Swansea taken with my camera phone:

http://img179.echo.cx/img179/3681/mumbles11kp.jpg


A very old church near Hereford (Just outside of the SAS base):

http://img40.exs.cx/img40/3595/stmarys1r0if.jpg

http://img78.exs.cx/img78/5627/stmarys2r9dl.jpg

http://img94.exs.cx/img94/7680/pa110010r5eg.jpg

WOW!! very cool pics..

thanks guys, now i know what to see when i go there this summer!!!

That church is great....never seen anything like it!

As you can see ive gone a bit cornish lately....I just htink this place doesnt get the attention it deserves...Forigners...if you want a holiday to a traditional sea town...look no further than any of the towns in Cornwall!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/mousehole/21.jpg
Mousehole Harbour
http://www.parcangrouse.com/images/coverack_from_air.jpeg
Coverack Village
http://img179.echo.cx/img179/4533/scilly13ln.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Some of the Scilly isles from the air
http://img179.echo.cx/img179/170/scilly25cq.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
St Ives
http://img179.echo.cx/img179/1928/scilly34kp.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
St Just church on the Roseland Peninsula
http://img179.echo.cx/img179/2226/scilly47zm.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Kynance Cove
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/historical/24.jpg
Hermits Chapel Ruins
http://img94.echo.cx/img94/759/scilly59id.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Abandoned engine house/tin mine...100's in cornwall

http://www.adamspiers.org/photos/London/friends/Stacey_visit/Big_Ben_closeup.jpg

Big Ben as some call it....Has to bee looked closely to see how great it is....so many little carvings!

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Back to London...

The Westend
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040404052london.jpg
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040404053london.jpg

Selfridges, Oxford Street
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040826002london.jpghttp://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040826001london.jpg

http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040404027london.jpg

British Museum
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040826005london.jpg

Westminster Cathedral
http://www.request.org.uk/main/churches/tours/westcath/exterior.jpg

Victoria Memorial
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040515064london.jpg

Bunch of nutters....but tourists love them!
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040404012london.jpg

Buddhist Peace Pagoda
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040728013chelsea.jpg

To be continued...

http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040404126london.jpg
The Prime Meridian line that divides the East from the West (longitude 0° 0' 0'').

http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040515002kew.jpg
I forgot

http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040404062london.jpg
Great Fire of London Memorial on Pudding lane, where the fire started...The Fire wiped put most of London yet its thought no more than 10 people died!

http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/london/photos/20040404102london.jpg
The Globe Theatre....Shakespeare worked there you know!?

Back to Cornwall & the Scilly Isles...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/wallpaper/porthcurnobeach_800_600.jpg

http://img119.echo.cx/img119/3594/porthcurno4us.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Porthcurno

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/north_beaches/10.jpg
Coastpath between Boscastle and Tintagel

http://www.toms-home.de/Pictures/England2002/Pic_0203.jpg
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly

http://www.toms-home.de/Pictures/England2002/Pic_0207.jpg
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly

http://www.toms-home.de/Pictures/England2002/Pic_0224.jpg
St.Michael's Mount near Penzance, Cornwall

Some old skool shots:

Chipping Campden:
http://img133.echo.cx/img133/4449/chippingcampden6de.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Warwick:

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/2353/warwicklordleycester3ws.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Broadway:

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/9559/broadwayold4nn.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/7499/broadway19hz.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Castle Combe:

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/4817/castlecombewiltsb3cy.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Stamford:

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/9671/stamford2b9sp.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/5084/stamfordriverb1lb.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Lower Slaughter:

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/2566/lowerslaughter22zx.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/691/lowerslaughtercotswolds3b0jr.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Cerne Abbas Giant:

http://img133.echo.cx/img133/5092/cerneabbasgiantchalkman9pf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Ah yes the Cerne Abbas Giant....For forigners get ready for a history lesson....
Unknown when it was made many believe it to be Greek God Hercules and thus many believe it to be carved in early AD around 1900 years ago!

There are dozens of hill carvings in the UK modern and ancient!

Britain is apparently the most haunted country in the world....cool I guess

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/index.html

Many wonderful things that can be found on these isles!

This is my fave of all hill carvings....you may remember it from page 1 of this thread
http://www.abc.net.au/postcode/behind/img/burnout_horse.jpg
The uffington horse...2000+ years old!

God I love this country.

Me too!! Sooooo much better then the USA

Me too!! Sooooo much better then the USA

Hmm, the USA is great too, its natural and man-made beauty is unique and spectacular, i'm not sure why you would compare the two?They're totally different in almost all repects other than language.

http://img244.echo.cx/img244/4264/dscf00508ij.th.jpg (http://img244.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscf00508ij.jpg)

Hmm, the USA is great too, its natural and man-made beauty is unique and spectacular, i'm not sure why you would compare the two?They're totally different in almost all repects other than language.

Indeed its all to taste....and I would want any americans to see that comment or else we could see this thread filled with pics of the USA!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40283000/jpg/_40283827_fans300.jpg

Our football culture....had its problems in the past but now some regard the english as the best fans in the world!

More english fans in Japan and Korea than any other country....same with EURO 2004

Happy St George's Day everyone (well everyone who is English anyway)

Indeed its all to taste....and I would want any americans to see that comment or else we could see this thread filled with pics of the USA!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40283000/jpg/_40283827_fans300.jpg

Our football culture....had its problems in the past but now some regard the english as the best fans in the world!

More english fans in Japan and Korea than any other country....same with EURO 2004

They dont regard, they know ... and we have been the best fans in the world for decades, and not just in Football :cheers:

Happy St Georges Day ... :cheers:

A good footie game this savo, then a night out on the town

Im English Through and Through, Im English Through and Through, I know I am Im sure I am ... Im English Through and Through

I found this pic and imediately thought of this thread...

http://www.thetravelrag.com/img_images/wallpaper/wallpaperOct03_800x600.jpg

http://www.bakertony.plus.com/Gherkin/6756%20View%20outside.JPG

Right then....lets take a trip up to Scotland shall we? (LANDSCAPE PICS)

Glen coe
http://www.jaclynreding.com/Scotland/glencoe.jpg
http://www.electricscotland.com/pictures/images/glencoe.jpg
http://www.caingram.info/Scotland/Glencoe/Glencoe.jpg

buachaille
http://www.inverlochycastlehotel.com/attractions/images/buachaille.jpg
http://www.transcotland.com/buach.jpg

Castle Stalker
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/uswallpaperimages/wallpaperimages/castlestalker-1024.jpg

Measach Falls (decided pic was too big for posting)
http://virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/ghayes/images/Dsc00540_Measach_Falls_high_resolution.jpg

Ben Nevis
http://calendar.scotsman.com/img/2005/card_2.jpg
http://www.szkocja.zv.pl/Zipy/Ben%20Nevis1024.jpg (Too Big for Thread IMO)

Cullin Ridge & Hikers
http://www.brescalan.co.uk/Cuillin%20Ridge%20May2002.JPG
http://www.commercepark.co.uk/skye/Coruisk.jpg

Isle of Arran
http://www.caingram.info/Scotland/Arran/Cir_mor_c2.jpg

Blackpool...Europes Las Vegas

http://www.coventryweb.co.uk/postcards/postcards4/BlackpoolTram3.jpg
http://www.coventryweb.co.uk/postcards/postcards4/BlackpoolTram2.jpg
http://img8.echo.cx/img8/2329/bp7xb.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/chenx3/images/0007.jpg
http://www.wildscape.co.uk/largelandscape/blackpooll.jpg http://www.a1imaging.net/Newimages/Blackpool-Tower.jpg
http://www.blackpool.g-br.com/tourpics/BLP04.jpg
http://img218.echo.cx/img218/5991/bpool1nd.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://uk.geocities.com/dlg_ie/england2.jpg http://www.homecliffehotel.com/illuminations.jpg

Reminds me why I enjoy going to london as often as I can, so much unique arcitecture around every corner, maybe my favourite large city(although Copenhagen would be close aswell).

Nice landscapes aswell although I think the americans probabley have us(and pretty much everyone outside of the chinese from my personal expereince) beaten on that count.

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Just going to the next page!

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Manchester next...

