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Members' Lounge => Games, Jokes & Quizzes => Topic started by: DaveR on November 03, 2010, 06:27:56 pm
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Like the title says, a topic for quiz questions about general knowledge and/or anything outside of the local area. :)
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When the Links pub was first built (by Lady Augusta) how did the locals get to it ?
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By boat across what is now an underground river.
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No it wasn't by boat :P
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They walked down the bl**dy Conway Road. Z**
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There must have been a bridge then. $uk
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There must have been a bridge then. $uk
Nope there was no bridge....................d'ya give up?
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"The locals" would have been in Llanrhos, as The Links was built to replace the Mostyn Arms, which was across from Llanrhos Church......so like I said, down the bl**dy Conway Road.
:cyclist40:
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I endorse Trojan's answer! <:<:<:<
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Dog cart.
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Lady Augusta built the Links in the middle of boggy marsh land and as a result the locals had to get to the pub walking on PLANKS of wood.
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Lady Augusta built the Links in the middle of boggy marsh land and as a result the locals had to get to the pub walking on PLANKS of wood.
Ah yes, Morfa Rhianedd.
You can still walk over a few planks, especially after closing time on a Saturday.
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Lady Augusta built the Links in the middle of boggy marsh land and as a result the locals had to get to the pub walking on PLANKS of wood.
Ah yes, Morfa Rhianedd.
You can still walk over a few planks, especially after closing time on a Saturday.
HBow true _))* _))*
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Lady Augusta built the Links in the middle of boggy marsh land and as a result the locals had to get to the pub walking on PLANKS of wood.
Those planks came off my boat!!!! _))* L0L
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Lady Augusta built the Links in the middle of boggy marsh land and as a result the locals had to get to the pub walking on PLANKS of wood.
Those planks came off my boat!!!! _))* L0L
Where did they disembark.....the pier head? L0L
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Where is, or was, Abergavenny Road in Llandudno? $wales
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Where is, or was, Abergavenny Road in Llandudno? $wales
Penrhyn Bay.
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Not PB.
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an access to the rear of the Cae Mor Hotel, intended to link The Parade and Mostyn Broadway, named after Lady Augusta Mostyn's father, the Earl of Abergavenny
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Right - the road went down the side of the Cae Mor and the Theatre but disappeared when the cafe extension was put on the Venue Cymru complex. I suppose it is now the Cae Mor car park!!
ZXZ
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What was the original name of Jubilee Street?
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Jubilee Terraces ?
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Warehouse Street until 1910
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There still is a Warehouse Street on the left as you go down Jubilee Street.
I think it was called Railway Street - but then I'm normally wrong! :P
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I'm just quoting from my book, 'Streets of Llandudno' Published by 'Llandudno Historical Society' bought at a car boot sale earlier this year D) handy for quiz questions, if it's right! L0L
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When I did some family history research a few years ago, I found two lines of my family tree living in that road during the late 1800's and I seem to remember noticing it was called Jubilee Terrace(s).
Maybe someone who has simple access the census returns can confirm whether or not I was dreaming.
Mind you I suppose Jubilee Terrace(s) could have been somewhere else altogther in Llandudno !!
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I'm just quoting from my book, 'Streets of Llandudno' Published by 'Llandudno Historical Society' bought at a car boot sale earlier this year D) handy for quiz questions, if it's right! L0L
Yes that is the answer I was expecting--- got the same book! A good little book as you say.
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I've just realised that all of these 'non local' questions in the non local section are in fact local L0L
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What is it that a man does standing up, a woman sitting down and a dog on three legs?
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Shake hands
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No - have a pee of course!
OK so you've answered the clean version! Well done ! Z** ZXZ
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The Links was built beside an ancient footpath, traces of which can still be identified running fron Nant Y Gammar to the West Shore. So if any one was inside The Links drinking Ye Old John Willy Lees then the planks were inside the links too!
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The Links was built beside an ancient footpath, traces of which can still be identified running fron Nant Y Gammar to the West Shore. So if any one was inside The Links drinking Ye Old John Willy Lees then the planks were inside the links too!
The ancient footpath to West Shore is called Maesdu Road now Hugo. L0L
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This is a map of the Walton area of Liverpool, in the 1960's.
Where will you find Owen and William Owen?
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In the Cemetery.
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In the Cemetery.
is that the dead centre of Liverpool? L0L
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Owen and William Owen were a family of builders, called Owen and William Owen Elias, they were father and son and built streets in Walton, Liverpool that spelt out the name of their firm in alphabetical order. ZXZ
And I claim the prize! :P
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Not an easy one this - but topical
Whose signature is this on his confession?
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remember remember the fifth of november
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its ff hard trying to write your name when some b****ard has pulled your fingernails out
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Lady Augusta built the Links in the middle of boggy marsh land and as a result the locals had to get to the pub walking on PLANKS of wood.
Conway Road was opened in 1844 yet Sam Hughes didn't open the Links until 1898 so the main road had been open for 54 years so why walk on planks unless you've had a skinful of that awful John Willy Lees beforehand.
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Owen and William Owen were a family of builders, called Owen and William Owen Elias, they were father and son and built streets in Walton, Liverpool that spelt out the name of their firm in alphabetical order. ZXZ
And I claim the prize! :P
You could have shown everyone how to read the name of the Welsh building firm:
Start to the left of Goodison Park (Everton's ground) with Oxton Str, then go up to Arnot Str. On the other side of County Road, continue with Makin Str, up to Nixon Str. The name of the firm is spelt backwards.
N-ixon Str
E-uston Str
W-eldon Str
O-lney Str
M-akin Str
A-rnot Str
I-ndex Str
L-owell Str
L-ind Str
I-smay Str
W-illburn Str
D-ane Str
N-imrod Str
A-ndrew Str
N-eston Str
E-ton Str
W-inslow Str
O-xton Str
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Now that the day is over I can reveal that the signature is that of none other than the famous Guy Fawkes himself, who failed so miserably to do what many of us wished someone would do!! L0L L0L
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Whose memorial is this and where is it?
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Tomb of the unknown soldier. Westminster Abbey.
Only a guess!
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Good guess!
LEST WE FORGET.
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Even though I thought I knew--- just read the Daily Express and there is a very interesting article on the subject
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Now that the day is over I can reveal that the signature is that of none other than the famous Guy Fawkes himself, who failed so miserably to do what many of us wished someone would do!! L0L L0L
Looks like Dwyforite had the correct answer:
remember remember the fifth of november
its ff hard trying to write your name when some b****ard has pulled your fingernails out
:D
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The answer was Guy or Guido Fawkes! Let's be pedantic, it's Sunday! _))*
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The answer was Guy or Guido Fawkes! Let's be pedantic, it's Sunday! _))*
L0L
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Where will you find these bells?
(That's not Stan in the photo)
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I am almost sure it is Westminster Abbey.
The bells at the Abbey were overhauled in 1971. The ring is now made up of ten bells, hung for change ringing, cast in 1971, by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, tuned to the notes: F#, E, D, C#, B, A, G, F#, E and D.
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Where will you find these bells?
(That's not Stan in the photo)
Definitely not, he's too well dressed and wearing specs!
In any case you wouldn't catch me standing by a bell that size in the "ready for ringing" position, could be highly dangerous and does not follow good safety practice. ))*
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No it's not Westminster Abbey - they're in a different city. D)
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Could be anywhere, so I'll have another stab at
Christ Church, Oxford.
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Could be anywhere, so I'll have another stab at
Christ Church, Oxford.
Come on now my old china...........they're not in the City of Westminster, but you have to climb quite a few apples & pears to reach 'em. :D
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*Nips in quickly to say its Bow Bells*
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*Nips in quickly to say its Bow Bells*
8) Yep, pity Yorkie isn't logged-in. He's going to be BARKING mad now. :P
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BROMLEY by Bow - not Barking! Thought with your background it would have been a Cathedral at the very least!! _))* L0L _))* L0L
Question: Where will you find these bells?
Correct answer should be - Church of St Mary-le-Bow >>>
I now claim the prize! L0L L0L
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Gordon Bennett, I've just ad a butchers an I fink you're right.
The Bow Bells is a boozer in E3.
The Bells are to be faaahnd in the church of St Mary-Le-Bow, in Cheapside.
Yorkie wins it on a tekneycalitee.
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Lot of History and info here
http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?History#/bow-bells/4535373284 (http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/?History#/bow-bells/4535373284)
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What and where is this familiar (?) landmark!
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Taj Mahal
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As you know - you are absolutely correct - again! ZXZ
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Princess Carmen Silva stayed in Bodysgallen Hall in 1890, what was locked in a room awaiting her return ?
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I'm tempted to say a goat!
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I'm tempted to say a goat!
Ha ha _))* No wasn't a goat L0L
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I'm tempted to say a goat!
Ha ha _))* No wasn't a goat L0L
Well, I know it can't have been a Rabbit, as they didn't start making them until the 1990's. :twoface:
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"hardd, hafan, hedd"
The Town's Motto was a transaltion of her comment about Llandudno! )*)&
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I'm tempted to say a goat!
Ha ha _))* No wasn't a goat L0L
Well, I know it can't have been a Rabbit, as they didn't start making them until the 1990's. :twoface:
Carmen Silva never returned to Bodysgallen, so animals would of died x
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She was a writer, so how about a half finished book, or a journal/diary?
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No wasn't a journal. d'you give up ...........
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a chocolate on the pillow?
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When Carmen Silva stayed at Bodysgallen Hall she liked the four poster bed so much she asked for the bed and room to be saved exclusivly for her on her next visit and so the room was locked. Carmen Silva never returned. When the room was eventually unlocked years later it also contained wedding presents from 1893 (can't remember whos) They (the pressies) along with the rest of the contents of the house were sold at auction raising approx £35,000 in the 60s. Bodysgallen hall was sold 3 years later for £15,000. Back of the net x
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A Local question. Where was the Playhouse and what is it now?
The Cinema in Rhos that's now the Co-op?
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/65126559_3ad0287b8a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/65126559/)
Former Cinema (?), Rhos On Sea (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/65126559/#) by SnakeCorp (http://www.flickr.com/people/davellandudno/), on Flickr
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Back of the net x
(http://www.digicamreview.co.uk/olympus_mju_mini_digital/back_of_the_net.jpg)
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Where, when and what?? It happened in Cardiff!
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Bluddy Hell .... looks gruesome !
I have to go to bed, and I'll dream about that!
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Its the hoax of the cardiff giant :P
1869
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I did omit to mention that the Cardiff was in the States!!! Thought that may have got you! ¢¢##
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What about this one? Where or what?
Clue a famous building from an unusual angle.
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Erm....................looks like a Shreddie ?
Is it one of nanas rejects?
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Is it Centre point ?
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It never fails to amaze me how quickly these quizes get answered. You are correct so now we need a new puzzel. $uk
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I've never heard of Centrepoint ... until now.
This quiz is definitely biased ... it discriminates against thick people, like me. ¢¢##
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So you were not a child of the 60s then Fester.
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Centre Point is one of London's most famous, if not most-loved, buildings, Centre Point stands in the centre of the West End, looking over the busy Oxford Street and Charing Cross Rd junction where I spent many an hour on point duty sorting out the traffic chaos.
Built on land originally designated for a traffic roundabout, a long drawn out process led to planning permission being granted in August, 1959.
Where is this street and what happened here?
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The Great Fire of London started in the King's Bakery in Pudding Lane in 1666. Pudding Lane I believe is near London Bridge.
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I remember taking a slight detour on one visit to London to see the memorial placed at the spot where the Great Fire started:
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/441728643_85f37a5d4b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dittmars/441728643/)
Fire of London memorial (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dittmars/441728643/#) by Percita (http://www.flickr.com/people/dittmars/), on Flickr
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Happy days. I used to work in the old Billingsgate Market building, just down the road from this monument. I have to admit to having spent many nights, after a few beers, sat on those steps trying to figure out what my hotel was called so I could hail a taxi!
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Assuming the Great Fire of London was the correct answer, can I ask "What is this and where is it?"
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The Eden Project in Cornwall?
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How about this one?
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The Eden Project in Cornwall?
Correct of course.
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Statue of liberty in Paris ?
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Yeah, Mike is correct, it sits on the Isle De Grenelle in Paris .... I was sick of the sight of it when I used to work for a French company.
I did hope I would never see it again in my entire life... a bit like Paris CDG airport, or the TGV Train ...
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I remember taking a slight detour on one visit to London to see the memorial placed at the spot where the Great Fire started:
I saw it from the Thames.
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While we're in London, what's the name of this church and what was once attached to it.
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It is the Church of St Martin with Ludgate and the Ludgate and Newgate Prisons were nearby. ZXZ
The gate was one of three separate sites that bore the name Ludgate Prison. In 1378 it was decided that Newgate Prison would be used for serious criminals, and Ludgate for Freemen of the City and clergy who were imprisoned for minor offences such as debt. By 1419 it became clear that prisoners were far too comfortable here, as they were more likely to want to stay than to pay their debts and leave. They were all transferred to Newgate prison for this reason, although that prison was so overcrowded and unhealthy that they soon returned.
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Where is this house and who lived there?
Clue : It is NOT in the UK.
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I think its the house of Anne Frank ... in the Netherlands, ...your country of origin I believe?
Have the prize sent round without delay.
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Knowing full well that you would be the first person to correctly guess, I left the prize, neatly wrapped in Xmas paper, on the front step (there was no back one) of the shop. I trust you found it and are happy with the contents! :laugh:
And I am half Dutch, half Yorkshire hence Yorkie. Yutch or Dorky wouldn't look right! _))*
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Just one of four - but where in the UK?
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Battersea Power Station?
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I give up trying to catch you lot! Well done ! :rage:
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Which Castle?
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From that angle... I'm guessing the Castle at Cardiff.? ?{}?
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$wales $wales $wales $wales
You're darn right ! I knew that would be easy peasy! :laugh:
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On which famous monument will you find this:
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Clue time - it is in a European Capital and also topical. :twoface:
This is part of the monument.
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Is it on The Arc de Triomphe , Champs Elysees, Paris?
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Which side? Left or right? Excellent deduction once again! 10 Brownie points. :D
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You're getting good at this game, Fester. +}}{--
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A tall story that needs solving - what and where? $eu It's easy peasy!
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Is that a clue you have given us Yorkie or is it just a red herring from the Tallinn TV Tower and restaurant?
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Not Estonia - sorry! ££$
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Seems we have no takers for Rotterdam's Eurotower!
So try this. What is held back by this Dam in Wales and what lies at the bottom of it?
Both parts of the answer required to get the Brownie points.
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Craig Goch dam is at the top, and at the bottom is the Caban Coch dam the lowest of a series of four dams in the Elan Valley
The River Elan is held back?
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If not my suggestion is ---Clywedog Dam holding back Llyn Clywedog and the River Severn which feeds it and at the bottom is Bryn Tail-- the old lead mine
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No - sorry. Not quite so far away as those.
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Llyn Brenig, Village at the bottom ? ( If I've got the correct lake )
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Wrong lake! Which Village was flooded over?
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Vyrnwy ? and Llanwddyn village.
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Well done Quiggs! Go to the top of the Class! Z**
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Twin Towers but what and where? $eu
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York Minster?
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Should have added not in UK! :-}}}
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the vatican ? a wild guess
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Looks like Notre Dame in Paris.
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It should look like Notre Dame, 'cos it IS Notre Dame! It is just impossible to catch you lot! ¢¢##
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I thought Belringer Stan would have got that last one.... given his prediliction for bell-towers and church architecture?
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OK see how long it takes to get this one.
What, where, when and why?
Answer required to all 4 parts!
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I thought Belringer Stan would have got that last one.... given his prediliction for bell-towers and church architecture?
Been out all afternoon and only saw it (and the answer) on my return.
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1950's science fiction comes to mind Yorkie!
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Not science fiction - more science fact! ££$
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Skylon Tower
London ( banks of the Thames)
Festival of Britain
1951
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(tower) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(tower)) for more details
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Correct of course - what a great event it was too if one is old enough to remember it! ¢¢##
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Correct of course - what a great event it was too if one is old enough to remember it! ¢¢##
Just about !!!
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What great house is this? And what famous seat is close by? It is in the UK. $uk
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That's Hollyrood House and Arthur's Seat is nearby.
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There was I thinking that would last more than a few hours - how wrong I was. No prizes Hugo but well done! D)
Close by also is Prestonfield House which had a first class restaurant loast time I was there.
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This Railway Station is in Wales but where?
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Just to get things going, wild guess of Dolgarrog. Z**
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Not quite wild enough, Yorkie, although you are on the right line. ;D
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Tal-y-Cafn?
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I'll try http://www.penmorfa.com/Conwy/20902+903-dolwyddelan.jpg (http://www.penmorfa.com/Conwy/20902+903-dolwyddelan.jpg) $wales
Dolwyddelan
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Roman Bridge ?
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Yorkie is correct, it is Dolwyddelan Station, on the Conwy Valley Line. It's been tidied up a lot since the first photo was taken:
(http://www.nwrail.org.uk/ld100508-dolwyddelan.jpg)
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There are some great pictures of the Conwy Valley Railway on http://conwy-valley-railway.fotopic.net/ (http://conwy-valley-railway.fotopic.net/) by some chap named Dave Roberts! D)
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There's a lot of us about. ;)
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I must confess that when you post a "Quiz" picture I always pop along to Flikr to see if I can find it on your albums! 8)
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What is this block structure in the foreground, and what is its purpose? An extra point if you can say where it is. $uk
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An overflow for the Reservoir? No idea where, though.
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Absolutely correct. Derbyshire's Ladybower reservoir was completed in 1945, providing drinking water for the cities of the north and east Midlands. It is the largest of a chain of 3 massive reservoirs which are known collectively as the " Peakland Lake District".
Howden and Derwent Dams lie further up the valley. These two were used by the famous "Dambusters" in their experiments with Barnes Wallis' "bouncing bomb". Much of the film "The Dambusters" was filmed here.
Was going to ask the Dambuster question but thought it would then be too easy!! Z**
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What is this and where is it?
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Sorry about the size of the photo, is there any way that it can be enlarged otherwise people will need a magnifying glass for it! :-[
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It looks a bit like the Hydro in happier days.
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As I can't see it I will make a guess that it is a building somewhere in the Three Towns. L0L
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I think a clue (or a magnifying glass) may be needed on this one, Hugo! ;D
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It's not the Hydro it's more French in style and in the middle of the country.
Apologies again for the size of the picture
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Cara sings Somebody to Love by Queen - Confused.com TV advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeuaMuRP9FI#ws)
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The man who had this place built was certainly worth his salt! ::)
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Abbey-cwm-hir, Llandrindod Wells
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No thats not it. Sorry again about the size of the photo but I was sure that Yorkie would have brought his magnifying glass out of retirement and cracked this case 'cos the clues are there.
Let's recap:-
A French style building ---------- easy peasy
In the middle of the country ----------- Mid land
A man worth his salt ------------------- a salt Baron
Does anything spring to mind now?
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Got all the clues but just can't get them together. ¢¢##
Tried a magnifying glass but that just made the half a dozen dots bigger! L0L
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Chateau Impney Hotel
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Well done Yorkie, The Chateau Impney it is.
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And now you give us a decent picture!!! _))* L0L ¢¢##
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Well I knew that I had to make it difficult if I was to beat the Yorkie. ;)
Seriously though, I took them when I stayed there earlier this year but as I had named each picture I thought that it would make it too easy for you. As it has turned out when I posted them now the names haven't appeared. ::)
The original picture was copied but I forgot to check on its size. ))* but I had every confidence in you getting the answer correct.
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The funny thing Hugo, is that I couldn't find any reference to salt that made any sense or got me anywhere! Eventually I tried another tack which worked! Giz another one please. D)
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Yorkie, here's some info on the place.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Chateau Impney.Chateau Impney is an imposing 19th century house built in the style of an elaborate French château near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. Of the large mansions in Worcestershire supported by industrial fortunes, Sir Nicolas Pevsner judged Impney to be the "the showiest of them all in the county".[1]
It was designed from 1869 onwards and built in 1873-75[2] for local industrialist the saltworks magnate John Corbett in the style of a Louis XIII château, for Corbett's wife, Hannah Eliza O'Meara, was of mixed French/Irish descent and had been raised in Paris, where her father was secretary to the Displomatic Corps.[3] Corbett applied for designs to the Parisian architect Auguste Tronquois[4] and employed the Beaux-Arts trained English architect Richard Phené Spiers as executive architect on site;[5] the house cost GBP £247,000 (equivalent to £16,685,895.00 in 2007) [1], to satisfy her nostalgia for Paris. Sadly, the marriage was not a happy one, and she later took up residence in one of Corbett's properties in Tywyn, North Wales.
In 1945, the house was purchased by Ralph Edwards who restored it and developed it as a hotel. As of 2007[update], it remains an upmarket hotel [2] and presents an eye-catching sight from the road [3].
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These photos were taken inside which building?
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Here are a couple more photos of the inside.
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A quick stab in the dark - St George's Chapel, Windsor. $uk
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Your miles away I'm afraid Yorkie.
Here's a photo leaving the place.
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Can't get this one with the evidence given but will have another wild guess:
Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh due to the excellent Masonry displayed in the pictures! ZXZ
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Your going further afield now!
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St. Davids
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Spot on Dave $wales
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Where and what is this?
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The former prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco?
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Gosh, I've only just posted it!!! You must have been watching like a hawk!!! And you know you are completely correct. $wales
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Me too but Dave obviously types quicker!
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Yep me too .... I was prowling!
Pretty easy one that.
More???
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OK, one from me....
Where is this beautiful gothic abbey?
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Whitby?
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Dead right beat me to it!
Whitby Fountains Abbey to be precise.
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Dead right beat me to it!
Whitby Fountains Abbey to be precise.
Fountains is the Mother Abbey-- situated near Ripon.
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Yes... way too easy for Nem and Yorkie.
I'm impressed with Dave though!
Fountains Abbey near Ripon is a much larger site, its vast... and I have wandered around it in awe many times.
What a complete tosser Henry VIII was to destroy such fabulous edifices.
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Right.... where will you find this huge and ancient complex?
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Thailand
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Not Thailand Pal.
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Ok I'll try Prambanan Shiva Temple - central Java Indonesia
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Or Angkor Wat ?
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I reckon you got it there Quiggs! D)
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Quiggs, you are spot on.... and what an amazing and mysterious collection of buildings that is.
It is indeed Angkor Wat, and the answer is CAMBODIA.
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Quiggs, you are spot on.... and what an amazing and mysterious collection of buildings that is.
It is indeed Angkor Wat, and the answer is CAMBODIA.
One of my favourite tracks is 'Holiday in Cambodia' by the Dead Kennedys.
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Where is this and what is it used for?
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Press Box at Lords?
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Hi Dave - didn't expect it to last that long - what kept you??? _))*
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Was having a cup of tea. :laugh:
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OK, I'll try again...
A beautiful castle, but which one?
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With your Yorkshire connections, I would say it's Leeds Castle in Kent!!! And I didn't have to look it up! _))*
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Stonework looks more like Beaumaris !
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It's not Leeds Castle and does in fact look like Beaumaris from an unusual angle. $wales
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Too much water for Beaumaris me thinks. Any black swans in sight? ¢¢##
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Its Neither Leeds castle, nor Beaumaris.... but I can see what you mean about it looking similar to Beaumaris...
Keep guessing guys.... another 12 hours and I'll drop a clue in.
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So you're going to be up and about at 5.09 in the morning? Or will you take your laptop to bed with you? L0L
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How about Caerphilly Castle then? $wales
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I often post on here at ridiculous times of the night...
But I have no need to drop any clues in the middle of the night...because HUGO has solved it.
Caerphilly Castle it is! Well done sir, I shall have my man-servant deliver your prize directly. $welsh$ &well& &well& &well& $welsh$
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..and now this one.
An unfamiliar view of a well known castle, but which one?
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My immediate thought was Harlech but the longer I look at it the less I'm sure.
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Could be a Motte and Bailey Castle but no idea which one. )*)&
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That was my first thought too ! Harlech that is
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Nemesis and Medz..... despite your hesitation you are CORRECT !!
I shall split the prize, thats half a ticket each for last nights Status Quo concert.
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Nemesis and Medz..... despite your hesitation you are CORRECT !!
