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Offline Gwynant

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4560 on: November 06, 2014, 05:32:43 pm »
                      I think I've seen something like that on the beach just below Penrhyn Castle where the Afon Ogwen comes out into the Straits and they could have be old fish traps?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4561 on: November 06, 2014, 05:33:52 pm »
Are they on The Cob, Llanfairfechan Beach?


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« Reply #4562 on: November 06, 2014, 07:07:16 pm »
On a beach in Anglesey in the Menai Strait.  Just my wild guess!   :D
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4563 on: November 06, 2014, 09:12:01 pm »
                      I think I've seen something like that on the beach just below Penrhyn Castle where the Afon Ogwen comes out into the Straits and they could have be old fish traps?

Spot on Gwynant, after I posted it I thought that you or Jack would get it.           &well&

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« Reply #4564 on: November 06, 2014, 10:10:05 pm »
    It's funny how some things stick in your mind, Hugo. I haven't been down there for years but the image remains. I came across this house on a walk this week in North Wales.
  Where is it, what is it known as and what was it used for in recent years before it was closed?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4565 on: November 06, 2014, 10:36:24 pm »
Youth hostel?.....what ever I hope it gets restored.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4566 on: November 07, 2014, 08:32:39 am »
   Not a Youth Hostel SteveH, but in its latter days it had a "youth" connection.......... 

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4567 on: November 07, 2014, 09:13:11 am »
I'll have a stab at Ysgol Coed Menai at Treborth, sold of by the Council to raise some cash.   :D
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4568 on: November 07, 2014, 09:45:20 am »
           Very well spotted Yorkie, I passed it on a walk yesterday and Googled it when I got home. It was built  about 1870 by the then MP and Lord Lieutenant of Ynys Mon and converted to a special-needs residential school in 1950 at a cost of £15,000. When it needed updating to all the new health and safety regulations in 2000 the cost was estimated at £2m and annual running costs were running at £800,000, so the councils (it served Gwynedd, Aberconwy and Ynys Mon) closed it in 2012.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4569 on: November 07, 2014, 10:16:12 am »
The Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company relocated to Treborth Hall during the Second World War and stayed until the late 1940s which I assume is when it was converted to a school.

It was going to auction earlier in the year with a guide price of £250k

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-46497389.html

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4570 on: November 08, 2014, 09:05:57 am »
This building always takes my eye as we drive past it. Where is it?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4571 on: November 08, 2014, 09:27:33 am »
Colwyn Bay...?

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« Reply #4572 on: November 08, 2014, 09:36:01 am »
No, sorry, not Colwyn Bay.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4573 on: November 08, 2014, 10:30:19 am »
                County Council Offices (Shire hall?) in Mold?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #4574 on: November 08, 2014, 10:34:06 am »
Well done Gwynant!