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Offline hollins

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6855 on: April 17, 2021, 02:19:44 pm »
Well done Hugo.
Yes thanks we did have a lovely few days in a cottage in LLanbedrog. On the way back we wanted to visit Shell Island but after passing lots of rather unfriendly notices we realised that access was closed so we parked near this bridge and stopped for a bit of lunch.

The Afon Artro  is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long and has its source at Llyn Cwm Bychan below Rhinog Fawr and Moel Ysgyfarnogod. It flows westwards from its source and is joined by the Afon Cwmnantcol at Pentre Gwynfryn before passing through the centre of Llanbedr where it turns north and passes Pensarn Wharf.

The Artro enters the sea at a sizeable tidal estuary between Llandanwg and Mochras/Shell Island.[1] The current estuary was formed following a diversion of the Artro by the Earl of Winchilsea in 1819 to improve access to the wharf at Pensarn which was the shipment point for slate from Llanfair and Llanbedr. Prior to this the Artro entered the sea to the south of Mochras

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6856 on: April 17, 2021, 02:55:33 pm »
Sounds like a lovely break Hollins and Shell Island ( Mochras )  is a place where I enjoyed camping many, many years ago


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6857 on: April 21, 2021, 11:05:40 am »
An easy question for a change   

I'm not looking for the name of a village or town but the name of this workplace in N Wales       $walesflag$

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6858 on: April 21, 2021, 01:53:14 pm »
Perhaps these photos may help?

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« Reply #6859 on: April 21, 2021, 02:27:20 pm »
Is it DIFFWYS SLATE MINE (NR BLEAUNAU FFESTINIOG).......... I hope I'm right as this is a good link https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/diffwys-slate-mine-nr-bleaunau-ffestiniog-sept-2020.125327/

I have always admired the skill of the slate builders, their buildings are so precise, up at Ty Ucha we faced the farms old slate barn, and as your photos show, derelict, but the walls still perfect.


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« Reply #6860 on: April 21, 2021, 02:47:47 pm »
A good try Steve and very very close but it's not Diffwys Quarry.      I enjoyed that link though and perhaps its a walk for the future

Tou're in the right spot so here are a few more photos

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« Reply #6861 on: April 21, 2021, 03:02:50 pm »
Thanks again for putting that link in Steve, it was very interesting to read and will appeal to many who are interested in that type of thing.

Anyway it is not Diffwys but the name is in that link you posted, the place is adjacent to Diffwys but which one is it?

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« Reply #6862 on: April 21, 2021, 03:03:29 pm »
Sorry about putting in the link,  but glad you liked it, my next guess ...Maenofferen Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales

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« Reply #6863 on: April 21, 2021, 03:22:07 pm »
Spot on Steve, well done      &well&

We did the walk for the first time yesterday and it was really good seeing all the old working sheds etc.    It was dry too which was a bonus in Blaenau but it was very dusty in the working part of the quarry where those big machines were operating

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« Reply #6864 on: April 21, 2021, 04:15:42 pm »
Thanks Hugo, I was pretty sure I had it right first time, as one of the photos matched yours,  :-[   :-[  that will teach me to look before etc.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6865 on: April 23, 2021, 04:55:54 pm »
A big job broken out at the start of our walk today. Any guesses as to where we were?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6866 on: April 23, 2021, 07:13:21 pm »
Brenig ?

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« Reply #6867 on: April 23, 2021, 07:28:15 pm »
Sorry, not Brenig but you are on the right lines.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6868 on: April 24, 2021, 07:50:09 am »
Here's another photo which might help.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6869 on: April 24, 2021, 09:08:02 am »
I'll admit to this being a guess, but it is Llyn Alwen, not far from Brenig - refurbishment of the waterworks?