"prog" tracks referencing British landmarks,...

...buildings, bridges etc.

But NOT cities

Example: can't do "Streets of London" (McTell) but can do "Portabello Road" (London) (Billy Nichols).


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Allan Holdsworth - Wardenclyffe Tower
Peter Hammill - Porton Down

Jethro Tull: Baker St. Muse
Genesis: Firth of Fifth (a play on words on a real British landmark)

Edited by Starjet - April 17 2025 at 09:58

McDonald & Giles - Turnham Green
Catapilla - Charing Cross
Lancaster - Skinningrove Bay
VDGG - Fairview Gardens
John Greaves -Kew Rhone
Evans & Hanselmann - Glastonbury
Auger - Vauxhall & Lambeth Bridge

In Unreal City by Banaau there's this lyric:

Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying: "Stetson!"
"You who were with me in the ships at Mylae"

I suppose the obvious one is Five Bridges by the Nice, paying homage to the (then) 5 bridges across the River Tyne linking Newcastle with Gateshead and several other towns on the south side of the river.

[I understand there are now more than five bridges.]

Edited by Floydoid - April 17 2025 at 12:59

Amazing Blondell - Mulgrave Street

Tull - Jeffrey goes to Leister Square

affinity - seven sisters

Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Jethro Tull - Up the Pool (my and their hometown, Blackpool)...Ok, I know Anderson was born in Scotland but he grew up on the Fylde coast...

Edited by pauldunhill - April 17 2025 at 14:00

Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard (historic boatyard serving Bristil harbour and given Grade II listed status in the 1970's)
Big Big Train - Along The Ridgeway (geographical region nice for walking and views in North Wiltshire and South Oxon)
Cozy Powell - Up On The Downs ('Downs' are another word for hills in Wiltshire)
Kayak - Tintagel (actual place in North Cornwall with links to the Arthurian legend)
XTC - English Roundabout (specifically about the prolification of mini- roundabouts in their home town Swindon)

Life on Mars by David bowie - references the Norfolk Broads (a network of mostly man made waterways and small lakes (the Broads) and now a National Park.

Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

Jon Lord - Durham Concerto