So, how do you explain this??? (Serious post no poo)
 

I was doing some research into the history of my local area, and to be fair, I've ended up down a 'rabbit hole' of research, when I come across a 'serious' site, with ordnance survey maps and all sorts of reference links etc. In other words not just something someone has put up a few days ago... It possibly had a .edu extension?

It talks about 'The Whistling Bells Tearoom' in Teignmouth. Dating as the early 1900s, it gives its exact location, and talks about it catching passing trade from Newton Abbot & Dawlish, the two towns either side of Teignmouth, at the opposite ends of the road it was located on, and also mentions that it was popular with people crossing the Shaldon Bridge into Teignmouth - Which would all make perfect sense...

It even included a picture of the tearooms, which I happened to have saved from the site:

https://i.imgur.com/AVqWnKm.jpg

Nothing strange so far... But here's where it gets weird... I've tried and tried to get back to that site again, and cannot find it - Nor can I find a single reference to the tearooms anywhere online - No one in real life has ever heard of them! If I didn't have the picture, Id think I was dreaming... But I'm not - I DID see that site and read that info, and save that picture!

But reverse image search the pic, with google, bing yandex tineye etc etc etc... My copy is the only copy of that photo on the web?

So, as the subject line says... I know I am not going mad... So, how do you explain this???

Have you checked your history? the link should be there

I am not sure to understand the problem.
Was it destroyed?

the problem is he found a site - with info an picture. Then when he tried to return everything was gone - no site - no way to find it, as though the entire history was erased and now you can't google the name or information he has

Yeah, but it was late at night, on one of 3 separate evenings, and just a small part of many hundreds of sites I visited - Needle in a haystack tbh. I tried - Genuinely - But I cant find it :(

I could joke and say that the link has also disappeared out of my history - But its prob still there - The fact that all references to this tearoom, its name and location, AND IMAGE have all been wiped from the internet since a few days ago, isn't a joke...

maybe the site you were looking at was a private facebook group or something? far as I know (I'm not on fb or any of those kinda sites) private group URLs and pics generally aren't indexed in search engines

but yeah, during your rabbit hole research nights maybe you forgot where exactly you found the pic, or even exactly what the tearoom was called?

I know you're not senile lol, just a wild guess. if I don't bookmark ish fuck if I can remember what a site URL was 3 days later


PS never heard the word 'tearoom' before. everything British always sounds so fancy

Well ol friend - then look at the download portion of your browser - it will tell you the date and possibly the link where you downloaded it from. A more detailed search you may get a time on your download file. Using that then go back to history - check date and time. You also said it may have a .edu or even a name of the town in the URL. Search for that then.

Yeah, I'll try - It was a site not unlike this one https://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/at...EIGNMOUTH.html
Similar kind of thing...

Just weird how there are NO references to it anywhere at all now - Like the place never existed at all!

Its a clusterfuck at my end though, I cant remember what night it was I originally found it - Well over 2 weeks ago now, or which computer on which account with which browser I found it on... Loads of addresses with edu in them - Like I say, I was in a research rabbit hole! Just so weird that I cannot find any other references to it!

Edit to add - No Joy, I tried - Not giving nme anything for .edu at all, and no results for tea or whistling etc - I have actually downloaded over 500 pics recently for my project, and they were all called 'bbSdfa543s8huicuvhuUGIGcuo.jpg' etc, which I then renamed a '1950-Teignmouth-Pier-Entrance.jpg' etc, by hand ...

Never mind - I guess it doesnt exist and I AM going mad!

I like to think of myself as very fancy - I'm a very fancy man ! :winkwink:

yes indeed. you are a very fancy chap

with a computer apparently haunted by the spirit of a Teignmouth tearoom from another dimension :upsidedow

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

:thumbsup

One morning I was reading about nuclear missile silos when I found a link for a silo in my town here. I live about forty miles from Sacramento, although we do have an Air Force Base twenty miles from us. I didn't believe it at first. It was right outside of town - actually on the street I live on. I researched it on Google Maps and sure enough it's still there.

Turns out in the 1960s my town here was a small town with a very small population. They built three missile silo sites, each with three missiles. They were built in a ring around the Air Force Base. They were in operation for seven or eight years and then forgotten.

Recently it became front page news here locally due to environmental issues.

Local history can be amazing. Our town started here because it was a brothel stop on the train route. The town north of us had an Asian prisoner camp from WWII.