OK....The main purpose of this thread was to but to rest false negative stereotypes that surround the UK...I guess i could try and solve another problem....many people wrongly see the UK as too centralised...which is by no means the case...

http://www.nwda-china.org.uk/img/Manchester%20Skyline.GIF
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/manchestercorporationstreetfootbridge2.jpg
http://www.bofthebang.com/weblog/images/091204/091204_06_480.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t.woof/gen/Urbis-3502Q-txt.jpg http://www.manchester.gov.uk/people/images/issue14/urbis.jpg
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/2068716/2094062/2105807/2105829/2105830/2105935/02_CalatravaBridge1.jpg
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/030511-1028-54_std.jpg
http://img254.echo.cx/img254/3838/ms5lf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040415-1314-34_std.jpg
http://www.englandsnorthwest.com/nwda/gm00169-72.JPG
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040909-1345-02_std.jpg
...

http://www.zecite.org/gbphoto/durdle.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.godden12/Man.jpg

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/jpg/lul-air-black.jpg

http://www.petermilford.co.uk/PicFiles/images/corfe.jpg

http://www.papa.partio.fi/kannus/toiminta/roots/img/1997/bs01.jpg

http://www.city-sightseeing.com/Images/gallerypics/Bournemouth/Bournemouth_beach.jpg

Return to Manchester

http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/020905-0935-25_std.jpg
http://www.photogalaxy.co.uk/photos/brianduc-34.jpg
http://www.corusconstruction.com/legacy/photos/ph011.jpg
http://www010.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hirokun/DSCF01901.jpg
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/manchester/sq39.jpg
http://www.corusconstruction.com/uploads/PL%20-%20Hulme%20Arch,%20UK.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t.woof/gen/chinatown_imgp6267-t2-txt.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t.woof/gen/urbis-IMGP4316-tc-txt.JPG

Birmingham...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/CentenarySquareOct2004.jpg
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/history/gwr/images/kennedy.jpg
Kennedy Memorial...dont know why there is one im Birmingham
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/FDEdmundStNewhallStr.jpg
[http://img105.echo.cx/img105/2148/brum1kn.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://www.blacktriangle.org.uk/blog/archives/images/bullring.jpg
http://tinypic.com/c6w7c

Is it because it's called Bullring that they put a bull here?

I guess

Courtesy of some poster in the UK thread...the Holloway Circus Tower B'ham

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/jolon01/HCTinSun.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/jolon01/CopyofBirmingham24.jpg

Liverpool

http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/behar/EngScot/image043.JPG
http://www.rayandersonphotography.co.uk/images/large/Liver%20Building%20colour%20Liverpool.jpg
Liver Building....biggest clockface in the world!
http://www.photo-class.com/Liverpool%20england.jpg
http://www.sjsfiles.btinternet.co.uk/super.jpg
http://jonathan.rawle.org/pg/liverpool/images/yellowsub.jpg
http://stfrancis-online.co.uk/fireworks/cathedral_fireworks_08.jpg http://stfrancis-online.co.uk/fireworks/cathedral_fireworks_01.jpg


For Seabass ;)

will add some later

http://www.mondiale.co.uk/mondoarc/coventry/pic8.GIF
Whittle Arches Coventry
http://www.lec.fr/img_actu/actu58.jpg
Timezone Clock....the lights in the ground
http://www.mondiale.co.uk/mondoarc/coventry/pic7.GIF
http://www.streetartsnetwork.org.uk/images/2004/mids/COV%2003%20(devils).jpg
http://www.thecoventrypages.net/coventry-today/images/orchards-shopping01.jpg
http://img218.echo.cx/img218/9004/arches1ef.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://www.sportsvenue-technology.com/projects/coventry/images/coventry_02.jpg
New Stadium U/C...opens this summer...will find some pics!

All in all...not bad for a small city!


Back to Manchester...in the non centralised Britain ;)


http://www.davidjewellphotography.com/resources/99628/Trafford_Centre_2.jpg http://www.iknow-northwest.co.uk/tourist_information/pictures/manchester_city_uk_2.jpg
http://www.its-behind-you.com/images/rdshtraff.jpg
http://www.lori-smith.co.uk/albums/night/orient1.sized.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/2002/venues/images/velodrome.jpg
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ContentResources/237.$plit/C_4_Image_2435_largeImage.jpg
http://www.jackmorton.com/europe/press/images/Fireworks_Water.JPG

Hogmanay: World's largest street party.

http://www.podge.co.uk/hogmanay/firework_01.jpg

http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~eddie/pics/fire8.jpg

http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/images/rf_jubileejournal_preston_fireworks.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~david.dalziel/images/fireworks.jpg

http://www.lbp.police.uk/publications/annual/operations/report_24-1.jpg

http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/graphics/partycrowdcastle1a.jpg

http://www.dunedinguesthouse.co.uk/images/party2.jpg

Edinburgh: Ancient capital of Scotland

http://www.book-edinburgh-hotels.info/ima/foto.jpg

http://www.scotland-flavour.co.uk/edinburgh_pictures/edinburgh_0061.jpg

http://www.mcquone.com/kathleen/Edinburgh.jpg

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/images/edinburgh.jpg

http://www.jameswiseman.com/photos/scotland/edinburgh/Picture%20090.jpg

http://ase.informatik.uni-essen.de/ase/past/ase2002/edinburgh.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1666887-edinburgh_castle-Edinburgh.jpg

http://www.scotlandhouses.co.uk/images/home/edinburgh.jpg

http://www.stubchaer.com/Cruise/images/901.Edinburgh.002.JPG

http://www.wrestlingtours.com/photogallery/2001%20tour%20photos/edinburgh%207.jpg

http://www.allan171.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Edinburgh%20Photos/Edinburgh_Castle.jpg

http://luc.giard.free.fr/Ecosse4/princes_st.JPG

http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/Europe/UK/Scotland/images/Sunset3.jpg

Ok now....some of these pics might not be deemed 'best of Britain'....im just showing you that there are many great cities in the UK...and we arnt living in the past...the country isnt centralised!

http://www.debretts.co.uk/images/queen_elizabeth/queen_elizabeth19.jpg
http://www.wigwam.co.uk/hire/assets/jubilee.jpg
http://www.mykreeve.net/london/golden_jubilee/pink-palace.jpg
http://www.mykreeve.net/london/golden_jubilee/fireworks_over_blue_palace2.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/in_depth/uk/2002/golden_jubilee/london_guide/photos/buckingham_palace150.jpg
http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/images/rf_jubileejournal_party_fireworks.jpg
http://galleries.news24.com/news/jubilee/images/05.jpg
http://www.durhamld.com/images/Jubilee8.jpg

Looks great....but seriously, is there palm trees in south England?? And how warm is the water in england in the summer?

And btw tea is a marvelous drink....i live in Finland, and i drink it 24/7

Yes there are 1000's of plam tree's in southern England....and the water temp in the summer averages 20'C

Looks great....but seriously, is there palm trees in south England?? And how warm is the water in england in the summer?

And btw tea is a marvelous drink....i live in Finland, and i drink it 24/7
southern england is quite warm further north you go the colder it gets by the way tea is good for you.

http://www.johndavies.uk.com/Manchester-Urbis.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/ManCorpStBrgDsk2Z20.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/SalQuaysLowryDskRn3209.jpg
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/ManUrbisArndaleNt2Z28.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/027_bestof/lg/ManAlbSqTownHallRedBox399.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/027_bestof/lg/ManUrbisCISRainDusk2704.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/027_bestof/lg/ManCentralLibSun.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/ManShamblesExchSq2803.jpg

http://www.bdp.co.uk/graphics/news/pictures/2003/newcath_marks_large.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_Daily_Express.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_Free_Trade_Hall.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_John_Rylands_Library_Exterior.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_Parrs_Bank.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_Reform_Club.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/manchestermemorialhall2.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/manchesterroyalbankofscotlandmosleyst.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_YMCA.jpg

http://www.manchester.com/gallery/gallery19/6.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_Lancaster_House.jpg

http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/univman/020408-0744-23_std.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManCentrLibSthVw2313.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManRoyalExchTwrStAnnsVw3219.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManFalHollinsBlgEndVw.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManUrbisChethamsVw2124b.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/Man82KingSt2803.jpg

http://www.stjamesmanchester.com/images/bigpics/cwSTJAMES5.jpg

http://www.propertymall.com/press/images/1289104740.jpg

http://www.manchester.com/gallery/gallery19/2.jpg

http://www.manchester.com/gallery/gallery19/7.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/027_bestof/lg/ManHulmeArch.jpg

http://www.cube.org.uk/ftp/Articles//City_Archisnaps/455.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/ManPotWharf3X16.jpg

