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Wondering if anyone could identify this road

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Submitted by EleanorG on Mon, 2021-06-28 20:06

I am hoping it is one of the key roads around the Peak Tramway but i can't identify it, was hoping someone might recognise where abouts it was taken please, thank you!
https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/jc01-33

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Submitted by OldTimer on Tue, 2021-06-29 11:34.

Similar features, but I cannot say they match exactly.   I remember looking at this location pin last year - 

https://gwulo.com/node/45707#14/22.2586/114.2321/Map_by_ESRI-Markers/100...

Go north on Goolge street view, stop just before the bend.  Similar features: road gradual rising, bend, low barrier in distance, small hill on left, looks like one tree matches with one in old photo, land drops off on the right but no trees to match, nor the distant hill.  Regards,  Peter

Submitted by philk on Tue, 2021-06-29 16:38.

are the photos in chronological order on the website? If so this might reveal some clues as to the location. Unless someone can recognise it specifically it is a bit like trying to find a (no longer existent) needle in a haystack. If it's in the NT, then most likely somewhere along Tai Po Road but at which point is anybody's guess given the lack of background detail.

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2021-07-01 00:17.

Looking at the Carstairs collection and at the photo sequence, the photo may have been taken on Victoria Road or on the road to Pok Fu Lam and Aberdeen. 

Submitted by OldTimer on Thu, 2021-07-01 03:20.

Greetings!  How about Tai Po Road going north with the "future" Shatin Heights Hotel on the right hand side.  No hills to match though.  Regards,   Peter

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2021-07-01 06:40.


Some of the views in the Carstairs collection look similar to road scenes shown here in Jubilee Road and Aberdeen.

Submitted by OldTimer on Thu, 2021-07-01 08:15.

Thank you moddsey for pointing to the Jubilee Road and Aberdeen region.  I noted there are quite a few scenes with good resemblance.  If the photographer had taken it in Shatin, his collection would have had a lot more of that and Tai Po area, I think.  Regards,  Peter