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Offline Yorkie

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2760 on: June 20, 2013, 06:34:10 pm »
I'll try this

Llety'r Dryw
Llety'r Dryw is a house in Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1893 for John Eden (uncle of Anthony Eden) and designed by the Chester firm of architects, Douglas & Fordham. About 1960 it came into the possession of Denbighshire County Council and used as the Fire Brigade Headquarters, and about 1990 it was taken over by the North Wales Police Authority. The house has been described as a "simple stone-built villa", which has been "inspired by 17th-century vernacular work of Northern England". The listing description says it is a "freely interpreted neo-vernacular house of considerable architectural quality".
It is built in random rubble, with red sandstone dressings; it has a slate roof with a crest of red tiles, and brick chimneystacks with stone caps. It consists of a main range, with cross wings having coped and finialed gables, and a service extension behind. Much of the original joinery remains in the interior of the house.
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« Reply #2761 on: June 20, 2013, 07:19:46 pm »
A good try Yorkie but it's not in the Three Towns Area,  although it isn't too far away.   $walesflag$ 
 DaveR has seen it but hasn't seen the date on the stone.     ???


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« Reply #2762 on: June 20, 2013, 07:36:56 pm »
DaveR has seen it but hasn't seen the date on the stone.     ???
Have I now!  ;D Is it on a building..or some other structure?

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« Reply #2763 on: June 20, 2013, 08:17:54 pm »
Criccieth Lifeboat Station
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« Reply #2764 on: June 21, 2013, 12:24:19 am »
DaveR has seen it but hasn't seen the date on the stone.     ???
Have I now!  ;D Is it on a building..or some other structure?

Yes      :D

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« Reply #2765 on: June 21, 2013, 12:25:35 am »
Criccieth Lifeboat Station

Another good guess Yorkie but this is in Conwy County.

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« Reply #2766 on: June 21, 2013, 07:11:01 am »
I have seen it...but can't remember where it is! :roll:

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2767 on: June 21, 2013, 09:01:55 am »
                After checking Hugo's recent walking posts and realising that the wall is built of Penmaenmawr granite I put 2+2 together and looked more closely at the Pen/Llanfair viaducts information and discovered that there is an avalanche shelter built to prevent boulders falling onto the railway line there and a stone dated 1893 was inserted into the parapet walls at the time of building. I have got this walk down on my list for this summer, but so far the tides haven't tallied with the weather or the availability of the friends that I do the walks with. Cracking question Hugo, as not many people would have been on that walk!
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« Reply #2768 on: June 21, 2013, 11:20:07 am »
You are definitely on the right track and spot on Gwynant.      &well&

It's only a relatively short walk but well worth it.   I've wanted to do it for years but never got around to doing it.   I knew that  it could be done  because I could see the sand a long way from the headland and also when I've read books about the past I believe that they took stage coaches around on the sand.  ( I think the passengers had to get out and walk on that section) 

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« Reply #2769 on: July 05, 2013, 03:38:57 pm »
Where in North Wales will you find this interesting roof?

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« Reply #2770 on: July 05, 2013, 04:48:06 pm »
On top of a building!  And I claim the Prize!    :D
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2771 on: July 05, 2013, 04:57:54 pm »
Wild Guess---- Ruthin Gaol ?
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« Reply #2772 on: July 05, 2013, 05:06:53 pm »
No, sorry not Ruthin.

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« Reply #2773 on: July 05, 2013, 05:30:08 pm »
North Wales Hospital, Denbigh?

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« Reply #2774 on: July 05, 2013, 05:34:41 pm »
Hi Jack, no not Denbigh this time! ;D