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Offline Nemesis

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Re: Quiz Time!
« Reply #3165 on: March 04, 2017, 04:42:21 pm »
No not the school, but the building in School Lane which is opposite the school. It is just isolated on a house wall end ! It will actually belong to a house in Church Walks. I have walked past it hundreds of times and still wonder what it is a vent for.

Haulfre Steps? no way, I should need Owen the box before I was 1/2 way up ! :laugh:
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Offline Bri Roberts

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« Reply #3166 on: May 11, 2017, 09:41:11 pm »
Where locally would you see this?


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« Reply #3167 on: May 14, 2017, 11:46:47 am »
Here is a clue to the location.

Offline Hugo

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« Reply #3168 on: May 14, 2017, 12:08:36 pm »
Is it at the Afon Conwy  by the Black Cat roundabout?

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« Reply #3169 on: May 14, 2017, 02:14:36 pm »
Well done, Hugo.

What a shame to see a key advertising site under-used for at least the past 10 years?

I say 10 years because that is when the name of the theatre was changed to Venue Cymru.


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« Reply #3170 on: May 14, 2017, 03:07:22 pm »
Thanks Bri,  I was looking everywhere  for that but had no idea where it was until you posted the photo.       $good$
 
It was actually the benches in front of the Travel Lodge that I recognised first



 
     

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« Reply #3171 on: May 14, 2017, 03:36:03 pm »
I didn't want to make it too easy, Hugo.

However, I must take away half a point because Afon Conwy is not a Travelodge.  &shake&

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« Reply #3172 on: May 14, 2017, 03:37:04 pm »
Quote from Hugo on previous page ...
"I've copied something I've read about the original owners of Haulfre ... He (Lord Aberconwy) much preferred ... "


Actually, the owner of Haulfre was Henry Davis Pochin, father-in-law of the first Lord Aberconway - who married Pochin's daughter Laura in 1877 and she inherited Bodnant Estate on her father's death in 1895.  I don't know when they relinquished the rights to Haulfre.

Pochin bought Bodnant in 1872, a year after buying Haulfre, and started the development to what we see today - laburnum arch and the dell were his main early projects.  Later the layout and planting was by Laura and Charles McLaren (first Lord & Lady) who put son Henry (2nd Lord) in charge and he developed Bodnant Garden from the early 1900's to 1953, many expeditions worldwide benefiting from his support.  The tradition continued with the McLaren family with many projects developed over the years ... and more yet to come!

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« Reply #3173 on: May 14, 2017, 04:28:24 pm »
I didn't want to make it too easy, Hugo.

However, I must take away half a point because Afon Conwy is not a Travelodge.  &shake&


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« Reply #3174 on: August 15, 2017, 12:35:13 pm »
A stinker for Steve or anyone else who wants to guess where this pond or fountain is, a relic from a bygone age

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« Reply #3175 on: August 15, 2017, 01:00:22 pm »
Is this within the 3 towns area ?     on the Orme perhaps ?

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« Reply #3176 on: August 15, 2017, 02:30:31 pm »
It is well within the Three Towns area Steve, but it's not on the Orme but may be on a cliff edge?        ???

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« Reply #3177 on: August 15, 2017, 03:51:37 pm »
I wouldn't say that it was on a cliff edge but someone must have.      Anyway I'll give the answer this evening if no ne has guessed it,  so Steve you'll have to get your skates on for this one!

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« Reply #3178 on: August 15, 2017, 05:12:46 pm »
Perhaps this photo may help as it's not too far away.

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« Reply #3179 on: August 15, 2017, 05:30:44 pm »
Best guess, Eirias Park,