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Yorkie

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #165 on: November 28, 2010, 11:49:43 am »
Chateau Impney Hotel

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« Reply #166 on: November 28, 2010, 11:59:58 am »
Well done Yorkie,  The Chateau Impney it is.


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« Reply #167 on: November 28, 2010, 12:01:48 pm »
And now you give us a decent picture!!!                 _))*   L0L   ¢¢##

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« Reply #168 on: November 28, 2010, 12:21:05 pm »
Well I knew that I had to make it difficult if I was to beat the Yorkie.   ;)

Seriously though, I took them when I stayed there earlier this year but as I had named each picture I thought that it would make it too easy for you.  As it has turned out when I posted them now the names haven't appeared.     ::)

The original picture was copied but I forgot to check on its size.    ))*      but I had every confidence in you getting the answer correct.

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« Reply #169 on: November 28, 2010, 12:51:14 pm »
The funny thing Hugo, is that I couldn't find any reference to salt that made any sense or got me anywhere!   Eventually I tried another tack which worked!  Giz another one please.    D)

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« Reply #170 on: November 28, 2010, 01:01:51 pm »
Yorkie, here's some info on the place.
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Chateau Impney.Chateau Impney is an imposing 19th century house built in the style of an elaborate French château near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. Of the large mansions in Worcestershire supported by industrial fortunes, Sir Nicolas Pevsner judged Impney to be the "the showiest of them all in the county".[1]

It was designed from 1869 onwards and built in 1873-75[2] for local industrialist the saltworks magnate John Corbett in the style of a Louis XIII château, for Corbett's wife, Hannah Eliza O'Meara, was of mixed French/Irish descent and had been raised in Paris, where her father was secretary to the Displomatic Corps.[3] Corbett applied for designs to the Parisian architect Auguste Tronquois[4] and employed the Beaux-Arts trained English architect Richard Phené Spiers as executive architect on site;[5] the house cost GBP £247,000 (equivalent to £16,685,895.00 in 2007) [1], to satisfy her nostalgia for Paris. Sadly, the marriage was not a happy one, and she later took up residence in one of Corbett's properties in Tywyn, North Wales.

In 1945, the house was purchased by Ralph Edwards who restored it and developed it as a hotel. As of 2007[update], it remains an upmarket hotel [2] and presents an eye-catching sight from the road [3].


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« Reply #171 on: November 28, 2010, 01:11:38 pm »
These photos were taken inside which building?

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« Reply #172 on: November 28, 2010, 02:43:18 pm »
Here are a couple more photos of the inside.

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« Reply #173 on: November 28, 2010, 03:42:46 pm »
A quick stab in the dark - St George's Chapel, Windsor.                      $uk

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« Reply #174 on: November 28, 2010, 04:14:00 pm »
Your miles away I'm afraid Yorkie.

Here's a photo leaving the place.

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« Reply #175 on: November 28, 2010, 07:25:54 pm »
Can't get this one with the evidence given but will have another wild guess:

Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh due to the excellent Masonry displayed in the pictures!   ZXZ

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« Reply #176 on: November 28, 2010, 07:40:57 pm »
Your going further afield now!

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« Reply #177 on: November 28, 2010, 07:42:10 pm »
St. Davids

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« Reply #178 on: November 28, 2010, 07:45:27 pm »
Spot on Dave     $wales

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« Reply #179 on: November 28, 2010, 08:28:06 pm »
Where and what is this?