June Quiz - Day 22

Backround: West Stow

Haven't played this before but was just glancing through so why not...

The station building is perhaps South Hampstead (on the Watford - Euston DC line), what with the 70's box-like design and that type of grey brick that was modish at the time, and the NSE style red band on the tile work.

The huts in the background, they've got to be a reconstruction at some sort of outdoor museum somewhere surely... (I've been to at least one place like that but off the top of my head I can't remember where it might have been!)

The reflection, well that's a Midland Mainline liveried HST power car so perhaps somewhere on the Midland main line, then again those MML-painted power cars have got about a bit (though if it's not somewhere on the MML that'd make it a bit of a trick question and that'd be a bit harsh!). Not sure about the train with red doors though, but the two trains do look as though they might be either side of an island platform...

1) The station building is Moor Park
2) The cottages in the background resemble those in the children's tale Three Little Pigs.
3)

That looks like a class 170 in CrossCountry livery. With the MML HST and the fact that it's (apparently) in a cutting, I'd hazard a guess at Sheffield.

The only guess I've got for the huts is Cockley Cley in Norfolk.

As for the other photo, this is just a guess, but is it Leicester? *runs away*

The background is Butser Ancient Farm, near Petersfield in Hants. The huts shown are possibly those modelled on the Glastonbury roundhouses, the farm being a reconstruction of an Iron Age settlement.

As for them being round to confound the devil - nice idea, but structurally a circular house is easier to build and very, very sturdy. Lots has been said about the pitch of the roof - of course, anything above ground level will only ever be conjecture - but statistical evidence shows that the pitch of rooves is best at 45^o in the UK because of the amount of rain. Steeper, and it washes the reeds off, shallower and the rain goes straight through.

I stayed at the farm for 5 weeks as part of my degree in Archaeology (I had a sort of subspecialism in archaeobotany, and in fact I see that the first 3 photos on the Crops page are mine, and are *still* uncredited.... could be worse, in bygone years they had a whopping 15 uncredited on the site. I had to crawl around on my stomach for ages to get that photo of the Triticum dicoccum!). I had my first introduction to the joys of horse flies there, and learnt not to annoy a Manx or a Soay