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Can You Find This Postcode #39

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Can you name the postcode where this photo is taken from and the place in the photograph?
This one was taken and submitted by one of our lovely members.
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Postcode Hunt #39

In the spirit of fair competition, please do not use reverse image searching or google lens to find the postcodes.

The answer is: Dean’s Bridge, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, EH3 7UA

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  • congrats to LE7 7TR. Hope it is claimed. Is that Rothley? If not, very close as almost my old post code. Love to all in Rothley.

  • Happy Sunday everyone, and thank you to the many people who have taken part here over the past few days! I've been hard at work coding everybody's responses, and just this morning have finished my 216th participant. Today and tomorrow I'm making my last push for new participants, so if you haven't yet, please do consider taking part!

    With the kind permission of Chris (the admin of PickMyPostcode), I am sharing a link to a questionnaire I am carrying out for my Masters degree in Youth Work Leadership. I'm looking to find out more about how people around the UK perceive young people and youth work. It takes about 15 minutes of your time, and every response helps to expand our surprisingly undocumented understanding of this important topic!

    https://qualtricsxml9lhljps7.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BAzR8hCSeGmivs

    I hope you will consider taking part. It doesn't collect any especially identifying data if you are like me and don't like giving that out! Thank you in advance for your time and help.

    Additionally, if you started your questionnaire before but never got around to finishing it, feel free to come and do the last few questions! Your answers should be saved for up to a week as long as you do it on the same device.

    (I apologise if you are a frequent visitor to these comments and are getting tired of this comment - it'll only be posted again tomorrow and/or Tuesday)

  • Where can I find the results of your surveys ?

    • The only survey from PMP is the one to reveal the Survey Draw postcode. All the others are external ones, and are mainly from insight platforms in the US. Results are only available to the companies that requested them.

  • You really should do more rigorous checks on the adverts - some of them lead to sites that my antivirus etc says "This is a dangerous site" - this has happened many times in the past.

    • We all see different adverts.

    • Total agreement there Barrie

    • McAfee's as bad or worse.

    • Just be happy that the security you have in place seems to be working

    • Could also be the anti-virus at fault, some of them throw up false positives all the time to make themselves look "busy." Norton is the worst big-name offender for that.

    • The only ads PMP are responsible for are those for Win A Dinner and Snip. The rest are just ad spaces which they rent out to Google ads, so they are not responsible for them. Google ads have an x in the corner and only take a second to close as they're are generally misleading or scams so best ignored.

      For any dodgy ads, there's a FAQ that answers that ..

      https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/113-what-to-do-if-you-see-a-dodgy-or-inappropriate-advert

  • I have been in here for many years now and I have come to terms that I will never win absolutely anything. What a waste of time>

    • Has Francis been watching Tron lol

    • 🤣🤣 did like that one @Taz108am 🤣🤣

    • Errr, Francis, can you explain to us mere mortals how the heck you convert your physical form into a digital one to get into the site.

      I am only able to 'visit' the site, as in get onto the site, as, I am sure everyone else does.

    • Francis, nobody wins until the day they do.

      There’s no time scale allocated to random. You win when you win. In the meantime build your bonus into the many thousands. 😊

      If it bothers you too much, just close your account.

    • I waste more time reading & making comments as do most regulars.

    • 2 mins a day x 365 days is 730 mins. That's 12 hrs and 10 minutes over a year. You might change your mind if you won! But then, if that time is more important to you, don't check the draws - it's a free lottery, you haven't signed up for a subscription.

    • What, the 2 minutes it takes to check daily Francis?

    • It's a lottery, Francis. Some will win, many won't. Just like the National Lottery.

  • Nice quick claim on the Mini Draw congratulations

    • No, my point was about the morning stackpot, at about 6.30pm

    • Not Glitters comment Pettal - Anonymous about there being a 1st Stackpot claim at 9.03 but just realised he was talking about the morning 1. So it was completely irrelevant anyway.😄

    • Glitter is on about the 6pm mini draw not the stackpot 😀

    • None claimed at 22.26!! You must have been seeing the end of the morning stack. It takes a few mins. to refresh.

    • The first Stackpot claim was at 9:03 am…not bad eh?

    • Two left on the stack, 2 hours to go

  • Question of the day: What is the best place name which you have ever seen?

    If you have any questions that you would like us to ask, please feel free to email us at admin@pickmypostcode.com

    • Tesco's is always a cattle market

      🧙‍♂️🧑‍🦯🤣

    • In my nearest town the alleyways are called “Gants” which comes from the Flemish word for gangs meaning alley. The most amusing one is Pigs Head in a Pottage Pot Gant and its behind the butchers shop. The Flemish weavers came to the UK and settled in Braintree which was a small market town. We still have a market twice a week but the cattle market is now a Tescos.