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/DSCN7549.jpg

http://www.cube.org.uk/ftp/city//Tours/lancasterhouse.jpg

http://www.manchesterguide.com/accommodation/online/102700.jpg

http://www.cube.org.uk/ftp/city//Tours/stjamesbuilding.jpg

http://www.cube.org.uk/ftp/city//Tours/sunlighthouse.jpg

http://www.cube.org.uk/ftp/city//Tours/hsbc.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p4bc7b8cc6c4933a0e965ec968ee7c9f7/f95db11f.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/McrWorsleyPktHseSnow2Z06.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManBar38BalcSun0720.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManUniOxfdRdBlg4901.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManUtdDuskA3Y27.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/TrafdCntrOrientEntr4307.jpg

http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/M60TraCntrHardShldrVw3803.jpg

http://www.rcu.gov.uk/GO/images/stadium.jpg

http://www.lowefoto.com/man/quays01.jpg

http://www.lowefoto.com/man/quays05.jpg

http://www.lowefoto.com/man/quays12.jpg

http://www.lowefoto.com/man/quays11.jpg


On page 7...I think i'll get back to landscapes and the like!

This page as 133 images on it.....too many....im off to the next page

Few More...

...Manchester Airport next page!

And also back to top British landscapes!

As Promised...Manchester Airport (Best European Airport 2001)

http://www.twi.co.uk/j32k/twiimages/alst074.jpg
http://www.manchester-airport-guide.co.uk/template/images/manchester-airport.jpg
http://www.2747.com/2747/world/airport/manchester.jpg
http://www.silverchariots.co.uk/images/thumbnails/man%20airport%20thumbs/man%20air%20escalators%20a.jpg
http://nadia.kaywa.com/files/images/2004/11/mob469_1101453042.jpg
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/img/user/96/98/1949698/82.jpg

Britain leads the world in 'mini-mountains' thats for sure!

http://www.ljnelson.com/personal/graphics/redcuillin.jpg

Ill edit some more on to this later...just thought of an Idea....the animals of Britain

Animalso of the UK....Native and Alien...but be sure...all are very wild in this country!

http://www.st-abbs.fsnet.co.uk/images/deer303w400h.jpg
Red Deer
http://www.gdphotography.com/images/1082.jpg
Red Fox
http://insultconsult.com/images/hedgehog.jpg
Hedgehog
http://www.alligatorfur.com/biology/mink.jpg
Mink
http://www.sunartoakwoods.org.uk/photolibrary/libraryimages/bigstuff/076pinemarten.jpg
Pine Marten
http://www.birdlifemalta.org/press/rabbitpress.jpg
Rabbits (you're welcome Australia ;) )
http://www.irishfieldsports.com/mammals/images/red%20squirrel%203.JPG
Red Squirrel
http://www.bavarianbirds.de/oz/mamm8.jpg
Red Necked Wallabies....No lie...Found in the Peak district, Mid Sussex and Scotland...last count was that there were nearly between 40-50 in the wild...Introduced!
http://www.shooting.sh/images/shoot_ovs_loire_france_01.jpg
Wild Boar...Native...was exstinct (in UK)...been re-introduced over the last few years!
http://www.britishbigcats.org/wildcat2.jpg
Wild Cats
http://www.badgers.org.uk/badgerpages/pictures/meles-cub-1a.jpg
Badger
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/read/protspp/RightWhale/blue.jpg
Blue Whale
http://www.wallerkautsky.com/sharkology/basking.jpg
Basking Shark

....More coming

dont forget they are trying to re-introduce wolfs back into the highlands, and we also have snakes like adders plus the "BIG CATS" ... ;) :cheers:

Yes...see that footage on the news of the Panther...finaly conclusive proof, theyre wild in the UK!

P.S
Beavers are also on the cards for scotland!

P.P.S
Donkeys kill more people per year than Wolves

Adder

http://www.brantacan.co.uk/images/Strike.jpg

Roe Deer

http://www.shooting.sh/images/shoot_ukd_scot_01.jpg

Eurasian Otter

http://www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~zardoz/animals/photo/61-p-01.jpg

Puma (Breeding in Britain - reports so far of there being 11 in the wild)

http://www.delta.dfg.ca.gov/gallery/puma.jpg

Panthers (the UKn has been beseiged with these, there not as fat as usual panthers but there just as big and have hurt numerous people across the country, stretching as far south as London)

http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lg3639.jpg

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Yes...see that footage on the news of the Panther...finaly conclusive proof, theyre wild in the UK!

P.S
Beavers are also on the cards for scotland!

P.P.S
Donkeys kill more people per year than Wolves

Was it on the news today?

A woman was in a life threatening position the other day after being bitten by a snake around where we live ...

But then ...

a horse was found dead in the morning with the same bite marks but it was reported they came from different snakes ...

Now thats scary.

More..

http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/e_flavicaudis_habitatuk4.jpg
European Scorpion....last count 1000 in kent (2001)
http://www.telegraphroad.co.uk/worldtravel/old/hk2002/terrapin.jpg
European Pond Terrapin

This species was brought into the UK as a pet and often released into the wild by owners as it grew larger. They will breed in the UK during a warm summer and it appears that there is now a self sustaining population in the wild. There are no proven problems from this species but little research has been carried out on their impact. This species was originally a UK native around 8,000 years ago.

http://www.uel.ac.uk/hab/biocon/consnews/newsimages/enric_sand_lizard.jpg
Sand Lizard

http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/suffolk/images/redg4.jpg
Raft Spider...Biggest spider in europe

http://www.beolens.co.uk/digiscoping/galleries/Ring-necked_parrakeet/ring-necked%20parrakeet2%2004-2003.jpg
Ring Necked Parakeet

Last count 5000...southern England...and seen often in London

http://www.efishbusiness.co.uk/images/inner/signal.jpg
Signal Crayfish

will add to this soon

Was it on the news today?

Now thats scary.

saw it on eastmidland news a few days ago...someone filmed and panther eating a bird....and the news crew went a saw the remains....crazy stuff!

Check this out...

http://www.introduced-species.co.uk

Continuing on your theme, eddy:

Adder
Found throughout the UK
http://www.geocities.com/braguk/Photos/coiledadder.jpg

Barn Owl
Found throughout the UK
http://wwwstatic.kern.org/images/calmzoo/barnowl.jpg

Brown Hair
Found throughout the UK, with the exception of Extreme North-west Scotland
http://www.biodiversitysussex.org/media/small%20SBP%20website%20photos/Brown%20Hare.jpg

Buzzard
Found in North-West Scotland, Nothern England, Wales and South-West England
http://home.att.net/~photog_janet/buzzard.jpg

Grass Snake
Found most of England with the exception of the Extreme North
http://www.wartsoc.co.uk/images/grasssnake.jpg

Otter
Found in most of the UK with the exception of the Central Belt, Liv-Manc and London urban areas
http://users.raketnet.nl/ciro/Otter_1.JPG

Fallow Deer
Mainly found in the South of England
http://www2002.stoke.gov.uk/museums/pmag/Nof_website1/species/mammals/deer/deer_images/fallow01nb.jpg

Grey Squirrel
Found in Central Belt Scotland and England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/wildbritain/wildinyourgarden/nationsfavourite/images/grey_squirrel.jpg

Muntjac Deer
Found in the South East of England
http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/urbanwt/education/wildlifeeducationwebsite/deer01muntjac25099pg1850ppi1000%25.jpg

Mountain Hare
Found mainly in Scottish Highlands
http://www.thecross.co.uk/pictures/mountain-hare.jpg

Feral Goat
Found mainly in Snowdonia and Scotland
http://www.hilozoo.com/images/animals/m_goat.jpg

Minke Whale
Found mainly in Scottish waters, most notably off the isle of Mull
http://www.cresli.org/cresli/images/2003_WW/Ba_breach.jpg

Common Dolphin
Found in the waters of Scotland and the isles of Scilly
http://www.montereybaywhalewatch.com/images/common.jpg

Bottlenosed Dolphin
Most often seen in Scottish water, Cardiff bay and Dorset
http://www.weeksbay.org/images/08-07-04/Bottlenose%20Dolphin.jpg

