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Offline dwsi

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Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« on: September 02, 2011, 07:05:31 pm »
Conwy Morfa area

Dredgers and Barges 1987

River bed being dredged

Orion at rest

Construction of Tunnel Sections in Morfa  basin


Offline DaveR

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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2011, 07:28:50 pm »
I remember following the construction as a child and going to see the enormous tunnel sections being built in what is now the basin of Conwy Marina. An amazing engineering project and, to think, we could have been lumbered with a massive bridge across the river from Deganwy to Conwy Morfa if wiser heads had not prevailed.

Great photos, btw, Dwsi, keep em' coming!  $good$


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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2011, 09:04:13 pm »
Even worse. Around about 1946 the idea was to run a road from around the exit off the Telford bridge right along the quay, through bodlondeb (knocking down a few old walls!!) and join the road somewhere around the morfa. How about that for destruction, but it was touch and go what happened

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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2011, 12:18:10 am »
just wondered how my photos from webshots got on here , don't mind sharing my photos , but a bit annoyed no reference to where they came from ....Gwyn
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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2011, 09:22:22 am »
My Dad was inspector for the new penmaenbach tunnel and he has photos that he took during various stages of it's construction which I am hoping to pick up this week.  ;D
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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2011, 09:27:07 am »
I always upload my photos to Opera.  The Webshots site always has those annoying flashing boxes on it which drive me mad.   :rage:
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Offline ogh47

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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2011, 03:29:41 am »
my tunnel project photos also appear on our Deganwy History Group web site ....will send some more on here if I can work out how ...lol

this one shows the panoramic view of a few shots combined that I took from the Vardre mountain behind Rathbone Terrace where I lived as a child .....now that I've sussed out the process I'll set out to provide you with some more later ....

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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2011, 03:53:55 am »
same view from behind Rathbone Terrace - panoramic shot

Offline BilkoBailey

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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2014, 06:25:51 pm »
 :'( So where's the pictures ?????????  :'( :rage:

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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2014, 06:34:46 pm »
I've got them, are you logged on ?
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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2014, 07:30:27 pm »
I can't see the original 5 pictures either.
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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2014, 08:36:18 am »
Can you see the landscape pictures of the Conwy estuary, ME?
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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2014, 10:20:45 am »
Yes Ian, but the 5 at the top have a blue box with a question mark in it.
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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2014, 10:21:47 am »
I can not see pictures either.

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Re: Conwy Tunnel Construction Pictures
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2014, 10:22:46 am »
That's because DWSI has linked to an external site, which has - presumably - removed them. They're not on our server.
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