I shall split the prize, thats half a ticket each for last nights Status Quo concert.
Tell you what swap 'em for tonights concert and you're on ! Do I sit on his knee or he on mine? ;D
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Now just where is this magnificent beast located and what is it dedicated to?
I give it about 10 minutes for the answer to appear!
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The Lion's Mound, dedicated to Prince William of Orange who died at the battle of Waterloo.
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It must be. I climbed up the 278 steps to it a few years ago
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It lasted 38 minutes - that must be a record!! L0L
Of course, you're correct! And it is replicated at Waterloo Station in London. $uk
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A quite amazing structure this...For one point, Do you know what is is?
2 further points at stake here...
One point for Which country of the world will you find this..?
Another point for What is it used for?
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Is it the floating Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam?
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Dragon Boat Floating Restauant Shanghai.
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Paddy and Yorkie, you can have one point each, because it is used as a restaurant.... but its not in Amsterdam or China.
It is a much larger structure than The Dragon Boat, and has a rich history to it.
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Yangon, Myanmar or as previously known Rangoon, Burma.
Karaweik Hall
The floating Karaweik Restaurant on Kandawgyi (Royal) Lake is one of the landmarks of Yangon. This modern architecture of a mythical creature Karaweik Hall was constructed in 1972. This whole building was gilded with gold about 20 years ago. Karaweik Hall will serve lunch and dinner with Myanmar, Chinese, Eastern and Western cuisine at moderate prices. It is also an excellent idea to examine the beauty of this royal barge and the stunning view of the Shwedagon. Traditional dance performances are normally held here in the evenings.
ZXZ
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Where will you find this and an extra point if you can guess the estimated weight of the capstone.
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No points for guessing where the cromlech is but just one for guessing the weight. :-[
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Is there any information regarding dimensions, or do we have to guess them also in order to calculate the weight?
I'll try 8,500 kilos
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By the way Yorkie... as you know you were spot on with the Karaweik Hall (or the Karaweik Palace as it is known)
I thought it would be hard to track down because it is in the closed and secretive country of Burma (Myanmar)
Just what wonders hide behind closed borders, eh!
It is modelled on the Royal Barge of the former King of Burma.
Well done Yorkie. &well& &well& &well&
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Must confess I had to get my magnifying glass out and my deerstalker on for that one. :votive:
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Yorkie, I'm still working in pounds and ounces so you've made me get my calculator out! :o
Anyway, you're out, way out because it's a lot bigger.
Don't know how these ancients did it but they must have been strong in those days. Try guessing to the nearest ton so I won't have to get the calculator out again, ;)
By the way anyone who guesses the wrong location gets a minus point!
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Its 25 Tons mate... not an ounce more. $happy$
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Located close to Moelfre on Anglesey, Din Lligwy Cromlech (burial chamber) boasts an 18 by 15 foot capstone weighing in at 25 tons, and standing on eight short stones. The Cromlech dates from about 5000BC. When it was excavated in 1908, the site gave up its dead. Bones of men, women, and children were found.
So 25 is about right but due to erosion since 5000 BC it is now only 24 tons which is my guess! :laugh:
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I'll accept Fester's answer at 25 tons unless you want to lift it up and reweigh it Yorkie. ;D
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Very fair decision Hugo.
Where will you find this monument and what is it about? Europe.
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That's the Vasco Da Gama statue in Lisbon.
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Not quite correct Hugo, it is Discoveries Monument (Padrão dos Descobrimentos), built on the north bank of the Tagus River, Lisbon in 1960 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator.
Detail of the monument showing the mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes holding an armillary sphere (center). To his left, Jácome de Maiorca (cosmographer and chart maker) and Pedro Escobar (navigator); to his right, Pêro de Alenquer (navigator), Gil Eanes (navigator) and João Gonçalves Zarco (navigator).
It represents a three-sailed ship ready to depart, with sculptures of important historical figures such as King Manuel I carrying an armillary sphere, poet Camões holding verses from The Lusiads, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Cabral, and several other notable Portuguese explorers, crusaders, monks, cartographers, and cosmographers, following Prince Henry the Navigator at the prow holding a small vessel. The only female is queen Felipa of Lancaster, mother of Henry the navigator, the brain of the discoveries.
Inside is an exhibition space with temporary exhibits, an interesting film about the city of Lisbon, and an elevator that takes visitors to the top for some bird's-eye views of Belem and its monuments.
The pavement in front of the monument is decorated with a mosaic that was offered by the South African government in 1960, representing a compass with the map of the world charting the routes taken by the Portuguese explorers.
Sorry only half a point for that! :D
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Thanks Yorkie that was very generous of you. I recognised the Lisbon Bridge in the background and remember the monument from photos when I went to Portugal.
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I do try to be fair! ;D
I hope you liked Lisbon -- I know that we do and very handy for the Grand Prix circuit too! :laugh:
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It was Carvoeiro on the Algarve where we actually went to. A beautiful little fishing village and we had a great holiday there.
I read up so much on Portugal prior to going and that's the reason I knew about Lisbon etc. I'd like to think we can go back again one day. :)
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We have been going for 40 years, mainly to the Algarve coast which we know very well. Off there for 3 weeks in the new year to get out of the cold for a bit. :D
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Don't know if this may be too difficult for some: Where, which building and why is it famous?
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The dome of St Paul's Cathedral or possibly the Royal Albert Hall?
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looks like the whispering gallery in St Pauls where your voice travels round the wall
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You are spot on Merddin.... it certainly is the Whispering Gallery... Yorkie will have to deliver the prize to Penrhyn BAy.
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You are all just too b****y clever - and if you want the prize you'll have to come and collect it. :laugh: Any day of the week providing it is not Monday to Sunday inclusive! I'll have to think of a very hard one next time. )*)&
And the answer is the Whispering Gallery at St Pauls which really does work.
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I've just spotted a gap in quiztime. First time for months and I havent got any photos. But, here goes. Kwik Save became a famous store. Where did the first store bearing that name open? (In the U.K.of course, I dont know about America)
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Wasn't Kwik Save opened by Robin Gubay (he had a binocular and camera shop down by bog island) was his first shop the one in Junction. ::)
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Founded as Value Foods by Welsh entrepreneur Albert Gubay on 11 May 1959 and based in Prestatyn, the company rented its first retail shop in Queen Street, Rhyl in July 1959. Further traditional stores were opened in Chester and Wrexham.
First Kwik Save opened in Colwyn Bay on the main street close to Martins Bank as Barclays was then..
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aah got the Gubay bit right, ha ha wrong name and wrong place though. ???
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Must confess I had a little help from the OH who knew his Daughter(s). :D
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Yorkie---you've got it right. I thought it was a trick question, I thought you would all say Rhyl or Prestatyn.
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Mind you, Yorkie, you say they rented the first premises in Queen Street, Rhyl. Well---yes---in a fashion. The property belonged to Alberts sister (I think she was called ---I don't know how to spell it so this is phonetic "Efon"} The Father, Marcus, had left it to her.
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The Gubays owned a cafe in Pen. Affectionatly known as Edies Caf because a Edie worked there for donkeys years. She was the nosiest woman in the world everyone liked her. We used to sit near the counter and say loudly "did you hear about......." then start whispering, Edie had the longest neck in the history of man due to her craning her head over the counter trying to hear what you were saying. _))*
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Where is this tower, what is its claim to fame? In Europe. There is a small clue in the picture,
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Leaning tower of Pisa?
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I was going to say that but thought it was too obviouse
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Get your eyes tested - this one ain't leaning! L0L
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I visited Denmark on business, (a few years back) .. and it looks like a tower I saw in Copenhagen.
I think it was some sort of Observatory for the King .... Don't know its name, but I think it has no steps, just a spiral ramp or path which leads to the top.
But it might not be that tower at all.... just reminds me of it.
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Google what you think and the answer will be (as Arthur Askey used to say, "Before your very eyes!"
You fellas (and lasses) just amaze me with your knowledge!
The Round Tower was built by Christian IV between 1637 and 1642. It was the first part of the Trinitatis Complex, which combined church, library and observatory in a single building.
The Tower once soared far above the rest of the rooftops in the city, and University astronomers studied the stars and planets from the Observatory at the top. The scholars may have forsaken the building a long time ago, but during the winter visitors are still able to gaze at the cosmos from Europe's oldest functioning observatory. The platform that runs around the outside of the Observatory affords views over the old Latin Quarter – from here, you can spot most of the city's famous buildings.
5 points for that Fester. Lovely city to visit. I did Copenhagen when I worked for the Swedes
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Not Denmark this time. What, where, what claim to fame?
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Emley Moor TV mast? The original one fell down weighted with ice on the guys
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Google what you think and the answer will be (as Arthur Askey used to say, "Before your very eyes!"
You fellas (and lasses) just amaze me with your knowledge!
The Round Tower was built by Christian IV between 1637 and 1642. It was the first part of the Trinitatis Complex, which combined church, library and observatory in a single building.
The Tower once soared far above the rest of the rooftops in the city, and University astronomers studied the stars and planets from the Observatory at the top. The scholars may have forsaken the building a long time ago, but during the winter visitors are still able to gaze at the cosmos from Europe's oldest functioning observatory. The platform that runs around the outside of the Observatory affords views over the old Latin Quarter – from here, you can spot most of the city's famous buildings.
5 points for that Fester. Lovely city to visit. I did Copenhagen when I worked for the Swedes
I'm surprised that I'm right.... but I too was working for a Swedish arm of a French company when I was in Copenhagen. Those days are over now.
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Emley Moor TV mast? The original one fell down weighted with ice on the guys
Quite right - I guessed someone from God's own would get the answer. Fester was a bit slow. ZXZ
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:D I was actually watching TV when it fell down and everything went black !
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Its claim to fame is that it is the tallest freestanding structure in the UK. $uk
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What is the name of this Church?
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St. Dwynwen's. ?
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Llangwyfan.
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Well that didn't last very long did it? Llangwyfan it is, the Church of St Cwfan or the Island Church as it is commonly known.
I took my wife in the car down the lane from Aberffraw to see the Church a few years ago and as we were looking at it, the Bride and Groom were actually walking down the causeway to the church dressed in all their refinery apart from the fact that they were both wearing wellies.
It was obviously a low tide and they climbed up the steps to the Church and the Vicar then came out of the Church to greet them.
If anyone wants to get married there they have to check the tide table as well as a calendar, :)
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Here's a quickie. What is happening here?
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That's the one o' clock gun in Edinburgh Castle.
Gather at 1pm to see the master gunner fire the gun – every day except Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Fired almost every day since 1861, it is a tradition remaining from the days when it was a time signal for ships in the Firth of Forth and the port of Leith.
- The One o’clock Gun was first fired from the Castle on 7 June 1861, and has continued ever since, six days a week, except during the two World Wars.
- The Gun is timed to coincide perfectly with the Time-Ball, a large white ball which is raised above the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill, and drops at exactly 1300 hours.
- Together, the One o’clock Gun and the Time-Ball provide a time signal for shipping in the Firth of Forth and the Port of Leith.
- The gun was originally a 64-pounder cannon mounted on the Half-Moon Battery. It is now a 105mm field gun, fired manually by the District Gunner from the Mills Mount Battery.
- The castle hosts a permanent exhibition about the One o’ clock Gun. It was created by the One O'clock Gun Association in collaboration with Historic Scotland
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Too much information!!! L0L L0L L0L L0L
Well done Hugo!
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Here is a really (I believe) hard one. Name and where are these?
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are they in the uk. If so are they in Dorset ?
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Looks a bit like the South Ronaldsay in Orkney.
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UK Mainland except for the bit water twixt them and coast. Not Orkney or Dorset that must be the furthest the guesses could be apart! ££$
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Duncansby Head near John 0'Groats
(Planning a trip up there next summer)
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Obviously not as difficult as I thought. What a well travelled bunch we have on this Forum! You have certainly rang the right bell on that one! Well done! D)
Originally I was going to put the Old Man of Hoy but thought that would be too easy!
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Let's try another easy one. Which Lighthouse is this?
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Is it Lizard lighthouse in cornwall :D
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Sorry - not the Lizard. ;D
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ok...............is it the new london harbour lighthouse :D
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No! Sorry again! Only another 70 to go! It is a UK one. ££$
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I'm determined to get one of these questions right. Orme Vixen on Oscars called me a Dimwit, I'm beginning to think she has a point............So I'll try again.
North Foreland Lighthouse, Kent ???
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Hooray! One of the most important lighthouses in the UK Guarding the approach to the Thames Estuary. Used to me my homing beacon when I was coming back from my sailing trips to the Continent! Right at last. ZXZ
Ormevixen ? Haven't see her around on Oscar or anywhere for a time, must have come out of her lair. aaa.gif
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Where is this? and what's its purpose ?
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I think it is a type of Sun Dial. The months are down the centre, the hours are round the edge but not the complete circle just like a sundial. It has pointers (decorative) of the four elements, sun, wind fire and water.
I believe one uses ones own body as the gnomon and ones shadow to tell the time.
I could be completely wrong of course! >>>
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It is a human sun dail but where ?
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No idea where it is. There are 1000's in the World and unfortunately your picture does not give any sort of clue as to its location. I will take my usual wild guess and say your back garden! ZXZ
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Think we might need a clue on this one, Pendragon. )*)&
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I knew I would find it in the end.
The rotunda on Minehead's seafront has an analemmatic sundial, also known as human sundial! D)
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What are they building here? And where is "here"?
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Looks like a Trojan horse under construction so I'll say Troy!
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Yes Yorkie it was Minehead, I lived there for 2 years when I left school :D
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THe shape looks like The Angel of the North
Tyneside?
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Closer to home than Troy and a few years before the Angel of the North.
More picture clues available. I will post when I feel you need help! ££$
Clue number one. And clue number two. And clue number 3
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Is it the Mulberry Harbours from WW 2 ?
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Not Mulberry harbours (cast in Conwy). Another clue:
A strange bed-fellow:
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Hello,
Cleopatra's Needle, on the Thames embankment, London. Link:http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/CleopatrasNeedle.htm
Cheers,
BrianP
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Correct. The pictures show it being towed up the Thames, the special cigar shaped barge, the erection gantry etc and one of the Sphinx's guarding the thing. Well done. ZXZ
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Another easy, peasy one whilst we are waiting for someone else to think of another quiz item.
Where and what are the questions.
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Sydney....Opera House, and the stairs to the entrance.
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You know you're right. It is a shot of a familiar place taken from an unusual angle. As Cliff would say, "Congratulations!" ZXZ
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OK, here goes...
This boat plies its trade in the UK, but does anyone know where?
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Wroxham Broads - named Vintage Broadsman - Hello Sailor!! $uk
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Wroxham Broads - named Vintage Broadsman - Hello Sailor!!
Yorkie please tell me you haven't got your hand on your hip with one leg in the air _))* _))*
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Pendragon - I haven't got my hand on my hip with one leg in the air! :rage:
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UK - another unusual shot. What and Where!
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Humber bridge
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Right again, thought it may have lasted a bit longer. Z**
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Wroxham Broads - named Vintage Broadsman - Hello Sailor!! $uk
Yorkie, I am very impressed by your CORRECT answer to my question.
I thought that one would have had everyone stumped.... but no.
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It is all a matter of knowing what to search for and the most appropriate keyword. Plus the fact that I went to the Broads for many a year with my fishing exploits and considered it as a suitable piece of water for such a vessel rather than a river. Q.E.D. ;D
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It also helps when you leave most of the name of the boat visible in the photo!
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That was useful to confirm that I actually had the right boat. Just waiting for the next Quiz item now! :twoface:
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Now if DaveR doesn't get this one in 5 minutes, I'll eat my hat!
What and where?
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It also helps when you leave most of the name of the boat visible in the photo!
Ah but that was a teaser.... cos I knew the boat, googled half the name, and the answer didn't come up...(not for me at least)
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I didn't search the name - but hit it first time! D)
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It also helps when you leave most of the name of the boat visible in the photo!
Ah but that was a teaser.... cos I knew the boat, googled half the name, and the answer didn't come up...(not for me at least)
It does come up in Google Images, the 10th result!
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Surprised you haven't got the latest one yet. Clue 1, it ain't in the UK.
Clue 2, on its web site it says, " It's a fun place to visit."
Clue3, the Sun sets in the West.
Clue 4, but rises in the East!
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It is all a matter of knowing what to search for and the most appropriate keyword. Plus the fact that I went to the Broads for many a year with my fishing exploits and considered it as a suitable piece of water for such a vessel rather than a river. Q.E.D. ;D
An easy question to get me started on this thread. What does QED, as quoted in Yorkie's post, mean?
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quod erat demonstrandum - or in English "What was set out to be proved" - mainly used in Mathematics. D)
Clue 5 (back to the Guessing game), The sphere-shaped observation deck located in the 25th floor costs ............. for adults.
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As nothing seems to be happening with this Guessathon I will tell: It is
The Fuji Television Building (Nearest monorail station: Odaiba-kaihinkoen)
Lit by lasers at night, the head office of Fuji Television is the landmark of Odaiba. The building was designed by Japanese Architect, Kenzo Tange. It's fully earthquake proof and took three years to build.
The ball on top of the building weighs a colossal one thousand two hundred tons! With a diameter of thirty two meters it was first constructed on the roof of the smaller building, then on April 17th 1995, using a special technique it was raised into position.
Inside there are ten studios. Tickets for a studio tour are available from the booth at the top of the escalator. The same ticket also gains you access to the inside of the ball. (Adults 500 yen, children 300 yen 10:00 am to 8:00pm daily).
Website: www.fujitv.co.jp (http://www.fujitv.co.jp)
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Is it in Tokyo Yorkie?
I was there twice in the last decade, and I've never seen or heard of it.
Impressive though.
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Tourist area in Tokyo. Fascinating place Japan. One of those places I would like to go back to especially Tokyo itself.
It seems we've followed each other around - you're alter ego isn't Arthur Helliwell is it? L0L
Now there's a thought - does anyone remember who Arhur Helliwell was? Without having to Google it!
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Here's one for Bellringer.
Where and what? Not in Europe.
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Looks like the Cathedral of Brasília to me.
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Absolutely correct yet again. Our bell toller never got a look in! :D
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Thanks Yorkie. Having been pointed in the right direction by Dave, I "googled" and agree with Dave's answer.
Strange bell-tower and it only has 4 bells which are open to the 'elements', Holy Trinity has 8 and if they were open to the 'elements' we would have to be doing major restoration every few years!
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I've given up on buildings now! Seems thay are too easy! D)
So here is a sea bird. But what is it? where does it breed? It is not a UK bird but does migrate here.
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It looks like the one that tried to pinch my ice cream in Mostyn Street, wish I knew where it is now Yorkie! ?{}?
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It is the Iceland Gull, Larus glaucoides. It is a large gull which breeds in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland, but not Iceland, where it is only seen in the winter. It is migratory, wintering from in the North Atlantic as far south as the British Isles and northernmost states of the eastern USA, as well as in the interior of North America as far W as the western Great Lakes. It is much scarcer in Europe than the similar Glaucous Gull.
I don't think he was the one who nicked your ice-cream. WWW
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Where are these buildings and what are they called?
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They look like buildings in a slate quarry, I would guess they are the worker's barracks from Monday to Saturday and I'm also guessing the location to be on the higher levels of the Dinorwic Quarry at Llanberis
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Yes, the Anglesey Barracks in Llanberis
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Where are these stepping stones and what is the name of the river that they cross?
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Are they the stepping stones at Afon Braint ?
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There far too easy for you Yorkie but &well&
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Another easy one Yorkie, where is the Church and what is it's name?
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forget that one :-[
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no idea D)
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Minus one to Merddin and a minus two to Yorkie for taking the p***
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Stab in the dark - reputed to be the oldest church in Wales, Llanrhychwyn Church ?
And I have now changed my mind to Caerhun church of St Mary, down the valley!
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Minus one to Merddin and a minus two to Yorkie for taking the p***
Wasn't aware that I was taking the piss - ??????????????? $uk
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I'll let you off then Yorkie. $wales
Thats the second time I've posted a photo here and the title was shown at the foot of the photo!
When I posted the Chateau Impney one the title was on my saved shots so I copied one and look what happened, it was only about half an inch square! ))*
Yet when I posted my original of the Chateau later on it was ok. ???
If I make another $booboo$ is there any way I can go back in to the original posting and amend it?
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If I make another $booboo$ is there any way I can go back in to the original posting and amend it?
Yes, just click on 'Modify' at the top right of your post. ££$
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Thanks Dave, you know me and my IT skills or rather lack of them and I'm certain to $booboo$ in the future.
I'll see if I can find some photo to test you and Yorkie and everyone a bit more. $thanx$
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I'll let you off then Yorkie. $wales
Thats the second time I've posted a photo here and the title was shown at the foot of the photo!
Well it just goes to show how stupid I am - I never even looked for some clue. I did a search of "little churches in Wales" for my first answer and then I searched the same but in used "North Wales" and found the answer. And there it was staring me in the face all the time!
Thanks for letting me off! ZXZ
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Nice little cafe, where and what is it called?
PS went in again and checked this as I gave away too much info last time. :o
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Is it on Anglesey, Hugo?
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There is a cafe in Aberdaron at the end of the LLwyn. It looks very similar
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Y Gegin Fawr in Aberdaron $wales
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Spot on Yorkie and well done Mike for recognising the cafe. $wales
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Here's another easy one:- what is it and where?
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Think this may be in Tidewell, Peak District. Don't know the actual name of the Trail. )*)&
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Not the Peak District but if you can name the bird you'll guess where it is ???
$wales
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UK's rarest and most unusual crow, The Chough.
The Chough Trail, which stretches from Anglesey to Pembrokeshire
$uk
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Don't get too choughed Yorkie because you're not correct. You're not too far away though but try thinking in Welsh!
$wales
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As has been previously mentioned I am half Dutch and half Yorkshire so I find it impossible to think in Welsh, although I do speak the odd word or two. $wales $uk $eu
The Chough is also known as the Celtic Crow, but that hasn't led me anywhere so far.
So, it may be a Raven which leads me to the Mawddach trail.
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You're doing very well Yorkie but not quite there. When you do come up with the answer you can crow about it!
?{}? $wales
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Or become a Raven lunatic!! L0L
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you might be 'chuff ed' L0L
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Last guess Borth to Aberystwyth cliff trail.
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you might be 'chuff ed' L0L
Crows? Yorkie.....just Carrion until you solve it...! Carrion, geddit? L0L
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You were so close Yorkie with Crow. Bran being the Welsh for Crow, this odd looking bird is the waymaker at the start of the zig zag path up to Dinas Bran (Fortress of the Crow) in Llangollen.
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And I almost put down the Llangollen History Trail which has a Crow waymarker but didn't feel it was right with all the canal and what not. Ah well! One to Hugo! $wales
Let's have another one. I find them challenging. :weeping:
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Name and Place
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It's a bit of a toughie Yorkie. ?{}?
Nice waterfall but is it man made as the rocks seem too symmetrical. I haven't a clue but I'll start with Bodnant Gardens. ???
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Not man made, not Bodnant and reasonably local - well within 25 miles.
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It's Coed Y Brain Llanrwst. D)
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&well& Hugo, absolutely correct!
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Nice looking Church but where is it?
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Llanfaes Church near Beaumaris I think.
The white building is The Old Smithy
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Well done Yorkie, I'll have to find a very hard one to try and beat you.
&well&
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Is this any harder? Where is this Church?
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Unless it's in the States - I'm snookered on this one. )*)&
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It must be hard if you can't find it Yorkie so here's a few clues:-
If you're on the right lines you'll see this Church from the train.
$wales
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Another clue:-
If you have been past the Junction on the train you must have seen this Church.
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Llangwstennin ?
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No and it's not Llandudno Junction or British Rail either!
$wales
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Bron y Nant D)
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Not Bron Y Nant Bri.
Much further west and now back in use on highland.
$wales
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I'm dying to hear the answer to this one as I cannot locate a church with a double bell cote and a semicircular apse, such as the picture, anywhere! I shall keep looking. . . . . . :rage:
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Hear are some more clues and you'll get it now:
It's in a village on the Welsh Highland Railway
In it's heyday it was known as a junction and still has sheds for the engines etc
The Church is next to the Railway Station but where is the fort? ( ?{}? $wales )
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Beddgelert? Only a wild guess :o
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That is a wild guess Nemesis and it's wrong I'm afraid, but at least you're on the right lines
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Train lines? _))*
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Dolwyddellan ?
