History Challenge & Journal

[Siani]

I am going for the 1st picture...Irish jail?

[Frank Hovis]

Yes - Ireland (Eire) and no longer in use as a prison

[traveller2]

Could the third one be an Italian jail?

[Frank Hovis]

Same primary colors and position but.... different continent.

[Siani]

Last picture Bulgaria? Another Jail? Is it something to do with Europe? I note it has overhead cables, the building looks Spanish though

[Frank Hovis]

Not Bulgaria.
Spanish looking - but not Europe and not near Europe.

[Siani]

Madagascar? Are they all jails?

[STEVE G]

I think the first one is Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin where the leaders of the 1916 uprising were executed. It was featured on BBC World a couple of weeks a go.

[Frank Hovis]

Steve G - Correct for Number #1

The other two are jails as well, only one of them still in use.

Here's a clue
Number 2 is in Asia.
Number 3 isn't in Asia.

[STEVE G]

No 2 is Insein jail, Rangoon, Myanmar, former home of Aung San Suu Kyi.

[Frank Hovis]

Steve G - Correct Again

[Siani]

Is th flag 2 or 3 colurs FH? Red & green?

[Frank Hovis]

Three colors, green, white and red, with an eagle in the middle.
Not Asia not Europe.

An extra clue
I think there is a poster of one of the only two people to escape from it in a bar/restaurant on the top block of the night market.

[STEVE G]

....green, white and red, with an eagle in the middle.

I thought at first it was a Mexican flag but I couln't think of a British connection.

[Frank Hovis]

The British relationship has nothing to do with the location, rather it's the buildings themselves.

ETA : Yes, Mexico is right