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Offline Hugo

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #540 on: January 06, 2011, 03:25:51 pm »
What are these and where exactly would you find them?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #541 on: January 06, 2011, 04:11:05 pm »
Look like the top pulleys for a ski lift or chairlift.
So Avimore perhaps during summer months?


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« Reply #542 on: January 06, 2011, 04:55:46 pm »
A good guess Mike but not correct and they are nearer home.     $wales

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« Reply #543 on: January 06, 2011, 05:09:53 pm »
I think it may be the return pulley for a static winding engine maybe used for hauling spoil in a quarry.  No idea of exact location.

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« Reply #544 on: January 06, 2011, 05:15:16 pm »
It's the remains of an old pulley system for a quarry and I think it's in a valley somewhere in southern Snowdonia....

EDIT: Got it, its the Cwm Bychan Aerial Ropeway!
http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/show_member_mine.asp?mine_id=1776&member_id=2072
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #545 on: January 06, 2011, 05:55:24 pm »
Wish I had all this local knowledge - may help me with the answers!  Gud on yer Dave!      :D

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« Reply #546 on: January 06, 2011, 06:52:24 pm »
Dave is spot on. &well&

It is the aerial ropeway for the copper mines.   Ore was transported on the ropeway to a crushing mill near Nantmor.    The pylons can be seen on a lovely walk from Beddgelert,along the Aberglaslyn Pass and through Cwm Bychan where they still stand in places.   It's a fairly easy walk of some 6 miles and 3 hour duration.  
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« Reply #547 on: January 06, 2011, 06:57:50 pm »
Who are the chaps (5 points each) name the horses (10 points each)?  For an extra 25 what peculliar incident happened in 1956 to the second chap that few can forget?
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #548 on: January 06, 2011, 07:42:40 pm »
Isn't it Dick Francis in the second photo, with Fard Du Moulin Mas, in Lambourn, Berkshire in 2004?  :D  In 1956, he was riding in the National when his horse suddenly stopped, slumped to the ground on its stomach and that was the end of the race for Francis.

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« Reply #549 on: January 06, 2011, 08:10:50 pm »
All correct - the horse that collapsed was Devon Lock owned by the Queen Mother.  Dick was her favourite jockey.  Unfortunately Dick died last year aged 89.   15 points!   &well&

Just need an answer for the other one now.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #550 on: January 07, 2011, 01:36:39 am »

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« Reply #551 on: January 07, 2011, 10:37:42 am »
All correct - the horse that collapsed was Devon Lock owned by the Queen Mother.  Dick was her favourite jockey.  Unfortunately Dick died last year aged 89.   15 points!   &well&

Should, of course, be 40 points!  Maths never was a good subject!    ;)

The first chap is Racehorse trainer Nicky Henderson with Punchestowns (L) and Long Run.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #552 on: January 07, 2011, 01:05:13 pm »
Another piece of industrial archaeology but where is it?
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #553 on: January 07, 2011, 02:25:12 pm »
its a winding drum at the top of a quarry incline, does'nt look like a slate quarry, is it somewhere like Trevor?
Penmaenmawr? I know its not the one near me on the Little Orme.
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« Reply #554 on: January 07, 2011, 02:28:24 pm »
Just what I was going to say but with all the wooden drum slats long since gone.   Maybe from around Cwn Pennant area.

Change of mind again - Porth Wen, Anglesey
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