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Hear are some more clues and you'll get it now:
It's in a village on the Welsh Highland Railway
In it's heyday it was known as a junction and still has sheds for the engines etc
The Church is next to the Railway Station but where is the fort? ( ?{}? $wales )
must be Dinas, the old terminus of the WHR (now runs along the old standard gauge track bed to Caernarfon
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Da iawn, Dinas it is, it was in it's heyday called Dinas Junction but is now known just as Dinas. It must be the Welshness in you coming out Merddin Emrys.
&well&
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Now here's an easy one, where is this lake and what is it called?
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What is sthe name of the Church in the last game? I am somewhat puzzled. Dinas is apparently served by St Gwyndaf Church, Llanwnda, which is about quarter mile from Dinas. However, your photograph is not the same as St Gwyndaf as far as I can see. I also cannot find any other church in the area. )*)&
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I'll take a stab in the dark at Llyn Elsi for this one!!
Beautiful Llyn Elsi is situated above the village of Betws-y-coed in the Gwydir Forest and serves as a reservoir providing water for the village.
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Llyn Elsi it is. Well done Yorkie.
I've forgotten the name of the church but it's opposite the train station in Dinas. Bont Newydd,Dinas and Llanwnda are very close together but I'll find out the name and let you know.
Here's another photo of the lake that would have made it easier,
PS Since posting this I've visited the google map and you can see the Church by the houses at T'yn Llan and Google lists the Church's name as St Gw????? so perhaps you are right again ?????
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Hi Hugo - I just could not find a church, chapel, or building that matched your photo, which I why I wanted to know which one it is. Actually it seems that it is indeed the Church of St Gwyndaf and only 440 yards from Dinas Station. I have now located a photograph showing the curved aspe and double cote.
It is said that the Shrine of Saint Gwyndaf (or Gwnda) was the first sacred stopping-place for pilgrims on the road from Caernarfon to Bardsey Island. The first stone church was built some time in the 13th century - the present Norman style Parish Church of Llanwnda was erected in 1847/8 over its cruciform foundations after the designs of George Alexander of London.
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p.s. Hugo - you left the name of the lake on the photo!! So easy to "guess" when you do that!! L0L L0L
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I wonder if you can give any information about this tree, where and any facts? There is a "couple" standing nearby, what are they doing?
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St. Digain's Church and 4000 year old Yew Tree.
Llangernyw, Conwy, North Wales.
http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk/his/ch/llangernyw.htm (http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk/his/ch/llangernyw.htm)
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Well done! That's right for the tree - but what about the "couple"? :D
The churchyard also contains a pair (couple) of prehistoric standing stones..... $wales
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Here's a harder one - not in Wales. Where is this building, what's its name and what use does it have?
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p.s. Hugo - you left the name of the lake on the photo!! So easy to "guess" when you do that!! L0L L0L
Thanks for being so honest Yorkie but I'm still going to dock you half a point for that because I made it so easy for you. ;)
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Is it in Oxford?
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Yes - that's the first part answered. &well&
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Its the Bodleian Library.... D)
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Its the Bodleian Library.... D)
Answer your emails instead of nipping in on my quiz answers! :rage: :laugh:
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Hmmmmm. The whole question has now been answered correctly but the points will have to be divided. Oxford = 1
Bodleian =1
Library =1
So 2 to Fester and 1 to Dave. But after a penalty for "butting in" 1 point is transfered to Dave so the amended result is 2 to Dave and 1 to Fester. ZXZ
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And now here is a really easy peasy one. Where, name, what is it?
I expect Fester to swiftly demolish this one.
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I have not got the faintest idea....looks like a badly iced cake for a yachting club.
So now I am off to answer my emails to Dave (suitably admonished) ... then I'm off to Oscar, where I might be appreciated! L0L L0L L0L
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....Oh, and Dave..... Mrs Fest says ''GET TO BED'' ..... you are too ill to be mincing about on here..
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And now here is a really easy peasy one. Where, name, what is it?
I expect Fester to swiftly demolish this one.
OK, I give in...I've seen it from an aeroplane window.... I know its in Tokyo Bay, but I have never known what it is....and no one could ever enlighten me when I asked.
I hate Japan anyway.
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Most of the people who saw this structure via Google Maps or from the window of an airplane have wondered if it’s something going on there and what people had in mind if there is something like a secret facility of the Japanese Government where they keeps aliens or Godzilla.
In fact, there is nothing like that there and although the structure is gorgeous, nothing happens there. It’s called Kaze-no-to and is only a ventilation shaft on the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line which links Kisarazu City and Kawasaki City.
This man-made island is also called the Tower of Wind, and it took about 30 years to be completed. The views that you will see from there are probably breathtaking therefore we truly recommend as a sightseeing spot if you ever visit Japan.
I like Japan!!! ZXZ
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What is the name of this Church?
PS No clues at the bottom of the photo this time!
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Llanbadrig church and graveyard, Anglesey. ZXZ
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Yes, that's correct Yorkie. There's a Vineyard nearby where you can taste the wine, I had 3 free samples and then opted for a coffee with a strawberry and cream scone. Nice way to finish a walk.
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what and where is this?
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Old Coastguard Lookout Tower, don't know where, maybe Anglesey around Caemes Bay area! :D
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It does look like an old Coastguard Lookout place but it's not, but you're very close though!
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above church bay/rhydwyn/llanfairynghornwy?
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Afraid not, you're going in the wrong direction!
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Something to do with World War II?
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near nebo above penysarn?
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It was much more peaceful and relaxing than WW two Dave and Dwsi you've gone to far east. Try going as far North as you can!
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Llanbadrig?
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You've walked right past it Dwsi and gone too far.
It's not a building for the Winter?
It's at the other side of the first photo and you can just about make the building out on the right hand side
and it's above this disused ruined site
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the brick works in porth wen?
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You're on the right path but the wrong Porth, sorry Dwsi
Here's some shots of the Porth Wen brickworks:-
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porth llanlleiana?
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You've got the right spot at Porth Llanlleian but the building is above the brickworks so;-
What is the building?
What is the area on which this building that is on Wales' most northerly point called?
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it's actually porcelain works and it's a picture of the beehive kilns
the ruined structure was built to commemorate Edward VII's coronation in 1902
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No Dwsi the building has no connection with the brickworks at the bottom of those steep steps:-
Let's recap
It's not a winter building, so what is it?
It is built on Wales' most northerly point
It was built by the Stanleys but for the wife's use!
You're so close Dwsi but I'm going to be tight and want you to identify what and where ;D
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OK Dwsi I've had a change of heart because it's Christmas and you're so near anyway so it's:- &well&
Let's recap
It's not a winter building, so what is it? = It's a Summer House
It is built on Wales' most northerly point = Llanlleiana Head
It was built by the Stanleys but for the wife's use! = The landowner had it built for his wife
You come across it on Section 10 Amlwch Port to Cemaes of the Anglesey Coastal Walks
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What is this and where is it?
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St Seriol's Well at Penmon
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That didn't last long! "Well" done Nemesis.
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What and where exactly is this?
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A clue
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Something to do with Horseshoe Falls?
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I'll need a bit more info than that Nemesis! ??? but you're nearly there.
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Within Bodnant Gardens $uk
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No yorkie, Nemesis has got the location right at Llangollen but what is it?
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The valve house and flow meter for the Llangollen Canal
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Spot on BrianP
The picture shows the start of the Llangollen canal and the pumping house. Thomas Telford built the Horseshoe falls to divert water from the River Dee to fill the Llangollen canal.
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Where are these ruined buildings?
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Is it Llys Euryn?
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Nant Bwlch Yr Haiarn, in Gwydr Forest between Gwydr Castje and the Ugly House
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I'm going for the deserted village of Rhwddolion.
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And you're correct Dave. It's Rhiwddolion near Betws Y Coed, the village was finally abandoned in the 1940's. It had it's own shop and Chapel which also doubled up as the school.
Saw a photo of the shop in the book Dyffryn Conwy and there were four people in the picture including the shop owner. The large lintel on the fireplace had a date of 1687 on it.
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A really easy peasy one for all. Where is this "Swatch" decorated roundabout?
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Is Albufeira Portugal too obvious? Seeing as it says it on the picture?
Been there for Xmas Yorkie?
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Oh - silly me! Said it was easy! Yep just spent the week over Xmas. Back now and found the snow all gone! Z**
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The writing on the wall appears in which Church?
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St Cwyfans?
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Llangelynin Church, just a short walk from Conwy!
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Spot on Yorkie, Hope it was warmer for you in Portugal than it was for us over Xmas!
&well&
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Yorkie. Llangelynnin Church - just a short walk from Conwy!
I'd hate to come with you Yorkie on a 'long' walk!
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Figuratively speaking, of course! ¢¢##
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What is the Masonic connection here ? *&(
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The only connection I can see is the use of the skull and crossbones in the inscription on the wall. Anyone with a knowledge of Masonic symbolism will understand the significance. $happy$
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I knew it...all Masons are pirates! With one wooden leg, and a parrot on the shoulder! Arrrrrr Jim Lad!
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And in the Middle Ages it was the Operative Masons who built all the, Castles, Churches and Cathedrals! I think everyone will agree that much of the stonework seen in such structures makes one wonder how some of it was achieved with just simple tools.
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Where exactly would you find this wreck?
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Is it Afon Goch by Dulas on Anglesey?
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Great Orme between Bishops Palace and the Old Gogarth Abbey.
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No to both Bellringer and Yorkie but it is within 30 miles from Llandudno.
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My other thought - 'cos there ain't much to go on - is the Menai Strait, West of Menai Bridge.
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You're in the right area Yorkie although you can't see any bare hills in the background.
???
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Looks like the remains of a Huntsman 28 Yorkie. 8)
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No chance - Huntsman has a transom stern! L0L L0L
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You must have seen it Yorkie, although it is stranded it's not far from the waves.
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No idea - only other suggestion is Caernarfon.
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Wrong side Yorkie and it's not opposite Caernarfon
$wales
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Beaumaris then is all I can think of. After that if it's wrong I'll just have to go round the coast! $uk
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Beaumaris is to the east of the bridge so it's got to be on the other side of the bridge.
Remember the clues are there:-
Bare Hill
Waves
Anglesey
More clues and you're bound to get it:-
Site of a battle
Opposite Y Felinheli
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Are you referring to the battle on the straits where the Romans subdued the Druids?
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No, much later when those nasty Normans under Edward 1 made a pontoon of bridges to cross the straits.
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I give up!
)*)&
This is the account but no definite location is given:
After successfully capturing Anglesey, Luke de Tany's men constructed a bridge of boats across the Menai Strait which separates Anglesey from the mainland. Edward's plan was to cross the River Conwy while de Tany crossed the Menai and attacked from the north. However, de Tany ignored the plan, believing he could defeat the Welsh without Edward's aid. He had contacted some of the clergy in Bangor who had promised to aid him by giving a signal when the time was right to attack.
The bridge was finished in September that year, and on 6 November, de Tany and his men crossed the bridge having been given the signal to attack. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd had been alerted to the crossing somehow, and emerged with a large army to meet the English as they crossed. A rising tide cut off de Tany's men from the bridge. When they tried to flee, many of them drowned when their heavy armour dragged them under the sea. Walter of Guisborough wrote an account of the battle:
Which takes me back to my answer of Menai Straits West of the bridge.
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OK Yorkie let's recap:-
Bare Hill = Moel
the = Y
Wave = Don
Anglesey = Ynys Mon
So there you have it. the place is MOEL Y DON the last part of Section 6 of the Anglesey Coastal walk. If you had searched Google for the answer you would have seen the first item under the heading "Battle of Moel Y Don"
. $hands$
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Not being a Welsh speaker I did not see the relevence of the "clues" - neither did the Welsh speakers by the look of it!
C'est la vie as the Germans say! L0L
Also cannot find Moel y Don on any map of the area opposite Y Felinheli - :rage: :rage:
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So from one Wreck to another. Where is this wreck? Not in Llandudno but not too far away.
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Is that the one on Newborough beach?
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Sorry H - not Newborough, but the area is washed regularly by the sea.
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The background is throwing me a bit. It looks like the Rivals but I'll have another guess at Red Wharf Bay Anglesey.
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Another No I'm afraid. I've had a look on Google Maps but as I did not take the photograph I am not sure of exact direction of the shot so cannot help with a clue to the names of the hills.
Another wreck nearby the first - hope this helps.
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I've walked along the whole coastline of Anglesey and the only place I've seen two wrecks together like that is the stretch of sand between Llanddona,Pentraeth and they are on Red Wharf Bay.
The background on the 1st photo I thought looked like the Rivals by Trefor on the Lleyn Peninsula, but I'm not so sure with the second one.
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Some, of course, get covered by the tide and are not always visible. Here's a major clue, they are both well within 20 miles from Llandudno as the crow flies, and one is next to a concrete (?) pier. Did I say Anglesey?
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20 miles as the crow flies would put you in the Bangor area. I seem to remember some wrecks between Port Penrhyn and Dickies boat yard in Bangor.
Would they be the ones?
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That's another good try Hugo but sad to say it's not the right area. Here's a VERY cryptic clue - Think of furniture.! ;D
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You're a canny Yorkshire man, you've not given much away! :(
It's not east of Llandudno, nor in Gwynedd either but the cryptic clue of furniture ?{}?
The only thing that comes to mind is Bwrdd Arthur (Arthur's Table) but that's near Llanddona & Red Wharf Bay.
Is it on Anglesey?
I'll keep on guessing even if it takes me until next year. ;)
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I've already said that it is not Anglesey. It's certainly on the mainland. Another clue - it is NOT Gwynedd.
Arthur's Table is interesting 'cos Arthur's Seat is in Edinburgh. Long way to pull your chair up to eat though!
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For the New Year I am feeling generous. . . . .
Table is a good clue but not Arthur's, just have to put it in the right place.
Longditudinal thinking is required regarding the proximity of (or is that to) Llandudno.
The concrete Pier is more like a small jetty and is in the picture above the wreck.
All is visible from Google Maps, Satelite View.
The Devil and a Lion around the Table should give you a good Signal.
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I'm back in the land of the living after last night but I'm still working on this. Last night I was thinking to myself that I've walked along all the coast within 20 miles of here and never seen these boats ??? but then I thought Yorkie's a crafty old sod does he mean the Llandudno in South Africa. The picture shows blue skies and a plateau shaped mountain, could that possibly be Table mountain at Cape Town
I'm going to look on Google to check. ?{}?
Definitely Cape Town S Africa and lovely shot of the mountain that I originally thought was the Rivals D)
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Well, at long last you're on the right track! Just the last hurdle to go! L0L
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I'm afraid that I can't locate this place but will have a final pop and hedge my bets by saying Table beach or Sunset Beach. ???
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Here's the link - just scroll down. Close enough, great attempt!
http://knol.google.com/k/a-photographer-s-guide-to-table-mountain# (http://knol.google.com/k/a-photographer-s-guide-to-table-mountain#)
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Thanks Yorkie, I didn't realise Llandudno SA was as close to Cape Town until I started to Google the place.
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It is just a posh suburb of CT for footballers and the like! L0L
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Change of theme: What is this and where can it be found?
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It's a starnosed mole
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Well done Stan - didn't think it would be too difficult! Z**
And it can be found in Canada and America.
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Back to reality:
Where and what is this building and why was it built?
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Is this the one Yorkie
The Voortrekker Monument
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
The great grey colossus can be seen from all directions as you near Pretoria… the massive Voortrekker Monument, built in honour of the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony in their thousands between 1835 and 1854
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Absolutely correct, once again! I'll have to move on from SA. Z**
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Thanks very much Yorkie. D)
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As an aside, Llandudno SA has a famous nudist beach.
http://www.nudistbeaches.info/beaches/south-africa/sandy-bay-nudist-beach.htm (http://www.nudistbeaches.info/beaches/south-africa/sandy-bay-nudist-beach.htm)
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Sh*t - I was trying to keep that a secret! L0L
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Just to show you photos of cottages at Moel Y Don Yorkie and you can see Y Felinheli is across the Straits so
Chwarae teg as the Romans would say
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Certainly - Jeu juste in any language.
Since then I have found it on a web map. www.streetmap.co.uk (http://www.streetmap.co.uk)
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To be honest Yorkie there is not a lot to see in Moel Y Don, Plas Coch holiday homes are nearby but apart from that you only see walkers and fishermen there.
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That's what the Google satelite view would indicate! Might take a run over next time we do out National Trust tour in Ynys Mon. D)
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Where and what is this?
Two clues:-
One walk I did ended up at this place
The building reminded me in a way about my night on 31st Dec 2010.
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I think we are looking across Strobl am Wolfgangsee, Austria. Trouble is they all look the same! )*)&
Changed my mind and now going for:
Orth Castle Museum, Gmunden, Schloss Orth, Lake Traunsee, Upper Austria.
Danke schon!!
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Well done Yorkie, that didn't take you long! &well&
It's a beautiful area for a holiday.
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Especially if you speak the language and like Strudel and Stollen! Z**
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A Miniature Village but where?
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Babacombe, Devon
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Not Babbacombe, sorry! ))*
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What about Bekonscot?
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Bekonscot in Beaconsfield is correct! And a fantastic place it is too. I thought the windmill may have pointed you to Maduradam in Holland! Obviuosly not devious enough with this one! &well&
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A quickie easy one for you.
What type of tree and why the number on the trunk?
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I've no idea really so just a wild guess to start this off. You've just come back from Portugal so perhaps this is one of the trees over there.
Quercus suber the cork Oak tree and the number perhaps something to do with the harvest such as the year the bark was harvested?
?{}?
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And there we are - you knew the answer all the time! Cork Tree, the bark is harvested every 9 years and the number is the year.. I didn't do the tour to the cork trees this visit and the photo is just a stock photo off the Net. &well&
Still used in all the best vintages! Z**
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Another easy peasy one:
Where is this Cross formation of trees. When were they planted and why? (Sorry about poor picture)
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Is it just south of Tebay in the Lune Gorge ?
viewed from M6.
Planted by a farmer in memory of his wife about 1920s.
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They are probably on someone's fire Yorkie as they were chopped down a year or two ago.
The cross formation was in Abergwyngregin and planted just over 50 years ago. What actually happened was that a Head Forester wrote a book in which he described the best shaped formation of trees to protect livestock.
The cross shaped one was proved to be the best as there was always a place for the animals to shelter which ever way the wind was blowing.
When the University bought the farm they planted the trees to test the theory based on the book. It was proved that this was the best way BUT it was also actually the dearest to fence off!
Hope that this is the correct cross after all this blarney (photo not too clear but I can see mountains behind)
$wales
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A very full and comprehensive answer Hugo, no more nor less than I would have expected! Planted in 1957 and as you say reduced to firewood in recent years. Nothing to do with aircraft crashing as many think! &well&
Above the cross is a 3 spoked layout and also a straight line layout also being part of the experiment of providing shelter for upland livestock, which can all still be seen on Google satelite view,
Sorry Mull, you were "barking up the wrong tree", so to speak! ))*
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Our retirement walks in that area are usually led by another Head Forester who always stops there to tell the story so I did have an advantage. ;)
That's also the place where I ran down the steep section into the village and caused the start of my knee trouble. :(
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Where are these gates?
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Llanwrst Almshouses and Museum.
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Where is this and what claim to fame if any?
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The Caen Hill locks, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The sixteen locks of Caen Hill (seen in this picture), and a further 13 locks, stretch over only 2 miles of the canal. The large side ponds are not seen here. The white "fences" are bridges across each lock.
The building of these locks in 1810 marked completion of the whole 57 mile distance from Newbury to Bath.
Is this what you asked for Yorkie?
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OK, clever clogs! :D Real mine of information this Forum! D)
The only thing you missed is that this is NOT the largest flight of locks in the UK, this honour belongs to the Tardebigge Flight, comprising 30 narrow locks on a two and a quarter mile stretch of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
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Where is this bridge?
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Hmm, I've seen this one on my travels but can't think where it is! ¢¢##
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By the look at what's going on I reckon it is in someones imagination! :D
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It's in Snowdonia, I think, not too far from Betws Y Coed?
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Packhorse Bridge, Pont Pen-y-Benglog Ogwen
Link:http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/38034
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BrianP has got it. It's on the A5 directly under the bridge built by Thomas Telford when he built the road and he left the original packhorse bridge intact.
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Two parts to this:-
Name of the lake in the foreground
The name of the mountain the photo was taken from
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Llyn Bochlwyd (foreground) and Llyn Idwal (background)
Photo taken from Tryfan
I recognised the view, but had to get the OS map out to name the lake.
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Well done Jason but no extra point for getting Llyn Idwal in the background. From the angle I took the photo, Llyn Bochlwyd looks like the outline of Australia.
&well&
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What are these and where exactly would you find them?
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Look like the top pulleys for a ski lift or chairlift.
So Avimore perhaps during summer months?
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A good guess Mike but not correct and they are nearer home. $wales
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I think it may be the return pulley for a static winding engine maybe used for hauling spoil in a quarry. No idea of exact location.
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It's the remains of an old pulley system for a quarry and I think it's in a valley somewhere in southern Snowdonia....
EDIT: Got it, its the Cwm Bychan Aerial Ropeway!
http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/show_member_mine.asp?mine_id=1776&member_id=2072 (http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/show_member_mine.asp?mine_id=1776&member_id=2072)
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Wish I had all this local knowledge - may help me with the answers! Gud on yer Dave! :D
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Dave is spot on. &well&
It is the aerial ropeway for the copper mines. Ore was transported on the ropeway to a crushing mill near Nantmor. The pylons can be seen on a lovely walk from Beddgelert,along the Aberglaslyn Pass and through Cwm Bychan where they still stand in places. It's a fairly easy walk of some 6 miles and 3 hour duration.
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Who are the chaps (5 points each) name the horses (10 points each)? For an extra 25 what peculliar incident happened in 1956 to the second chap that few can forget?
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Isn't it Dick Francis in the second photo, with Fard Du Moulin Mas, in Lambourn, Berkshire in 2004? :D In 1956, he was riding in the National when his horse suddenly stopped, slumped to the ground on its stomach and that was the end of the race for Francis.
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All correct - the horse that collapsed was Devon Lock owned by the Queen Mother. Dick was her favourite jockey. Unfortunately Dick died last year aged 89. 15 points! &well&
Just need an answer for the other one now.
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Dick was her favourite
:o
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All correct - the horse that collapsed was Devon Lock owned by the Queen Mother. Dick was her favourite jockey. Unfortunately Dick died last year aged 89. 15 points! &well&
Should, of course, be 40 points! Maths never was a good subject! ;)
The first chap is Racehorse trainer Nicky Henderson with Punchestowns (L) and Long Run.
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Another piece of industrial archaeology but where is it?
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its a winding drum at the top of a quarry incline, does'nt look like a slate quarry, is it somewhere like Trevor?
Penmaenmawr? I know its not the one near me on the Little Orme.
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Just what I was going to say but with all the wooden drum slats long since gone. Maybe from around Cwn Pennant area.
Change of mind again - Porth Wen, Anglesey
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that looks right to me, taken from the other side
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The picture from Hugo is titled "Above Porth Wen" so I don't know if it may be part of the old brickworks or a quarry.
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It's part of the old brickworks above Porth Wen and is on the hillside above the works. Well done Yorkie
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Another easy one.
Name and place of building
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Dolwyddelan Castle?
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Dolbadarn Castle near Llanberis
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I agree Dolbadarn Castle in Llanberis
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It's Dolbadarn Castle in Llanberis. Well done Bellringer
&well&
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Another very easy one.
The name of the lake
The mountain above it
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Lake at Cadair Idris, Snowdonia. Llyn Cau.
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Spot on Yorkie, I thought you might have gone for another similar looking lake.
&well&
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My knowledge of North Wales is increasing by the day. ZXZ
Where's this place?
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Did the numbers give it away? It should have been a bit harder than that Yorkie.
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Is it the National White Water Centre near Bala
http://www.ukrafting.co.uk/ (http://www.ukrafting.co.uk/)
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Did the numbers give it away? It should have been a bit harder than that Yorkie.
