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Offline hollins

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« Reply #330 on: January 18, 2012, 05:46:05 pm »
Hi Fester, long time, no see! Hope you and Mrs Fester are well.
It would be great to know what the Bishop's Palace looked like.
The only one I have seen is at St David's in Pembrokeshire.
Here is a link with some pictures of what is left of that one.


http://www.sacred-destinations.com/wales/st-davids-bishops-palace-photos/

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« Reply #331 on: January 18, 2012, 05:50:56 pm »
This is what it looked like in 1870:

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« Reply #332 on: January 18, 2012, 05:57:26 pm »
Just rubble left in 1870 then, and no clue as to what it looked like in all its pomp.

The pictures from St David's suggest that it was like a monastery on a small scale.
Round windows can be seen, (very, very unlikely that glass would have featured) and a quite grand stone exterior staircase.

Thanks Dave and Hollins, this feeds my fascination.
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« Reply #333 on: January 18, 2012, 06:44:23 pm »
Part of it is still standing

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/481895
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« Reply #334 on: January 18, 2012, 06:52:07 pm »
Part of it is still standing

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/481895

Err, yeah.... thats really illuminating!  :laugh: :laugh:
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« Reply #335 on: January 18, 2012, 07:19:09 pm »
Ask Dr Who for a trip back in time to see it  ;D
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« Reply #336 on: January 18, 2012, 09:50:04 pm »
Part of it is still standing

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/481895

There is less of it than that now as I think only part of one wall is left.  It wasn't big like the one in St David's and was destroyed by Owain Glyndwr in the early 1400's.

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« Reply #337 on: January 19, 2012, 12:54:29 pm »
I can report that at least 4 workmen, one digger and one dumper truck hard at work at West Shore this morning.

However, neither the small or large lake have yet been tackled.
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« Reply #338 on: January 19, 2012, 03:12:22 pm »
Well !!! I have now seen everything. One small digger working, one abandoned dumper truck and two men one with a brush, the other with a shovel, happily brushing and shovelling sand INTO THE BOATING LAKE!! :o
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« Reply #339 on: January 19, 2012, 03:57:03 pm »
It's a farce of epic proportions!  &shake&
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« Reply #340 on: January 19, 2012, 04:20:55 pm »
Well !!! I have now seen everything. One small digger working, one abandoned dumper truck and two men one with a brush, the other with a shovel, happily brushing and shovelling sand INTO THE BOATING LAKE!! :o
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« Reply #341 on: January 19, 2012, 04:24:15 pm »
There is already a beach at one end with swans on it near the statue
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« Reply #342 on: January 19, 2012, 04:26:16 pm »
Ah!  The've finished it then!     :P
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« Reply #343 on: January 19, 2012, 04:39:07 pm »
Well !!! I have now seen everything. One small digger working, one abandoned dumper truck and two men one with a brush, the other with a shovel, happily brushing and shovelling sand INTO THE BOATING LAKE!! :o
Words fail me.


I was enjoying a walk along the West Shore until I came to the area by the White Rabbit Statue and had to turn around because the sand was blowing back again.  A guy was brushing the sand off the steps ready for the dumper driver to take it away so I asked him when they were going to remove the sand from the lake but he said that some other workforce would be doing that part of the clean up.
I took more notice this time of the metal signpost that ME took a photo of and it's in a bad way with no paint on the shore side of the post

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« Reply #344 on: January 20, 2012, 01:25:30 pm »
I had a quick walk on the West Shore this morning with our dog but didn't stay long as the rain was quite heavy but noticed that they have now started clearing the sand from the other side of the wall.
There was a large crane there but I think that it had something to do with Welsh Water rather than the sand problems.