Common Seal
Found on the East Coast from Norfolk to Shetland Islands
http://www.willridgeimages.co.uk/Latest%20Images/Latest%20Images%2004/Common-Seal.jpg

Grey Seal
Found in the West coast of the UK.
http://www.orcadianwildlife.co.uk/images/Photos/Web%2026%20Grey%20Seal%20Pup.jpg

Golden Eagle
Found in Scotland
http://www.sdgfp.info/Wildlife/Diversity/bead/images/golden_eagle_lg.jpg

White tailed Eagle
Found mainly in Scotland
http://animalpicturesarchive.com/animal/PREVIEW/Zeearend-White-tailed_Sea_Eagle-by_MKramer-s400.jpg

Orca
Found in Scottish waters
http://animals.timduru.org/dirlist/orca/KillerWhale_101-Orca-Jumping-AbdominalView.jpg

Reindeer
Found in Scotland
http://www.talisman-activities.co.uk/summer/images/reindeer.jpg

Beaver
Found in Scotland
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/dnr/fur/gimages/beaver1.gif

Big Cats??

http://www.scs.abelgratis.co.uk/bigcats2/assets/images/bluecatrichard2.gif

There are several species of these non-indigenous cats living and breeding in the British Isles. The three largest members of this group are, BLACK LEOPARD, PUMA and LYNX.

http://www.scs.abelgratis.co.uk/bigcats2/assets/images/pantherglobe.gif
Global distribution of Black Leopard

http://www.scs.abelgratis.co.uk/bigcats2/assets/images/pumamap.gif
Global distribution of the Puma minus the UK

Lynx
Range: British Isles. Northern Asia, eastern Europe Spain and northern Scandinavia. The Canadian Lynx is found throughout Canada and parts of the US.

Attacks
Over the years, there are purported to have been nine verified attacks by big cats on human beings. The most recent attack, and most publicised was the attack, this year in Wales on Josh. Whilst playing in woods, he saw a black fury tail under a bush. He jumped round the bush thinking it was his own pet cat. It wasn’t. He was promptly confronted by a somewhat shocked Black Leopard. Fortunately for Josh the cat had no intent to kill. The cat reared up and swiped Joshs face. The claws of the cat were partly sheathed, and the swipe was more like the cat would give one of its cubs to disciplin it.

Sightings
Sightings in the year 2005 include:
Eastbourne, Glasgow, Shropshire, Enfield, Cumbria and Edinburgh.

Sightings in the year 2004 include:
Northumberland, Berwickshire, South Cumbria, Doncaster, Lincolnshire, Huddersfield, Sussex, Gwynedd, Worcestershire, Renfrewshire, Yorkshire, York, Selby, Rossshire, Black isles, Gloucestershire, Auldgirth, Norfolk, Telford, Norwich, St Mawgan, South Wales, Fife, St Fergus and Mid Wales.

^
Great....I think we can proudly say now....Panthers are wild in the UK!


A year or two ago I thought british wildlife was boring...and there wasnt much past the rabbit or seal....and I looked into it....

Wallabys
Blue Whales
Terrapins
Panthers ;)
Parakeets
Scorpins
Golden Eagle

List goes on...

Why have they never found any panther tracks/turds/dead bodies with all these sightings? I remember there were several near Telford round where I live a couple of years ago but nothing has ever been proven, I think some people have overactive imaginations.

http://www.bigcatmonitors.co.uk/images/Bishop_%20Wood%20print.jpg
Taken Selby, North Yorkshire

Keep in mind that there are no native animals with this footprint.

http://www.bigcatmonitors.co.uk/bigcat4.JPG
Taken in Battle Woods, Hastings

Over the years there have been cats killed :-
1989 - In Shropshire a Jungle Cat was fatally injured in a road crash
1988 - In Devon a Leopard Cat was shot
1988 - In Hampshire a Swamp Cat was killed crossing a road
1987 - On the Isle of Wight a Leopard Cat was shot

Other evidence:

No native animal is capable of this:
http://www.ukbigcats.co.uk/bigcatkills.asp

At least 4 leapards have been shot in the uK [2 in the Scottish Borders]:
http://www.bigcats.org/abc/images/shotleopardcat.jpg

Photograph taken in Kent:
http://www.bigcats.org/abc/images/kentcat.jpg

This Leopard escaped in 2001 and has not been recovered:
http://www.bigcats.org/abc/images/kia.jpg

Taken in Ulster:
http://www.bigcats.org/abc/images/antrimcat.jpg

The skull of a leopard found on Bodmin Moore:
http://www.bigcats.org/ncj/images/foweyskull.jpg

^
Tis the beast of Bodmin!

http://www.marlin.ac.uk/images/Species/Chordata/o_dercor.jpg
leatherback turtle

Largest Turtle type.....regular visiter to British waters...east and west coast!

http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/Sightings/2004/Puffin-on-Thrift-RJN.jpg
http://www.bobperryonline.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_22528/Puffin~8.jpg
Puffin

http://www.birdphotography.co.uk/Common%20Buzzard%20Alula.jpg
Buzzard

http://www.glosboy.co.uk/assets/general/manduck001.jpg
Mandarin Duck

And IMO the most beautiful bird in the UK....now Rare in Asia...they thrive in the UK and are found all over the isles and at all times!

Great thread. :)

Another Alien Invader that has set up camp ...

The North American Bullfrog

http://image10.webshots.com/10/0/54/8/138505408rkXCnw_ph.jpg

A bit of the north east :)

Grey Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/donejoane/greystreet.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/donejoane/grey-street-photograph-smp09.jpg

Millenium bridge

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/donejoane/millennium-bridge-photographs-smp10.jpg

The Sage-Gateshead

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/donejoane/sage-gateshead-photograph-smp50.jpg

Tyne Bridge

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/donejoane/tyne-bridge-photograph-smp05.jpg

St. Marys lighthouse

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/donejoane/st-marys-lightohuse-photography-SMP13.jpg

Great thread. :)

Praise from Caesar!

Knicked from Citrus-Fruit ;)

Cairngorm National Park

http://www.winternet-scotland.co.uk/reports/east/plateau_carn_etchacan180204.jpg

http://www.talisman-activities.co.uk/summer/images/Loch%20Morlich%20in%20May.jpg

http://www.craggy.org.uk/wallpapers/feshiebridge2_800.jpg

http://www.craggy.org.uk/wallpapers/aonach_eagach_800.jpg

http://www.craggy.org.uk/wallpapers/Ben-More-800.jpg

http://www.craggy.org.uk/wallpapers/ciarngorm_800.jpg

http://www.craggy.org.uk/wallpapers/feshiebridge3_800.jpg

Those pictures are amazing. The Cairngorm Plateau is the only Arctic area in Europe outside of Scandanavia [apparantly]

My research pays off ;) took me ... ohh a good 5 minutes searching for those pictures :cheers:

Be Happy thats quite an amazing fact

Wow, that looks amazing. I cant believe there is such immense beauty so close to home.

English Lake District

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/lake1410.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/barrow151.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/catbells47.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/lake203.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/catbells48.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/Dale24.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/hindscar01.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/dock03.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/stonycroft148.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/grised05.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/hindscarth018.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/honister004.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/latrigg0541.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/newlands140.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/walla104.JPG

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/walla370.jpg

http://www.braithwaite-cottage.co.uk/pictures/walla590.jpg

Scottish Highlands

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/nwhighlands/saddle.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/nwhighlands/GarbhBheinn6.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/2003/031123_2morss_glensheilpano.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/2003/031123_1morss_glensheilpano.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/2003/031123_5morss_glenshielpano.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/2003/031123_3morss_glensheilpano.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/chighlands/LochLinnie.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/cairngorms/northerncorries010320.jpg

More pictures here http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/medicalgenetics/gallery.htm

Those is really quite stunning ...

