Smb1001

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Image Tagging Image:Cam-ouse 19.3.05.jpg

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Image:Anglesey Abbey - 4.9.05.jpg

Your image of Anglesey Abbey has been posted as her own work by this Flickr account holder http://www.flickr.com/photos/london_heiress86/842584854/

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Was already removed when I visited SMB (4.4.08)

File:St Etheldreda's Church, Reach.jpg

Thankyou for donating File:St Etheldreda's Church, Reach.jpg. However, your photo does not resemble Historic England's description of St Etheldreda's Church, Reach, which is here:

This is a photo of listed building number 1162403.

The church which does fit that discription is here: File:Holy Trinity church and war memorial at Reach - geograph.org.uk - 493247.jpg.

I apologise for asking you to cast your mind back more than six years, but please can you work out what church your photo really is? It's a good photo of an interesting church. I'd like to get it properly categorised so that people can find and use it!

Thankyou, Motacilla (talk) 11:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

I have now identified the church in your photo. It is in fact Category:Holy Trinity church, Bottisham. Sorry to have troubled you!

Best wishes, Motacilla (talk) 11:26, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

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Clare Memorial Court gate to UL

Hello Smb1001 -- First, let me write a heartfelt thanks for your efforts at documenting listed buildings in Cambridge; your photos are excellent and truly much appreciated. I'm enquiring about your photo of the Clare Memorial Court gates to the UL; it's clearly a different gate from the one illustrated by the Images of England photograph in the listing [1], which I was very surprised was listed. If you are sure you are correct, should someone inform Historic England that their image is incorrect? Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 03:19, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

You're very welcome -- it's forced me to get out on my bike around the city on many a sunny day! When I'm taking the pictures I often rue that I'm doing them on my phone rather than with a decent SLR as they merit, so I'm glad you think they're not too bad.

I remember noting their picture of Clare's gates on was wrong, very much not the first time I've spotted a wrong image on the Historic England pages. But my best guess is that their images all come from volunteers wandering around tracking down the listings, so they're no more or less likely to get them right than we are. In this case I'm sure my image is right as the listing talks of "vase finials", which rules out theirs. The Historic England image is the gate at the centre of the image here, though you can't see the gates as they're open. Very much not a gate "to the University Library". (My image is of the gates at the centre of [2].)

I imagine you already know of it, but my driver for adding the images was the excellent wikishootme site which finds Wikidata entries with no image. I've eliminated as many of the reds as I can, with the remainder largely inside colleges (or randomly-positioned companies). All the best, Smb1001 (talk) 14:07, 21 December 2023 (UTC)