Guess the location from the pictures: the new Ramblers game: link the walk to the music

Pictures by Ian Crosby, educational information and research by Tony Attwood

Welcome to the new Peterborough Ramblers quiz!  Yes indeed for today I have discovered the location of the exclamation mark!   And will be using it a lot!!

But there is more for today, what you have to do is look at these pictures kindly supplied by our  guest photographer, and you have to recognise where it was!

Now this picture here is a big clue because it is what we architects call a door.  What’s more it is a green door.

Now in England, this has a very specific place in our society as it was this very door that was the inspiration for the song “Green Door” which reached number 1 in the charts in 1961 when recorded by Shakin Stevens, who was the UK’s biggest selling singles artist of the 1980s!  This door does indeed commemorate his work.

It is of course very likely that you will want to relive that song and so there is a copy of it below at the end of the piece for technical reasons I won’t bore you with.

Now it was often said at the time that this song was one of the favourite recordings of donkeys, and so the walk did indeed take in a number of such creatures.

They are, as you will of course know, a subspecies of the African wild ass, Equus Africanus.

Of course, we are always keen on our walks to take in not just creatures in fields but also signs on doors and so here we have just such a one.

It is of course, a copy of the sign that exists at 100 Parliament Street, and we all know what that means and no mistake!

And of course, many have walked this way failing to take note of the sign and been turned into wild beasts that prey on your ankles, such is the height of their beaks.  These creatures only have one eye each which they keep trained on the camera at all times!

But of course, looking at the wild beasies and admiring popular music from ancient days is only part of the activity, and thus we marched forth, and indeed sometimes fifth, to the constant cry of “What happens after the trees?”

And indeed we found out, for it turned out that after the trees, there were indeed more trees before we reached the open sky line!  Amazing!!

And therein and theretofore, we stopped and celebrated as another part of this land of ours had been truly walked and indeed photographed.

I will not say that it did not take a fair bit of energy to complete the trip, but it was indeed worth it as can be seen from the smiling faces at the end of the line.

But the question remains?   Do you recognise where it was?

If so, you won’t win a prize, but your sense of one-upmanship will surely last until lunch.  And if you have that song spinning round in your head well, sorry, yes it does that.

Now I quite like the idea of linking a walk to a piece of music so if you are out and about taking pictures of a Ramblers walk and you would like them to appear on this site along with a suitably linked piece of music just send the pictures to me at Tony@schools.co.uk and if you wish your nomination for a piece of music and I will try and mix the two together.

If not, well, it’s a bit of a silly idea isn’t it?   But it sort of just came to me and I had a bit of space left at the bottom of the page so I thought I would throw it in, as it were.