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/20226/beachwalk.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16090/glen_clova.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16090/railway_bridge.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16090/william_wallace_monument.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/17741/100_3676.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16090/scottish_glen.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/19501/mallaig.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/2706/dscf1977.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16012/the_storr_jpg.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/15391/hamish_001a.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16012/tbm.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/15391/a1.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16090/forth_rail_bridge2.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14177/fireintheskyworldtrek.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16012/img_0645.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16090/scottish_landscape.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16012/s08_b.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14177/benlomond3worldtrek.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16125/blaven.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14951/the_abbey2.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/16090/queens_view.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14177/3ducks@sunriseworldtrek.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14092/misty_river.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/15342/rannoch-moor---scotland.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/15166/lake_at_fairie_glen.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/15342/black-rock-cottage---scotla.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14951/sunset_over_loch_long.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14428/view-from-train_2.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14177/lochlomondworldtrek.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/12423/2003_051_te.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/11105/omc5.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/8783/glencoe.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/9376/pict0215.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/1793/tattoo.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/9417/edcr.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/4756/kinlochleven02.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/1469/mountainbridge.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/5635/glencoe.jpg

more...

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/7554/dunrobin.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/6186/lock_shiel_small.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/7554/urquhartcastle.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/6778/archway.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/3578/safe-home.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/3311/2002-schotland-03-800.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/769/07_final-te.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/1364/castle.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/1290/road_to_perdition.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/413/hebridesc02.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/413/hebridesa02_1.jpg

Breathtaking :eek:

The one good thing about everyone bashing the UK is that there missing all this, and we can keep it for ourselves :cheers:

someone post some pics of brecon beacons national park where the sas train its stunning

http://www.stives1st.co.uk/010s.jpg
http://www.intercooltural.hu/test/images/3/3412h_Sandy%20beaches%20of%20St.%20Ives.jpg
http://hotels.glo-con.com/images/HR1C1047_x1.jpg
http://www2.freefoto.com//images_e/1007/08/1007_08_52_web.jpg?&k=The+Beach%2C+St+Ives%2C++Cornwall
http://www2.freefoto.com//images_e/1007/08/1007_08_64_web.jpg?&k=St+Ives%2C++Cornwall

brecon hope this works

Nope :D

Some waterfalls....

http://www.glenviewskye.co.uk/Photos/PhotoAlbum/Lealt%20waterfall.jpg
http://www.bcfishing.co.uk/images/g%20rvr%20waterfall.jpg
http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/photos/fortwilliam/waterfall.jpg
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~djandyp/nz/devils.jpg
http://www.rhylphotosoc.co.uk/GALLERIES/digital/Dyserth/images/02-dyserth02.jpg

brecon BASTARD

sorry trying to learn how to post pics

:eek: Britain is so far ahead in terms of skyscrapers, structures and architecture that I think I'm on another planet while watching these renderings! Has all of this already been built? 'Cuase it looks exactly like gorgeous nature. You wouldn't not believe that these are real man-made skyscrapers and structures! It's mind-boggling!

tommygunn, what the hell are you doing?

try image url

Note: Damn 39 second rule! :sleepy:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid167/pa1c0d8b76c14b6a1e00767c4c25f603a/f4300d68.jpg[/img

did that show up anyone i can just see a red x

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid167/pbde7b5b2cad1b5af5245a1fb4d24e2a1/f42fcb3e.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid167/pcd7f2770848b1fe147c8757c925d984f/f4300d5a.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid167/p09af24b2fbb2e31e29e8cf802811368e/f4300d4e.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid167/pa1c0d8b76c14b6a1e00767c4c25f603a/f4300d68.jpg[/IMG]

yes it worked the stunning brecon beacons national park there favourite place for SAS to train.

Castles/palaces of the UK

England

Bamburgh Castle
http://home.att.net/~BARRYSHEENE/HAMS/northscenes/bamburgh.jpg

Blenheim Palace
http://www.arch.ttu.edu/Architecture/Faculty/ellis_c/images/test1%20images/Blenheim%20Palace.jpg

Bodium Castle
http://www.kesr.org.uk/images/groups/bodiam_castle.jpg

Buckingham Palace
http://shelley.bump.us/trip/June1/buckingham%20palace.jpg

Dunster Castle
http://www.dunsterchalets.co.uk/images/dunster_castle_lge.jpg

Framlingham Castle
http://www.castles-abbeys.co.uk/Framlingham-Castle/framlingham-ls.jpg

Hampton Court
http://www.homeownersales.co.uk/images/jpeg/large/front-hampton-court.jpg

Herstmonceux Castle
http://www.rbpics.com/gallery/europe/sussex/sussex01.jpg

Lindisfarne Castle
http://www.naturalworldimages.com/Imagegalleries/UK/Lindisfarne_Castle-Holy_Island-Northumberland.jpg

Raby Castle
http://www.ecastles.co.uk/raby.jpg

St Michaels Mount
http://www.int505.org/pix/505_20.jpg

Tower of London
http://www.londonbyclick.com/imgallery/london_tower/London-Tower.jpg

Warwick Castle
http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~vbroje/images/England/warwick%20castle%201.jpg

Windsor Castle
http://www.maidenhead.net/tour/castle.jpg

Scotland

Ballindalloch Castle
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0304/papers_files/grant-castle.jpg

Balmoral Castle
http://www.viaggiaresempre.it/Castelli10.jpg

Castle Fraser
http://www.huntlycastle.co.uk/cfraser.jpg

Craigievar Castle
http://www.buildingconnections.co.uk/curriculum/BUILDINGS/IMAGES/CASTLE_01.JPG

Crathes Castle
http://www.stars-and-wings.de/touren/2000-05-10/2000-09-14a%20~%20480%20x%20320%20x%2024.jpg

Culzean Castle
http://www.ayrshirescotland.com/images/cculzeanlg.jpg

Drum Castle
http://mishuna.image.pbase.com/u27/northstar37/upload/16224620.3may94.jpg

Drummond Castle
http://www.1perthshire.co.uk/images/700/Drummond-Castle-Gardens1.jpg

Dunrobin Castle
http://www.longpassages.org/images/Scotland_Dunrobin_Castle.jpg

Edinburgh Castle
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~bjohanso/england/edinburgh/castle-view.jpg

Eilean Donan Castle
http://anaproy.homeip.net/~unilang/albums/album05/EileanDonanCastle.jpg

Fyvie Castle
http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.brinklow/fyv.gif

Glamis Castle
http://www.rampantscotland.com/castles/graphics2/glamis10c.jpg

Holyrood Palace
http://danny.oz.au/travel/scotland/p/4777c-holyrood-palace.jpg

Inverary Castle
http://www.hp.europe.de/kd-europtravel/argyll/inverary.jpg

Stirling Castle
http://www.teearr.com/images/pictures/castle1.jpg

http://louisabrown.net/belc2.JPG
Belvoir castle


This is on the outskirts of my town...if my house was 30 storeys high I would be able to see it!


http://www.beauharnais.sk/images/Harlaxton%20Manor%207.jpg
Harlaxton manor

Also on the outskirts of my town.....'The Haunting' was fimed there!

http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/h/haunting-1.jpg http://www.geocities.com/machayla98/haunting.jpg

;)

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/20021/st.lawrencel.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/1281/malham-cove.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/1281/yorkshire_dales.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/8509/fj_lake_view.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/20236/thurlstone_copy.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/11513/hollinsclough-farm.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/4322/img_1308_copy.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/15521/dartmoor_np.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/19327/the_langdale_pikes.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/15585/0de52d3fimg_5753_m.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/7941/grasmere3.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14418/madia_vale.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/13832/rydal_cave.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/5107/d0747.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/8137/clifton_workshop.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/19327/wasedalescrees1c.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/4322/tyne_view.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/18538/for_photozine.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/2142/west_country_129.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/18538/650_jpeg.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/18928/30_stratford_sml.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/12941/long_walk1.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/7421/hays_galleria.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/4322/gold_nuggets.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/14315/dscn0002.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/18401/leamingtonspa.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/12088/kent_gardens_filtered.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/2658/dsc_2929.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/13735/dscn0419-dover_web.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/4322/img_0885_copy.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/13496/bath_weir.jpg

look at the english and scottish catstles see the diffrence the scottish took influence frrom eastern europe not wanting the same as the english style ps i always thought that castle in the haunting was in america.