Hugo. No, I used my usual method. I only resort to the numbers when I get really stuck.
Jason - you are 100% correct, it is at Frongoch. Nice place to stop for a cuppa and to watch some of the happenings. It is also on the A4212 which is a fantastic road for the car enthusiast, with 18 miles of beautiful curves and only one sharpish bend at the bottom of the lake. &well&
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A rarely seen bridge which links where .... with where....... and crosses what.......? What name .......?
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Don't suppose it is anywhere as simple as the suspension bridge in Betwys?
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Not far away. Its between Trefriw and Station Road in Llanrwst
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...and it's called the Gower bridge.
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Well done for the joint effort!
Here is another bridge to get your teeth into. All information welcome. Now defunct from its main purpose!
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Is it the girder bridge at Dolgarrog? It looks like it so I've copied some info too.
A main line connection is built.
"In 1916 the Company finally opened a short standard gauge line, leaving the LNWR Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog railway at a point just over ½ mile south east of the works. Interchange sidings were provided here, connected to a loop on the LNWR line. From this point the works line turned through 90 degrees on a sharp curve which climbed steeply to an impressive girder bridge over the River Conwy. Leaving the bridge the curve continued as the line descended to the level of the surrounding land. Having gone through an almost 180 degree turn the railway then ran in an absolutely straight line to the Works. Outside the works entrance was a run round loop and a branch along Clark Street to the foot of the incline and a coal yard"
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I have Yorkie, many a time but I'll let someone else answer.
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Well done for the joint effort!
Here is another bridge to get your teeth into. All information welcome. Now defunct from its main purpose!
That second photo looks familiar, Yorkie. ::)
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Not one of yours? Published without reference to the copyright owner? And filtched from a broad spectrum of photographs obtained through Google Image Searches? Oh my Gawd! What have I done!
If such is the case then as the ultimate publisher (along with Ian) you will have to complain to yourself and claim the required amount of damages from the two of yourselves to ensure that justice is done! _))* ;)
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You've actually reminded me that I needed to post the Forum T&Cs somewhere.
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Just read them! *&(
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Posted again, original deleted.
Absolutely right, once again. Just to add a little:
This lightweight steel bridge was built to carry a private siding from the Conwy Valley railway line at Dolgarrog Station to the Aluminium Works. It is still used for a nominally private road which runs along the course of the line and gives foot-access across the river, which is important since the nearest bridges are some miles away.
So what about this one which Hugo must have trampled across at some time?
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Footbridge on path to Llyn Idwal
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Brill Bri, just can't get past anybody on this Forum. One of these days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )*)&
&well&
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Whilst browsing around for bridges I came across this one. It is listed as Conwy Suspension Bridge, Conwy, Wales. I must be blind because I've never seen it!
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Me neither---the River Conwy must have been in flood!!!!!
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Just a simple Name, what and where?
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Pentre Ifan Cromlech (Burial Chamber), 3500 BC
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Just for completeness I think the pseudo Conway Bridge is the one at Newport Rhode Island.
http://www.vagabondish.com/photo-newport-bridge-rhode-island/ (http://www.vagabondish.com/photo-newport-bridge-rhode-island/)
I have a phobia of driving over that type of bridge and although it was about 5 or 6 years back it still send shivers down my back to see it again.
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Pentre Ifan Cromlech (Burial Chamber), 3500 BC
I could say it was just a horse in a field - but being fair I must say you are dead right - excuse the pun! ;D
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What's the name of the bridge and where is it located?
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Is that the one at Penmachno, not far from Conwy Falls?
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Roman Bridge just off Penmachno Road
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That's the Bridge Dave and Yorkie but what's its name? $wales
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It is an old medieval pack-horse bridge, but known as Roman Bridge(already stated), or sometimes Penmachno Bridge.
Don't know of any other name. )*)&
There are also the Pandy Bridge and Pont Rhyd-y-Gynnen nearby over the Afon Machno but they are more modern.
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I first saw a painting of the bridge and the painting was called "hanging bridge" on account of the Ivy trailing down but of course that is not the bridge's name. Although it is a packhorse bridge it is sometimes called Roman Bridge but it's Welsh name is Pont Rhyd Y Gynnen.
Well done Yorkie
&well&
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Still on bridges. Name and where?
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It looks like the Chain Bridge at Llangollen but I'm not sure if it has another name.
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I only know it as the Chain Bridge leading to the Hotel of the same name. &well&
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This Cromlech is in which village?
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Just a guess ; Rhoscolyn?
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And a pretty good guess too Barbiroli. &well&
It's not one of the more well known one's and I thought that it may have caught some out.
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What is this and where would you find it?
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The Summit Cairn at Scafell Pike! First Guess.
Or a stone Border Collie's Kennel!
Guess Two: Shelter on Foel Grach's northern face
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Two good guesses Yorkie but I'm afraid that they are both wrong.
Another good guess at Foel Grach but that's wrong too, but you're getting nearer. $wales
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Two good guesses Yorkie but I'm afraid that they are both wrong.
Another good guess at Foel Grach but that's wrong too, but you're getting nearer. $wales
Just teasing you !
Cadair Idris Summit Hut Shelter
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Cadair Idris it is, I knew that you'd get it soon.
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Where and what is this beautiful structure?
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A view of the Front. Just a little whiter shade.
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That's a real toughie you've set us Yorkie and I haven't a clue. ?{}?
I think I saw the front elevation last night when I was searching but I can't find it again. ???
The clock should help but I think it is in England rather than the rest of the UK but that doesn't narrow it down very much???
Got to go out now but will have another search later, must look at the Isle of Wight next. ?{}?
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The clues are there and it is, in fact, in Welsh Wales! Excellent food available in the restaurant! And it is within 50 miles from your home! Leap to your Google search facility!
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Pale Hall Bala, there's posh!
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Well done Suepp, I'd never have got it.
Been looking at the prices of it too and don't think I'll be going but what a lovely place.
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Well done Suepp, nice to see someone beating Hugo to it for a change. Did you get The whiter shade (of PALE) and the anagram of leap (PALE) to your Google.....?
I would like to give the place a try. Been past it many times but never had the loose change in my pocket to deserve stopping over! L0L
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Try this one then.
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Another hotel I can't afford to go to Lake Vyrnwy Hotel and Spa :(
$wales
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Why not? Don't forget "a cat can look at a king" so you can pop in and sample the sumptious interior whilst asking for a brochure! Good deduction Sherlock! Your turn! ££$
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Where's this tunnel?
$wales
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Old Railway Tunnel under the main Road at Llyn Padarn.
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You're certainly on the right lines Yorkie. Well done
&well&
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A dog. What's his name and claim to fame?
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That's Greyfriars Bobby who guarded his master's grave for 24 years.
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Absolutely correct, well done Nemesis! <:<:<:<
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Where is this Monument, what famous person is the subject and why did they achieve notoriety?
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I thought this would have been guessed by now so maybe a clue is in order.
It's up Norf! And there is a connection with this picture.
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That's the Grace Darling's Memorial at Bamburgh Church, Northumberland, England. This is not her grave which is in a humble family vault about 20 yards to the east. The memorial was paid for by public subscription and erected shortly after her death in 1842. Placed, at the request of local seamen, so as to be clearly visible from the sea.
Don't know why she received notoriety though
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Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English Victorian heroine who in 1838, along with her father, saved 13 people from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire.
Grace was born in 1815 at Bamburgh in Northumberland and spent her youth in two lighthouses, (Brownsman and Longstone, pictured above), of which her father, William, was the keeper.
In the early hours of 7 September 1838, Grace, looking from an upstairs window of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, spotted the wreck and survivors of the ship, SS Forfarshire on Big Harcar, a nearby low rocky island. The Forfarshire had foundered on the rocks and broken in half. One of the halves had sunk during the night.
She and her father, William determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses (then North Sunderland), so they took a rowing boat (a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile. Grace kept the coble steady in the water while her father helped four men and the lone surviving woman, Mrs. Dawson, into the boat.
Well done Hugo! <:<:<:<
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The Story of Grace Darling and the S.S Forfarshire was required learning, even in my primary school...
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We stayed in Bamburgh a few years ago and the tour operator gave a talk on Grace Darling. It was an incredibly brave thing that she and the others did. It was such a shame that she died of TB at the young age of 26.
Our hotel was not far from the Church where she is buried but unfortunately we didn't have time to go there, if we had I might have guessed the answer earlier.
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what is this and where?
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No idea but I'll see if I can find out! ££$
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The derelict Lligwy Chapel, Anglesey.
I make that 6 minutes and 23 seconds! Is that a record?
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Well done Yorkie, I don't think I'll ever catch you out.
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Now that looks really difficult. Reminds me a place I sailed to when I did my sailing training at Plas Menai. Think it may be Moelfre, as it says on the photograph! ;D
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There's no points for that Yorkie as I was only posting photos of the area where the chapel was.
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What? Where?
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I thought it was Bodysgallen for a minute, but I suspect that would be too easy!
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Sorry - You're right, that would be too easy! Not Bod. No clues just yet. $wales
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Clue 1 - It's dahn sahf, not England. $wales
Clue 2 - Historical rather than hysterical.
Clue 3 - Connection with "Oliver" and Plymouth
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Is it St Fagan's Castle?
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I agree with you on that one Hugo ;D
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Sorry you are wrong but so close I cannot let it go on.
It is actually The Natural History Museum of Wales and is one of Europe's leading open–air museums and Wales's most popular heritage attraction. It stands in the grounds of the magnificent St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house donated to the people of Wales by the Earl of Plymouth.
(Oliver = Fagan)
Well done for a good effort 7/10 - "Good game, good game." as Brucie would say!
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That's a bit mean Yorkie >>> you asked for what and where and the photo is of the Castle. The museum is in the Castle grounds.
Allowing for deduction of the clues it's got to be worth 9/10 ;)
I'd never have got it though without your clue of Oliver, another good one Yorkie.
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So where is this?
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I'm tempted to say Paignton Zoo, Devon, England...for some reason.
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You shouldn't listen to your temptation - especially when it is totally and irrevocably and 100% correct! :D
I did hope that it would last a bit longer. <:<:<:< &well&
I will have a big think and the next one I post will, I hope, last for 24 hours at least! $uk
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I'm tempted to say Paignton Zoo, Devon, England...for some reason.
I was going to agree too and yet i've not been there or seen another picture of it, strange!
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We must be psychic...well, either that or we read the description on the top of the photo! 8) :P
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I completely missed that!!!!! Bloody fool! >>>
OK have a go at this one.
This gravestone or memorial is erected half in the cemetery and half out of the cemetery so that it could be read from both sides.
Question. Where is it, whose memorial and why were they famous?
Not in Wales but there is a Welsh connection.
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We must be psychic...well, either that or we read the description on the top of the photo! 8) :P
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OK have a go at this one.
This gravestone or memorial is erected half in the cemetery and half out of the cemetery so that it could be read from both sides.
Question. Where is it, whose memorial and why were they famous?
Not in Wales but there is a Welsh connection.
well I can't see a single clue on this one?
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I meant to make this one hard - need more than your thinking caps!
Clue one - Jerry's home is in the right place
Clue two - There is something distinctly fishy about it
Clue three - This is part of the inscription on the stone:
Gwra perthi de taz ha de mam: mal de Dythiow bethewz hyr war an tyr neb an arleth de dew ryes dees.
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It's Dolly Pentraeth who was the last surviving Cornish speaker, I recognised the Cornish language which is very similar to Welsh and it can be seen in Mousehole Cornwall.
In 1860, Prince Lucien Bonaparte visited this locality in order to ascertain what yet remained of the Cornish language; while here, he, in conjunction with the vicar, inserted a small granite obelisk, surmounted with a Maltese cross, in the churchyard wall, inscribed as follows:—
Here lieth interred Dorothy Pentreath, who died in 1778, said to have been the last person who conversed in the ancient Cornish, the peculiar language of this county from the earliest records till it expired in the eighteenth century, in this parish of St. Paul. This stone is erected by the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, in union with the Rev. John Garrett, vicar of St, Paul. June, 1860.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
I believe that Dolly used to charge the tourists 1d when they asked her to say something in Cornish and what she always said can be translated into English as "the cat has peed on the mat"
Exod. xx., 12.
Gwra perthi de taz ha de mam: mal de Dythiow bethewz hyr war an tyr neb an arleth de dew ryes dees.
Exod. xx., 12.
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I thought someone would get it from the third clue! I just wonder how long it would have kept going without any clues. &well&
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.An old railway - but where?
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The original Station at Llandudno Junction, where the flyover is now.
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Was hoping to con you all by putting it in the "out of area " section. Just shows how smart everyone is on this Forum! ZXZ
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Difficulty level on this one I consider Very Difficult! ££$
Who is the subject of this statue and where can it be found. Clue, it is in the UK!
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That is a very difficult one Yorkie, it appears to be a modern day sculpture of someone in the construction industry.
The belt looks like one an electrician has but I've no idea what he is carrying in his left hand.
?{}?
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Could be a spirit level $wales
And yes it is reasonably modern.
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It's the new memorial to Britain's construction workers who have been killed on building sites around the country, and is located opposite Tower Hill Tube station E1.
The inscription on the statue reads: “For the thousands of building workers who have lost their lives at work, we commemorate you. For the thousands of building workers who are today building and rebuilding towns and cities across the United Kingdom, we celebrate you.”
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Well that went a lot quicker than I anticipated, especially when Hugo seemed somewhat perplexed. &well& Trojan!
Next time I will make it REALLY, REALLY difficult. In fact it will be so DIFFICULT, that even I won't know the answer! _))*
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How come you got it so quick Trojan :o You should have been in bed at that time ready for work in the morning and not tapping away on your computer. ;)
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The statue was based on the statue of David by Michaelangelo and this is a popular statue in Los Angeles so there is a connection, but how one leads to the other I don't know! Pschycic!!! )*)&
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How come you got it so quick Trojan :o You should have been in bed at that time ready for work in the morning and not tapping away on your computer. ;)
Insomnia is a terrible thing Hugo. 8)
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What is the name and where is this statue? Trojan or Fester are best bets for this one. ££$
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The Bear and Raven sculpture in Anchorage Alaska?
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Absolutely correct Medz! &well& I just can't win.
My forecasting skills are just as bad as my ability to find something that will fox everyone! _))*
If I remember correctly they served a great pint of beer at the airport whilst one was waiting for the aircraft using the polar route, to refuel. That was some years ago when I would actually drink the occasional beer! Z**
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Where can this be found?
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has unveiled a statue to his predecessor Harold Wilson, but the sculpture omits the former Labour leader's most famous trademark - his pipe.
The eight-foot-tall bronze statue shows Lord Wilson, who won four general elections for Labour, without his pipe at the request of his wife Lady Wilson.
The statue of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, which cost £70,000, stands in St George's Square in his home town of Huddersfield.
Being decended from a Wilson on my Mother's side this was home from home!
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Well done Yorkie, spot on
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Let's play "Through the Keyhole"
Now, whose house is this?
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Is this where you stayed over Christmas Yorkie?
VILLA, NEAR ALBUFEIRA, ON THE ALGARVE: Since 2000, Sir Cliff has spent the summer at his Portuguese retreat, which has its own vineyard. $happy$
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Didn't stay with Cliff as his place is a few miles inland. Used to see him more often when he had his place in Albufeira. As you say he has a vinyard and winery producing a rather (according to others) mediocre brew. Tours to the Winery cost about £7.50 and to buy a bottle somewhat more!
And, of course, you are correct. His house and winery at Guia.
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So where is this house?
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It was on tonight's Antiques Road Trip. Loch Tay in Scotland
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Wrong size photo I'll try again (apologies if I'm going out of turn). Where's this one?
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Paris, France. View of the City from inside a Musee d'Orsay clockface! D)
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Well done Yorkie. Spot on. I thought I might have to show a picture of the famous clock on the gable end of the station
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Where and what is this?
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Looks as though a clue is needed.
It is on the Iberian Peninsular and is of great significance. Built in the early 16th Century on the site of a previous structure.
This grave is in the building. An extra point for naming the person whose remains lie therein.
There is also a strong Indian connection.
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Looks like we need another clue! :rage:
Just have to monkey about with this clue, and think of Hieronymites.
The memorial grave should be explored as a clue is in the illustration.
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Hieronymites Monastery just outside Lisbon - Tomb of Vasco Da Gama gives the Indian connection.(I knew I'd been there but needed a little bit of google to refresh my memory!)
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All correct - well almost. The Indian connection is that the name of the Monastery is Jeronimo's Monastery, a bit subtle! Built in 1502 on the previous site of a Hermitage.
Well done! &well&
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OK - here's a new one. Where is this monster located? And it really is easy peasy!
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It's one of the gargoyles on Notre Dame in Paris
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Told you it was easy. All one had to do was Google gargoyle on images and it is the first one to appear!
Your turn! ZXZ
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What was the significance of this street?
What was the name of the street and where was it located?
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After your posts on the Reading thread, I was tempted to say there might be a Jack the Ripper connection here, Trojan!
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Is it Awkright's shop on Open All Hours?
The exterior shots were in Lister Avenue in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster; the shop itself is a hairdresser's salon.
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The original Coronation Street!
The inspiration for the original Coronation Street set was a street in Salford called Archie Street, which was demolished in 1971. Despite there never having been a church on Coronation Street, and that there was a set built in the Granada TV studios, Archie Street was still used for filming in the very early years. Its used here in 1960 closing credits.
Residents began moving out in 1968 and the street was gone by 1971. The church, St Clement's, is still standing and there is an Archie Street in the area but no longer on the original site.
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Very good Yorkie. The photo in this link shows an old resident with a striking resemblence to Albert Tatlock.
http://prints.paphotos.com/pictures_1352659/archie-street-salford-corrie.html (http://prints.paphotos.com/pictures_1352659/archie-street-salford-corrie.html)
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I haven't watched Corrie since Ena Sharples left! Can't stand the program - prefer Eastenders and even that is rubbish now! Too many fancy and outlandish story lines. L0L
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Easy peasy one again. Who are this pair and for what are they famous?
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Clue 1: Strong connection with SAS
Clue 2: Strong connection with the subject of the picture
Clue 3: They met in a Sanitorium
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Not even a guess yet - maybe everyone is too old!
Clue 4: The three H's - HHH
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In my day the three Hs described an enema--- High, Hot and Hell of a lot.
I diversify !
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Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. $good$
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Clue 1: Strong connection with SAS
Clue 2: Strong connection with the subject of the picture
Clue 3: They met in a Sanitorium
Nice model railway station (no idea of the quiz answer though!)
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Well done Dave!
The Railway Station is not a model it is (was) East Cheam, home of HHH - Hancock's Half Hour. They were also the writers of SAS - Steptoe and Son and much other comedy. Alan is now 80 and Ray 81 and they indeed did meet in a sanitorium in 1948!
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The Railway Station is not a model
it's from John T's model railway pictures
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/305337637DHoCHG (http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/305337637DHoCHG)
it does look very convincing though, it's the road vehicles that give it away, no registration plates D)
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Gosh so it is! And I got it from a straight forward search for East Cheam Railway Station! Certainly convinced me. Thanks Merddin. $thanx$
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Another easy one not that far away.
What and leading to which building (since demolished). What famous person was born there?
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Looks like this one is going nowhere so:-
It is Acton Hall Gates and Gate Lodge in Wrexham. The original house was demolished and has been replaced on the same footprint with a modern building of similar shape but divided into apartments. The dogs surmounting the gate pillars are of special note.
The famous person born there was Judge Jeffries otherwise known as The Hanging Judge.
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Which and Where is this famous landmark and Tourist attraction - not Wales! $eu
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Its made out of Lego isn't it?
The palace d'Coures?
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Not Lego as far as I know. Or at least not when I was last there! _))*
Not Lego Palace d'Coures unfortunately! )*)&
I have now had a look at Lego Miniland and this building is depicted but seems to be listed incorrectly. To save hassle I will tell you that it is The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur, Montmartre, Paris.
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Sacre Coeur, Paris ?
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Correct, but our posts must have crossed whilst I was adding the answer to mine. Bit of a non-event that one!! _))*
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This isn't too far away but what and where is it?
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Looks like the apse in a church-- only a wild guess:- St Mary's Betws-y-Coed?
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looks like a cock pit, no idea where though
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Nemesis has got the Church bit ok but wrong location I'm afraid.
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Llandudno Junction?
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Sorry Bellringer, it's not Llandudno Junction but you're the nearest so far.
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It's only about a mile away from one of the 3 towns and has a tranquil sounding name!
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Does this help?
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Bethes Road, Old Colwyn. It's the old United Reform Church, now some sort of Community Centre, I think.
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Well done Dave, that's the one. The board on the Church says "The Church in the park"
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A long way away from Llandudno
(http://imageupload.org/?di=0129700224013)
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It can't be too cold there in Birmingham's Bullring unless of course it only affects brass monkeys.
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L0L
I of course was expecting and hoping somebody would say Birmingham's Bullring
but you are way off the mark Hugo.
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I'd say it is outside the Customs House in Manhatten, New York City. :D
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Spot on Trojan, Wall Street, Manhatten
and here's what happened when the market collapsed :D
(http://imageupload.org/?di=1112970167903)
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It's in Bowling Green park. They guy who made it left it in front of the Stock Exchange but it got carted off and was moved to its present location.
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That's true Dave
but in the photo It is in Wall Street
so on a technicality you are wrong and Steve is correct L0L
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and here's what happened when the market collapsed
_))*
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That's true Dave
but in the photo It is in Wall Street
so on a technicality you are wrong and Steve is correct L0L
$hands$
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Anyone know where I saw this today ?
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That's true Dave
but in the photo It is in Wall Street
so on a technicality you are wrong and Steve is correct L0L
Sorry but you're both wrong. In the photo, the Bull is situated at the tip of Bowling Green Park, which is on Broadway. It's several blocks south of Wall Street.
Jeez, have neither of you ever been to New York? :laugh:
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It's a wonderful town, the Bronx is up and the Battery's down
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So good they named it twice!
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That's true Dave
but in the photo It is in Wall Street
so on a technicality you are wrong and Steve is correct L0L
Sorry but you're both wrong. In the photo, the Bull is situated at the tip of Bowling Green Park, which is on Broadway. It's several blocks south of Wall Street.
Jeez, have neither of you ever been to New York? :laugh:
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Steve you idiot, I believed you because you lived over there :laugh:
I knew I should have used google maps
Sorry Dave, I owe you a beer
I should have stuck with the Birmingham bull :-[
anyway, both photos have disappeared now so here they are again
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Dare i try again
Where would you find this immense Mosque?
(no it's not Sparkbrook Steve)
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Abu Dhabi ??
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no, sorry
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Anyone know where I saw this today ?
Any answers or are you ignoring this one?
Pic on previous page
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I thought of the old Church on Church Walks but I suspect that would be too obvious!
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No and it isn't a gravestone.
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Dare i try again
Where would you find this immense Mosque?
(no it's not Sparkbrook Steve)
WHO CARES.
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Hey, wait a minute! >>>
When I said the "Charging Bull" (as it's officially called) was opposite the Custom House in Manhatten I was right!
The "Charging Bull" is a statue that sits in front of Bowling Green, at the split of Broadway and State Street.
The statue was installed in December 1989 in front of the New York Stock Exchange by Arturo Di Modica, the artist. The police impounded the statue, since it was not installed with the permission of the city. Public outcry of the impoundment led to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to install it at its current location.
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Looking across Bowling Green at the U.S. Custom House. Bowling Green is named because it was once used as a grassy lawn for lawn bowling in colonial times. Bowling Green is the oldest existing public park in New York City.
The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is located on Bowling Green, and was built in 1907. The Custom House is now the home of a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern Division of New York. The fence surrounding Bowling Green, to the left, was installed in 1771 to protect a statue of King George III from vandalization.
The Custom House sits on the land that colonists first settled on the island, in 1624. A fort was built on this site in the early 1600s.
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Oh, and another thing.. when Robert from Birmingham said the bull was on Wall St, he was right too, as Wall St is often referred to as the financial district.
Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull)
Being an avid stock market investor, I thought you would have known this Dave.
