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Thread #128155   Message #2865976
Posted By: SteveMansfield
17-Mar-10 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: Google StreetView - folk/trad sightings?
Subject: Google StreetView - folk/trad sightings?
Google Street View has recently been substantially updated so that it now covers 95% of the UK.

With a tip of the hat to The Guardian newspaper's research into football matches on Street View, has anyone found anything folk-related on there?

Any morris sides caught on camera, any festival marquees up and ready to go, anyone carrying their instruments into a gig, pub session or folk club, any signs or reminders of traditional customs?

There's no sign of the Ham Marquee
or the campsite in Sidmouth,
the main arena at Towersey is an open field,
the main square at Wimborne is unusually free of morris dancers,
and
it's obviously not Easter Saturday in Bacup because there's no sign of the Nutters,
or indeed Boxing Day lunchtime in Bridgemont or else the road outside the Dog and Partridge would be full of The Powderkegs dancing off our Christmas dinner.

So those are some of the blanks I've drawn so far - has anyone found anything, here or in the US?

(Bonus non-folk-related link for those who haven't already seen this on The Register: alien invasion fleet motherships, disguised as pliers, hovering over West Bromwich.)