    • North Piddle in Worcestershire.

    • Great and Little Snoring.

      When I was in Exeter, the M5 was extended from Sandy Bottom to Wobbly Wheel.

    • Further to recent comment, it was about 1979. My dad took a photo of me at the station. I left a red sweatshirt on the bench...did anyone find it? 😂 I was so fascinated by the name, I asked a Welsh local to teach me how to pronounce it, I think my love of language started from there.

    • Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

    • There's a 'once brewed' in Northumberland, along with a 'twice brewed' brewery and inn in the same area. There's also a particular corner on a fast yorkshire road noted for rollover accidents, called 'surprise view'

    • Sandy Balls campsite in the New Forest...

    • Rest and be Thankful is the most aptly named place, even the car was glad to get there.

    • Yetts O’ Muckhart, also near Dollar

    • Idle near Bradford makes me giggle.

      But Dangerous Corner in Lancashire makes me wonder.

    • Twatt, Shetland

      Dick Place, Dunfermline, Scotland

      Fanny Burn, Dollar, Scotland

      Nobber, Co. Meath, Ireland

      These place names always make the big kid in me giggle. They are all real, look them up on Google Maps.

    • I like the name Farewell Spit, on New Zealand's South Island. My sister and I visited when touring South Island and - guess what we did when we got there!

    • Twixt bears is a street in Tewkesbury.

    • Cornish ones:

      Water ma Trout

      Flushing

      Ventongimps

      Sticker

      Readymoney

      London Apprentice

      Skinners Bottom

      Mousehole (Mow-zel)

      Minions and many more!😎

    • I've always liked Praze-an-Beeble, in Cornwall.

      And Wendens Ambo, in Essex.

    • Rough and Ready .Yes,it is a real place.A former gold rush mining settlement in California.

    • Oswaldtwistle- where my husband was born at home.

    • I've got a soft spot for Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire. Never stopped there but I like the name. It just means settlement near the woods, which is a little disappointing though.

    • There's Wetwang in Yorkshire and Happisburgh in Norfolk.

    • There is a place in Yorkshire, near where I was brought up, called The Land of Nod.

    • I like the names Broadwoodwidger in Devon, or Kettlesing in Yorkshire, and there's always Great Snoring and Little Snoring in Norfolk. That's before we start going global.

    • Fingringhoe!

    • Nether Wallop, Middle Wallop, and Over Wallop in the Test Valley (Hampshire)

    • Lower Slaughter

      Beautiful Cotswold village (also Upper Slaughter)

    • A great local name here in Somerset is Nempnett Thrubwell.

      Wikipedia says; Nempnett and Thrubwell were originally separate places.The name Nempnett comes from the Old English word emnet, meaning "level ground". Thrubwell's name is of uncertain origin, but may mean "gushing stream".

  • It's good to see the little people win for a change.

    Lilliput on this evenings Stackpot.

    • Pity the non-stick one didn't claim 😉

    • 😍

    • ;-)

  • I see the Covid enquiry is actually saying some things went really well. I always believed that Nadim Zahawi did a fantastic job of getting the vaccine rollout in place. Also, although it sticks in my throat, we should not forget that Boris approved full throttle vaccine production before the regulatory process was finished. This bought us 6 extra weeks and is the main reason we were first in the World to start vaccinations. So much went wrong, but I think it’s right that we give credit where it’s due. I’m sure some folks on here lost relatives and I can’t begin to understand your loss , I’m just saying that not everything was bad

    • You reckon what they gave was a vaccine do you ?

    • Actually, the UK was second to start vaccinations, and second to develop a vaccine. First place in both categories goes to Russia (by a few days).

    • It is very sad, and one of the factors pointed out in the report, that so many of the ethnic groups failed to take up the vaccine, even though they were the most likely to suffer badly if they did get Covid. At least that is now known and can be highlighted when the next plague hits us.

    • Mistakes may have been made, but how many more lives would have been lost without the action that was taken. I thank my lucky stars.

    • I'm not convinced tbh @Barrie. Our World is so interconnected these days. I wish I'd sold my shares when I first heard about Covid in December 2019 though

    • @Bob up and Down - While those facts are true we wouldn't have had the virus spread so fast except for allowing people to rush back to Britain ahead of the restrictions without quarantine..

    • Agreed. Those in charge found themselves in a situation that no-one had faced for almost a century, and there's no doubt that many mistakes were made, and a number of key decisions were made in a panic. But some things they got right, and many lives were saved as a result. Sadly, some were also lost, and it's impossible to measure the pain and suffering those losses caused. We can only hope that important lessons will be learned and better strategies developed for any future health emergencies.