Nicked again from the one they call....Citrus-Fruit

http://www2.freefoto.com//images_e/1011/02/1011_02_3_web.jpg?&k=Torquay+Marina%2C+Devon

http://www2.freefoto.com//images_e/1011/02/1011_02_53_web.jpg?&k=Torquay%2C+Devon

http://www2.freefoto.com//images_e/1011/05/1011_05_2_web.jpg?&k=Paignton%2C+Devon

http://www.chinesewhispers.info/img_0885.jpg

http://www.chinesewhispers.info/p7250038.jpg

http://www.chinesewhispers.info/img_0947.jpg

I always thought that Scottish castles were influenced by French ones. The Scots and French were quite friendly back then and had a very bad habbit of joining together and invading England. England, being the nice neighbour, returned the favour :) [I'm a poet]

Scotland's most famous castle (you may know it):

http://estaticos.elmundo.es/fotografia/2004/06/harrypotter/imagenes/hogwarts.jpg

http://www.hp-cs.de/images/hintergruende/hogwarts-1024x768.jpg

http://home.t-online.de/home/anna.momberger/hogwarts.jpeg

:)

And these were found by me....

http://www.manorcourthotel.co.uk/images/riviera1.jpg
http://www.sunningdaleapartments.co.uk/newimages/17.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/images2/gallery/south/set2/joanna_saunders_torbay_gardens.jpg
http://img227.echo.cx/img227/6056/torbay4kh.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

be happy i think youre right about the french castles the buildings round edinborough castle are copied from eastern euorope.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p2a08997cad29f5cd81819d6fa1f9111e/f42d98c0.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p97f67629b168205060a64013b73f501a/f42d98a7.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/pb16c1b4860471259980ff2ffb9e9699b/f42d98a0.jpg.thumb.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/pced5643e10fb2984569edd88a424aa40/f42d9887.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2126974342&idx=6[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p72b9f8973c6be35f3f38dfbf0caf0c63/f42d9832.jpg.thumb.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/pfce0e723e0363c2193c7b96e5155f0cd/f42d9209.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/pc98f6d6c1966efda9a8d261d790ad3c3/f42d9074.jpg[/IMG]

!!!! What a thread!! My favourite thread on this forum methinks.

Insane diversity and beauty!

Be_Happy, Eddyk and the rest - stunning work!!!

Where did you get all those fantastic pics of the Highlands from Be_Happy?

be happy i think youre right about the french castles the buildings round edinborough castle are copied from eastern euorope.

Haha, Edinburgh castle is very scottish. It is more a fortress than a stereotypical castle. Find me a castle in Eastern Europe that looks like either Edinburgh or Stirling castle.

Where did you get all those fantastic pics of the Highlands from Be_Happy?

A smashing wee website by the name of Trekearth.

You are most Welcome David!

By the people, for the people ;)

Haha, Edinburgh castle is very scottish. It is more a fortress than a stereotypical castle. Find me a castle in Eastern Europe that looks like either Edinburgh or Stirling castle.
i said the buildings in the area of edinborough castle

Which buildings? Post a pic.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p3e76912c8f9363a477a34839a5be1889/f42d2c68.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p67053a6815ee73e4466de8525e7db59c/f42d2ca0.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p010ba743be87690dbf0a773fc2e28660/f42d2c6f.jpg[/IMG]
I think its these.

They look more Amsterdam than Eastern Europe ...

They look more Amsterdam than Eastern Europe ...
it was on a bbc programme i was half listening it was the full history of scotland he was talking all about the buildings saying some were made out of solid rock or limestone do you know which i mean it dosnt matter if you dont bigfour storey houses.

errr .... four storey houses, solid rock, Edinburgh? I'm afraid I have no idea...

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/pada5959d2f616a1dbae9a41e4e6cc812/f42cdd14.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p999988b4877c26faf7a5737ff006b61e/f42cdd10.jpg[/IMG] http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/p8cfa98eaf580be5e75d2c588ef09dcf1/f42cdd1c.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid168/pee7c59dc5d562af8b3e625b16b08778f/f42cdd13.jpg[/IMG]
i can see the similarites

Using the for another topic I had them on my copy/paste....so i'll stick them in here aswell.........you know where it is!

http://www.digitalstrawberry.co.uk/galleries/bullring/Bullring_Selfridges2.JPG

http://www.gonline.demon.co.uk/manchester/selfridgeweb.jpg

the first time i seen that bubble building i hated it now i love it.

maiden castle...

"compared to moving a greater amount of earth than they used to make the great pyramid and building a castle over half a kilometer long and 30m tall that remains the largest earth work in the world today..."

http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/images/maiden_castle.jpg
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/a558/a312/gallery/England/Dorset/Maiden_castle_1.jpg
http://www.princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk/Roundhouse/images/maiden1.jpg

I believe the bridge in post number one is the Forth Rail (Thanks BE HAPPY)Bridge because it crosses the Firth of Forth, not because it is it was built in any numerical sequence as would be implied by the spelling the poster has used.

Forth Rail Bridge, actually :)

Forth Road Bridge:

http://mechanics.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/~sugawara/photos/img0056.gif

http://www.scotland-flavour.co.uk/gallery/fife/forth_bridge_5.jpg

Forth Rail Bridge:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/slong//pic/hopetoun15.jpg

http://www.symington.co.uk/nqcc/DAS_Images/ForthBridgeatnight.jpg

Firth of Forth:

http://www.scotsindependent.org/2004/040528/Forthview.jpg

The Bridges into San Fiero in the game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andrea are based on these two bridge:

http://www.revolution.lv/i/art/4646-kincaid-bridge.jpg

http://www.torquayengland.com/566x426OddicombeBeach.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/images2/gallery/south/set5/sara_watson_torquay_marina.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/images2/gallery/south/set5/wendy_biggs_oddicombe_beach.jpg
http://www.torquayengland.com/566x426WatcombeBeach.jpg
http://www.explorethesouthwestcoastpath.co.uk/images/torquay13.jpg
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/terryleaman/Tiscali/images/new-harbour-bridge.jpg
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/terryleaman/Tiscali/images/Thatcher.jpg
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/terryleaman/Tiscali/images/Cliffrail-fulltrack.jpg

been several times in Britain
I completely fell in love with the region of CORNWALL (not seen so many pix of it here so far) that was so beautiful

http://southwestimages.co.uk/albums/album10/Mevagissey_jw_59_001.jpg

http://southwestimages.co.uk/albums/album10/CORNWALL_WHITSANDS_NS_REF_3.sized.jpg

http://www.north-cornwall.com/images/nc-trebarwith.jpg

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t002/T002304G.jpg

http://photos.jemenvol.net/img/17/saint-michel001.jpg

http://photos.jemenvol.net/img/17/tintagel008.jpg

http://photos.jemenvol.net/img/17/lands-end009.jpg


Inspired by your thread :) , I have started one on France though more focused on traditional architecture & landscape

http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=209962

May have noticed I only post sunny pics of the UK ;)

This thread was inspired by another thread... 'The wonders of Greece'

http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/watergatebayhotel/main.jpg
http://www.carbisbayhotel.co.uk/cornwall/big/bay2big.jpg
http://www.newquay-cornwall-holidays.co.uk/images/newquay-from-air.jpg
http://www.a2znorfolk.com/pinewoods/lake.jpg
My £30 wallet is at the bottom of that lake ^...along with the £20 that was in it...and my left shoe :D

http://img218.echo.cx/img218/4964/london134ht.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img218.echo.cx/img218/6291/stpauls6pf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img218.echo.cx/img218/9161/london14a7qm.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img218.echo.cx/img218/9971/london189ko.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img160.echo.cx/img160/8080/london34bm.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img160.echo.cx/img160/3816/london14er.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img77.echo.cx/img77/3139/london49rf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img77.echo.cx/img77/5562/london59rn.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img77.echo.cx/img77/6258/london87td.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img77.echo.cx/img77/3258/london98cg.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img77.echo.cx/img77/3884/london107cc.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Hmmm...any other cities in the UK gone through a revamp lately?

oManchester Birmingham and Coventry...what has Cardiff done lately?

