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Offline Hugo

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6960 on: October 11, 2021, 08:50:36 am »
That's a very good guess Mull and you're closer than you may think.          It's not in the Three Towns area though and is not the North Western Hotel

There are only Two Certainties In Life and the former building was one of them.       But which one and where is it?


I'm not sure exactly who owned the North Western Hotel in the past but my G Grandfather leased The Temperance Hotel which later became part of the North Western Hotel


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« Reply #6961 on: October 11, 2021, 03:59:47 pm »
No more guesses?          It's only easy if you know it, which I did, but I thought that the answer would have been given yesterday afternoon.

This old saying is a big clue  "There are only Two Certainties In Life"        Just to clarify things for my cousin Norman and my friend Mull   "That Everton will not win the league"  is not one of those two certainties!         ;D

So what was the former building and where was it in N Wales?           $walesflag$


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6962 on: October 11, 2021, 04:33:38 pm »
Is it the site of the Old Gwynedd Tax Office in Portmadog, now a Premier Inn ?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6963 on: October 11, 2021, 04:56:06 pm »
Spot on Meleri, well done         &well&

It was the old Porthmadog Tax Office.    It's now going to be a Premier Inn and what a fantastic location to have the Hotel with stunning views all around
I remember doing a sponsored walk from Bangor to the Porthmadog Tax Office some years ago and it was a fair hike there

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« Reply #6964 on: October 16, 2021, 09:12:26 am »
I saw the new footbridge yesterday and was very impressed by it.     The bridge replaces an earlier concrete bridge that was destroyed by
flood water from the river that goes through this location
Where is it in N Wales?                 $walesflag$

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6965 on: October 16, 2021, 12:38:57 pm »
It looks like a grave headstone in the middle of the river bed but it's only a boundary marker.     But where is it?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6966 on: October 16, 2021, 05:24:55 pm »
Time for another photo of this tributary of the River Clwyd

I'm looking for the name of this place and a bonus point for the name of the river           $walesflag$

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6967 on: October 17, 2021, 08:27:27 am »
More photos may help?         The first two are of the concrete bridge that collapsed, the third one is the new bridge

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6968 on: October 17, 2021, 12:40:42 pm »
This place is near an Iron Age Hill fort as well as a Norman Castle so where is it?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6969 on: October 17, 2021, 03:26:11 pm »
Is this close.........Castell Dinas BrĂ¢n

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6970 on: October 17, 2021, 06:24:55 pm »
A good try Steve but nowhere near Llangollen, although this place did have a rail terminus until 1973 and it is much nearer the TTF

You have seen the old concrete bridge before, but where?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6971 on: October 18, 2021, 09:47:01 am »
Lots more clues needed?     

Nemesis once described the broken concrete bridge as reminding her of a crocodile  ?

DVT may remember a Skoda rally car being driven around this area too   

 

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6972 on: October 18, 2021, 10:03:30 am »
I thought I had seen this before, and I am afraid the crocodile clue gave me the hint I needed, it's from the Dysarth walk you did back in April, and posted on the 17/4/21


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6973 on: October 18, 2021, 11:17:53 am »
Good detective work Steve, well done.          &well&

It is Dyserth and the bridge is across the Afon Ffyddion.      In fact it is near the top of the very impressive Dyserth Waterfall.    Tellytubby and Rhuddlan have many times both walked over the concrete bridge together but I'm sure that it was the weight of the floodwater this year that finally finished off that old bridge.     Anyway the new bridge is a splendid replacement so well done to all the people that were involved in the construction of the new bridge.

I lived in Dyserth for over six years and when I took my wife to see the bridge, I parked the car in Dyserth High Street and went through Bryn Y Felin to get to the footpath.    We had never been there before and it was a lovely experience to see the old detached and terraced cottages it was like a reminder of times gone by.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #6974 on: October 22, 2021, 03:34:52 pm »
I have been on my travels to England again but can you guess where?