    • Very true I think people forget that we were the first getting the vaccinations

  • Good day to have a Cardiff Postcode today.Im further along in the NP's rarer seen than CF but 1 day xx

    • @ Nigel Price. I mentioned this on the Bonus page yesterday. I am a CF postcode.

    • If one postcode is entered more than once it is more likely to be selected (like names in a hat). If a certain postcode area (eg. BA1) appears to not win often that is because there aren't many entries for that area. If a postcode area seems to win more often it must mean that there are more entries from that postcode area. Each postcode area comes up on average in line with its population size and the number of active accounts registered with it.

      There is no geographical bias in the selection procedure. The computer doesn’t know (or care) where anyone lives! You could give your postcode more chances of coming up by referring your neighbours to us: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/20-referral-bonus

    • CF has 1million residents, NP have 160 thousand so inevitable the membership of CF will be larger. Last year there were double the number of winners compared with the NP ones.

  • Question of the day: What is the worst place name which you have ever seen?

    If you have any questions that you would like us to ask, please feel free to email us at admin@pickmypostcode.com

    • As a side-thought (my mind going off on a tangent again) has anyone been inside the Penis Museum in Reykjavik? I was in the street there in 2016, and we didn't have time to go round it before the coach was leaving, but some of the girls who went said it was quite an eye-opener.

    • The scenario described, involving "Botulism Boulevard" and similar names, is an urban myth rather than a documented event in Bolton. Wisteria Lane is where the Desperate Housewives on TV live.

      A similar real-life event occurred in Glasgow, where streets at the former Ruchill Hospital site were named after diseases by the council, though these were arguably less offensive than the myth mentioned.

    • Austria has many places names ending with ing and they are variously amusing. In Vigo, Spain there is a street Rua Penis.

    • There was a housing development that went up somewhere against the wishes of Council planners. It might have been in Bolton. Unfortunately the council had the responsibility for naming the streets and chose Botulism Boulevard, Listeria Lane etc etc. this meant no one wanted to live there, and the developers had to reduce their prices so much, they lost money on the development. I wonder if it’s an urban myth, but it’s a great story

    • Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate is a historic,17-meter-long street (Gate from Viking "Gata" meaning Street) in York, often cited as its shortest with the longest name. Recorded in 1505 as Whitnourwhatnourgate, the name likely derives from Northern English/Anglo-Saxon meaning "neither one thing nor the other," suggesting it was not quite a full street. Rumour has it was a location for public punishment of minor offences, though there is nothing to support this.

      And Llanfair-p-g is just "a disaster waiting to happen" to either write or say. It's like a germanic named it before it was translated... "if you don't have a name for it, describe what it does or where it is".

    • Catbrain is no more than about three streets, if that. No shops because Cribbs causeway is nearly next door. No buses for the same reason. There is a snack van though 😆

    • I never thought the village of "Catbrain" in South Gloucestershire sounded like a very appealing place to visit

    • @Magical - I've never thought of Upton on Severn as Worcester.

    • In Farnham (Surrey), there's a road called Dogflud Way, brought into being around twenty years ago when the town centre was reorganised and new roads built to redirect traffic.

      I mention it here because the first time I drove along the road, my wife was in the car and exclaimed loudly "Dogfluid Way!?!?" I can never think of it as anything else now...

    • There's a village called Twatt in Frozen North.

      🧙‍♂️🧑‍🦯🤣

    • Dead Maids in Warminster

    • We visited Middelfart in Denmark. The town sign was quite large and cars were constantly stopping for tourists to take a selfie with it. 😊

    • We pass through Saracens Head when driving to Norfolk.

    • There is a quite large town in the USA called King of Prussia

    • I saw a video recently about Bland (Australia), Boring (Oregon) and Dull (Scotland) making themselves into "triple twin towns" as a joke. That was a good one!

    • Myanus in USA lol

    • Unfortunately, a certain town in Austria changed its name to "Fugging" in 2021. The previous name had two different letters where the two Gs are now.

    • There is a place called 'Wetwang' in Yorkshire.

    • There's a Dogpool Lane in Birmingham (say it fast) and a Killinghall and a Blubberhouses, both near Harrogate, and I wouldn't want to live in Penistone, South Yorkshire.

    • Horse Wynd - it's where the Scottish Parliament is. We have a Corby Slap in our town

    • There is minge lane in worcester not far from where i live

    • There's a Scratchy Bottom in Dorset, around the Bere Regis area.

    • Pratt's Bottom - I'm told it's a nice village, but what a weird name.

  • Love this pickmypostcode thanks 💕

    • Glad to hear that you love our site, Marie.

