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Offline hollins

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« Reply #1875 on: June 10, 2012, 11:59:53 am »
I think I remember you going to Highclere Castle Hugo. Is it there?

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« Reply #1876 on: June 10, 2012, 01:50:01 pm »
Hmmm yes, interesting one this. I thought of a number of neo-classical piles up and down the country - Castle Howard, Knebworth House, Chatsworth - all sandstone and with similar perpendicular turrets, but no - it's not any of them I think. It does look a little like one of the Oxford colleges, Christ's I think - but I can't see the shield well enough....

PS: I have a couple of questions too. Should I wait until yours is answered first Hugo? - I have never quizzed the forum before you see...
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« Reply #1877 on: June 10, 2012, 04:18:55 pm »
There's not much that gets past Hollins.  Well remembered, Highclere Castle it is.
Here are better known photos.

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« Reply #1878 on: June 10, 2012, 07:57:33 pm »
Where will you find these two?         $walesflag$

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« Reply #1879 on: June 10, 2012, 08:29:17 pm »
Bodnant Gardens.
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Fools have to say something.
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« Reply #1880 on: June 10, 2012, 10:22:06 pm »
No sorry Yorkie,  I noticed them when I was walking to the Little Valley.         $walesflag$

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« Reply #1881 on: June 10, 2012, 10:33:50 pm »
Outside the Royal Goat Hotel in Beddgelert
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« Reply #1882 on: June 10, 2012, 10:41:41 pm »
Spot on SDQ, I was walking through Beddgelert to Cwm Bychan ( Little Valley)  when I saw them outside the Royal Goat Hotel       &well&

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« Reply #1883 on: June 11, 2012, 12:03:29 am »
So, a trio of brain ticklers from me then. The first will be a familiar object to Llandudno natives, there were many of them throughout the town in the past. I remember we had three of them dotted around my primary school.

1. The question is, WHERE was this one when I took the photo in 2008? - the background is removed otherwise it is too easy, but I can post the shot with the background if no one knows the answer:



The second is probably far too easy, but here goes...

2. What are the NAMES of these two radical women who fled the tyrrany of forced marriage and flew in the face of a disapproving society to follow their dream?



And finally...

3. After swingeing cuts to the British navy, this is the UK's last remaining aircraft carrier. Here we see her undergoing sea trials, but WHERE is the great ship being put through her paces?:

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« Reply #1884 on: June 11, 2012, 01:29:51 am »
2 -> Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby
3 -> Llanfairfechan boating lake

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« Reply #1885 on: June 11, 2012, 02:04:28 am »
CORRECT!! - and Q1?
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« Reply #1886 on: June 11, 2012, 07:34:45 am »
1 -> Rhyl Prom?

Offline Bri Roberts

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #1887 on: June 11, 2012, 07:55:23 am »
1.- Llandudno Promenade.

Is it near the slipway?

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« Reply #1888 on: June 11, 2012, 03:46:38 pm »
Spot on Bri - ardderchog!!!  $good$
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #1889 on: July 01, 2012, 11:02:57 am »
You don't have to roam too far from Llandudno to see this which is above the door of the building, but where is it?