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Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:16 pm
by Sn00ker
A30
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YgY8xoWFm8U2m4gh7

Could this be here? Obviously the clay mine dump is less prominent and covered in vegetation.

Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:31 pm
by Sn00ker
A30
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EnertzhgAeN72Mww7

And this is a similar view/skyline to here. Thoughts?

Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:51 am
by Sn00ker
Sn00ker wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:31 pm A30
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EnertzhgAeN72Mww7

And this is a similar view/skyline to here. Thoughts?
On second thoughts this isn't a good comparable, but there are better ones along the stretch of the A30.

Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:33 am
by Sn00ker
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.50684 ... 312!8i6656

I think this is possible match, bearing in mind that the A30 has been widened.

Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:44 pm
by [flabbyroad]
Could this be here? Obviously the clay mine dump is less prominent and covered in vegetation.
If you google on Hawkstor China Clay works, some say it was a landmark on the A30 and you'll find a photo of the eighties for the spot:

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It fits with the old map;

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So perhaps not a 100% proof, I think you found the right spot and it solves also the Fork question and filling another gap in the route:

My thinking is that the fork in the road used to be here:

England
https://maps.app.goo.gl/L56MQc9EPoJVaHiu7

We'll not know until we find a location from the 15th between Bodmin and the RAC box at Whiddon Down
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Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:34 am
by Sn00ker
[flabbyroad] wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 6:51 pm
The any suggestions on the AA box?

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My idea so far; Blackdown Hills, Monkton near Honiton. Problems, skyline don't exactly match, it is not on the route, riding in the wrong direction (Perhaps the 11th? perhaps the footage is mirrored?)

https://www.google.nl/maps/@50.838876,- ... ,12z?hl=en

fl.
Maybe also A30 north of Bodmin?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.50447 ... 312!8i6656

Although there"s no AA telephone box on the old map

Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:33 pm
by [flabbyroad]
Maybe also A30 north of Bodmin?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.50447 ... 312!8i6656

Although there"s no AA telephone box on the old map
You could be right about the A30 and there is an AA-box:

https://www.theaa.com/resources/Documen ... o-1962.pdf

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(It's difficult to match Streetview, perhaps impossible, with the screenshots but the landscape near Blisland with walls and hedges it could do.)

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Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:25 am
by Sn00ker
[flabbyroad] wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:33 pm
Maybe also A30 north of Bodmin?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.50447 ... 312!8i6656

Although there"s no AA telephone box on the old map
You could be right about the A30 and there is an AA-box:

https://www.theaa.com/resources/Documen ... o-1962.pdf

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(It's difficult to match Streetview, perhaps impossible, with the screenshots but the landscape near Blisland with walls and hedges it could do.)

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Ah yes, didn't spot that on the old map

Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:29 am
by Sn00ker
Sn00ker wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:33 am https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.50684 ... 312!8i6656

I think this is possible match, bearing in mind that the A30 has been widened.
Looking at this again I think this is a good match

Re: Magical Mystery Tour Location Question

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 6:39 pm
by [flabbyroad]
Although this small section seems correct - they go onto the roundabout, pass the turn off for the M4, take the A4 exit, pass the trucks stopped on the right, passed the Fosters pub (there is a building on the right which I suspect is correct but I can't find any reference to it being called Fosters), then passed the Wheatsheaf on the left.

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Leaving Henley-on-Thames via A423? Not the same level anymore...

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