  • Good morning once again everybody, and thank you for the incredible number of participants I got yesterday - 34 completed surveys and a further 5 partially completed ones! That is by far my best day for data collection yet, as my previous bests were the comparatively paltry 13 and 17 per day. I can't tell you all how much I appreciate the time you have given me.

    With the kind permission of Chris (the admin of PickMyPostcode), I am sharing a link to a questionnaire I am carrying out for my Masters degree in Youth Work Leadership. I'm looking to find out more about how people around the UK perceive young people and youth work. It takes about 15 minutes of your time, and every response helps to expand our surprisingly undocumented understanding of this important topic! And don't worry, I don't collect any especially identifying data if you are like me and don't like giving that out.

    Here is a link to the survey: https://qualtricsxml9lhljps7.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BAzR8hCSeGmivs

    Today, as I approach the amazing mark of 200 participants, I wonder if introducing a little competition might help me to get some of my specific numbers up... A part of my research is looking at how perceptions vary around different parts of the country, and to do this I need to ensure that I have a wide sample of regions represented. Right now, my lowest response rates are Wales (5 ppts), the North-East (6ppts), the East of England and London (both 10ppts), and Northern Ireland (11ppts). If you live in one of these places, can you help to get your area represented? 👀

    I'm afraid I can't offer any prizes for those that do, but I'd still really appreciate your support!

    (I apologise if you are a frequent visitor to these comments and may get tired of the same thing repeated a few times over - don't worry, I'm only going to share this once or twice more now.)

    • @James your Welsh respondents should spike a little today. I shared it with a some of my contact groups and a fair few said they would complete it. Best of luck with your Masters!

    • Try https://qualtricsxml9lhljps7.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BAzR8hCSeGmivs

    • the link doesn't work for me, either. I am using a laptop, not a phone. My phone is too dumb for such things.

    • When you highlight the link to copy it should only copy the characters there, but just check you haven’t accidentally copied a space at the beginning and end of the link.

    • Myloguinness, whenever people have problems with links on here it seems to be something to do with their mobile phones. I just have a laptop so can't help you there, but copying and pasting the link into a fresh browser session works for me.

    • Oh how strange, I just tried it and it still works for me. I'm afraid I can't suggest anything except to try again... thank you for the attempt though, I still appreciate it!

    • Just tried to do the survey James, the link didn't work for me ?

  • Question of the day: What is the most unusual pub name that you have seen?

    If you have any questions that you would like us to ask, please feel free to email us at admin@pickmypostcode.com

    • Asurst in the New Forest had the Angry Cheese and when it burned down, the Happy Cheese continued nearby.

    • House of the Trembling Madness In York. 😆

    • The Tickell Arms 🍻

      Near Cambridge.

      Tickell is my family name and I went double barrelled, when I remarried as both my parents are no longer with us.

      They pronounce it Tickle and we pronounce it Tick L.

      Checkout Katherine Tickell folk musician. No relation that I am aware of 🤷🏻‍♀️

      On my list to visit but my brother has visited as I bought him GV's for his 50th 🎉

    • The Goose and Firkin, Southwark.

      "A pint of your finest Goose, please!"

    • The Wobbly Dagger and The Blind Monkey, (both Walkley, Sheffield. )

    • The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn in Stalybridge, Cheshire.

    • Unfortunately that made it not unusual in two ways. 😒

    • My local was The Tap until it closed.

    • The Druid, Gorsedd and The Bodunig, Dyserth.

    • Daz - looks like Sheffield is a great area for this. I'm particularly intrigued to know how "Bungalows And Bears" came about!

    • The Hairy Lemon in Alnwick, serves good food & drink.

    • Who Can Tell (Grimesthorpe, Sheffield)

      Frog and Parrot (West St, Sheffield)

      The Fat Cat (Kelham Island, Sheffield)

      The Closed Shop (Walkley, Sheffield)

      The Hardy Pick (Heeley, Sheffield)

      The Wapentake (City Centre, Sheffield)

      Bungalows and Bears (Division Street, Sheffield)

      The Scarsdale Hundred (Beighton, Sheffield)

      Ancient Pineapple (Radford Row, Sheffield)

    • The Spotted Dog used to be NaCanCo's go to at stocktaking weekends, I used to stagger home in an hour or so past The Fly House & up S Pk Dr out of my skull.

      The Beacon & Tree at Becontree (where the Heath no longer exists), The Farmhouse Tavern at Rush Green, The Thatched House (which had long since lost its thatch), all obvious source names.