You owe both myself and Bob a beer. $drink$
$hands$
$happy$
Come to think of it, Bobby called me an idiot, so I'll have his beer! Z**
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Dare i try again
Where would you find this immense Mosque?
(no it's not Sparkbrook Steve)
WHO CARES.
You must be Church of England then Fester? :cyclist40:
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And another thing, no one deserves a beer when they butt in front of Nemesis like that.
Let's take a look at Nemesis' photo again:
Where did she see this cross?
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In the grounds of this Mosque Nemesis? :D
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Anyone know where I saw this today ?
Any answers or are you ignoring this one?
Pic on previous page
how did this get overlooked?
sorry Nemesis, don't get CROSS
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I don't get cross-- Karma --Just remember who Nemesis is !! If you don't know Google her !
And no, not so far afield.
Clue:-?
The place near ir was built in 1673
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Trojan, you're >?>?? here.
In your original answer, you said:
"I'd say it is outside the Customs House in Manhatten, New York City"
It's not. The Customs House is at the other end of Bowling Green Park, almost a block further south from the northern tip, where the Charging Bull is located. As you say, it's at the split of Broadway and State Street. But that location is most certainly not Wall Street (either the road itself or the area referred to as the financial district), it's Broadway or Bowling Green.
Make that two beers you owe me. $hands$
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All these beers!
When you exchange them.... can I come?
Don't worry I'll buy my own.
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And another thing, no one deserves a beer when they butt in front of Nemesis like that.
Let's take a look at Nemesis' photo again:
Where did she see this cross?
Is it near Gwydr Chapel in Llanrwst?
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Can you be a bit more specific Hugo?
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Something to do with Gwydir Castle possibly?
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Sorry no-- try higher
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I should have said Gwydir Uchaf Chapel but I can't remember seeing that stone when I was there or what it was for. It was Built by Sir Richard Wynn in 1673.
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Did you knock it off here Nemesis :D
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I should have said Gwydir Uchaf Chapel but I can't remember seeing that stone when I was there or what it was for. It was Built by Sir Richard Wynn in 1673.
Spot on Hugo-- it is on the ground, at a strange angle, at the edge of the chapel, at the front,
No idea where it came from or why it is there, but doesn't look as though it was actually placed there.
And no BB not from there
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All these beers!
When you exchange them.... can I come?
Don't worry I'll buy my own.
It's opposite the Custom House as you can see in these photos!
(When I said outside I meant opposite for crying out loud)
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(When I said outside I meant opposite for crying out loud)
Really?! :D
It's ok, mate, I can see the Customs House.....in the distance.
:P
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(When I said outside I meant opposite for crying out loud)
Really?! :D
It's ok, mate, I can see the Customs House.....in the distance.
:P
Just be glad I'm not among that bunch of cuties on quiz night in the Kings Head!
It was cuties wasn't it Fester?
:twoface:
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The quizmistress was a cutie, certainly. ;)
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(When I said outside I meant opposite for crying out loud)
Really?! :D
It's ok, mate, I can see the Customs House.....in the distance.
:P
Just be glad I'm not among that bunch of cuties on quiz night in the Kings Head!
It was cuties wasn't it Fester?
:twoface:
It was something beginning with C, wasn't it Dave? L0L L0L L0L :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ZXZ ZXZ ZXZ
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(When I said outside I meant opposite for crying out loud)
Really?! :D
It's ok, mate, I can see the Customs House.....in the distance.
:P
Just be glad I'm not among that bunch of cuties on quiz night in the Kings Head!
It was cuties wasn't it Fester?
:twoface:
It was something beginning with C, wasn't it Dave? L0L L0L L0L :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ZXZ ZXZ ZXZ
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A disused railway track not too far away, but where?
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If you've seen these then you are on the right track! $wales
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Is it the disused branch railway line at Dyserth?
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Yes, that's the one. &well&
It's the Prestatyn to Dyserth line that was a passenger route as well as for transporting rock from Dyserth quarry. I think the line closed about 1973 although the quarry continued to work after that time.
When I lived in the village they used too much powder one day and sent rocks up in the air which landed up to half a mile away. In fact one rock went through my neighbours roof! :(
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Colourful architecture - but where?
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Have you been on your hols again Yorkie? I don't know what it is but I'll have a pop at Albufeira. ???
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Well you're right on both counts, but where specifically in Albufeira?
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The Marina
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I'll second that Brumbob. D)
Albufeira marina is on the western outskirts of the town - you can't really miss it as all the buildings and apartments are painted in blue, pink, orange, green and yellow squares! There are rows of shops along the road behind the marina and some bars and restaurants along the marina itself. It is a brilliant place to spend an afternoon, have a drink or a meal, or just sit in the sun and watch the boats and people strolling by. If you go for nothing else, go to see the amazing colours of the buildings! There are also some interesting dolphin statues raised on poles along the marina walkway and each has been individually decorated with a different design.
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The Marina is correct, except that it is the dead hole of Albufeira! A complete white elephant! The day I took the picture the wife and I were the only people in the road and sat alone in the only cafe. It is now full of empty shops awating new owners. Like many Marinas it is full of loads of expensive floating plastic that never goes anywhere. They can't even let the Flats and Apartments in the Summer at daft uneconomic rates. The bright colours will, I'm afraid, deteriorate in time. Z**
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Another Albufeira quest! It is very difficult.
What Horse and famous person are associated with this old cottage on the cliff-top overlooking the beach and sea?
DaveR - this one is right up your street!
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A clue - there is also an association with a well known agent. So we now need three answers:-
The Horse - The Person - The Agent The year 1963 may help!
HP is a non-saucy clue!
The address is 13 Praca Miguel Bombarda which won't help one iota!
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Dave, just don't rise to this,,,,
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Seems that I will have to let you out of your misery ( not that you will be miserable) and produce the answer.
The Horse (heroin) is "Under Water" - The Person is Len Deighton - The Agent is Harry Palmer (HP)
This is the Cottage where Len Deighton conceived and (apparently) wrote Horse Under Water. The novel is set in 1960, mostly in a small fishing village in Portugal (Albufeira), which was then a dictatorship led by António de Oliveira Salazar.
In common with several of Deighton's other early novels, the chapter headings have a "feature". In Horse Under Water these are crossword puzzle clues, reflecting the protagonist's habit of endlessly writing and replacing words in crossword puzzles.
The first edition of Horse Under Water published by Jonathan Cape was shorter than the later Penguin edition, which included a detailed description of the anonymous British agent's diving course, and also introduced characters later seen in the book, such as Chief Petty Officer Edwardes.
The plot centres on retrieving items from a Type XXI U-boat sunk off the Portuguese coast in the last days of World War II. Initially, the items are forged British and American currency, for financing a revolution in Portugal on the cheap. Later, it switches to heroin (the "Horse" of the title), and eventually it is revealed that the true interest is in the "Weiss list" — a list of Britons prepared to help the Third Reich set up a puppet government in Britain, should Germany prevail. Thrown into the mix is secret "ice melting" technology, which could be vital to the missile submarines then beginning to hide under the Arctic sea ice.
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oh yeah, of course ?{}?
so where does 1963 fit in ???
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Publication date of book! Q.E.D.
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is this some of that shakespeare stuff?
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Was Shakespeare around in the 1960's :roll: :D
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Was Shakespeare around in the 1960's :roll: :D
Yes I saw his house, out Stratford upon Avon way :laugh:
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Where would you see this? It's not in the three towns but is fairly near to them!
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is this some of that shakespeare stuff?
Don't think so but maybe you can tell me! ZXZ
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is this some of that shakespeare stuff?
Don't think so but maybe you can tell me! ZXZ
when we have the forum meet ZXZ I never or almost never read fiction, so totally baffled by it _))*
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There is a lot of fact in Skakey's stuff, in fact it is a good way to learn history! $uk
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Where would you see this? It's not in the three towns but is fairly near to them!
It's on Tan Y Bryn Road in Rhos On Sea.
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Here's one for you from a visit we made earlier this year:
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Standing Stones at Avebury, Wiltshire
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&well&
Yes spot on:
Avebury is the site of an ancient monument consisting of a large henge, several stone circles, stone avenues and barrows, surrounding the village of Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is one of the finest and largest Neolithic monuments in Europe, about 5,000 years old
Goodness knows who allowed a main road to be built right through the middle of it, and a village which has used some of the stone in their buildings: Obviously a dodgy Planning Committee!
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Having come from dahn sahf, I have travelled past Avebury on many occasion so it was not so difficult for me. I just had to do a quick check due to the angle of your photo. Bring on another challenge! )*)&
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OK, I obviously need something more challanging.
Another recent trip
Where is this?
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This is just a guess, is it St David's in Pembrokeshire?
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No sorry
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I seem to recognise it as Mullion Cove Harbour in Cornwall.
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Yorkie your spot on again.
Kirsty's Parents and one her sisters and family live in Mullion.
The picture was taken on New Years Day.
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I obviously need to go further afied
I'm sure this will not be diffcult but , which is this mountain?
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Gonna take a stab at Harris Mountains, New Zealand although they could be anywhere.
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No not New Zealand, not that far a field, somewhat closer.
It is one mountain's name I'm after, the highest in the photo.
Not been up it myself, but we did take this photo a couple of years ago.
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I'll have another stab at Mont Blanc $eu
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That's correct Yorkie.
A bit unfair as the weren't any distinquishes features in the photo.
Photo taken from Cable Car station above Les Get
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Must confess I am a bit surprised but hoped my efforts would be rewarding! $uk
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Where is this lighthouse? The second picture also has some significance. An extra point for what it is about.
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You are obsessed by Portugal man!
Its the Cape St Vincent Lighhouse, in the Algarve.....
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Fester beat me to it: so I'll go for the extra point:
Admiral Jervis with Commodore Nelson defeated the Spanish fleet in 1797 at a second Battle of Cape St. Vincent on 14 February 1797.
A bit more detail on the actual painting:
Battle of Cape St. Vincent - Admiral Nelson boarding the San Josef and receiving the Spanish Admiral's sword. The naval Battle of Cape St. Vincent took place on February 14, 1797, near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal, between a British fleet and a Spanish fleet and was an important battle during the Wars of the French Revolution.
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Looks like one point each! Didn't think it looked Portuguese, could be anywhere, like a mountain! _))*
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An easy Uk one for you.
Where and what is this unusual display?
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Clue it is in a London Borough. And is only part of a vast collection.
Here is the Building and another clue.
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Is this anything to do with Darwin?
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No is the best answer.
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The Cuming Museum, Walworth Road, Elephant & Castle, SE 17, London Borough of Southwark my old china.
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Well done Mucker! A fascinating collection and well worth a visit! ¢¢##
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An unusual picture of a famous person, but who?
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Madonna?
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Not Madonna a bit before her time.
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Jane Russell?
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Not Jane either!
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Diana Dors?
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Nor Miss Fluck as was Diana's real surname
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Marilyn Monroe ?
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It is indeed Norma Jeane Mortenson, otherwise known as Marilyn Monroe. Well done Quiggs, not an easy one as the photo does not look like her. $wales
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doh, thought it was going to be somebody you didn't expect like maggie thatcher :laugh:
was also looking forward to some more Ted Roger 321 type clues that Yorkie is infamous for _))*
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where and what is this ? (in Great Britain)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/AustinRover/March%202011/3431276899_55d447ec82.jpg)
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The remains of the first steam pumping beam engine, to pump water out of the mine. I can't remember it's location.
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The remains of the first steam pumping beam engine, to pump water out of the mine. I can't remember it's location.
A lot of them used mainly in Cornwall..
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this one is within an hours drive of Llandudno
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Nearer than Cornwall then? _))*
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Nearer than Cornwall then? _))*
depends how fast you can drive! L0L
Although it is a Cornish beam engine, used to pump water.
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I'm sure this picture has been posted before on the forum (or Dave's flickr) I've certainly seen it recently
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Dorothea Slate Quarry
http://v7.lscache3.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/9474527.jpg (http://v7.lscache3.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/9474527.jpg)
this is a giant pic if you click it
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well done, that's the one!
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/665954 (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/665954)
well worth a visit!
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Another famous person - but who?
(Sorry for double posting - didn't go through the first time - B****y server)
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they look like twins _))*
edit, just the one now and I've no idea who it is (I've also had problems with the sometimes slow broadband here :rage: ) :)
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I take it it's a boy?
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Affirmative
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OMG the poor mite has had a lousy haircut !
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OMG the poor mite has had a lousy haircut !
There are some of us who would love hair like that!
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I am surprised - this is a particularly well known photograph of this person - I thought it would be guessed immediately!
Have another look and think politically!
Born in the same year as Fannie Hurst, American novelist.
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Mo Mowlem?
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Winston Churchill
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I am going to be kind. You are close with Churchill. The person wanted was also an ex-Chancellor, but there are lots to choose from!
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Kenneth Clarke
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Adolf Hitler
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yes, you are right I think, I just found the pic on google
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I just checked the birth dates and they were both born in 1889.
I have to admit when it first came up I though it was him because of the hair, but returning this evening and seeing the other coments and the Winston Churchill/ex-Chancellor clue, I was more confident with my guess
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of course
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obvious now! :laugh:
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Well done - congratulations on the "joint" effort! This photo is often shown when the German Chancellor is shown on TV etc. and it was on not so long ago. I thought it may have been answered earlier by a sharp eyed Forum Member!
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Where is this clock?
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Chester. Eastgate
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Dead correct! $uk
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Where will you find this building?
$wales
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I'll take my usual rough stab at Porthmadog or thereabouts!
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nah, looks nothing like it, it's too bright :laugh:
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It's not Porthmadog and whereabouts is too vague so what's the place called where the building is?
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All I can tell you is that it is a small church by the beach Most Holy Redeemer, Borth Road.
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wrong church but not a million miles away Yorkie
Borth-y-Gest
If you walk along the waters edge – past the car park, and up on the foot path, you will arrive at a spectacular viewing point – with views of the mountains to your left, Portmerion across the water in front of you, Harlech castle to your right, and finally the estuary heading out to the powder house – the picture is the old church (which would be behind you at this viewing point.
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Ah - well it all becomes clear at last. ZXZ
I got the right picture which unfortunately was not correctly labelled.
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Where would you find this commemorative cross?
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Apart from the inscription I would be inclined to say Monte Casino, but it does look like a copy of it.
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It is in North Wales
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This one has got me beat I think. Maybe another hint would help! )*)&
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is it the Polish camp just outside Pwllheli ? they have good car boot sales there in the summer!
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Spot on Andy D)
The commemorative cross stands outside the chapel in Penrhos. Erected over 60 years ago, the cross itself is made from the wing-spars of a Wellington bomber.
Penrhos, a former WW2 Royal Air Force base, has been home to Poles since the end of the war, when it became a resettlement camp. It is still home to many elderly Poles; many more have ended their days in this corner of North Wales.
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Very interesting - will do a bit more research and have a look at it. I wonder if they do Pole dancing? Z**
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We've been there a few times for car boot sales on sunny summer days and it has a very pleasant peaceful feeling there.
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many more have ended their days in this corner of North Wales.
Many more are now continuing the tradition. 8)
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Back to the game -
What name and where is this Church?
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Wales ?
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$wales Yes! Not in the Three Towns though. $wales
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It's dahn in the Sahf, if that's any help.
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It's dahn in the Sahf, if that's any help.
Yes it is boyo, St Cattwg's Church Port Eynon.
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Well done Trojan! Thought it was going to be there for a while! $wales
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So where is this. Not UK.
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South Africa
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Looks like Cape town in South Africa
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or Llandudno S.A.
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Looks like Cape town in South Africa
The give away is table mountain in the background. Well done Hugo! $wales
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Where is this...its in the North Wales area:
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I may be mad but I think it may be part of the Old Denbigh Hospital. Z**
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I'm afraid not. It's actually on the coastline of Anglesey...but where?
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Beaumaris, park on the car park opposite the castle and head north along the coast.
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Beaumaris, park on the car park opposite the castle and head north along the coast.
Kirsty(the better half) said she thought it used to be an Aquarium
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Correct! It was an Aquarium up until a few years ago, when it was closed and abandoned. Vandals have destroyed most of it since.
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This has got to be one of the most difficult images to guess that we have had for a long time. ;D
Which European City is this in and where in that city can it be found?
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Is that the one in Prague?
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The car looks like a Trabant, Dave is correct, it's the German Embassy in Prague
Quo Vadis sculpture, a Trabant on Legs (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianpressphotography/4687442927/#)
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Well, I am absolutely amazed. The wealth of knowledge in this Forum should be exploited for the improvement of mankind!
Well done both!
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Now if someone gets this in under a few minutes, I will begin to think that there is some subterfuge going on! _))*
What and where?
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I'm guessing somewhere in North America, Yellowstone park?
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Sorry - not right this time! D)
And it is not New Zealand either!
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New Zealand?
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New Zealand?
Sorry - not right this time!
And it is not New Zealand either!
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Yosemite! and Grande Capitan ?
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And what was the name of the Bear? Yep, your right again!
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Bah Humbug, just beat me too it! I was recently there too!
The river is the Merced, and the mountain to the left is called El Capitan - it's a 3000ft sheer cliff.
Here it is in winter.
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Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkBVDh7my9Q#)
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For Christ's sake, Scotty......beam him up! >:(
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Where's this then?
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Top of a building on a sunny day.
Burj Khalifa's spire - Dubai
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Empire State Building
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Empire State Building
Yes! :)
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Where is this road junction?
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Is it that crazy approach to Swindon? (Although I think THAT has actually SEVEN roundabouts)
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Is it that crazy approach to Swindon? (Although I think THAT has actually SEVEN roundabouts)
I think Fester's got it. It's known as the "Magic roundabout" isn't it?
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Is it that crazy approach to Swindon? (Although I think THAT has actually SEVEN roundabouts)
I think Fester's got it. It's known as the "Magic roundabout" isn't it?
It certainly is. :)
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A scene from the 1930's, not far from the Three Town's, but what and where?
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Looks like a slate mine, I'll go for Llechwedd at Blaenau Ffestiniog
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My usual stab in the dark says:
Entrance of conveyor tunnel in Llysfaen Quarry $wales
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Constructing the tunnel in Penmaenmawr.
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Constructing the tunnel in Penmaenmawr.
Yes, &well& it's the construction of the Pen-y-Clip tunnel in 1932.
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Where and what is this?
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Could it be part of the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, by any chance? ;)
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It is exactly that. Great stuff! Z**
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I suspect the photo being called petra.jpg might have given the game away somewhat..... L0L
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Just checking that folk are still awake! Forgot to change it before I posted! :rage:
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Where is this building and for what is it famous?
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Spain ?
Is that Dennis the Menace just 'entere'ing the building :laugh:
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Not Espana! But is European $eu
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Clue time- the writing on the side contains the word "pottery"
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Looks like a Dutch property, could it be Delft pottery?
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I shouldn't have given you the clue! Making things a bit too easy. Yes right again Hugo! $walesflag$
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Funny way for the Dutch to spell 'enter'
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It is actually "Entrance" which in Dutch is "ingang", in German "eingang" and French (or Belgian) "entree", and should not to be confused with the main course of a meal!
The Dutch know the place so don't need signs and the use of French (and English on the other side) makes it more welcoming for "Foreigners". Next time I'm there I'll see if they can also include "fynedfa" for the Welsh.
$walesflag$
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It is actually "Entrance" which in Dutch is "ingang", in German "eingang" and French (or Belgian) "entree", and should not to be confused with the main course of a meal!
The Dutch know the place so don't need signs and the use of French (and English on the other side) makes it more welcoming for "Foreigners".
Now I know where it is, I can see in a bigger picture it does indeed spell 'entree' (on all 3 sides)
in your smaller picture I thought it said 'entere' hence my guess at Spain
interestingly:
The name Delft on a piece of pottery does not mean that it is actually genuine Delftware. Delft is a cityname and therefore not protected, so this name may be used all over the world.
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Just to keep the old grey matter working, where is this and I expect the answer very quickly.
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Betws Y Coed, at last one I get <:<:<:<
I never go abroad so I never know the foreign ones :( L0L
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Don't be so quick to congratulate yourself, there are often some trick questions on this thread! But, CONGRATULATIONS, you are correct! &well&
I thought that Betws Y Coed was abroad - I always take my Passport when I go there! L0L
Pop a question on yourself Merddin, then you can watch us all struggle whilst you can gloat in the fact that you KNOW the answer! _))*
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I thought that Betws Y Coed was abroad - I always take my Passport when I go there! L0L
I sometimes go to England, that now feels like abroad L0L $walesflag$
even though I was born there! L0L
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England...me too, but it always seems to be for funerals these days.
England is a very over-rated place.
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England is no longer England
Idyllic visions of it being like 'Heartbeat' unfortunately went years ago :(
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Not in the Three Towns. Where and what is this and why is it famous?
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It's the Bloody Tower--Tower of London where in 1483 the Duke of Gloucester imprisioned his two nephews
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This is better than any Geography or History lesson! Quite right... $walesflag$
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It's the Bloody Tower--Tower of London where in 1483 the Duke of Gloucester imprisioned his two nephews
....and (allegedy) had them murdered!
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This building has two addresses can you name them?
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Eh??? Yorkie... where did the paddle boat question disappear to? You been tinkering?
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It had the name of the boat and Town on the stern! Would have been a bit too easy! _))*
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You tease.... Well I didn't see it.
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I think we need a clue Yorkie. It looks familar but can't place it
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Difficult to give a clue as any clue would probably lead directly to the answer. Let me just say that it's dahn shaf! That is sahf of Brummigem at least.
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It looks like a Town Hall or Government Building of some kind. As there is only one flag flying it would suggest it is England rather than Wales. The dual address is intriguing though.
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I suddenly feel less interested in posting so I will let you out of your misery.
The Building is Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington and his descendants, stands right in the heart of London at Hyde Park Corner.
It is (was) also known as Number 1, London. So there you have it.
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This building lies nowf (north) of Brummigem and has two addresses.
What's the name of the building and what are the addresses?
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Beetham Tower, Manchester despite the photo being labelled Glasgow. _))*
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Beetham Tower, Manchester despite the photo being labelled Glasgow. _))*
I was trying to throw you off the scent. :rage:
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It looks like an eyesore when you get close to it... different curtains, washing hanging out ... it looks like a hurricane has hit it.
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The second part of the question that Yorkie missed:
The tower lies on Deansgate and has two postal addresses, with the apartments falling under 301 Deansgate and the hotel under 303 Deansgate. Widely referred to as Beetham Tower, it is also known colloquially as the Hilton Tower due to the corporate logos placed on the 24th storey, on each side of the building.
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Where will you find this unusual bridge - or is it a bridge?
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The Bridge of Aspiration, Floral Street, Covent Garden, London WC2
http://www.burohappold.com/BH/PRJ_INF_bridge_of_aspiration.aspx (http://www.burohappold.com/BH/PRJ_INF_bridge_of_aspiration.aspx)
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I'm gonna have to start putting some really difficult ones on! Well done Mr T. ZXZ
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I'm gonna have to start putting some really difficult ones on! Well done Mr T. ZXZ
<:>
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What is this posts specific purpose and where would you find it?
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Something to do with the City of London?
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I gotta say a big "Yes" to that - but there was also a big clue! ZXZ
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Coal and Wine Tax Posts
The mark locations around London where tax had to be paid for goods coming into the city.
http://www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4269-coal-tax-post-in-london.html (http://www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4269-coal-tax-post-in-london.html)
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Brilliant. Just can't beat you Guys and Gals. Well done JasonW. Z** Z** Z**
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A new theme - who is this person pictured when they were much younger.
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Tony Blair?
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Too easy, obviously! Well done.
Here is another. Which Film is this scene from? 1950's
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12 Angry Men?
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You're giving away your age now! I'll have to find something that people don't know! &well&
Which Stadium is this?
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You're giving away your age now! I'll have to find something that people don't know! &well&
I'm a sixties child Yorkie so it's much older than Me. A fantastic film.
Was it Hitchcock?
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I don't think it was Hichcock but certainly a great film and one that is always remembered. Probably loads of info on the Internet. ££$
Available on video in 10 parts on youtube
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The football ground... I've been there, half a dozen times (an easy trip from Hull on the Ferry) .... Its Ajax in Amsterdam
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The football ground... I've been there, half a dozen times (an easy trip from Hull on the Ferry) .... Its Ajax in Amsterdam
He who "doesn't like football" ???
