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Groucho's Fact Hunt

Do you know what vantage point that photo was taken.
No but I have a good guess.

I would say its from the bedroom window of the end house next to the commercial property- which used to be Irwins Grocers, all their shops had distinctive beige tiles, (now hidden) the business was bought out around 1963/4 during Tesco's early expansion phase.
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You can still see remnants of their distinctive tiled shops about the South half of the city
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The highest bothy in the UK is the Hutchison memorial hut in the Cairngorms. Second highest is actually in England, Greg's hut on Cross Fell in the north pennines, at 690 m.

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Seeing as the title of this thread is a play on words (fact hunt), I’m going to be introducing a weekly award to what I think is the best fact posted each week. In keeping with the play on words nature of the title, the award will be “fact up”.

It will start as of now, and I’ll read through the thread and pick the winner weekly. The winner gets basically told that they have ‘fact up’ this week;

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The exhaust valves in the Rolls Royce Merlin engine were bored out hollow and half filled with sodium which melted in use and removed heat from the valve head as it splashed around inside, distributing the heat into the valve stem for more efficient cooling.

Ingenious engineering.
 

Seeing as the title of this thread is a play on words (fact hunt), I’m going to be introducing a weekly award to what I think is the best fact posted each week. In keeping with the play on words nature of the title, the award will be “fact up”.

It will start as of now, and I’ll read through the thread and pick the winner weekly. The winner gets basically told that they have ‘fact up’ this week;

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Fact. This thread has been going for 5 years and I hadn't noticed the play on words until this post.
 

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