    • LOL63 and Enver. It's a small world as when I lived in Upney, my local was the Royal Oak, which became the Fly House, changed back to the Royal Oak and after refurbishment is now called the Acorn. But most of my A level days in the early 1970s were spent with my mates in the Spotted Dog, until we went in one evening and bumped into our Physics teacher. More recently I used to drink in the Barking Dog until it was demolished a few years ago. A new building with a downstairs 'Spoons is currently being built next to Barking Station and it'll be interesting to see if it is renamed something different when it finally opens.

    • There was The Happy Frenchman, in Folkestone, years ago...known locally by a variety of variations on that theme...

    • There were many called The Royal Oak, & one in Longbridge Rd, Barking changed its name to The Fly House, this was because it was opposite the bus garage (which used to be an abbatoir, & because of the smell the flies it attracted were everywhere).

      The Busby Stoop, N Yorks where the teachers from my boarding school went to drink. Thomas Busby, coiner and drunkard, murdered his father-in-law Daniel Auty in 1702. He was arrested, tried and condemned to death by hanging. After his execution, his corpse was suspended in chains from a gibbet erected at the lonely crossroads where an inn stood nearby. The inn later became known as the Busby Stoop Inn, taking its name from the ‘stoop’ or post on which his remains could be seen. The place was said to be haunted by his ghost, and a chair where he sat to drink at the inn gained a sinister reputation. Wartime bomber pilots from nearby Sandhutton (& Topcliffe) aerodromes thought it unlucky to sit there, and in the 1970s some fatal accidents were linked with people who sat on the chair. In 1978 the landlord asked for the chair to be removed to Thirsk Museum, and hung out of harm’s way.

    • In the 1990s, when I lived in Lancashire, the nearby pub changed hands and was renamed The Pheasant Plucker, with a sign showing a very pleasant-looking young lady holding a pheasant. The local evangelical pastor got very het-up about the name and complained to the council that it was potentially obscene. Interviewed on the local TV news and asked to explain what was objectionable about the name, the poor man could only splutter about how people who had had too much to drink might mispronounce it!

      The name stayed, but was changed - to something completely unmemorable - a few years later when the pub was bought up by a chain.

    • The Frog and Radiator in London.

    • The Pig and Ballbearing (Gorton?), a workingmen's club called The Bitter End (Lancs/Yorks? been a while) and The Office (Redhill) spring to mind

    • My little 'local' is called The Hingemakers, and I believe it's the only one of that name in the U.K. Many years ago local men had forges in their backyards and made hinges, bolts and other small hardware items. Eventually a businessman opened a factory and started mass production.

    • The Who'd a thought it in Glastonbury

      There was a pub named Cannards Grave Inn in Shepton Mallet, is now renamed The Well, but it's next to The Highwayman. Giles Cannard the publican allegedly helped robbers and other criminals from the cover of his pub.

    • There’s a pub called The Murderers in Norwich

      City Centre

    • The Bucket of Blood in Phillack, Cornwall,

      Thought it might be called that due to its low beam ceiling, that even the average height person can hit their head on. 😵‍💫

    • Chase the Helm, it is indeed. It has been closed more than it has been open recently but it is reopening again on Friday next week. 🤞

    • "The banjo" but that was not it's real name which no one used.

    • Suelero - So that must be Winchcombe? I've visited it often.

    • The Clog and Billycock in Blackburn. There was also The Wilpshire Hotel which everyone called The Red House, even though it was white.

    • Queens Head and Artichoke is near Regents Park.

      There used to be 'Walk the Dog' in Chatteris (must have provided many an excuse).

    • I want to open a pub called The Jim

      No more excuses and no more lies! Let’s all go to The Jim! 😛😉

    • We have The Corner Cupboard here.

    • When I lived in Hampshire in the late 1980s there was a pub with an empty frame and no pub sign, known locally as "The Pub With No Name" (though I seem to remember it was actually The Fox And Hounds). They used to tell a story that every time the pub owners tried putting the sign back up there was a car crash at the nearby crossroads so the sign was permanently removed to avoid the curse. Personally I think it was just a made-up story to spook visitors and drum up business, though I never researched it so who knows?

    • For years my local was The Spotted Dog in Barking. Then a JD Wetherspoon opened slap bang next door, called The Barking Dog.

      Davy's wine lodges and pubs often have a hidden reference to the area in their name. For example, Grapeshots in Artillery Lane, London.

    • The Jolly Taxpayer is in Portsmouth.

    • My Fathers Moustache in Louth, Lincolnshire. No idea why it is named that! Unpretentious pub and when I lived close by it was open and shut several times but believe it is thriving now which is good to hear.

    • There's one in a neighbouring town called The Old House At Home, which is quite a nice homely-sounding name which I don't recall seeing before. Sadly, it's empty/boarded up at the moment. I hope it doesn't go the same way as so many pubs seem to do and just close down completely.