Don't tell me.....Motorhead were playing there. :D
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The football ground... I've been there, half a dozen times (an easy trip from Hull on the Ferry) .... Its Ajax in Amsterdam
Absolutely correct, and I bet you didn't even wander near the red light district or visit a cafe for a coffee and a "puff"! L0L
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Here is a poser. This ship was so big they had to build the prow in the street.
Question, Which Street, Which Town, Which Ship. All three answers required for the points!
The cars give the date as a clue!
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The football ground... I've been there, half a dozen times (an easy trip from Hull on the Ferry) .... Its Ajax in Amsterdam
He who "doesn't like football" ???
Don't tell me.....Motorhead were playing there. :D
What? I adore football ... I played thousands of games of it...despite being the worst footballer ever.
This is why my knees are now completely wrecked!
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Here is a poser. This ship was so big they had to build the prow in the street.
Question, Which Street, Which Town, Which Ship. All three answers required for the points!
The cars give the date as a clue!
The Street - Leslie Street.
The Town - Wallsend, Tyneside.
The Ship - The Esso Norhumbria "The big' un" (the largest vessel to have been built in Britain at that time. Its tonnage was 253,000 tonnes and its length was 1,350 ft.)
The date - 1969.
The shipyard - Swan Hunter.
Leslie Street together with neighbouring streets, Hunter Street, Davis Street, Gerald Street and Camp Road are now demolished allowing for the excavations of the Roman Fort Segedunum.
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You're just too clever for me. It was a fantastic sight and I was able to go to the launch as I had supplied some of the cranes for the construction. $good$
I'll have to get something really difficult next! >>>
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that was a big ship,but only a puddle jumper compared to the vessel that left kishorn in 1978,the ninian central platform,it had six tugs at the front pulling her and didnt start to move for the first twenty minutes.it has been out in the north sea for thirty years and could be de-ballasted and moved making it the largest floating vessel made in the uk.i know cos i was there.
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Interesting, and do you know that I sold the Tower Cranes to Howard Doris who built it! They were made at the factory in Killarney, Ireland and shipped direct to Loch Kishorn as there were inadequate roads from the nearest dock which was Leith in Edinburgh, miles away.
There is a great video here:
http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=5973 (http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=5973)
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At about the 4th attempt-- which church? Not far, but not in the three towns
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Don't know the name but is it the one on the right on the road from The Groes Inn to Rowen. Can't find the name anywhere.
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Llangelynin ;D
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Sorry for the delay-- escaped out for a day!
You are right-- in a way-- the church is actually called Llangelynin New Church built in 1839-- My interest in the place was aroused when I read about the Rowen Murders in Christopher Draper's book Walks in the Conwy Valley.
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Is that the name of the one I suggested or another one? Z**
(You have to go back a page!)
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Yes that's the one, sorry Yorkie.
Hadn't much time as I was on my way to a meeting, but the wild flowers were phenomenal--like a carpet.I just shot out of the car and took a few quick pics.
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I stopped there the last time I went down to Rowen but couldn't find a decent shot. I believe that it is now a private property and has presumably been de-consecrated, although the graveyard has been preserved.
Glad that I know the name now! :D
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This will be dead easy for some and terribly hard for others.
Where is it? What is it? What is happening? ££$
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Is it Llandudno, New asda refit?
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No it's out of area - see heading! ;D
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Clue - This one is dahn sahf but it was all worth it in the end.
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The old Woolworths store in Didcot Oxfordshire being refitted to open as Alworths.
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Near enough! The picture is actually Croydon. &well&
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I picked Didcot because it was the first one to open. I knew the Croydon Woolworths well, used to work opposite it in the late 70's.
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Nemesis,
The grave of Jesse Roberts who was murdered in Rowen, 2 May 1853, is located at Llangelynin New Church. My great grandfather John Sloane was a witness at the trial.
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This Famous Golf Course has this Industrial backdrop. Which one?
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Carnoustie Golf Links. Take the train to Golf Street! 8)
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Right! Yet again! Must tell me your secret. Z**
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Nemesis,
The grave of Jesse Roberts who was murdered in Rowen, 2 May 1853, is located at Llangelynin New Church. My great grandfather John Sloane was a witness at the trial.
Thanks for the pic.--I intend going down there when I have time to spare.
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I intend going down there when I have time to spare.
Have you bought a plot there? ?{}?
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Where will you find this eagle?
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Chrysler Building, New York
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Trojan said: Where will you find this eagle?
That ain't no Eagle - THIS is an Eagle.
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I intend going down there when I have time to spare.
Have you bought a plot there? ?{}?
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Ohh I do like that-- very apt !
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Chrysler Building, New York
Yes, 42nd & Lexington Ave if I remember correctly. :)
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Where will you find this railway?
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I'll take a guess and say San Francisco?
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Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California
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Yes! :D
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Another uplifting transport solution, but where?
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Charles de Gaulle Airport
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Not an Airport, and there is something special about it. ££$
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London-- the longest escalator ?
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Not London
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Wheaton Station, Washington DC Metro
Longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere
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Well done Jason. Not an easy one as it could have been anywhere. Just pleased that it managed to last a day or so. ZXZ
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A new one and maybe not too easy for "some" people. Where is this Post office?
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Ponyntzfield Post Office, in Inverness, Scotland
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Ponyntzfield Post Office, in Inverness, Scotland
Correct.
However, the photo is from the Telegraph and may be infringing on copyright.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-mail/8359930/Blow-to-Post-Office-giro-cheques-scrapped-for-250000.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-mail/8359930/Blow-to-Post-Office-giro-cheques-scrapped-for-250000.html)
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Absolutely correct! And if I could delete or modify the post now, I could get the image off before anyone discovered it! WWW
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Absolutely correct! And if I could delete or modify the post now, I could get the image off before anyone discovered it! WWW
Too late, there's a lawyer on his way up from London. ;D
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I also understand that the agent of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci is on his way to complain about the bastardising of his Gioconda! :D
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I also understand that the agent of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci is on his way to complain about the bastardising of his Gioconda! :D
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Where and what is the name of this al fresco grill and bar?
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Ah, good place for Californian cuisine.
It's the Sunset Grill & Bar overlooking the Bosphorous in Istanbul, Turkey.
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The bridge gives it away. My Son was in there a few hours ago. He went to see the Turkish Grand Prix.
Great stuff T that's another pint. I need to get my own back so you must post a poser! ZXZ
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Where is this?
What's the bridge called and what is the name of the vessel moored nearby?
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I'll have a "rough" stab at this one.
I am almost certain that it is the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles and the ship moored nearby is the S S Lane Victory.
Sorry it took me so long but I bin out an dun my shopping! :laugh:
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I think you could be right Yorkie with the bridge and the ship. $good$
San Pedro California (LA Basin)
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Yes, well done. $good$
Incidently, the crane operators who work at the port of Los Angeles, loading and unloading the container ships are among the highest paid blue collar workers in the US.
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Incidently, the crane operators who work at the port of Los Angeles, loading and unloading the container ships are among the highest paid blue collar workers in the US.
Not surprised at high wages - efficiency and productivity at container ports is of prime importance and every second the machines are not lifting or placing is lost money.
I was wondering what make the Container cranes were - Liebherr maybe? ZXZ
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Incidently, the crane operators who work at the port of Los Angeles, loading and unloading the container ships are among the highest paid blue collar workers in the US.
Not surprised at high wages - efficiency and productivity at container ports is of prime importance and every second the machines are not lifting or placing is lost money.
I was wondering what make the Container cranes were - Liebherr maybe? ZXZ
There's quite a variation of cranes.
Paceco-Itsu, Mitsubishi, Noell, Hitachi, ZPMC, Metsui and ISI.
http://www.metrans.org/research/final/Final%20report%20AR%2006-06.pdf (http://www.metrans.org/research/final/Final%20report%20AR%2006-06.pdf)
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Does anyone recognise this dangerous weapon and can name it and tell its present purpose?
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Looks like a shillelagh
Modern usage--carried by certain troops as a badge of office
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The Jeweled Shillelagh for the annual winner of the college football game between the University of Southern California Trojans and the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
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The Medz is right - and I thought Trojan would be the first up with the answer! &well&
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Where is this and what is it's significance?
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Is the the recent incident that took place on the day known in Japan as Northern Territories Day, with the Japanese activists insulting the Russian state flag?
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I should know this! But It soesn't ring a bell,
Is it last year when the Chinese embassy mistakenly flew the soviet flag for visitors instead of the norweigan one?
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It's the symbol for the Communist Party which was the only Poltical Party that I got more votes than in last weeks election. :'( :'(
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It's the symbol for the Communist Party which was the only Poltical Party that I got more votes than in last weeks election. :'( :'(
It's the flag of the USSR
from this angle though I can't see if it's the one from 23 to 55 or 80 to 91
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A clue. It's in Western Europe but only just.
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Sorry to say, for me, it might just as well be on the Moon! All I can see in it, is the Red Flag hanging above a Thai Sushi Bar, it says nothing else. I gotta give up unless I happen on something by chance. Z**
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There could be a Cabaret or a doughnut in the Sushi bar!
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There could be a Cabaret or a doughnut in the Sushi bar!
Berlin? I know the famous image of that flag being flown over the Reichstag in 1945. But that doesn't look anything like this.So I'm a bit confused. ???
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This is the pic of EUGENY KHALDEI the Soviet soldier who hoisted the flag over the Reichstag.
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Cryptically where Pink Floyd might check out Roald Dahl.
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Is it the Karl Marx Alley near the Berlin Wall? That's the only thing I can think of with Pink Floyd.
Dahl I have no idea!
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Cryptically where Pink Floyd might check out Roald Dahl.
It must be The Berlin Wall, with a hole in it...stuffed by a Giant Peach, just outside Willy Wonka's factory ! L0L
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not too far off with the Willie Wonka reference. You might need to check that point!!!!
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OK Charlie...I've Checked that Point...
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The last soviet flag to fly over the Kremlin is displayed on the wall outside the Checkpoint Charlie museum in Berlin
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You beat us all with that one, Medz.
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You beat us all with that one, Medz.
Was a good 'un though. :)
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The Medz is right - and I thought Trojan would be the first up with the answer! &well&
Na, the Millwall Brick is more up my street. 8)
http://martialhistory.com/2007/07/paper-bludgeon-the-millwall-brick/ (http://martialhistory.com/2007/07/paper-bludgeon-the-millwall-brick/)
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What on earth is this and where will you find it?
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The machine on the left is probably used to raise and lower the large yellow block which would seem to fit snuggly on the ground level base. Despite the use of hydraulic power the lifting machine seems rather puny therefore I imagine the block is quite light and possibly made of expanded foam or some such material. It appears to be a cover for some other machinery, maybe to keep it at a certain temperature.
Other than that I haven't clue what it is or where it may be located, so I'm giving up early on this one, unless of course, by a stroke of luck I get some inspiration! _))*
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Is it some form of earthquake engineering under a building in San Francisco?
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Going from TheMedz, I would suggest that it is a Common Pendulum Seismograph placed in the Empire State Building or some other such large edifice. Z**
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Despite the use of hydraulic power the lifting machine seems rather puny therefore I imagine the block is quite light and possibly made of expanded foam or some such material.
It's actually made of concrete and weighs 400 tons. :D
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Going from TheMedz, I would suggest that it is a Common Pendulum Seismograph placed in the Empire State Building or some other such large edifice. Z**
No, it's not a seismograph and it's not in the Empire State Building, however it's not far from 34th & 5fth.
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Something to do with the University, perhaps? It's just down the road, isnt it?
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Something to do with the University, perhaps? It's just down the road, isnt it?
No, nothing to do with the University. Maybe you can be swayed to provide the correct answer? 8)
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Citigroup Centrer (formally Citicorp Center) , New York
"Some buildings already use advanced wind-compensating dampers. The Citicorp Center in New York, for example, uses a tuned mass damper. In this complex system, oil hydraulic systems push a 400-ton concrete weight back and forth on one of the top floors, shifting the weight of the entire building from side to side. A sophisticated computer system carefully monitors how the wind is shifting the building and moves the weight accordingly. Some similar systems shift the building's weight based on the movement of giant pendulums."
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Yes! &well&
You should try running for New York's Mayor Jason. :D
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You should try running for New York's Mayor Jason. :D
$good$ Now there's an idea :laugh:
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Another one from the family photo archives. Where is this and how is it driven?
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In Gastown, Vancouver, BC
Powered by Gas! There is also a steam powered clock in the same town but this seems to have a gas cylinder in the base.
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In Gastown, Vancouver, BC
Powered by Gas! There is also a steam powered clock in the same town but this seems to have a gas cylinder in the base.
The clock above is The Gastown steam clock.
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Where would you have found these rooms?
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Looks like the Control Room of a Nuclear Power Plant?
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Looks like the Control Room of a Nuclear Power Plant?
No, I'm afraid it isn't.
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The Hoover Dam? (Or similar?)
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Was it the Server Room for the Llandudno Local Forum before the fire?
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Looks like my old Hi-Fi system! L0L
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Battersea Power Station! Dahn Sahf mate! $walesflag$
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Please add Control Room "B".
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Yes, Yorkie has got it....the control rooms of Battersea Power station. :)
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Where were these 'horse-shoe' shaped flats, and what were they called?
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Milton Keynes, Alcatraz! (yet another of my amazing guesses) ;D
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No, afraid not.... 8) a little further north than Milton Keynes.
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Liverpool
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Liverpool
No they're not Liverpool "tennies"
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sheffield park hill estate?
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Hulme Crescents Manchester. Had the misfortune of being mugged just down the road from there on my way home from work on the night of the Manchester Riots.
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Hulme Crescents Manchester. Had the misfortune of being mugged just down the road from there on my way home from work on the night of the Manchester Riots.
Bonsall St was always a bit dodgy. ;)
Yes, they were the Hulme Crescents. I remember a burglar broke into one flat, then punched his way into numerous adjoining flats, one by one, as the walls were so thin.
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An aerial photo of what/where?
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HM Prison Strangeways in Manchester?
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I agree it does look like Strangeways but I'm concerned about there ever having been tennis courts in Salford/Manchester and I can't see the brewery which is right next door.
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You're right, it's Wandsworth in South London. ;D
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You're right, it's Wandsworth in South London. ;D
Correct! $good$
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What is this called and where does it signify the gateway to?
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Napa Valley Wine Press/Crusher Monument know as the Grapecrusher
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Well done. it took me longer to resize the picture than it you took to get it. Still it brought many happy memories of the red wine from the Sonoma or Nappa valleys. The only downside was the wildlife who wanted to share the pool with us.
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Snapped this recently, but what is it?
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A memorial to the 343 firefighters of the Fire Dept of New York who lost their lives on Sept 11th 2001. Possibly a girder from the World Trade Center?
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A memorial to the 343 firefighters of the Fire Dept of New York who lost their lives on Sept 11th 2001. Possibly a girder from the World Trade Center?
Correct, it is a girder taken from the North Tower.
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How about this then?
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piece of the Berlin wall?
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piece of the Berlin wall?
Yes! &well&
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He he whoopy doo $good$
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Where will you see this in North Wales?
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A wild guess-- Penrhyn Castle?
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I'm thinking NE Wales area, Holywell ish?
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I'm thinking the opposite direction. Slate meausm in Llanberis P.S. I wish my computers spell check would tell me the correct spelling LOL
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Dwsi's the nearest but it's not near Holywell.
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Rhydymwyn?
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Llangollen Canal at Froncysyllte ? Still shaking from having to walk on the towpath path over the aqueduct (and back) on a very windy day . Not good for someone with a terrible head for heights.
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Minera?
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The Medz is spot on. It's on the south side of Pontcysyllte. I was there on Sunday and that was a very windy day so I know what you mean. &well&
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A quick one. Who and where?
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I've got a very bad head for heights as well but I have steered a narrowboat over the acquaduct with around 25 family members (it was my birthday) and I wasent at all frightened. Maybe because I was in control and my superiority complez was working
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I've got a very bad head for heights as well but I have steered a narrowboat over the acquaduct with around 25 family members (it was my birthday) and I wasent at all frightened. Maybe because I was in control and my superiority complez was working
I bet that you weren't doing your Leonardo DiCaprio / Kate Winslet impression on the bow of the barge at that time Mike. ;D
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A quick one. Who and where?
A very young Metz posing at the top of Happy Valley? ???
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Which country makes special provision for lady drivers in car parks?
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Which country makes special provision for lady drivers in car parks?
Switzerland "Men are Gentlemen for Women"
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Correct and well done!
A very civilised place!
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A quick one. Who and where?
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 –1900)
Merrion Square, Dublin.
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Correct Trojan. Although my dark past would seem to be coming to light if Hugo's suggestion is to be believed! (That case never made the court.) :)
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Correct Trojan. Although my dark past would seem to be coming to light if Hugo's suggestion is to be believed! (That case never made the court.) :)
And there's me thinking the Happy Valley Show was something else. ???
You couldn't have been up there on a Saturday, as there was no show on that day. 8)
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Now I am back. Where was I when I took this shot of a horizontal Cable car? This is the centre support of three.
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Is it Barcelona?
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Indeed it is and taken from the deck of the ship I was on. &well&
Here's an easy one.
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http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3183 (http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3183)
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What is the name of the large property and where is it? $walesflag$
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1st clue:- It's within 25 miles from Llandudno as the crow flies
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2nd Clue:- It's only easy if you know it, so this must be difficult because a certain Forum member has links with this but can't see it.
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My first reaction was that it is the Clubhouse of a Golf Club and due to the surroundings probably a "links" course. I thought it may be Prestatyn or Abergele but they don't seem likely candidates. So I will have to have a look round and see if I can find the right one! D)
A second thought leads me to an old picture of Heswall Golf Club but that is outside the 25 miles limit.
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Can I see a jockey on a horse in the foreground?
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Holywell/Gorsedd Racecourse?
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Yorkie must be refreshed after his hols because he's on the right course but it's not a club house so where is it and what's it called and a bonus point for guessing the most recent history of it.
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A further clue that should make it very easy to track down.
The photo of the house was taken on an 18 hole Golf Links within 25 miles from Llandudno as the crow flies.
It was not and is not the Golf clubhouse but the house is unrecognisable to that in the photo as it has altered so much?
So what's its name and location?
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If the house is unrecognisable to its present day form, then it is a virtual impossibility to give an answer, unless one happens across it purely by chance! I give up! Z**
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Like I said, it's only easy if you know it but it's not like you to give up on this Yorkie,
After all there weren't that many 18 hole Golf Links within a 25 mile radius from Llandudno.
One further clue should get it but that would make it too easy and you could then wave goodbye to your bonus point!
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My problem is that I am not from the area so know nothing about the past except from what I have learn't, and I haven't come across owt about this one! ;D
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Recognising your interest in Anglesey I have moved my attention across the Menai Strait and as my last feeble guess I will suggest the present location is Bull Bay Golf Course.
The original clubhouse had originally been the cricket pavilion at Plas Newydd, the ancestral home of the Marquis of Anglesey. The Clubhouse was extended over the years until it was finally replaced in 1994 by a new modern and distinctive clubhouse to compliment the excellence of the course.
So the building in your photograph is the old cricket pavilion from Plas Newydd.
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That's a very good attempt Yorkie and I can see why you have gone for that but I'm afraid that it's nowhere near the 18 hole links course that the property was on.
The property was like a white Elephant as the owner ploughed a lot of money into the building and then saw all his money waving goodbye.
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So the building in your photograph is the old cricket pavilion from Plas Newydd.
Isn't that building still at Plas Newydd on the left as you walk down the new entrance pathway?
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Don't know - from the details I got about Bull Bay it may well have been returned to Plas Newydd when the new place was built. However, I am not going round every links course looking for a building that is no longer there! To my mind it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. L0L
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Are you ready for another holiday? $lol$
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Always ready for a chance to get away! $walesflag$
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It's a hard one but any keen golfer may have heard about the property although not seen it because it's a rare photo.
Any more guesses but if not I'll reveal the answer soon. It's not on Anglesey though.
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Nor Gwynedd or Conwy County so there can't be many 18 hole Golf Link courses that were there all those years ago. ???
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expecting the answer to be no Rhos golf club ?
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What about the old golf course at Upper Colwyn Bay?
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That is within the ThreeTowns so cannot be the answer.
I will take one last stab at Prestatyn GC where they have a residential building where golfers could stay. See the whole story on their website.
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What about the old golf course at Upper Colwyn Bay?
If it was Dave we'd all be in trouble now!
Not Rhos or Prestatyn either!
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I'll put everyone out of their misery especially Yorkie who'll need another holiday after this. ;D
The answer is the Salem Bungalow on the Rhyl Golf Links. Now before anyone says that Rhyl is only a 9 hole Golf Links, this wasn't always the case and when the photo was taken Rhyl was an 18 hole links course. Unfortunately for the owner of the Salem Bungalow and Rhyl Golf Club the sea washed away 9 holes as well as the bungalow. A sea wall was built to protect the area and the remaining 9 holes but the foundations of the bungalow are still visible on the beach
Extract from Google
Shortly after the turn of the century the course had been expanded to a full 18 holes and the course was rated highly. But in 1921 publication of plans to build a road from Rhyl to Gronant began a long period of uncertainty for the club. First they lost holes at the west end and by 1930 the course had been separated from its clubhouse by half a mile. Further land was obtained nearer to Prestatyn, James Braid advising on the design and construction of the replacement course.
Then came the Second World War and with it further loss of land. First the sea eroded parts of the coastline and in the process destroyed Salem Bungalow* through the grounds of which golfers had passed to get from one part of the course to the next. The sea had moved inland some 550 yards between 1911 and the end of the war so a new sea defence system with promenade was built ensuring survival of the golf course but eating into it a little more, As if that were not enough, blown sand obliterated several holes at the Prestatyn end. When thought was given to restoring the golf course in peacetime there was no longer sufficient ground to accommodate a full 18 holes.
Nor are these the only tribulations this proud club has had to overcome. In the 1960s there was the threat of a huge amusement park to be built on the land, and in the club’s centenary year, of all years, a combination of exceptional winds and high tides caused the course to be flooded with sea water and shortly after that a fire destroyed part of the clubhouse. It is against this background that we should be very thankful that we are able to play at all on this historic turf.
Today the course is of nine holes, on good links grass, playing to an 18-hole length of 6165 yards and a par of 70.
* I was told by my playing partner many years ago that the owner of this bungalow had designed a turntable for electric trams. How educational a round of golf can be!
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Where was this photograph taken, and what is the bird's name?
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Have I had a post deleted or am I becoming absent-minded?
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I've only known the bird as **** because that's what I called him when he pinched my ice cream.
Wish I knew where the photo was taken from because I'd like to wring it's neck. ;)
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I'll give you a clue as it is not an easy one - the picture was taken at the seaside in North Wales within about 20 miles as the Seagull flies from 'top of Great Orme! :D
The bird's name does not begin with F or B. D)
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I do know what the Bird's name is as it begins and ends with T but don't know eggsactly where the photo was taken.
It'll only ruffle my feathers if it was above Cadwaladers. $angry1$
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No - name starts and ends with different letters neither of which is "T". Not Cadwalader's - picture taken at a place where the tide regularly ebbs and flows twice in every day. Z**
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Looks like the Bird's waiting by the cafe that serves ice cream in Llanfairfechan but he won't have many victims on a day like that.
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You're getting warm but the waves picture could be misleading as I just grabbed it from t'Internet. ;D
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Would I be getting warm if I were to guess that neither the seagull or the place where the picture was taken actually exist anymore?
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Now there is a poser.
The pic was taken a few weeks (months?) ago so unless there has been a Tsunami the place still exists. As for the Bird, I really don't know. It could have suffered a fate at sea or been disposed of by someone who's ice-cream it snaffled (e.g. Hugo). We shall never know! However our feathered friend is having its 15 minutes of fame irrespective of its present demise. L0L
Notice I haven't said he or she? The clues are there! ££$
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How can you have a quiz question if you don't know a definite answer? Surely it's pointless?
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The Seagull is called STEVE... STEVE SEAGULL (Steven Seagal?) ...
It is now DEAD, as a result of a pellet through its bonce by Hugo, who got there moments before me... after I lost my pastie purchased from Gerrards.
