It’s a big city, and it has a waterfront. Can you identify this city from this angle? Send your ideas to ebrack2@gmail.com, and include your hometown.
The last mystery photo proved difficult to our spotters. Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. wrote: “Today’s mystery photo is a shot from the base of the Deerness Covenanters Memorial. It is a towering 10-meter (33-feet) brick structure sitting high on the cliffs of the north coast of the Deerness peninsula of the main island of the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the north coast of mainland Scotland in the North Sea.
“Built in 1888, the tower memorializes the 257 Covenanters, all members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who were prisoners from the Battle of Bothwell Bridge near Glasgow and were being taken to North America to serve as slaves as punishment. During the long journey, the ship sought shelter along the north coast of Deerness during a storm in the Orkneys. The prisoners were all locked below the decks of the ship, the ‘Crown of London’. The vessel was driven onto rocks on December 10, 1679. While 47 prisoners were able to escape from the locked holds below deck, the vast majority of them were killed.”
The only others who recognized the tower were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; and George Graf, Palmyra, Va. (Pardon us, but we lost the name of who sent this photo in.)
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