  • Good morning everyone, and thank you to the incredible 19 people who took part from this comment section yesterday!

    With the kind permission of Chris (the admin of PickMyPostcode), I am sharing a link to a questionnaire I am carrying out for my Masters degree in Youth Work Leadership. I'm looking to find out more about how people around the UK perceive young people and youth work. It takes about 15 minutes of your time, and every response helps to expand our surprisingly undocumented understanding of this important topic!

    https://qualtricsxml9lhljps7.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BAzR8hCSeGmivs

    I hope you will consider taking part. It doesn't collect any especially identifying data if you are like me and don't like giving that out! Thank you in advance for your time and help.

    Additionally, if you started and didn't get chance to finish your reply, please feel free to carry on with it! It should save your responses for up to a week.

    (I apologise if you are a frequent visitor to these comments and may get tired of the same thing repeated a few times over - don't worry, I'm only going to share this a few times over the next week or so)

    • I'll look forward to reading the summary.

    • Wow, thank you everybody!! I had an incredible response yesterday - it was by far my highest response rate since starting my data collection back in March. Thirty-four new participants! Not all will have been from here as I sent out my final round of emails to various organisations to ask for participants, but nonetheless from the number of comments here I can see that many will have been. I really appreciate all your well-wishes and the time you've given me! Once all is said and done in June I will share a summary of my findings (or a link to one at least) in these comments. And thank you Little Owl for that link - it is interesting and I will see if I can make use of it anywhere!

    • Another questionnaire all done. Thanks for sharing this James. More power to your elbow and and good luck with your Masters 👍

    • Done it James. All the best for your Masters. Let us know how you get on.

    • Interesting survey James,good luck for the future. Life us a learning curve from the moment you are born to your last breath. Keep learning!

    • All done, and best of luck with your Masters. I have 7 weeks until my dissertation deadline! 😬

    • All done. Good luck with your masters degree x

    • Completed James, good luck with your Masters !

    • Done, good research questionnaire James 👏

    • Done! It was a good idea to put the link on here! Top marks! For your Masters too, I hope!

    • As an ex teacher and a member of the committee of our local youth centre many years ago, I have always said as a starter we should provide young people with the opportunity to try new things in sport, music and IT. I believe all sports clubs should have free taster sessions for young people. Something meaningful, not just a couple of hours. If the child is talented, that is usually spotted quite quickly and they can be encouraged to carry on. There are lots of sports they would never come across otherwise. When I was a member of an archery club we used to do this. For those who are not sporty, they might be interested in music. Close to where I live a large regency house was owned by the local council and used for just this. I went to a meeting there and saw how it was used. Three floors and every room used in some way. Some individual players but mostly they wanted to be in bands. It was thriving and occupying the time of many kids but, of course, it was more useful to the council to sell it and waste the money. All those kids with nowhere else to go suddenly. And for those who don’t want to do sport or music, teach them IT topics they might not get in school.

    • James, you might find this interesting: https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/37418/Music-project-creates-positive-opportunities-for-young-people

    • Just completed it. Good luck. Let us know the results!

    • I very rarely look at the comments pages, but glad I did today. Survey completed and best of luck for your Masters! Please do let us know how you get on!

    • I wish you luck with your dissertation and your Masters degree overall. Once you're done and get your results, I'd be interested in hearing how you did/ your pass rate. 😊

    • I’ve done the survey too James. 👍

      Best of luck. 🤞

    • Thanks Effra, I really appreciate it!

    • Done! Best of luck with your Masters.

  • I see the King won the stockpot (SW1A 1AA) and claimed the tenner!😂

    • Me too! 🤣

    • I choose to believe that it's actually the king who won £10 yesterday. It's more fun

    • For those who don't know, members are free to use any valid UK postcode they wish. It doesn't have to be their residential one, and many have chosen to use a UK landmark like this. It doesn't mean that they live there.

    • one of the many postcodes I've used but not currently :) potential 35 winners

  • Buckingham Palace postcode here tonight - SW1A 1AA

    • 💞@ Bob

    • Sending love to your family today, Bob.

      For those who don't know, members are free to use any valid UK postcode they wish. It doesn't have to be their residential one, and many have chosen to use a UK landmark like this. It doesn't mean that they live there.

    • My Dad would have been 100 today. Tough day for my Mum, my brother is with her today

    • Close to Queen Elizabeths 100th Birthday too, awww 🙂

    • Possibly added to his USA holiday fund!

      Second Thought

      Wondered whether it was maybe 'Airmiles Andy' - he certainly need the cash!