Total waste of money, and this question was a total waste of my time, and a total waste of broadband width.
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You are wrong but in view of your comment it is Game over! $walesflag$
I must apologise most sincerely to the Owner, Moderators and Members of the Forum for totally and utterly wasting their time and the most important and costly bandwidth with such a ridiculous poser. I hope in time those who felt, or do still feel agrieved, will find it in their hearts to forgive me this transgression I do promise never ever to enter such a trite and disagreeable posting in the future (this one excluded). I will now crawl into my box, throw my keyboard away and never ever post such rubbish on this Forum again.
I can hear the cheers now! L0L
The Birds uttered its name as it was shot by Hugo it said - "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!" Then it fell off the post ZXZ - never to steal ice-cream, doughnuts or sarnies again! :P
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Now the bird has flown (died)......
The mouth of which river is this?
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River Cegin at Port Penrhyn, Bangor.
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No, sorry!
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A clue......there is a priory on the north side.
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Attempt 2) Tynemouth - so the River Tyne.
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Correct and &well&
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Wasn't easy as many estuaries look the same, the clue was the Priory, so thanks.
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We were very lucky to live there for a few years. There was always something to watch from the window. The big ship in the picture was the daily ferry from Amsterdam.
We were there in 2005 when the tall ships came past. It was quite a sight but the weather was very bad and a lot of them had to turn back and seek shelter up the coast.
A container ship ran aground there in March.
The building in the front of the picture is the ship's pilot office.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-12757753 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-12757753)
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Where will you find this tiled pavement with the peculiar optical illusion?
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Alicante?
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Yes - don't I make them easy? The Espanade de Espana in Alicante, another port of call on our recent trip.
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Now for something completely different - where is this Castle and what is its name?
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Not one attempt so I will give the answer
Castelo de St Jorge
St George's Castle in Lisbon.
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What is special about this bus?
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It is so expensive to use that nobody bothers with it?
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It's an electric tour bus?
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Electric ?
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It is so expensive to use that nobody bothers with it?
Dwsi was first with the correct answer - and it is actually absolutely FREE and takes you on a great tour of the Town (City) of Vigo in Spain.
Due to its size it is able to reach places that other much more expensive tour buses can't reach. Bit like Heineken I suppose! Z**
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Which pier?
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Cromer ;D
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Correct, just for you that one!
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Correct, just for you that one!
;D Thank you!
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A water feature? A well or what and where?
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Clue it has a link with Edward I and is 18.6 miles from North Western Gardens. $walesflag$
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Caernarfon?
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Rhuddlan
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I will also go for Rhuddlan as I cannot see how one would get that view out of the window from Caernarfon Castle.
Go on, Yorkie, prove me wrong !!
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I will also go for Rhuddlan as I cannot see how one would get that view out of the window from Caernarfon Castle.
Go on, Yorkie, prove me wrong !!
Suepp is right and so are you Bri!
As I am unable to disprove the correctness of the answer I must decline your kind invitation and allow you the satisfaction of taking part and being absolutely correct with the solution that you have presented! &well& both!
It is, of course, the well in the centre of Ruddlan Castle.
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I will also go for Rhuddlan as I cannot see how one would get that view out of the window from Caernarfon Castle.
Go on, Yorkie, prove me wrong !!
Forgot to mention the shot was actually taken standing just a few yards from the well, not from any raised advantage point, using my old Sony Ericsson phone. ;)
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Which small seaside town does this train run from on 10.25" guage track?
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Wells-next-to-the-Sea being the Wells and Wallsingham Light Railway. (Just a guess) :D
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Hastings?
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Wells-next-to-the sea is the correct answer.
This train is on the line to the beach and harbour though not Wallsingham.
Well done!
http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.l/whr/ (http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.l/whr/)
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Norfolk is one of my favourite Counties. ;)
Lot of great photos here of Wells, showing just what a great place Norfolk is.
http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/wells.html (http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/wells.html)
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What message is the Lady conveying and where will you find her?
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"and that has not a heaven of such splendor"
Vila Real de Santo Antonio?
PS: I love Norfolk too but it took me 6hrs to drive it from here last year.
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Excelente - bem feito! I like Portugal alsoi! ;)
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Which city is this? It lies on the border of three countries.
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Bratislava?
Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic
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No, sorry!
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Basle
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Correct, well done.
Switzerland, France and Germany and a gorgeous place to visit!
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Another city, which one?
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Looks like Hong Kong to me. The building on the left is maybe the Two International Finance Centre.
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No, Middle East not Far East!
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Was going to try Singapore but that's far east also. Do you have a better photo? ;D
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I'll give you another clue, the skyscrapers are part of the man made marina development.
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Dubai?
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Correct. Well done!
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What is the name of this garden? It is on a island on which lake?
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Fantasy Island
On a private isle in Italy’s Lago Maggiore that has been in the family for half a millennium, Principe and Principessa Borromeo are living the ultimate dolce vita.
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You have the name of the lake right but what about the name of the garden/island?
It is not a private island.
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It looks like Isola Bella to me.
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Correct and well done!
Photo below, the view from Stresa looking out to the island.
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It is also known as Fantasy Island and is the home of Prince And Princess Borromeo, but I stand to be corrected! ;)
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I hadn't heard it called that before.
I am amazed that they live there because it is swarming with tourists every day and the house and garden are both open to view.
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A change of scene........
These pots were all made in one country. Which one and in what era?
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Presuming it all comes from the same place I will suggest Germany. ;D
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I'm sure that we have some pottery like the plate in the photo but do not know where the present was from. In view of the horse in the photo I'll have a guess at the Camargue area of France. ???
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Yorkie is correct with Germany. It is collectively known as Fat Lava because of the glazes and was made mainly in the 60's and 70's.
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Most other countries, particularly European have fairly distinctive styles but the Germans seem to copy from all and sundry and have a mish-mash of different types. Each of the ones pictured could be assigned to a different particular area. :D
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Where and what is this monument?
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High in the Andes, the recently-discovered cliff carving of Fox Mulder has quickly outstripped Macchu Picchu as Peru's leading tourist attraction -- and the mystery of what ancient civilization carved it has confounded experts around the world.
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Not in the Andes and not of Fox Mulder :P ;D
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Thunderhead Mountain, Korczak in 1948 began work on a pink-granite monument to Chief Crazy Horse astride a charging horse. “Every man has his mountain,” Korczak said. “I’m carving mine.” :P :P :P
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correct! D) $good$
http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/ (http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/)
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Tell me about this swimming pool.
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Phoenix Seagaia Ocean Dome and it's the largest indoor water park in the world
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Located in Miyazaki, Japan. Now that wasn't very difficult was it?
Now which Footie Stadium is this?
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Shot in the dark here...White Hart Lane?
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I knew I'd catch someone - didn't think it would be you! ;D Wrong I'm afraid! ZXZ
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Surprised no one has clogged this one yet!
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I originally thought it was PSV in Eindhoven..
But now I realise it is Sparta FC stadium, in Rotterdam.
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It looks a bit newer than the Het Kasteel
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Stadion Feijenoord
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Stadion Feijenoord
Exactly.
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While were on the subject, which stadium and which end?
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Stadion Feijenoord
Exactly.
Twenty years ago, I went to that stadium and watched Man Utd beat Barcelona in the European Cup Winners Cup.
How times have changed.
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Chelsea? The Shed End?
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Stadion Feijenoord
Exactly.
Twenty years ago, I went to that stadium and watched Man Utd beat Barcelona in the European Cup Winners Cup.
How times have changed.
Congratulations to those who guessed correctly! &well&
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Chelsea? The Shed End?
Yes, very good Fester.
"Come to the Shed and we'll welcome you......" (yea, right ???)
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What was the covered terrace called that ran the length of the pitch shown here on the right?
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I know absolutely nothing about Football but I'll take a stab at Main Road, Manchester. The stand was originally known as the Popular SIde but was redeveloped and named The Kippax Stand. If I am wrong it just indicates my ignorance of the Sport! :D
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I know absolutely nothing about Football but I'll take a stab at Main Road, Manchester. The stand was originally known as the Popular SIde but was redeveloped and named The Kippax Stand. If I am wrong it just indicates my ignorance of the Sport! :D
No, not Maine Road.
The Kippax was originally a covered terrace along one side of the Maine Road pitch before it became the Kippax stand.
"If I died in the Kippax Street......."
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Up to about 5 years ago, my spurious claim to fame was that I had visited almost every football ground in England and Wales.
But then there were so many new grounds built, and new teams coming in to the league.
You have got me on this one though Trojan, it is similar to Port Vale, but the seated area on the left makes me realise that it is not.
Hmmm, I never thought I'd get caught out on a football stadium question... I shall keep thinking. (whilst starving)
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Bullens Road Stand at Goodison Park (Everton) ?????? :o
And if this is wrong - which it is - I give up! $walesflag$
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Oh no! :P
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Its not the old South Bank at Wolves is it?
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Its not the old South Bank at Wolves is it?
No it isn't. :D
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Why do they call it a "stand" when everyone is sitting down? :D
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Holte End, Aston Villa?
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Rookery, Watford Vicarage Road Stadium
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Holte End, Aston Villa?
Oooooh no! It wasn't an "end" it ran the length of the pitch.
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Rookery, Watford Vicarage Road Stadium
No, not the Rookery. D)
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Here's a photo from days gone by:
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I could always add a little clue: 8)
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE - GUNS N' ROSES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1HGQQxmnP4#)
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Ahh, thats why I didn't recognise it.... I've never been ... cos its not in England or Wales.
Its The Jungle terrace at Celtic, Glasgow.
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Ahh, thats why I didn't recognise it.... I've never been ... cos its not in England or Wales.
Its The Jungle terrace at Celtic, Glasgow.
It certainly is! I really thought Born2Run would get that one right. :D
"And if you know your history, it's enough to make your heart go.......wohoooooo, we don't care what the Rangers say....."
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What make of car is this?
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is it a gilbern
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Did you say Gilbert?
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Or a Lagonda ?
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I'd say it was a Bristol (shame there's not a pair! ;) )
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I'd say it was a Bristol (shame there's not a pair! ;) )
Whey Hey !!! I won't tell H what you are getting up to on here... :laugh: :laugh:
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oo er missus L0L
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Yes! Merddyn wins, it's a Bristol 408.
Raise your jugs in celebration! Z**
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How about this one?
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The Bricklin SV-1
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The Bricklin SV-1
Yes, &well&
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Where's this photo taken from?
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I'll have a shot at the Lowry Centre
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Imperial war museum north in Manchester?
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or from next door?
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From the roof I would suspect!
ONE of the leading lights of The Lowry arts complex fell 100ft to his death from its roof less than a fortnight before he was due to attend the opening by the Queen.
Lea Parkinson, 32, a father of three, is thought to have climbed on to the roof of the £106 million complex in Salford Quays, Manchester, on Sunday night. Colleagues found his body on the plaza near the main entrance. Police have said there were no suspicious circumstances.
From 2000.
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Yorkie, the Lowry is on the other side of the canal.
hollins is correct about the museum.
Do you recognise that stucture in the top right hand corner of the photograph?
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yes!
We have a long wait until August!
I always park in the lowry outlet mall and walk across the bridge to the ground from there.
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Yorkie, the Lowry is on the other side of the canal.
hollins is correct about the museum.
Do you recognise that stucture in the top right hand corner of the photograph?
I wasn't guessing just an observation. No idea about the top RH building. Manchester is one city I do not know very well, if at all! :D
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Tut tut :weeping:
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Yes, It's the observation deck at the Imperial War Museum, Salford Quays.
PS - Salford isn't Manchester, it's a neighbouring city. :D
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Old and new architecture in which city?
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Is that in Chester, H?
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No idea about the top RH building.
Yorkie, it is Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United Football Club.
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Is that in Chester, H?
No, sorry, not Chester but not too far away!
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Liverpool?
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No, sorry not Liverpool.
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No idea about the top RH building.
Yorkie, it is Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United Football Club.
I have already confessed to knowing absolutely FA about the FA and football in general. I even had trouble putting the x's on my Football Coupons! _))*
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Wrexham?
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No, not Wrexham.
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OK so it's Manchester - if not are you sure it is a City?
http://www.gbet.com/AtoZ_cities/ (http://www.gbet.com/AtoZ_cities/) - This is a list of offical cities within the United Kingdom.
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Yes, it is Manchester.
The old building is the John Rylands library and the new one is the Armani shop which is part of the Spinningfields complex.
The library was built in the 1890's and Spinningfields in 2007.
The following two photos are also Manchester. There has been an enormous amount of redevelopment there since the IRA bomb in 1999.
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Whew ! At last I got one right! Ta H! ZXZ
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Who, what, why, when, how?
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who - Alec Allen
what - Common Sturgeon
why - world record
when 1933 tywi river
how - rod and reel
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Weight 388 lbs! Absolutely correct. Once again the wealth of knowledge on the Forum comes up trumps! $good$
Although he was a bit lucky as it was foul hooked!
King Edward II of England loved eating sturgeon and he made a law stating that any sturgeon caught in English waters is the property of the British Royal Family. In 1971 the House of Lords eliminated this quaint old law although sturgeon are considered almost extinct in England. In 1933 a salmon angler foul hooked and landed a nine foot 388 lb sturgeon in the River Towy in Wales. It was presented to the Queen.
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What is the name of the harbour that lies below this relic of its industrial past?
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Amlwch, Anglesey
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No, sorry.
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porth llanlleiana?
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Porth Penrhryn
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No, sorry neither of those answers are right but it is in Wales.
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is it on anglesey?
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No, not on Anglesey.
It was a brickworks.
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Penmaenmawr
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No, sorry.
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Porthgain, Pembrokeshire
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Hooray!
Correct and well done.
A picture of the harbour...........
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This church clock face has a claim to fame.
What is it and what is the name of the church and the city in which it is situated?
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St. Peter's Church, Zürich. Europe's largest clock face.
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Correct 100%
Well done, very quick too!
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Not a million miles away, where is this ship and what is her name?
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duke of lancaster in mostyn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS_Duke_of_Lancaster_(1956) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS_Duke_of_Lancaster_(1956))
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$good$ well done, that was quick, I saw this yesterday for the first time, more here
http://www.dukeoflancaster.net/index.htm (http://www.dukeoflancaster.net/index.htm)
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This harbour was built by the Venetians.
What is the name of the city and the island on which it is situated?
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chania, crete?
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Looks right to me! $walesflag$
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Well done dwsi. Correct and in record time. I can't keep up!
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What is wrong with this painting?
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it's a forgery that's in the National Gallery?
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I'm in a bit of a quandry. The painting is a forgery but not, as far as I am aware, in the Brtrish Museum. There is another similar picture of Skaters in Holland in the Museum, but not this one. So you're half right and half wrong - but well done anyway!
Can't leave it going for obvious reasons! Z**
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This piece of 19th Century machinery is at the side of the Marina in Caernarfon - what is it?
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It`s a pedestrian bridge, in two halves, which enables it to be opened to let small ships in and out of a small dockyard into Caernarfon Dock.
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sounds good to me, snap $good$
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It`s a pedestrian bridge, in two halves, which enables it to be opened to let small ships in and out of a small dockyard into Caernarfon Dock.
Couldn't ask for a more comprehensive answer than that! $good$ This is it in its entirety:
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What is the name of this mountain and what are the names of the two countries it lies between?
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Matterhorn, Switzerland and Italy.
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That one didn't last long either!
Correct and well done.
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A statue of Admiral Lord Nelson, together with the inscription 'England expects every man to do his duty'. Where will you find it?
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I've seen it.... somewhere near Menai Bridge... I'm sure it is...
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Can't spell the answer!
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LOL
Pwllfanogl, Llanfair PG
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SDQ takes the prize. $good$
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Eh? I don't think I've been there.... how far is it from Menai Bridge?
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The Statue is in the Straits at the side of Britannia Bridge.
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http://www.anglesey-hidden-gem.com/pwllfanogl-britannia-bridge.html (http://www.anglesey-hidden-gem.com/pwllfanogl-britannia-bridge.html)
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Errr... doesn't that mean I was correct then?
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Eh? I don't think I've been there.... how far is it from Menai Bridge?
Now there is an interesting place, If you turn left for St. Mary's Church after turning left off the Britannia Bridge, and walk through the graveyard, down to the strait you will see Nelson. You can also see the monument to the men who died constructing and re- constructing the bridge.
From the same lane you can walk to the giant lions hidden under the bridge next to the railway, lost to view when the road was made on the top of the railway after the fire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/llanfairpwll/pages/lionwalk3.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/llanfairpwll/pages/lionwalk3.shtml)
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What is the name of this lighthouse and the island on which it is situated?
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La Corbière in the extreme south-western point of Jersey in St. Brelade?
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Correct and very well done!
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$thanx$
$good$ $walesflag$
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I won a few bob on a horse with the same name - Corbiere! ZXZ
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What's the Monument and where will you find it?
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The Niederwald monument in Rudesheim Germany
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Well done - and one can also imbibe some rather nice wines in the vicinity! ZXZ &well&
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Well done - and one can also imbibe some rather nice wines in the vicinity! ZXZ &well&
Oh, ??? tell us more! ZXZ
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More on Rüdesheim
Rüdesheim wine and Asbach brandy
From the Niederwald monument overlooking Rüdesheim you can enjoy a panoramic view of the Rhine and the vineyards, which have made Rüdesheim a famous wine town with its tavern-lined Drosselgasse lane.
Wine and brandy
Riesling – symbol of the Rheingau region, enjoyed as a fine wine or a sparkling Rieslingsekt. Sample it at one of the many wine tastings hosted in the vintners' own wine cellars. Discover pinot noir and red wine from Assmannshausen or traditional brandy from the Asbach distillery. As well as a visitor centre and shop, tours can be arranged depending on the season.
Places of interestRüdesheim has many attractions, such as the Drosselgasse lined with wine taverns and gardens and the Niederwald monument, depicting the mythical figure of Germania, which can be reached from Rüdesheim and Assmannshausen by foot through the vineyards, or by cable car or chair lift. The ruins of Ehrenfels Castle are in an idyllic location surrounded by vineyards above the Rhine gorge.
Museums
The Medieval Torture Museum illustrates crime and punishment in the Middle Ages. The Brömserburg Wine Museum in Brömserburg Castle features the history of local wine making. Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet is a musical adventure with "antique computers" that play music.
Rheingau Wine Museum
Visitors entering the ancient Brömserburg Castle, an impressive sight in itself, are taken on a journey through 1,000 years of fascinating wine history. Old wooden and iron screw wine presses, a historical tree press dating back to 1594, and wine barrels, barrel carts and wine pumps are all displayed in the castle gardens, and approximately 2,000 wine-related exhibits from antiquity to the present day are on show in the halls and vaults inside. Historical tools indicate how much harder the work of wine-growers, cellar masters and barrel coopers used to be compared to today. Particular highlights of the collection include exquisite glasses representing all of the important stylistic periods in Europe. Open from mid-March to the end of October. Guided tours for groups only - available on request.
"Germania" monument
High up on the ridge of the Niederwald in the Rhenish-Westphalian Slate Mountains the impressive ten-metre-high statue of the mythical figure of “Germania” is visible from miles around. The 38-metre-high monument and its grand statue were built to commemorate the formation of the new German Empire in 1871, and the foundation stone was laid in 1877 in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The national monument commemorates the re-establishment of the German empire with the figure holding the imperial crown in her proudly raised right hand and the imperial sword in her left hand. It was seen as one of the greatest works of art of its time. Kaiser Wilhelm I and all of the princes attended the ceremony for the inauguration of the monument in 1883. Dates and coats of arms on the base refer back to the time when the German Empire was founded. Today, visitors can take the cable car through the vineyards to “Germania”.
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$thanx$ :laugh:
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Pleased to help! :D ;)
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What is the name of this promenade and where is it?
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Nice, South of France.
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.........and the name of the promenade?
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.........and the name of the promenade?
Promenade de Anglais
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Correct, well done. I have never seen the pianist!
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Correct, well done. I have never seen the pianist!
He was playing "knees-up Muvver Brown" (Promenade De Anglais :D)
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The remains of a railway platform on the right of this photo. I remember walking along it wearing platform shoes in 1975.
What was it's unique significance and where was it located?
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Manchester Exchange platform 11 the longest platform in the UK at 2194 feet
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Manchester Exchange platform 11 the longest platform in the UK at 2194 feet
Exactly. $good$ It linked Manchester Exchange with Victoria Station.
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Where in North Wales will you find the Empire?
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Empire Bingo
Bingo Halls
Crown Street, Town Centre, Caernarfon, LL55 1SZ
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Empire Bingo
Bingo Halls
Crown Street, Town Centre, Caernarfon, LL55 1SZ
The Empire Cinema, Crown Street, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales was opened in 1915. Seats: 512. Converted into a bingo club in the early-1970's.
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Where was this "tanning salon?"
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Clue:
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The Summerland Complex at Douglas on the Isle of Man. Destroyed by fire on 2nd August 1973, killing 50 people. Fire Exits were found to have been chained shut.
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The Summerland Complex at Douglas on the Isle of Man. Destroyed by fire on 2nd August 1973, killing 50 people. Fire Exits were found to have been chained shut.
Correct.
THE SUMMERLAND DISASTER, 3rd, AUGUST 1973 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddOM5wopD7o#)
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We used to spend the day there in the early '70's, after sailing to Douglas from Llandudno pier.
I was thinking, Llandudno could do with a similar indoor attraction today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/isleofman/content/articles/2008/04/03/summerland_feature.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/isleofman/content/articles/2008/04/03/summerland_feature.shtml)
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The whole building was a disaster waiting to happen. The plastic cladding used wasn't fire resistant, fire exits were totally inadequate, management was very poor. There's a very good analysis of the building/fire on this website, comprising several PDFs (towards bottom of page):
http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/phillipsid.shtml#publications (http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/phillipsid.shtml#publications)
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This island has some amazing walking. What is the collective name given to the walks and what is the name of the island?
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I think it may be the Isle of Capri and I'll hazard a guess at the collective name as "camminare gira"
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No, sorry.
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Clue.......it is a Portuguese island.
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Ah! That narrows it down to just a few hundred then.! L0L
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Madeira - Levada Trails.
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Correct and well done!
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Muito obrigado! My Portuguese comes in handy sometimes! Z**
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Who are the four guarding the figure on the horse. Who is the one on the horse and where can it all be found?
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Ajaccio, Corsica - Napoleon and his brothers
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Absolutely correct - as usual. Well done. :D
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Where is this pier?
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Is it in the UK? Don't recognise it. ???
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It is an awful photo, but yes it is in the UK and it is on an island.
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Yarmouth Pier, Isle of Wight, then.... ;D
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Yes, correct and well done.
This photo is taken the other way looking at Yarmouth.
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The tall buildings on the right of this picture are part of the business disrict of which city?
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I was going to say Zurich but I'm not so sure... :roll:
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No, not Zurich!
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It looks a little UK like, but the surburbs are rather leafy for the UK.
Its vegetation is entirely broadleaf deciduous, this means it is unlikely to be eastern Europe or Northern Europe. It is like to be western Europe looking at the architecture.
I will go with Rotterdam, Netherlands.. although NL is a flat country and those hills look a little too high to be Rotterdam but I'll go with it anyway!
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No sorry, it isn't Rotterdam or the Netherlands.
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My other guess is Dublin..
This is a really challenging one, because there are not too many giveaways in the photo.
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No, it's not Dublin or Ireland.
I'll give a clue. The city in question is famous for another tall building which is just out of shot on the right of the picture.
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Not Paris?
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Paris ?
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Berlin? the famous tall building being the TV tower?
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Paris it is!
Well done.
The buisness area is called La Defense and the photo was taken from St Germain-en-Laye a lovely suburb of Paris.
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Good one, I did think Paris before but I didn't think it was. Typically western European image though!
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This racecourse is in a spectacular coastal setting.
What is the name of the racecourse and where is it?
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Wild Guess --Ayr?
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No, sorry, not Ayr or Scotland.
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Brighton?
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No sorry, not Brighton.
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Is it in County Clare Ireland?
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Or Yarmouth Racecourse?
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No, neither of those.
A clue.......it is situated next to a ruined castle.
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Chepstow?
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No sorry, not Chepstow.
Another clue, it is on an island.
