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Do you have any landmarks you look out for so you know you are near home?

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Geekster1963 · 09/05/2020 18:38

As kids when the power satiation’s and the pit came into view we always knew we were nearly home. Now it’s when we can see the ‘golf ball’, which is a radar station but from a distance looks like a giant golf ball, you can see it from miles away.

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Bargainhuntbore · 09/05/2020 21:58

Snowdon

MWNA · 09/05/2020 21:58

The Crystal Palace Tower.

janeyloves · 09/05/2020 22:04

Lincoln cathedral

Artus · 09/05/2020 22:09

Mine's the same as justonecottonpickingminute. Though I havent lived there for many years.

Dylanpickle · 09/05/2020 22:10

A strange lorry parked in a field advertising baby care stuff, and it has a mannequin wearing a wig pushing a pram on the roof by the side of the M6 & Sandbach services.

In the other direction the Canal, we look out for the swans and boats.

Megatron · 09/05/2020 22:13

A radio transmitter about 5 miles from home.

ARoseInHarlem · 09/05/2020 22:19

Most of these are so bucolic!

Mine is a piece of graffiti which says “Smile, they’re watching” Confused

SteeperThanHell · 09/05/2020 22:21

Rivington and Winter Hill

Do you have any landmarks you look out for so you know you are near home?
TwoZeroTwoZero · 09/05/2020 22:22

Woodhall Services
Meadowhall
That house in the middle of the M62
Ferrybridge power station (but the rest of the chimneys will be gone soon I think)

megletthesecond · 09/05/2020 22:23

AA building. Tallest one in our town.

RUSU92 · 09/05/2020 22:23

It said GIVE PEAS A CHANCE for 20+ years until it got over graffittied by HELCH a few years ago.

I was irrationally annoyed by that Helch thing - the Give Peas a Chance always made me smile and reminded me of coming home from Uni with my dad. When I saw it had been graffitied over I was horrified! I even signed a petition to reinstate the peas!

Now says THANK YOU NHS

Well that's an improvement I guess.

NotExactlyHappyToHelp · 09/05/2020 22:24

The Wrekin! It might only be little but I love it. Nothing quite like the feeling of being close to home.

GalactiCat · 09/05/2020 22:27

This bridge.

Do you have any landmarks you look out for so you know you are near home?
juneybean · 09/05/2020 22:27

Penshaw monument Smile

ThrowawayIpa · 09/05/2020 22:29

Lyme park national trust. 2 mins away from home

Redcrayons · 09/05/2020 22:30

Ikea.

BogRollBOGOF · 09/05/2020 22:30

Ratcliffe on Soar was my gateway back to studentworld Grin

It's still a good sign though, but the "new" McDonalds is better.

LadyMuck111 · 09/05/2020 22:31

Someone has replied that must live in my area. Because the Humber Bridge is my landmark too.

MrsT1405 · 09/05/2020 22:32

Castle Montgri. It's a spanish castle on top of a hill. We turn left, go over the hill and see it....nearly home! Used to be the salt and pepper pot cooling towers In Sheffield but long gone.

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Geekster1963 · 09/05/2020 22:32

TwoZero Ferrybridge was one of the power stations we used as a landmark as children. Like you said there isn’t much left of it now. When we went to my Grandparents me and my sisters had to try to be first to spot ‘the flame’ and they wall’.

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Geekster1963 · 09/05/2020 22:33

Someone is my area too as they mentioned Lincoln Cathedral.

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MsSquiz · 09/05/2020 22:34

Since it went up, the Angel of the North. Before that, it was always the Tyne Bridge.

Unless my Nana was in the car, then it was (not a landmark) Washington services! She would always start to sing "we're back to Bonny Newcastle"

thenightsky · 09/05/2020 22:34

Travelling from the North - Humber Bridge
Travelling from the South - Lincoln Cathedral

Llyn · 09/05/2020 22:35

I love this thread. As soon as I saw this thread I thought of some trees I always look out for on my way back to Cornwall. Googled ‘copse of trees on the A30’ and this was the first search result Grin

www.cornwalllive.com

Pipandmum · 09/05/2020 22:36

Yes the church across from my kids school is the highest point in the town. I live on an island and you can see it from the ferry and we live about half a mile away.