    • If the King has any decency he will share it with his family. Andrew is out of work at the moment and would probably appreciate it.

    • And somebody has claimed it - I hope Charlie is enjoying his £10! Wonder how much of a bonus he's racked up...

    • Yep. Our King was quick to claim - lol! :-D Don't know how long you've been here anon, but there have been a few claims with this postcode. Thoughts are it might be staff (there are a lot of staff at Bucks Palace) or just a postcode someone has picked for their own. Before anyone thinks otherwise, it's perfectly acceptable that this postcode has been registered and drawn.

  • Buckingham Palace again!

    294 registered, wonder how many (or few) are active?

    • I remember a national lottery draw where there were so many many guaranteed winners that some people got less money even though they had beaten the odds.

    • For those who don't know, members are free to use any valid UK postcode they wish. It doesn't have to be their residential one, and many have chosen to use a UK landmark like this. It doesn't mean that they live there.

    • I remember that. I think they won about £10K each as I recall.

    • About three months into the National Lottery, there was a week where the main draw had, IIRC, 131 winners. I don't know what the six numbers were... I'm fairly sure that there has never been another week in which there have been more than 10 winners. Those 131 people must've been gutted when they realised they weren't going to win millions.

    • SW1A 1AA

      4th time in the Stackpot....and it won the main draw once as well...

    • Indeed- the difference is that has never come out, ever, on any 6 number lottery anywhere in the World. Imagine having to share with 5000 people

    • Yes... it occurs to me that using this one is the equivalent of choosing 1,2,3,4,5,6 on the National Lottery :)

    • You've gotta be quick if that's your postcode!

    • Well nobody's jumped in quick! Oh yes they have!

      Must have been 34 eligible then.

    • Not many obviously as only 53 possible winners

  • What's the leading cause of dry skin?

    Towels.

    • Alas Barrie ….so as my medication… 😟😒

    • :-)

    • My medication has caused mine. 😠

    • 😂

    • 😄😄

  • Question of the day: If you were a farmer what crops or animals would you have?

    If you have any questions that you would like us to ask, please feel free to email us at admin@pickmypostcode.com

    • It has surprised me just how many farmers rent out cottages as holiday lets. I was recently looking for a week away and so many came up, even in the fairly small areas I was looking.

    • @Buttercup2 - yes, there's an alpaca farm in our village. We can see them in the fields on the hills above our road. They do alpaca trekking on the moor. I don't think alpaca fleeces are worth as much as they used to be from what I hear. I don't think the lady who owns the trekking centre/alpacas earns enough to live on as she works part-time too.

    • @ANN - you are right about the subsidies, but it's a small price to pay for food security

    • There's an Alpaca farm near me, they're amazing!

      Personally I'd love to be an apiarist (bee keeper). Does that count as farming?

    • I would have an organic farm with a variety of crops - veg and a fruit orchard in a mixed farmed area like someone here in Devon is pioneering. The idea is to have a balance of companion planting and banks that encourage the natural predators of pests, rather than have designated rows/fields for different crops. I wouldn't have animals unless they were part of a natural rewilding.

    • You could have alpacas Caroline and people would come and pay to pet them or walk them, then when they get sheared like sheep you get a fortune for the fleece 🐑

    • Well, I went to agricultural college when I left school (to train to be a farm secretary/book-keeper) and worked on a sheep and arable farm for a few years after that. To be honest I wouldn't want to run a farm at all. I wouldn't keep animals as I couldn't keep them knowing they were going to be slaughtered for food, and arable farming isn't very lucrative. If I had a farm I'd just want to run it as a tourist attraction - for example, by running rural crafting classes, opening it for camping and/or B&B, or exhibiting old farming equipment and machinery. Something along those lines anyway.

    • I agree the government is stupid but can't agree they hate farmers considering all the subsidies. They have offered £100,000 for older farmers to leave or rent out farms etc, and they pay them to leave fields fallow, which any farmer knows is a normal part of farming. In my opinion government shouldn't be paying anyone to do their job. It's no wonder the country is on its knees. The more people are given the more they want. Why is the government responsible for everything these days. It's time people accepted responsibility for their own lives, the way it used to be.

    • Having watched Clarkson's Farm on Amazon Prime, it wouldn't be sheep, which seem to have suicidal tendencies.

    • I’d probably sell up and move abroad, this stupid government hates farmers and seems determined to import all of our food

    • I'd breed Vicuñas (small, wild, and produce the world's finest, rarest, and most expensive wool), & grow grapes, nuts or sugar beet.

  • How on earth has someone got a bonus account of over£11,000???

    • I have been on the site around 9 years now. Haven't got £11,000 bonus but would be more than happy to win my £4,000+ bonus 😅

    • Remember that the site's been around for over 15 years as well.

