File talk:Withernsea promenade 12CT62.jpg

Re-shoots

Look at file:Paddington Basin TQ2681 006.jpg and its talk page for the story of how I went out in 2011 to do a re-shoot and found that in four years a view had changed drastically.

In 2012 September I found two uploads by user:Mattythewhite on the English Wikipedia which he wanted deleted:

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  York railway station 26 - incorrectly dated 2005 April 28
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  Withernsea sea 28 - dated 2005 October 08

They both looked perfectly valid so I transferred them to here. But I consider photos of places to be useless unless co-ordinates are provided. (But for some reason I did not actually add the co-ordinates to the image descriptions until 2017 Feb!) Getting co-ordinates for the York railway station image was trivial. The Withernsea view was more difficult but the fact that I could not find it on Google StreetView was actually a good clue to its location.

So on my next visit to York, on 2012 Dec 30 I drove the full width of the East Riding just to photograph a bit of railing! My guess at location proved correct and I found the spot within a couple of hundred metres of where I had parked the car. If there was any doubt that I had found the right place, the cracks in the paving slabs were conclusive proof. Unlike Paddington Basin where radical changes had happened in four years, here nothing had happened in seven years except that the railings had been repainted from red to black. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 22:33, 9 February 2017 (UTC)