How about some of the Millennium projects?

http://www.aetheronline.com/mario/images/at-Bristol/Orange%20Imaginarium.jpg http://www.abb.co.uk/global/seitp/seitp202.nsf/0/2bc60cb4291fe92dc1256ed6003ea092/$file/AT-Bristol+Science+Centre+195.jpg
http://www.chromalighting.co.uk/box-office-exterior.jpg
http://www.corusconstruction.com/newuploads/millenium%20point2.jpg
http://www.f-n-f.net/wales-millennium-centre.jpg
http://www.guru.net.nz/albums/UK_Herts/space_centre.sized.jpg
http://www.eriding.net/media/photos/geography/040909_psimmons_mp_geo_hull6.jpg
http://www.mineblogging.com/photos/europe/eden_project.jpg

To be continued....

http://www.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/233/23360_1.JPG
http://www.sheffield-fm.co.uk/peace_gardens_winter_garden.jpg
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/tartanday/images/gallery/scotland/Glasgow%20Science%20Centre.jpg
http://www.britishcouncil.org/global-common-330x220-glasgow-science-centre.jpg

You've missed off The Lowry in Manchester, the National Millennium Project for the Arts.

http://img237.exs.cx/img237/5800/1067ma.jpg

http://img237.exs.cx/img237/142/1112zp.jpg

http://img148.exs.cx/img148/1961/1183rc.jpg

http://img75.exs.cx/img75/8307/1552js.jpg

http://img75.exs.cx/img75/979/1586du.jpg

http://img192.exs.cx/img192/4852/2180et.jpg

Yeah....Its just that its been posted so many times I left it out ;) ....I wasnt going to put the eden project on there at first because its on page 1

'The Deep' Hull is actually pretty cool...

http://www.eriding.net/media/photos/geography/040602_rfoster_mp_geo_hull_deep3.jpg
http://www.metstudio.com/exhibition_designers/images/projects/deep1.jpg
http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/guide/photos/kingston-upon-hull/tank.jpg

http://www.uk-photo-library.co.uk/london4/images/253.jpg
St Dunstan's church, Central London
http://www.greenroofs.com/images/sg-kensingtonroofgarden.jpg
http://www.rhs.org.uk/publications/pubs/garden0904/images/roofgarden.jpg
http://home.arcor.de/m-g-b/Bilder/london/park_roof_garden.jpg
Kensington Roof Garden (London)
http://www.celebritydetective.com/aerial/isleworth.jpg
Isleworth, Just a few miles from central London

http://www.wgso.fsnet.co.uk/locations/highcupnick.jpg
http://www.thenmc.org.uk/pages/guide/photos/whin.jpg
Whin Sill
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~fiski/bigpic/bfyw-034.jpg
http://www.shottonlad.plus.com/2002_0604_105755AA.jpg
High Force

Isle of Jura, with the Small Mountian range ..."The Paps" ... The island is the biggest in Argyle and is just north of Northen Irleand, which you can see from the Mountain Peaks. despite being the largest Island in Argyle County stretching over 28 miles, only 180 people live there compared to the 6,000 Deer inhabitants which its name originated from ... and although people dont realise this, but it is home to some fo the best beaches in the world.

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rbenton/jura_from%20_gigha.jpg

http://www.craignishcruises.co.uk/images/jura.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/medicalgenetics/islands/gigha.jpg

http://www.gla.ac.uk/medicalgenetics/2003/030614juras_sunset.jpg

http://www.ianpotten.btinternet.co.uk/aerialwest/dscf0136_jura.JPG

Outer Hebrides

http://www.wildernessscotland.com/db_images/e5eb425390a7fc6605632d7511ad5144-1100883307.jpg

http://www.calahotels.com/brochure/bigimages/blaven.jpg

http://www.calahotels.com/brochure/bigimages/beach.jpg

http://www.calahotels.com/brochure/bigimages/flowers.jpg

Top stuff!


When does a thread end BTW?

What is the post limit....on the first post of the 'Best of Britain 2' thread I shall post a collection of the pst pics from this thread!

Top stuff!


When does a thread end BTW?

What is the post limit....on the first post of the 'Best of Britain 2' thread I shall post a collection of the pst pics from this thread!


Havent a clue, but I would've thought it would be best to start a new thread soon, just because this one is overloaded with pictures :cheers:

There are so many great pics in this thread.....gonna be hard to pic the best of the best as it were...Ill start it in Word soon.......Untill then....


Keep posting them pics people....

500 posts is the max i think, before it's deleted. Not sure though.

More Isle of Skye

http://www.burningwell.org/albums/mountains/skyemonroe.sized.jpg

http://www.caingram.info/Scotland/Skye/Blaven_w.jpg

http://www.caingram.info/Scotland/Skye/garb_bheinn_2w.jpg

http://www.lowefoto.com/scotland/scot-40.jpg

Ive started making the Best of Best of Britain post....the 2nd pic in you last post Citrus is in it....I have 8 picked so far...and Im on page 6, Im going for 15!

Nah scratch that....there must me at least 500 pics in this thread....Im gonna make two seperate posts....Landscapes and Buildings...

Nah scratch that....there must me at least 500 pics in this thread....Im gonna make two seperate posts....Landscapes and Buildings...

Dont forget animals ;)

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandAchlaise.jpg

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandBenLomond.jpg

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandBenCruachan.jpg

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandTireeLighthouse.jpg

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandLochLong.jpg

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandHills.jpg

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandSalisburyCrags.jpg

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/images/big/ScotlandLochArklet.jpg

http://www.hoffmann.caltech.edu/PlacesVisited/html0001/images/Scottish%20Highlands%202001.jpg

http://www.shef.ac.uk/jhj/skellig2.jpg

so do any non brits come here ??

Been a few if you scroll through the pages....many more brits though!

did anyone see the news about the national park in scotland they might be reintrduceing bears wolves and bison and so on imagine them pictures then.

Bears I doubt for some reason...I see the UK as very compact, and Its almost impossible to be lost in the middle of nowhere...Bears would just be too close to humans IMO....Bison wolves and the illustrious Beaver....bring em on!

http://www.scotsbeavers.org/

http://www.swt.org.uk/
Back the Beaver ;)


The decision is to be made THIS month on the beaver!

Bears I doubt for some reason...I see the UK as very compact, and Its almost impossible to be lost in the middle of nowhere...Bears would just be too close to humans IMO....Bison wolves and the illustrious Beaver....bring em on!

http://www.scotsbeavers.org/
no honest i forgot to say there is going to be a giant electric fence round the national park but you have got the moaners already complaining about their sheep getting took i hope it goes ahead though you forget the bears natural habitat was in scotland the land can cope they were just hunted to extintion

Off the Scottish Wildlife Trusts Official site...

Beaver Q&A

When will we know if the trial is approved?
We would expect a decision by mid-May 2005.

Where will the trial happen?
Knapdale Wildlife Reserve, Argyll.

Where will the beavers come from?
About 15 to 20 beavers will be sourced from Scandinavia.

When will they be released?
Depending on when, and if, approval is achieved, the earliest would be spring 2006, after a quarantine period.

Will there be opportunities to see the beavers?
If the trial goes ahead, developing opportunities for public viewing will be an integral part of the project.

Who is managing the project?
SWT is championing the campaign to re-introduce the European beaver to Scotland. If a licence is granted, a partnership between SNH, SWT and the Mammals Trust UK will manage the trial over a seven-year period.

We need YOUR support
The trial will not go ahead without your help. You can help by

so do any non brits come here ??

Nope, there all to busy eating thier hats because they were foolish to believe that the UK was a damp boring place.

Myabe they should travel more.

You mean its not :-O

You mean the single most bought product in the UK isnt an umbrella second only to the rain coat....you mean we dont sit inside our house/boats watching our 4 TV channels avoiding convostation and when we do speak its about the weather!

How can palm trees grow in the UK?
That isnt a british beach, its a pic of the bahamas you stuck in there...

All this time I thought a british night out as a riot and the football...and now you tell me it isnt....crazy days!

UK have bears and bisons in the past? :uh:

UK have bears and bisons in the past? :uh:

Yep, and thousands of other animals species.

cool, is a good ideia bring back the animals to natural habitat!!

Scottish sheep farmers wouldn't be so keen.

Scottish sheep farmers wouldn't be so keen.
they shouldnt matter there should wild animals there that were hunted to extinction in britain hundreds of years ago.

Some unknown Modern London

http://www.mike-reed.com/images/Travel%20Journal/England/079%20-%20British%20Museum%20-%20London,%20England%20-%20interior%20courtyard.JPG
http://www.archimage.co.uk/Images/Architecture/003Architecture.jpg
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/glaxo_smithkline.jpg
http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/culture/LibeskindLondonMet.jpg
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/pglondonHYDEPARKserpentine.jpg
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/pglondonSOUTHBANKoval.jpg
http://www.culandsoc.com/~culandsoc/uploaded-images/Arena_small.jpg
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/paddington_basin_development.jpg
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/hoover_building.jpg
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/carreras_building_front.jpg

Unknown yer bum. I know most of those. The British museum is certainly known!

