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Offline DaveR

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« Reply #1755 on: April 18, 2012, 10:06:11 pm »
No-one has guessed Fester's quiz photo, so I shall reveal that it is the interior of Wetherspoons pub in Colwyn Bay.  $good$

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« Reply #1756 on: April 18, 2012, 10:08:55 pm »
A very old door handle in the Three Towns area...but where is it?


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« Reply #1757 on: April 18, 2012, 10:36:49 pm »
Nice posidrive screws on the old door!
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« Reply #1758 on: April 18, 2012, 11:58:13 pm »
The tiny Saxon chapel on Rhos seafront?
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« Reply #1759 on: April 19, 2012, 08:12:08 am »
The tiny Saxon chapel on Rhos seafront?
I'm sure St Trillo would not be thrilled to be referred to as a Saxon!

This door handle is actually within the town of Conwy.

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« Reply #1760 on: April 19, 2012, 08:30:52 am »
St Mary's????
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« Reply #1761 on: April 19, 2012, 08:33:30 am »

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« Reply #1762 on: April 19, 2012, 10:25:47 pm »
My profound apologies go to St Trillo.
I assumed, due to the Saxon styling of the chapel in Rhos, that he must have been Saxon.
But no!   According to the internet extract (below), he actually was a Breton (from Brittany) who may have fled from the Saxons.

I wrongly assumed that because he was too late to be Roman, too early to be Norman, he must be Celt or Saxon.
I ruled out Celt because he was a missionary,  and they were a bit too hostile for that in the 6th Century.


1. St Trillo,
Where did he live?
From the early 3rd century, the Bretons fled both the problems of the land as well as the invasions of the Saxons. They left the British Isles to settle in Armorica and gave her her name - BRITTANY. Progressively the Breton language took over from the vernacular Latin.
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« Reply #1763 on: April 20, 2012, 11:52:39 am »
OOOH Fester. Celts in Ireland and Wales got Christianity before the English. Most Saxon churches don't survive because they were made of wood so don't know where you got the Saxon architecture from.

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Re: Quiz Time!
« Reply #1764 on: April 20, 2012, 04:20:00 pm »
Is it St Benedics in Gyffin?

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« Reply #1765 on: April 20, 2012, 06:02:59 pm »
Is it St Benedics in Gyffin?
It's not a Church or Chapel.  ;)

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« Reply #1766 on: April 20, 2012, 06:07:45 pm »
Plas Mawr?

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« Reply #1767 on: April 20, 2012, 06:39:34 pm »
The Albion?

Offline Yorkie

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« Reply #1768 on: April 20, 2012, 08:59:14 pm »
The Merchants House.
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Re: Quiz Time!
« Reply #1769 on: April 20, 2012, 09:37:26 pm »
On the Quay, Door near the Toilets?