Guess where this is?

[Fluff]

That cleopratra's style needle looks photoshopped

Scotland?

[Brian Ellis]

Yup, it's in Scotland, but where and what?

The PhotoPainting was because I took a poor JPG and tried to twist the verticals vertical, so they got the jaggies. Sorry about that.

[SitFlyer]

Edinburgh, Calton Hill, but I don't know what the various buildings are

[Brian Ellis]

Yes, but what are the buildings?

[Umfriend]

National Monument, the Old observatory and the Royal observatory.

[SitFlyer]

working on it

left to right

????,
National Monument
Nelson Monument,
Govenor's House,
St Andrew's House

[Pace]

Hmm, the observatory? (I really should know )

[Brian Ellis]

I'll give it to SF, as a) he got Calton Hill and b) three of the four buildings. The other one is the Martyrs' Obelisk which commemorates five prominent Scots who were transported (to Oz?) for sedition in the late 18th c - bloody English!

Nelson's monument has a ball that drops from the mast at top at 13.00 h exactly every day (and a cannon is fired from the castle). The idea was so that sailors in the Firth of Forth could set their ships' chronometers.

The Governor's House is all that remains of the 18th c main prison (after the Canongate prison was closed and before Saughton was opened) and it was the Prison Governor who lived there.

St Andrews House was the old Scottish Parliament building (now replaced by a VERY costly new one).

The more usually noticed buildings on Calton Hill, the National Monument (modelled after the Parthenon), nicknamed Edinburgh's disgrace because it was never finished (tiny bit visible behind the obelisk), the Old Observatory, the City Observatory and the Dugald Stewart Monument are not visible in this view, because of the queer angle from which it was taken.

Edinburgh is, or rather was, my home town: I spent all my childhood there, right up to when His Majesty required my services at 19.

[Pace]

My few ventures into Edinburgh usually revolve around the bars on Lothian Road or Grassmarket

[SitFlyer]

Name this North American building

[squire]

it is the libarary or museum of natural history beside central park

[Pace]

Eh? Doubt it.

Idiot newbie.

[Umfriend]

Could be right I think, it does resemble my memory from the Museum of Modern Art, which I think was in there like 6 years ago ?!?

[Fat Tone]

Careful now Umf - you don't want to get on the wrong side of Pace I guess Jasmine left him a present on the couch

[SitFlyer]

Originally posted by squire
it is the libarary or museum of natural history beside central park

Yes

Originally posted by Umfriend
Could be right I think, it does resemble my memory from the Museum of Modern Art, which I think was in there like 6 years ago ?!?

No