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SLB appears to be first past the post. Jessore it is.

Thank you Cows,
First search on Bismillah and AAX was a hit on ASN
ASN
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New challenge:
Started as private flying 50 years ago and basically has been a private entreprise until its demise.

Succes SLB

Is that a banked racing circuit like Brooklands pre-war - not many such circuits in Europe - ever.... so N America??

There is in Europe - and I've seen it before.

Just trying to remember where.

And I don't think it's a racing circuit.

Its dog racing!!!

N Denes Yarmouth Stadium by the look of it

Airport is next door

Asturias has placed the winning bet!
I visited often from 2003.
All what is left of the helicopter flying for southern North Sea has been relocated to Norwich.

Asturias had control.

If you zoom in on the picture you can see the lights around the track - quite distinctive

Then google UK Greyhound racing stadiums........................... it's only run professionally in the UK and Ireland I think in Europe

Did you win much Bear? I've only seen it movies - "The Long Good Friday" IIRC

Just got in - nice sunny day but cool.. whereas in the challenge it's sunny and warm a lot of the time - mainly internal flights but I think it may have one international flight service

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Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 10372628)

Did you win much Bear? I've only seen it movies - "The Long Good Friday" IIRC

Although I have spend considerable time in the portacabin waiting room waiting on the fog to clear, I could never place a bet at the greyhound Racing stadium. I was never allowed to leave and luckily I had to stay overnight only once in Great Yarmouth. For the rest it was always taxi waiting to fly KLM to Amsterdam from Norwich.

Somehow at Norwich i have spent far more nights in the hotels.

SLB

Ah.....my great tour at Coltishall - girls everywhere.

N O R W I C H

Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home.

Clueless about the challenge though.

It is a long way south from Norwich .. and Yarmouth as well

tell me - is there a "Lesser" or Small" Yarmouth ?? Or is it just Great???

Going far South from Great Yarmouth
i think southern Africa.
Due to the rather small patches of land around the airport i think not Australia.
SLB

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Originally Posted by Self loading bear (Post 10372627)

Asturias has placed the winning bet!
I visited often from 2003.
All what is left of the helicopter flying for southern North Sea has been relocated to Norwich.

Asturias had control.

Presently up for sale OIRO £1.5M; I believe the land has been assessed as unsuitable for housing otherwise it would have gone by now.
Convenient for the golf course and local horse race track as well as the stock car/dog track.

So how about we all chip in and buy it?

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Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 10372676)

It is a long way south from Norwich .. and Yarmouth as well

tell me - is there a "Lesser" or Small" Yarmouth ?? Or is it just Great???

Yarmouth IOW; there's a private strip there too.

SLB is in the correct direction - I'm off to the movies - I'll try and check-in in when we get back about 23:00 UK time

Looks like Mary Stewart/the Favourit/ or Schindlers List.... the last one is just too depressing

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Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 10372676)

tell me - is there a "Lesser" or Small" Yarmouth ?? Or is it just Great???

Being a fishermens town since the romans I too thought the “Great” was probably a red herring.
But I found the following on this site:

History site

Great Yarmouth – the qualifier distinguishing it from its southern neighbour, Little Yarmouth – is situated near where several rivers, among them the Yare, flow into what was once a very broad estuary (much larger than the present-day Breydon Water) opening out into the sea. In Roman times there was a port and market town a little further north, at Caistor, and a small fort inland at Burgh Castle; these were later abandoned. Subsequent settlement focused on the site of Great Yarmouth itself. Tradition has the first settlement there established by the Saxon leader, Cerdic, ca. 495, but this is unsubstantiated and doubtful. More certain is that silting in the mouth of the "Great Estuary" over time formed a huge sandbank that came to be several miles long, with breaches leaving the Yare access into the sea through two channels at either end of the sandbank; one channel separated Yarmouth and Caister, the other ran southwards for some miles and separated Great and Little Yarmouth/Gorleston before entering the sea.

Gorleston still exist as the southern side of the river mouth.

SLB

I can't find anything in South Africa and there's very little in Botswana.

Back from the movie - heaven help us from designing women...

Thanks to Bear - that is really interesting..................... real pub quiz stuff!

South was generic - tho its not a million miles form southern Africa.................. one of these rather obscure spots I end up in that are really not that bad but seem (like me) to be passed by the modern world......nice beach!

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I think it's in Madagascar.

Toliara ?