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  • #2
    The picture isn't very good but are those boats thames sailing barges?

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    • #3
      Hi Barbara, the original photo is pretty bad but I thought those 'bits' were maybe rocks?

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      • #4
        goes to ring opticians....................

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        • #5
          Don't do that Barbara, you've put a smile on my face

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          • #6
            Look like sailing boats to me Trish!
            Wendy



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            • #7
              You lot are making me doubt my own eyesight now:D Just checked the original with a magnifying glass - they are definitely rocks

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              • #8
                Hi Trish,
                I've just colour corrected and altered the contrast and brightness and they certainly aren't sailing barges.



                Your Dad.

                Unfortunately though, I don't recognise the coastline.
                Sorry,
                Neil.
                Last edited by Nasher; 28-03-08, 12:58. Reason: Sorry, I clicked on wrong thing on photobucket first time

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                • #9
                  That's brilliant Neil, thank you so much

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                  • #10
                    here it is a bit bigger ..
                    the boats are a funny shape
                    (oops forgot to sharpen it)




                    Last edited by Rachel Scand; 28-03-08, 13:16.
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                    • #11
                      I'm no geologist but that does not look like a coastline as much as the banks of a river, deeply eroded. If it is a river it is cutting through a very flat landscape. Could the strange structures be the supports of a bridge or pier that no longer exists? To give an idea of scale I think I can see a person standing just to the left of his hood.
                      Last edited by Paul Barton, Special Agent; 28-03-08, 18:46.
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                      • #12
                        You can rule out Sussex (not very helpful, I know), wrong sort of geology.

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                        • #13
                          I wonder if they are the remains of WW2 coastal defences. The man's haircut coat and glasses suggest a date for the photo of around 1966.
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                          • #14
                            I can tell you it was taken between 1976 and 1981, OH has just had a look and thinks it may be the Dorset area. What do you think of that idea?

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                            • #15
                              By the way, it is a rotten photo of my father (he didn't look like that - I blame the photographer!!).:(:D

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                              • #16
                                The Dorset coastline was used for rehearsals for D-Day, so maybe the structures are the remains of assault equipment.
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                                • #17
                                  Can't get it any sharper ... very odd shapes





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                                  • #18
                                    Our neighbour has joined us in trying to solve the problem now, he reckons the rock formation could well be The Pinnacles at Dorset

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                                    • #19
                                      You can see that they are not floating but fixed to the seabed. Could they be structures with a central 'mast', covered with tarpaulin?
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                                      • #20
                                        Just searched for a photo of the Pinnacles - it's possible I guess, depends on the angle the photos were taken and if it was low/high tide

                                        Landscape and nature photography by New Forest, Hampshire and Dorset photographer Adam Burton

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