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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #1410 on: July 14, 2011, 08:23:04 am »
Fester recently found the remains of the old post office in Llandudno.
Here is a picture of the interior of a current post office.
In which city is it?

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« Reply #1411 on: July 15, 2011, 10:43:32 am »
Chester
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« Reply #1412 on: July 15, 2011, 10:46:11 am »
No, much further away. You could have bought a stamp there recently!

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« Reply #1413 on: July 15, 2011, 10:48:25 am »
Do I take it that it is not in the UK?   

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #1414 on: July 15, 2011, 10:50:31 am »
Not in the UK and not Strasbourg.

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« Reply #1415 on: July 15, 2011, 10:59:06 am »
Any further attempt would be a pure guess and it could finish up using loads of bandwith listing every city in the World, so I give up and will leave it to more intelligent mortals.

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« Reply #1416 on: July 15, 2011, 11:14:59 am »
You were there last week and you didn't like it!

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« Reply #1417 on: July 15, 2011, 11:23:07 am »
Ah you mean THIS one? Basel. . . . . .

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« Reply #1418 on: July 15, 2011, 11:24:16 am »
I also saw this, but what is it and where is it?
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #1419 on: July 15, 2011, 01:09:51 pm »
It's in Seigfrieds Mechanical Museum, I think that the two upper round sections open when it plays, to include mechanical Violins to accompany the Piano. ? 
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« Reply #1420 on: July 15, 2011, 02:27:25 pm »
There was me thinking that no one would know about the violins behind the covers!
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« Reply #1421 on: July 15, 2011, 03:40:50 pm »
These lovely buildings were once almshouses but now they are a museum.
What is the name of the museum, where is it and what is the collection it now houses?

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« Reply #1422 on: July 15, 2011, 03:57:09 pm »
Is this the one?

The Geffrye Museum

It is the complex of almshouses founded in 1714 by Ironmongers’ Company in memory of Sir Robert Geffrye, a wealthy member who left a large part of his estate for philanthropic purposes. Once there were 14 houses with accommodation for 50 pensioners in total, each having their own room.

By 1912, however, the once rural almshouses had been swallowed by urbasisation and the pensioners were moved out of London, the local council seeing the need most of all to preserve the front garden as a badly needed “lung” for the area. The building was re-opened in 1918 as a museum of furniture and woodwork.

Today it styles itself as a museum of “the middling sort”, focusing on domestic interiors and gardens from Tudor to modern times.
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« Reply #1423 on: July 15, 2011, 04:02:38 pm »
Yes, very quick! &well&

It has a series of room interiors from 1600 to the present day.
This is the sixties one.

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« Reply #1424 on: July 15, 2011, 06:34:51 pm »
Looks like my front room!      L0L
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