Brumas

I am afraid clues are essential.

I had already looked at St Albans a lot earlier and although I found the church I could not be sure it was the proper one.

Trying to get an exact copy of and old photo is next to impossible in some cases.

In this case it was a church but there were other churches in other towns that looked similar.

Maybe you should have let it run till the next day but then we would not have found the unknown one.

I think maybe the West of the A1 should have been the final clue but just answering St Alabans would still have been a guess.

Now if someone could post the almost exact copy of the photo even now they should get a couple of brownie points.

lets face it if john bunyan could not find it you know it had to be hard to detect.

Jock1e

Dont overdo it! you, Macscouse, woolwell buteman and others are better very often! Spot on with the postcard.

I don't think that it is possible to have a hard and fast rule about clues. I find that Brumas' judgement as to when to prompt is usually good. Some are more obscure than others with little to help others have tradesmen names for example. Putting us back on track helps too.

Perhaps some of the very old still unidentified ones could be recycled. I'm still stuck with the lobster pot inn.