I was going to say 'except for the British Museum'.....and of coure you know them....I meant internationaly!

London Mandir....Largest Hindu temple outside asia...

http://www.mandir.org/images/mandir.jpg
http://www.uni-essen.de/Ev-Theologie/images/exk98-hindu.jpg

wath flag is that in the top of the Hindu temple :?

Some unknown Modern London
http://www.archimage.co.uk/Images/Architecture/003Architecture.jpg


What's this building?

World's largest dance training centre, the Laban in Deptford East London

wath flag is that in the top of the Hindu temple :?

I have no idea what you're saying, but yeah!

And yes...the Laban School Of Dance

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2002/12/16/DONElaban.jpg
http://www.zilla.ch/_images/worklist/2004/080.jpg



Plymouth Theatre
http://www.cda.org.uk/arch/pages/Design_awards/CIA11/Plymouth/Plymouth-big.jpg

And even more strange 'BedZED' an entire community in the UK run on renewable energy generated on site...

http://www.bioregional.com/img/bedzed_subhpg.jpg http://www.paulmiller.org/bedzed.jpg
http://tenplusone.inax.co.jp/archives/fieldwork/photoarchives/0403/image/slide0053_image212.jpg http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/energy/media/images/34roofs.jpg
http://www.bioregional.com/media_centre/picture_gallery/BedZED%20images%20for%20thumbnail%20gallery/bz4solar_panels_and_wind_co_lrg_img.jpg

Pic by Medo.



http://img37.echo.cx/img37/121/lwtbimby9at.jpg

The one good thing about everyone bashing the UK is that there missing all this, and we can keep it for ourselves :cheers:
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I'm not aware of any " UK bashing " . We are one of the very top tourists destinations in the world and always have been . The BBC recently reported tourists figures and they said London was the most visited city in Europe .

I'm only aware of people deriding our weather . I don't take that seriously . We are between Ireland and France. Our weather is no worse ( apart from the south of France obviously ) . Go to Holland . They are only an hour away . We have very similar weather to our close neighbours . I think this weather thing is just perpetuated by whiney Brits themselves because some wish we were in the tropics . We have a temperate climate without extremes . The UK is green every day of the year !

You are not aware of any UK bashing?

That this country is too centralised, too old, boring, ugly....Just pay a visit to the City V City threads and you will see what we're on about!

I am so sick of it, its constant, people have such outdated and twisted views of the UK.

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52985486.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1EE70CD3CD3110E8D97757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52985483.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E9497AB5622B4D3CF7757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52985479.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E78584636C5D54F0E7757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52985475.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1EB6D1497B08DF7E4A7757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52985473.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E78CD4AC77189F1897757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52985471.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E0B1DE39A1C06BC137757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52985445.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1EFA9432037BBCDB207757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984992.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E6F0D73A48600ADB97757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984991.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1EE1E35D8BF8D12E757757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984990.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E345D1A0E651693B87757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984947.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E32496F3FD92D64837757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984942.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1EE55ECE1B1DF3D85C7757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984909.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E0581495C9B8C818B7757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984888.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E933C6FD8B34342FC7757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984887.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1EA136B498A2641E227757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984881.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E997E3EA17F6EDF3C7757C85AE85A779B

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984858.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=5EEB7829CDAF634787B3B52BAACD2203A9C30E9B9B114CE8

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52984614.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=5EEB7829CDAF6347A7F322DF68E8A9A7A9C30E9B9B114CE8

British Passion for sport....pretty Best of Britany....thought to be 1M people there....its was big!

Credit to Citrus-Fruit who got these pics!

I know, a cemetery in BoB...But it is beautiful...and very interessting....Its an American Graveyard...No brits in there, just 1000s of American war heros...this is in Cambridge BTW!

http://www.abmc.gov/images/ca5.jpg
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/images/USCemWalloftheMissing.jpg

http://img286.echo.cx/img286/2821/lincolnbailgate2cd.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Have you ever seen a more european pic? (Lincoln)

http://img286.echo.cx/img286/9624/lincolnbailgate9ac.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
leicester square

I'm not aware of any " UK bashing " . !
You've got to be joking. The UK (and London in particular) is the most bashed, criticised and downvoted place on this forum...

You are not aware of any UK bashing?

That this country is too centralised, too old, boring, ugly....
Old - No
Boring - No
Ugly - No
Centralised - YES

Nah, I wouldnt say Centralised....certainly not as centralised as France.

I see people saying things like Madrid host more events a year than London Paris hosts more major world sporting events a year than London...and Im reading it an thinking 'yeah, because there a many hosted outside of London, all over the UK'

Earlybird...

Post some amazing pics of Manchester....not too many ;)

Untill then...
http://img14.echo.cx/img14/5686/grantham204li.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img251.echo.cx/img251/9571/grantham211kz.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Grantham Lincolnshire sunday street scene!

http://www.intercooltural.hu/test/images/3/3412g_Sandy%20beach%20in%20Cornwall.jpg

ani one have pics of Chester? please :)

Any pictures of Scarborough?

This threads great by the way.

Earlybird...

Post some amazing pics of Manchester....not too many ;)

Your wish is my command... ;)

Midland Hotel:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/021006-1027-45_std.jpg

Police Street:
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/photos/manchester/040228-1055-30_std.jpg

Lowry gallery:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA7EB7B7E-1907-4FAA-95D1-EF2213127C76%7D/A6D168.jpg

Lyme Park:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BE50E1390-7284-4056-AE37-E5406200E9E9%7D/AYM631.jpg

City of Manchester Stadium:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B8CC80D00-C000-4165-8287-0DBFB41AC452%7D/A0P076.jpg

Victoria Building, Salford Quays:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BC0BF3980-AF35-49B3-8F7E-99C089C40EF2%7D/AK04D0.jpg

Church Lane:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BA889EBA1-193E-4C83-B895-9DF87306C8B9%7D/AY01AE.jpg

University of Manchester:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BAB218473-3D95-4A5C-A4BA-3B9BE8358EC4%7D/A6R978.jpg

One Spinningfields:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7BB1369936-73BF-46A6-9B5D-CDACCC3D71F7%7D/AX3537.jpg

Exchange Square:
http://www.arrakeen.ch/europe/205%20%20Manchester.JPG

The Trafford Centre:
http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/TrafdCntrOrientEntr4307.jpg

Bramall Hall:
http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/NwStoBramallHallSnow1Z30.jpg

Quay West:
http://www.englandsnorthwest.com/nwda/gm00184-72.JPG

Tram at Salford Quays:
http://www.englandsnorthwest.com/nwda/gm00180-72.JPG

Great Northern Square:
http://www.englandsnorthwest.com/nwda/gm00095-72.JPG

Chetham's School:
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/chethamlibraryexterior.jpg

View at the airport:
http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/NwManAptCheBaVw5509.jpg

The Town Hall:
http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/ManTownHall5410.jpg

University building:
http://img144.exs.cx/img144/1106/569rq.jpg

At the Quays again:
http://img155.exs.cx/img155/9913/2370dl.jpg

New residential stuff:
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/ManCasfdWater4518.jpg

Imperial War Museum North:
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/lg/TraImpWarMusDsk2Z25.jpg

Millennium Bridge:
http://www.**********//thumbs/3/%7B31CF5CC0-7C09-4186-8330-874F2707430F%7D/AHP324.jpg

Worsley:
http://img71.echo.cx/img71/475/worsley28gu.jpg

There are loads more but I think this will do you! I think it shows a good balance of old, new and natural.

Cool

and boys....I think google is your best bet for Scarborough and chester pics!

But heres a Scarborough one for the time being...

http://www.34degsouth.com/Scarborough/Scarborough13_2.jpg

The UK is amazing.

The UK is amazing.

Where are you from IchO?

More Newquay Pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_1_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_2_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_5_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfingspencer_7_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/19/surfing_17_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_10_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_11_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_12_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_13_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_16_470x350.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2005/05/20/surfing_18_470x350.jpg

Cool

and boys....I think google is your best bet for Scarborough and chester pics!

But heres a Scarborough one for the time being...

http://www.34degsouth.com/Scarborough/Scarborough13_2.jpg

Have you any idea where in Scarborough that is?