Quiz Quwstion-Where Is This?
 

Below are a series of photos showing the remains of a piece of WWII history.

All that is now left is the ballustrade, the site being long demolished and used as a visitors' car park.

I am confident some here will know where it is but hope the answer will be of interest to many here.

Views of the ballustrade as you approach the site
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The upper ballustrade...now a picnic area
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Steps leading to the site that is now used as a car park
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The view from the ballustrade with the site at your back
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What country Jim? UK? If so, north?

Looks like a GHQ kinda area...

I dont know what / where that is but its bloody beautiful, (English?) country side at its best? :DL

I don't want to give too many clues away and I'm sure you'll both understand why when the location is revealed.....but yes, it is 'somewhere' in the UK.

Totally random guess...

...is that where they designed the de Havilland Mosquito?

Afraid not....nothing to do with aircraft per say but it could be argued it did :hmmm:

Seeing all that green grass I was about to say it's Bletchley Park...but it doesn't really look like it...:hmm2:

My guess: Chateau d'Buna:haha:

Your quite right....it doesn't/is not.

LMAO you crazy bastid :har:

Honestly....if I thought it was going to be this difficult I'd have offered a prize.

The views and the stonework are exquisit Jim. :up:

Per se.

Is it one of the places where the Brits trained the 'special ops' teams?
ie: Altrincham, Cheshire

I'll take a punt and say somewhere in Northumberland.:O:

I hate randomly guessing.

But I'm guessing it has something to do with the X-craft. The little subs.

That or it kinda reminds me of where they would train spies to drop into occupied france

It's where Nelson gave his "We will fight them on the beaches" speech before going on to destroy the Spanish Luftwaffe at the battle of Jutland?

Its where British submariners during breaks between patrols went to relax and be pampered. I'm guessing the sea is not to far off from where this place is :hmmm:

Yeah im guess here! lol

No, Nelson gave that speech from his family's home in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1225. The prelude to that speech became the foundation of the Magna Carta.

I betcha Jim forgot and, wants us to help him remember. :haha:

It is located within 150 miles of where I live Grant.

@Sledge and Kiwi....you are the closest yet.

The clue was in the first post Clue: The site was demolished in 1955.

Someone must get it now, surely.

Well its not Lerwick then. That's about 460miles from you.:hmmm:

How about HMS Ambrose in Dundee?

EDIT: The other options are HMS Varbell Port Bannatyne Hydropathic Hotel Isle of Bute, or HMS Varbell II Ardtaraig House near Loch Striven in Argyll. But that structure looks in good nick for something that was demolished in 1955 in the shots I've seen. That and the google maps pics don't reflect a structure like that near these locations so I reckon the X craft training facilities are out.