Guess where this is?

[GNEP]

Hmm the red rocks would suggest dumfries & galloway... but you've said not the west coast. So how about the south coast?

[KvHagedorn]

South coast? um.. no. I would still think of that as west coast, and Northumberland is not a sea.

[Brian Ellis]

Hmmm! There are red rocks between N. Berwick and Dunbar, but the architecture doesn't tell me that. Stonehaven/Aberdeen area doesn't have red sandstone, suggesting it may be farther north. I've not been farther north than Aberdeen, so am ignorant, there, but the Elgin area is mainly alluvial, which this isn't Golspie is on gneiss, I believe, so that suggests the North-East Coast or, and I'm beginning to think seriously of the islands, more probably the Shetlands???

[KvHagedorn]

Not the Shetlands, nor any island (other than Great Britain)

[KvHagedorn]

A clue for you all.. this town has everything to do with GNEP's profession, but only in fiction.

[KvHagedorn]

Another shot.. "Scotland's most famous phone box."

[Brian Ellis]

OK, you've given it away now. Pennan. A village I've never, ever, heard of. Nor have I heard of the phone box, a common item of UK street furniture, so it ain't all that famous, having featured in an obscure film, 20 years, that I've never heard of either. I would suggest that the phone box outside the GPO, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, that had 23 students packed inside in 1949 is more famous: at least 24 persons had it imprinted on their minds for life (the 24th being your humble servant - I was the packer-in, being too big to be half-suffocated inside it).

[Brian Ellis]

Here is a photo of the old GPO, now empty and derelict. The phone boxes have also now gone.



It is part of Edinburgh's architectural heritage, dating from the early 1800s, when the New Town was built.

[Brian Ellis]

What is the building, and where?

[degrub]

How about an old listening post (like Clark in the Philippines) converted to a UN facility ?

[Brian Ellis]

Not in Asia, not a listening post, perhaps, with a slight stretch of the imagination, just the opposite.

Clue: the country is a constitutional monarchy with a democratically elected bicameral government. However, the monarch (currently female) is not the Head of State, giving that honour to the Prime Minister.

[GNEP]

Looks like a university campus. One of the 60s ones. Coventry perhaps?

[Brian Ellis]

Not in Europe, not a campus. Whoever saw palm trees in Coventry? And the Queen is the UK Head of State.

[degrub]

Barbados ?
Currently a colony or member of the commonwealth ?

[Brian Ellis]

Getting a bit warmer, but some way to go yet. Yes, a Member of the Commonwealth, hence the reference to the monarchy. That should make it easier.