    • This blog states all of the ways a member could increase their bonus, if they wanted to:

      https://pickmypostcode.com/blog/why-you-should-grow-your-bonus/

    • You can build your bonus with 3p/day for checking the draws, joining WinADinner, doing lots of surveys, referring friends, & taking bonus offers.

      Only those with nicknames are on the leaderboard, but anyone that has been on this site since it first started many years ago could have earned a lot more too.

      You might say it's up to you how much you want to win by building your bonus..

    • It’s only 1004 years of daily 3p clicks. It must be inherited.😊

  • Why doesn't the "winners map" give the year that the win happened anymore please?

    • You just have to click/tap on one of the pins to see the postcode, amount, draw name and date.

    • But it still does!

  • Good morning everyone, and thank you to the nine amazing people who took part from this comment section yesterday! One of you wonderful folks was my first participant from the North-East of England, meaning that I now have every region of the UK represented in some capacity!

    With the kind permission of Chris (the admin of PickMyPostcode), I am sharing a link to a questionnaire I am carrying out for my Masters degree in Youth Work Leadership. I'm looking to find out more about how people around the UK perceive young people and youth work. It takes about 10-15 minutes of your time, and every response helps to expand our understanding of this important and surprisingly undocumented topic.

    https://qualtricsxml9lhljps7.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BAzR8hCSeGmivs

    I hope you will consider taking part. It doesn't collect any especially identifying data if you are like me and don't like giving that out! Thank you in advance for your time and help.

    (I apologise if you are a frequent visitor to these comments and may get tired of the same thing repeated a few times over - don't worry, I'm only going to share this a few times over the next week or so)

    • @James just completed ✔️

    • CarolineC I think you'll find you have opinions on this! 😀. There are some interesting questions and you may have ideas that will be useful.

    • James, it probably was as you posted not long after me. Good luck with your Masters.

    • James - I'm afraid I didn't complete mine yesterday - I hit a wrong key on my laptop and closed it completely mid-way through. But as you said above we can go back to it later, I may try again tomorrow (too late for me tonight and I've been out most of the day). However, I wanted to ask you something. I'm old and retired with no kids/grand-kids and basically I don't have much in-person contact with young people nowadays. My only interactions with young people nowadays is online! Would my responses still be of help to you? If so, I'll try again tomorrow. :-)

    • Thanks AJR - if you did yours just now, I'm happy to report that you are my 150th participant! 🎉

    • I filled it out without a problem also, maybe Adelaide it just hitting the address given thinking it will take them to the site.

    • Thanks to Em and Suelero, as well as the five other new participants who have taken part this morning, I really appreciate you all!

      And I'm sorry the link didn't work for you Adelaide, that's very strange... thanks for trying though, I appreciate it all the same!

      I'll also add - if you start your answer and then close it or otherwise have to stop, you can come back to it later. It saves your answers for up to a week, so if you're one of the wonderful people who have made it through the first page or two, feel free to come back tomorrow or this evening to finish off!

    • It worked for me this morning. When I highlight it, it gives me the option to “open link” straight away. No need to copy and paste.

      That is on an iPhone.

    • That's strange, Adelaide. I have just highlighted, copied & pasted it into a new tab in my browser and it loaded for me. I'm about to complete it myself. Will let you know when I'm done and if it continued to be fine for me.

      Edit roughly 30 minutes later: I have just been able to complete it without any issues.

      I can only suggest that you try copying and pasting again. If you continue to have problems, the survey provided me with contacts, I could email them to you and you could send James a screenshot of what happened for you, so that he could see.

    • Hello James. I would be happy to do this but the link does not work. I don't think I can cope with writing down the address, then typing it in.

  • Possible winner needs to go PE PE!

    🧙‍♂️🧑‍🦯🤣

    • Is that a confession?

    • They just have.

  • I’ve won! Over £100 including my bonus pot. So thrilled. Thanks PMP!

    • Yippee! Congratulations.

    • You're welcome, SussexGuy 🎉

    • 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎉🎉🎉

    • CONGRATULATIONS! 🥳

    • Excellent 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • Congrats 😁👍

    • Enjoy your win

    • Congratulations!

    • Congratulations!

    • Congratulations..👍!

      LLAP 🖖!

    • Congratulations 🥂

    • 🎉 Congrats 🎉

    • Congratulations 🥳

    • Well done SG, spend it unwisely...

    • Congratulations, hope you buy yourself something nice.

    • Congrats SussexGuy, enjoy your win & thanks for posting, gives us all hope. 🥂🍾

    • 👌 enjoy

    • Congratulations 💰👍🙂

    • 🥳🥳🥳