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Friday Night Fun - Cycling Picture Game

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    #32
    The Noble Nudge
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    smacl wrote: »
    Great idea for a thread WA! Tried adding a picture last night but flash and phone died after the miserable shot below. Bonus points if you can figure this one out from the blur.

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    Are you on the southside Smacl?
    Edmondstown road think the name of it is....


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    #33
    RobertFoster
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    #8 is in Rush: https://goo.gl/maps/gwwuyTpHdBz


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    #34
    Wishbone Ash
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    RobertFoster wrote: »
    #8 is in Rush: https://goo.gl/maps/gwwuyTpHdBz
    Yes - well done.

    Main Street , Rush - between the Garda Station and the Church. (I'll post a wider image when I get home from work).


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    #35
    plodder
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    We passed No. 6 on yesterday's ride! ;)

    It's in Oldtown.

    here

    Just as well I didn't see this on Friday as I know all the ones within 5-10 miles radius :) . Stumped by 8 and 9 though.

    I've often wondered does An Post still collect mail from these. Some of them basically would amount to a private mail collection service, as there's so few houses nearby.


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    #36
    Wishbone Ash
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    plodder wrote: »
    It's in Oldtown.

    here
    Well spotted plodder - about a km north of Oldtown Village on the R122.


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    #37
    Wishbone Ash
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    5, 7, and 9 remain.


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    #38
    RobertFoster
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    plodder wrote: »
    It's in Oldtown.

    here

    Just as well I didn't see this on Friday as I know all the ones within 5-10 miles radius :) . Stumped by 8 and 9 though.

    I've often wondered does An Post still collect mail from these. Some of them basically would amount to a private mail collection service, as there's so few houses nearby.
    You beat me to it, I'd just found that one on Google maps myself thanks to that hint.

    Any more clues WA? ;)


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    #39
    plodder
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    Feck. 5 and 7 are very familiar, but I can't place them now..


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    #40
    Wishbone Ash
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    RobertFoster wrote: »
    ..Any more clues WA? ;)
    There's a bit of a clue on number 9 inside the gate.


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    #41
    RobertFoster
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    https://goo.gl/maps/QY3YY2XAGUU2 :)


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    #42
    Wishbone Ash
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    RobertFoster wrote: »
    https://goo.gl/maps/QY3YY2XAGUU2 :)
    Oh well spotted Robert Foster - Harbour Road, Skerries, beside 'Stoops' pub.

    Again I'll throw up some wider images tonight (can't do so at work).


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    #43
    smacl
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    The Noble Nudge wrote: »
    Are you on the southside Smacl?
    Edmondstown road think the name of it is....

    Yes indeed, fair play for getting it from that shot.


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    #44
    The Noble Nudge
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    smacl wrote: »
    Yes indeed, fair play for getting it from that shot.

    :D T'was a fluke Smacl I had taken a very similar one in the same place not so long ago....Cycled past it at least 100 times before I spotted it..:cool:


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    #45
    Wishbone Ash
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    Here's the wider shots of no. 6, 8 and 9 as promised earlier:

    No. 6 - Approx 1km north of Oldtown on the R122

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    No. 8 - Main Street, Rush - looking towards Tesco.

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    No. 9 - Harbour Road, Skerries

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    #46
    Wishbone Ash
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    No. 5 & 7 remain.
    Wishbone Ash wrote: »

    5.

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    7.

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    #47
    plodder
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    No. 5 & 7 remain.
    Passed 7 today, and can't believe I didn't remember it last week.
    It's Baldwinstown Cross between Garristown and Oldtown here


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    #48
    Weepsie
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    I'd say half of these are on some of my most regularly used routes and I don't recognise one. There's one a bit outside stamullen after you come down from Snowtown that was the first one I took notice of in a long time recently. Only a few days later did this thread start.


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    #49
    Wishbone Ash
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    plodder wrote: »
    Passed 7 today, and can't believe I didn't remember it last week.
    It's Baldwinstown Cross between Garristown and Oldtown here
    Spot on plodder - Baldwinstown Cross it is (between Garristown and Springhill on the Clonalvy side of the junction for those who don't know it).


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    #50
    Wishbone Ash
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    This is the only one remaining.

    Clue - it is on what was once a very busy route. ;)


    5.

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    #51
    RobertFoster
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    Just north of Blakes Cross on the R132: https://goo.gl/maps/cehkVCQLuKk


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    #52
    Wishbone Ash
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    RobertFoster wrote: »
    Just north of Blakes Cross on the R132: https://goo.gl/maps/cehkVCQLuKk
    Bingo! :) Well done.

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    #53
    RobertFoster
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    So when's the inaugural NCD Imperial Postal Tour happening? ;)

    Even if tweaked into a loop starting and ending in Garristown, taking in Ardgillan and the Three Sisters, it only just breaks 75km. Too short of a spin by Wishbone Ash standards :)


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    #54
    Wishbone Ash
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    I've spotted a few more since so we could easily make it longer! :D


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    #55
    Wishbone Ash
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    BTW - someone asked earlier if they were still in use. Most are, as evidenced by the collection time notices on them. When they are not in use, the slot is sealed.

    (Not sure how true it is but many years ago, a work mate informed me that a post box must receive at least 4 letters per week to remain 'active'.)


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    #56
    koutoubia
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I've spotted a few more since so we could easily make it longer! :D

    Now there is normal longer and WA longer!


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