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Offline Hugo

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #615 on: January 11, 2011, 04:56:50 pm »
Another hotel I can't afford to go to Lake Vyrnwy Hotel and Spa      :(
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« Reply #616 on: January 11, 2011, 06:46:09 pm »
Why not?  Don't forget "a cat can look at a king" so you can pop in and sample the sumptious interior whilst asking for a brochure!   Good deduction Sherlock!   Your turn!     ££$


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #617 on: January 11, 2011, 07:13:11 pm »
Where's this tunnel?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #618 on: January 11, 2011, 07:53:48 pm »
Old Railway Tunnel under the main Road at Llyn Padarn.
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« Reply #619 on: January 11, 2011, 09:18:46 pm »
You're certainly on the right lines Yorkie. Well done

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #620 on: January 11, 2011, 09:35:30 pm »
A dog.  What's his name and claim to fame?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #621 on: January 11, 2011, 10:44:14 pm »
That's Greyfriars Bobby who guarded his master's grave for 24 years.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #622 on: January 12, 2011, 11:34:37 am »
Absolutely correct, well done Nemesis!    <:<:<:<   

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #623 on: January 12, 2011, 04:43:07 pm »
Where is this Monument, what famous person is the subject and why did they achieve notoriety?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #624 on: January 13, 2011, 08:59:19 am »
I thought this would have been guessed by now so maybe a clue is in order.

It's up Norf!  And there is a connection with this picture.
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #625 on: January 13, 2011, 12:52:57 pm »
That's the Grace Darling's Memorial at Bamburgh Church, Northumberland, England. This is not her grave which is in a humble family vault about 20 yards to the east. The memorial was paid for by public subscription and erected shortly after her death in 1842. Placed, at the request of local seamen, so as to be clearly visible from the sea.

Don't know why she received notoriety though

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #626 on: January 13, 2011, 01:34:38 pm »
Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English Victorian heroine who in 1838, along with her father, saved 13 people from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.

Grace was born in 1815 at Bamburgh in Northumberland and spent her youth in two lighthouses, (Brownsman and Longstone, pictured above), of which her father, William, was the keeper.

In the early hours of 7 September 1838, Grace, looking from an upstairs window of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, spotted the wreck and survivors of the ship, SS Forfarshire on Big Harcar, a nearby low rocky island. The Forfarshire had foundered on the rocks and broken in half. One of the halves had sunk during the night.

She and her father, William determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses (then North Sunderland), so they took a rowing boat (a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile. Grace kept the coble steady in the water while her father helped four men and the lone surviving woman, Mrs. Dawson, into the boat.


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #627 on: January 13, 2011, 06:19:27 pm »
The Story of Grace Darling and the S.S Forfarshire was required learning, even in my primary school...
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #628 on: January 13, 2011, 07:57:42 pm »
We stayed in Bamburgh a few years ago and the tour operator gave a talk on Grace Darling.   It was an incredibly brave thing that she and the others did.  It was such a shame that she died of TB at the young age of 26.
Our hotel was not far from the Church where she is buried but unfortunately we didn't have time to go there, if we had I might have guessed the answer earlier.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #629 on: January 13, 2011, 08:08:47 pm »
what is this and where?