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Looks like Jersey but it was 18 years ago when I was last there.
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Ayr?
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Well spotted, yes it is on Jersey.
The course was started in 1832 and is called Les Landes.
It is situated next to the ruins of Grosnez castle in the north west of the island.
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Anyone know where this building is?
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Pier Head, Liverpool?
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Gosh, that was quick! Correct and well done!
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$thanx$ $good$
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Anyone recognise this boat and knows what it does and the very unusual aspect associated with it? (apart from the decoration of course!)
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Is it one of the boats that is pulled across the river Rhine in Basel by a wire?
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Half right - It is attatched to a moveable trolley on a wire that stretches across the river but it is carried across by the force of the stream. It is kept at an angle to the current and is carried across by the resultant of all the forces acting on it. There is no engine or motive power! 1.6 Euros to cross and cheap at the price. Didn't like Basel, very dirty, unkempt and graffiti absol;utely everywhere!
Thought you would be the one to get it! $good$
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So sorry that you didn't like Basel. I love it! Just goes to show.
Did you enjoy the rest of your cruise?
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It was certainly a new experience but there were a few aspects that we didn't like. Accommodation was rather poor, especially the "bathroom" if one could call it such. Food was unimaginative and rather sad with reformed entree items and poor quality accompanyments. Certainly not up to the standard of Sea Cruising, but just as expensive. Some enjoyable excursions especially Rudesheim, where I have been before, and Koblenz. The Flower festival was on there, and the Forum's flower fanatices would have loved it!. I also enjoyed a few other places. ;)
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Fester recently found the remains of the old post office in Llandudno.
Here is a picture of the interior of a current post office.
In which city is it?
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Chester
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No, much further away. You could have bought a stamp there recently!
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Do I take it that it is not in the UK?
Strasbourg
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Not in the UK and not Strasbourg.
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Any further attempt would be a pure guess and it could finish up using loads of bandwith listing every city in the World, so I give up and will leave it to more intelligent mortals.
Is it a Posteur le Bureau or a Postamt?
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You were there last week and you didn't like it!
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Ah you mean THIS one? Basel. . . . . .
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I also saw this, but what is it and where is it?
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It's in Seigfrieds Mechanical Museum, I think that the two upper round sections open when it plays, to include mechanical Violins to accompany the Piano. ?
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There was me thinking that no one would know about the violins behind the covers!
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These lovely buildings were once almshouses but now they are a museum.
What is the name of the museum, where is it and what is the collection it now houses?
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Is this the one?
The Geffrye Museum
It is the complex of almshouses founded in 1714 by Ironmongers’ Company in memory of Sir Robert Geffrye, a wealthy member who left a large part of his estate for philanthropic purposes. Once there were 14 houses with accommodation for 50 pensioners in total, each having their own room.
By 1912, however, the once rural almshouses had been swallowed by urbasisation and the pensioners were moved out of London, the local council seeing the need most of all to preserve the front garden as a badly needed “lung” for the area. The building was re-opened in 1918 as a museum of furniture and woodwork.
Today it styles itself as a museum of “the middling sort”, focusing on domestic interiors and gardens from Tudor to modern times.
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Yes, very quick! &well&
It has a series of room interiors from 1600 to the present day.
This is the sixties one.
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Looks like my front room! L0L
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Where is this building and what is it used for?
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Is it part of the former buildings of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg?
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All the flags are the giveaway even though I deleted the name board. Office of the Council of Europe, you are absolutely correct. I better move away from my cruise! :D
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What is the name of this plant?
In my ignorance when I first saw the flower on a plant in our sun room I thought the previous owner must have stuck plastic blooms on. No, they are real. They look as if they have glass beads on them.
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Is that post for the quiz or the Gardening thread? WWW
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Like the title says, a topic for quiz questions about general knowledge and/or anything outside of the local area. :)
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Sorry my mistake but one that anyone could make.
Hope you get the answer, cos, not being a green fingered person, I ain't even going to try! L0L
I got a few choice questions for the future!
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Some more birds, where did I see them?
The Bell tower should help.
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Faro cathedral, Portugal?
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You are just too clever for me! I bet if I asked where my Paternal Grandmother was born you would be able to tell me! (well there are clues in the Forum).
&well&
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there was a big massive clue in the name of the picture fcbt.jpg
faro cathedral bell tower _))*
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:-}}} ))* $lol$
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there was a big massive clue in the name of the picture fcbt.jpg
faro cathedral bell tower _))*
Only a clue if one had any idea! :D
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Easy one...which North West England Railway Station?
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Chester?
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Correct, Bri, and a very familiar sight to any rail traveller in North Wales. Trivia Fact: The Station is run by Arriva Trains Wales even though it is very firmly in England. So is Hereford Station, funnily enough.
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When I had a walk in this area this is the view I saw. What is the name of the Lake and the town in the foreground?
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Riva del Garda + Lake Garda?
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Spot on Dwsi, it's Riva Del Garda at the northern end of Lake Garda. I went for a walk up to the shrine of Santa Barbara which is lit up like a cross at night. &well&
Didn't try out the Via Ferrata walks up there though.
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Via Ferrata clip
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYtFtGxTk8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYtFtGxTk8#)
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Where in Wales would you find this statue?
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Portmeirion?
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Yes, well done!
Too quick for me.
The hydrangeas were looking magnificent all over the gardens there yesterday and also all along the approach driveway.
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Where and what is this building and what did it replace?
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The Synagogue de la Paix, Strasbourg which replaced the previous one that was destroyed by the Nazis
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Didn't last long! Shabbat Shalom!
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Dwsi is very good at these quizzes! $good$
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I'll have to find something extremely obscure, make sure there is no location or exif data and then hope ! ZXZ
So what about this place? And what is the thing in the field?
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Memorial marking the location where the commander of Japanese troops called Yamasaki died
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The island of Attu, to be precise.
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Looks like a wrestling ring, for very small wrestlers...
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I'll have to move to a Forum with less intelligent readers, if I'm ever going to get one across you, that is! &well&
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Here is an easy one. What is the name of the places either side of the water?
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Lanzarote and Feurteventura?
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Sorry Bri - not this time! :D
It is one of my own badly taken photographs.
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Portimao and Ferragudo?
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Half right - actually the buildings in the foreground are part of the Marina at Praia da Rocha and the bit over the river is indeed Ferragudo. Taken from our hotel room in the Jupiter. &well&
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Where was I in North Wales to take this photo?
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Rhyl ???
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Not Rhyl, I'm afraid. :P
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Is it Scala cinema and arts centre Prestatyn?
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Odeon Cinema World Wrexham
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Hollins is correct; it's the Scala cinema and arts centre in Prestayn. $good$ About the only interesting thing in Prestatyn, as well!
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Where and what? Another easy peasy one.
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International Sand Sculpture Festival in the Algarve?
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Hollins is correct; it's the Scala cinema and arts centre in Prestayn. $good$ About the only interesting thing in Prestatyn, as well!
Is that why we are not a FOUR towns Forum then? L0L L0L
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What is the name of this house and what was it called when it was an educational establishment?
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International Sand Sculpture Festival in the Algarve?
Sorry no - that is held every year since 2003 at Pera (see http://www.algarve-beach-life.com/fiesa-2011.html (http://www.algarve-beach-life.com/fiesa-2011.html) )
This is not quite such a big display but just as brilliant!
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What is the name of this house and what was it called when it was an educational establishment?
Nanhoron? http://www.nanhoronestate.co.uk/ (http://www.nanhoronestate.co.uk/)
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Nanhoron? http://www.nanhoronestate.co.uk/ (http://www.nanhoronestate.co.uk/)
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Sorry, it is a lot closer to home.
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Galltfaenan school in henllan, now know as Garn?
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Galltfaenan school in henllan, now know as Garn?
Even closer to the Three Towns.
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Clarendon School (Kinmel Hall)
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The former Woodlands School down Marl Lane in Deganwy?
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I know this one because my Grandmother once worked there and my Mum grew up in the Lodge at the entrance. The school was called Heronwater and it was originally (and is again now) a house called Coed Coch. It's at Dolwen, up above Colwyn Bay.
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Correct
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That was a good question, pure luck that I knew the answer. 8) $good$
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That was a good question, pure luck that I knew the answer. 8) $good$
???
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Which road was I on when I took this photo?
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A487
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No, sorry.
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Is it the A498 Beddgelert to Capel Curig Road?
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It is, Well done. No doubt you have done some lovely walks there Hugo!
A nice view of Snowdon.
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It's a beautiful area and I have enjoyed many walks there, even if some of them have been very tough.
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Ah well - time to get back on topic!
Name the building and where is it?
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It looks a nice place like Vilamoura but I've no idea of the name of the building
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Not Vilamoura, boats not posh enough for that place! WWW
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I think it is Faro with the Eva Hotel in the background
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Correct - well done! &well&
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What is the name of the architect of this building?
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Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis? ;D
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Yes, well done! He had a sense of humour didn't he?
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...and a very clever man. I would like to go to Portofino to see the original inspiration for Portmeirion. :)
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Where and what is this structure?
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Is it the home of Sophie and her mum in Mamma Mia?
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is it the bus station in SANTA CRUZ
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Sorry, both wrong, but maybe music to someone's ears! ££$
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I have seen the Opera House at Valencia, it looked similar....
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It is certainly connected with music but you will find it on an island! ;D
Try a number with some hesitation and a large piece of coral! ££$
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Ooooh, cryptic!
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Thought it might appeal to any Crossword fanatic amongst the Members! Clue 2: Delia would feel at home there! ;)
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Tenerife!!
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Yes, it's the Opera House at Santa Cruz in Tenerife. Good clues Yorkie. $good$
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Right - but it is actually called the Concert Hall. I'm sure you got it but the second clue refered to Canaries, Delia Smith's Footy Club!!
Well done. &well& $bounce$
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Here's another one for you! What and where?
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It's the National Theatre at Beijing China.
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Well done Hugo! 40 minutes that lasted! :D
How about this then? What and where. One for football fans, I suspect! And it is not a piece of phalic symbolism! ;)
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It's in the same city as the Nou Camp at Barcelona and is the Agbar Tower.
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&well& Hugo. Gotta go a long way to beat you lot! ZXZ
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This building has recently been restored. What is the building and whereabouts in North Wales is it?
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Pool Park in Clawddnewydd, near Ruthin?
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Guildhall Tavern, Hall Square, Denbigh.
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Yorkie has the right answer. Well done!
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Who is depicted in this statue and where is it?
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Is it HM Stanley as it looks more like Dr Livingstone to me?
I am guessing but is it outside Ruthin jail?
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It is the explorer Henry Morton Stanley. Well done for that, but he is not in Ruthin.
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My birthplace of St. Asaph?
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Outside Denbigh Library an Elphick creation.
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Yorkie is right AGAIN!
&well&
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Love these quizzes!
Where and what is this?
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No reply in 3 days tells me that I should give the answer. It is
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious architecture. It symbolizes two significant events in world history that occurred in 1492: the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula by the Catholic Kings and Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas. Its famous statue of the Virgin became a powerful symbol of the Christianization of much of the New World.
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Where would you find this tower?
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Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth, Hampshire
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Yes, well done!
I thought I may have fooled you into thinking it was abroad with the beautiful blue sky!
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Where in the world is this pier?
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Sahfend Pier - or in a posh voice Southend Pier - the longest pleasure pier.
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Where am I?
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My usual mad guess - on the London Eye! ;)
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No, sorry, not right this time. I've never done that, would like to though!
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Is it 'oop North', like Leeds or Sheffield?
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Close, but you've not tracked me down yet!
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Hmmmm..Manchester!
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Yes, the 14th floor of the Hilton Hotel. £71.40 bed and breakfast on their summer getaway promotion. Worth it for the view alone. A brilliant rainbow in the sky at the moment.
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What and where is this:
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And the answer for my last entry....Ryde Pier on the Isle of Wight.
I put it in as it is directly opposite the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth the previous question,which can be seen in my picture if you zoom in on the original version (which is not compressed of course).
Ryde Pier has a railway station (with London Underground style trains) on the end of it, which meets the ferry......you can also drive down it for £1.00 but beware of the 10mph limit as there is an average speed camera on it which tells you have been speeding!
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Obviously Hollins didn't notice that yours had not been answered, or presumed the answer given was correct. The Quiz really has to be checked for correct answers daily and answered if correct or not or this happens. ;)
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If it wasn't Southend Pier, it was a dead-ringer for it!
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The Grotto under the maze in Leeds castle??
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I've obviously met my Nemesis! Right first time - it was shown on yesterday's Bargain Hunt on TV! $good$
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;D Yes we were watching it whilst eating lunch !!
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We're not the only adicys then? :D
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WE like most of those type of progs, but don't get to watch many. Can't stand David Dickinson though !
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Where is this ?
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Lynton and Lynemouth Cliff Railway .
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Sorry no
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Bridgnorth
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Had to be one or the other and I picked the wrong one! :D
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Correct-- Well Done ! ;D
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Where will you find small copses in Llandudno?
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In a small undertakers ? $donald$ ?{}? $donald$
Sorry couldn't resist that !
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Wrong!!!!! Copses as in small forests, there's no Arrh! Z**
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Move this to the right thread.. (i.e. Quiz Time) .. and more locals will take a guess at it...
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Isn't this classed as "general knowledge"?
As o-one will seemingly get the answer on this thread I will tell you it is Madoc Street.
- and the answer is Littlewoods! _))*
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OMG What do you expect ? :rage:
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This building is one kilometre wide.
What and where is it?
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Quality of photograph does not help but I'll take a stab at
Kasbah des Oudaias - Rabat-Sal-Zemmour-Zar
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No, sorry.
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Only one guess, so here are a few clues especially as Yorkie seems to be saying my photo is rather poor. :o
(I think I need a few more tips DaveR) :'(
It is a hotel in the Middle East. It cost approx 3 billion USD and took 3 years to build.
It was designed by a firm of UK architects.
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Atlantis, the Palm Resort in Dubai?
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No sorry but I know what you mean and it isn't all that far away from there.
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Found a slightly better photo!
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Mina A' Salam Hotel Dubai
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No sorry, not in Dubai.
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Emirates Palace Hotel (Abu Dhabi)
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Hooray! Correct and well done.
http://www.emiratespalace.com/en/facts/index.htm (http://www.emiratespalace.com/en/facts/index.htm)
An amazing, but a little bit of a ridiculous building. We stayed there during the "soft opening" in November 2005.
Some of the public rooms were not quite finished and we saw gold leaf being applied to the walls and ceilings.
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Bit more expensive than a Travelodge then? WWW
Another hotel but which one and where?
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This is the Vila Gale Cerro Alagoa Hotel in the Algarve - for our Spring holiday in 2012. ;)
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Where is this rock formation?
I have also added a clue.
Dolce & Gabbana - Light Blue Fragrance Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLrUJY4D5Bc#ws)
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Capri?
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Es Vedra, Ibiza?
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Sorry, dwsi, but hollins is correct.
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Where is this?
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acapulco, mexico?
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Correct, dwsi. $good$
Just one of the famous cliff divers of La Quebrada.
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Mrs Fester and I went to Acapulco about 8 years ago, and watched these cliff divers.
It wasn't so much the dive that fascinated me, but the painstaking and tiring climb BACK UP the steep cliffs each time they did it!!
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give over fester elvis made it look easy when he was having fun in Acapulco.lol
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On my recent holiday (clue there) I spotted these two, we all know what they are, but where are they? And the answer is not Milton Keynes!
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Knowing Yorkie - Portugal?
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No points for Portugal Bri, we need the town at least ! ££$
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Are they the painted cows from the Cow Parade in Lisbon?
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Huddersfield
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Huddersfield
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A stab at 'uddersfield gets you a couple of brownie points for ingenuity! You really milked it with the double posting! L0L
Here's another one looking a bit blue
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is it cows before the yacht race
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No points for cows or Cowes! And here's yet an udder one.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CowParade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CowParade)
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Sorry to inform you that the Town I am refering to is not shown on the Wiki link! Just to put you out of your misery here is another with the place name clearly shown!
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What building is this in my holiday town?
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Is it a bullring? (pure guess going by the bull images! )
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The cows had to be followed by a Bull! Absolutely correct! >?>??
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Wow, that was lucky, especially when you reaise that I never, ever go abroad! :laugh:
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Wow, that was lucky, especially when you reaise that I never, ever go abroad! :laugh:
Didn't you go to Anglesey once...? :laugh:
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Wow, that was lucky, especially when you reaise that I never, ever go abroad! :laugh:
Didn't you go to Anglesey once...? :laugh:
More than once, I pop into England quite often, does that count? ;D
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Only if you go through Passport Control! $walesflag$
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What was this building used for and where is it?
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Is it a fish market in Portugal?
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Sorry Bri not a fish market but it IS in Portugal. ££$
Quite famous but no longer in use.
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Slavery market?
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Well Bless my Soul! Absolutely correct - It is the old Slave Market in Lagos, Portugal and is now preserved as a museum. I can just imagine all the nubile young ladies who must have been attached to those ropes and chains awaiting bids from rich, fat Merchants!
ZXZ
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Which world famous comedians performed in Rhyl in 1952?
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Morcombe and Wise?
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Laurel and Hardy?
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Looks like Bri is right!
In 1952, during the week commencing Monday 21st July, the Queens Theatre in West Parade, Rhyl, presented the last really big names to play that venue. Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) were the world’s best known comedy double act and had been making films together for three decades.
At the time of their Queens appearance they were past the peak of their careers but still masters of simple comedy.
Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy topped the bill in what would have been
a routine variety show of the era. The audience had to sit through singing sisters (twice), a singing cartoonist then an aerial act, ventriliquist, 'oriental’ magician, animal mimic and then a pair of accordion players before the famous duo took the stage.
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Yes, Bri is correct, it was Laurel & Hardy performing at the Queen's Theatre. The theatre closed in 1960 but large parts still exist behind the Pleasureland amusement arcade on Rhyl promenade.
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Only the gable end of this church has survived. What is the name of the church and where is it?
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So far I have about 500 church or chapel gable ends of church ruins. I think I'll have to wait for a clue to solve this one. ;)
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It's in Wales! Does that narrow it down?
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Yep - to about 499! _))*
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Church of St Brynach. Pembrokeshire
One of the main distinguishing features at Cwm Yr Eglwys beach is the ruins of the 12th Century church of St Brynach. Most of the church was destroyed in the almighty storm of 1859, and much of the ground that it was built upon and graveyard was also swept away.
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You got it! Well done!
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What is the name of this monument and what was its purpose?
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For the shepherd to shelter under when it was raining.
Called umbrella.
or more probably
Pentrief burial chamber. (one end of it anyway).
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I think you must be right. We were told it was called Pentre Ifan, (Ivan's village). Yours looks slightly different.
Anyway here is an interesting link to it.
http://www.stonepages.com/wales/pentreifan.html (http://www.stonepages.com/wales/pentreifan.html)
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You're quite right with the spelling, I was using alternative spelling. It seems that it is not a burial chamber either!
One of the most romantic and beautiful places in Wales is Pentre Ifan. This is one of the best preserved Neolithic dolmens in Wales. It is not entirely clear how arised the name "Pentre Ifan" - it could mean "A village of Ivan", but some explain it as "5 Stones Heaven" - Pentray Eevan.
It is also not entirely clear - why Neolithic people built this structure. Excavations in 1936 - 1937 and 1958 - 1959 (both organized by William Francis Grimes) did not find any burials here - just some sherds of Neolithic pottery and flint tools were found, as well as a pit with signs of burning and smaller postholes. Pentre Ifan was built circa 3500 BC. Nevertheless it is considered that this structure was used for communal burial and - possibly, also as a ritual centre.
Seven large stones still remain in their original positions. Most striking feature of Pentre Ifan is the enormous, 5.1 m long capstone (circa 16 tonnes heavy), standing on the sharp tips of three upright stones. Capstone has been rised 2.4 m above the ground. One upright stone still is blocking the entrance into the cist - there is a cupmark and a ring hewn in it. Several more stones are scattered around.
This is all what remains of a much larger structure. It is considered that originally Pentre Ifan was 36.6 m long and 17 m wide mound with dry stone wall at the crescent formed entrance into the cist. Presently exposed stones were covered with a mound. The chamber between these stones is 3 m long, 2 m wide and 3 m high (the ground inside was made lower).
To the east is located fallen 2.74 m long stone.
Pentre Ifan is located on a hilltop, with beautiful views on surrounding rural landscape. This is beloved site - it is welcoming, a visitor loves to sit down below the capstone and contemplate the surrounding landscape. In Victorian times ladies and gentleman even enjoyed their picnics seated on the top of dolmen. There are also local legends about fairies (Tlwyth Teg) seen around the dolmen. Eyewitness has described these mythical beings in the early 20th century as "little children in clothes like soldiers, with red caps".
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Where will you find this and what does it signify?
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Something to do with a wheelchair path?
and just a shot in the dark, could it be Vila Nova, Algarve (it just popped into my head :laugh: )
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Red Herrings! Nothing to do with a wheelchair path and Vila Nova is just the file that all the pictures are in!
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You can find it on the Algarve Coastal Cycle route and it signifies the track for cycles.
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Unicyclists only and it is in Portugal?
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Hugo is nearly right - so much so that I'll give it to him. You may see that the small sign reads 0 Km. This is actually at Cape St Vincent, the most westerly point of the Algarve, and denotes the start of the Algarve Coastal Cycle Route which ends at the other end of the Algarve at Vila Real de Santo Antonio. :cyclist40: :cyclist40: :cyclist40:
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Thanks Yorkie, you're a gentleman $thanx$
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So here's another! Where will you be able to find this tiled mural? A little clue - it is in Portugal! L0L
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I thought the transport link may give it away.
It is at Quateira Bus Station in the Algarve.
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Yorkie, your obsession with Portugal is becoming a concern...
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Makes it easier for the guessers! How about this one then?
What and when?
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Looks like Crystal Palace
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The Ally Pally in 1873 after the fire?
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Half a point to Merddin as he hasn't put the year. Crystal Palace after the fire of 1936.
At least it wasn't in Portugal! L0L L0L
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I missed the when part, I was too shocked that it wasn't in Portugal!
was it 1936? :laugh:
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Play the video
http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819530392 (http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819530392)
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I couldn't get the clip to play....?
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When you get to the page from the link click on whichever media player you have. Either the 14.1 Mb or the 11.7 Mb on the blue stripe across the middle.
Time 02:05 Play 14.1Mb Play 11.7Mb
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here is an esay one where is this,clue they are rebuilding it now.
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Wouldn't be Beaumaris Pier would it? _))*
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this is a very hard one ,i have checked no name on it ,ha ha
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Here is a clue,opened in 2005 it is now part of a golf course.
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Well one thing I know ---- its not up the Orme !!!
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Far too easy...its Henllys Hall. ;)
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Not far from Beaumaris Pier !!!!!! L0L
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Well done.
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Here is one for you - not in UK. Which religious building is this?
(NO - it is NOT in Portugal!)
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is it in italy
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Not Italy.
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liebfrauenkirche koblenz
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Excellent - well done. $walesflag$
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liebfrauenkirche koblenz
Truly amazing, dwsi.
I am very impressed.
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VERY FAMOUS LEAD SINGER FROM THE 60S WHO HAS PLAYED IN LLANDUDNO IN THE 60S AND THE 90S.
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Is it Ray Davies?
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WELL DONE,
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WHO IS THIS GUY AND WHAT BAND WAS HE IN.
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OH NO I DONE IT AGAIN
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what band is this,10 out of 10 if you get it,clue 70s punk band.
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Was not into punk but I'll have a stab at it being the Ramones.
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Looks more like the mighty Led Zeppelin to me, but they were no punk band!
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Whilst waiting for a reply to the guesses here is another easy one.
What is wrong with the Mona Lisa in this picture?
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The image is reversed?
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Didn't last long did it??? about 30 seconds I think! Great stuff Dave. $good$
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Anyone got a clue where to find this?
Photo quality not brill--it was pouring down !
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Top of Mount Ararat, owned by some geezer called Noah. Carried a bit of a Zoo round with him just after that 40 days of pouring rain! _))*
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Sorry--bit nearer than that !
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I really haven't got a clue but I'll have a guess at Llyn Badarn in Llanberis.
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The perspective of the photo tends to make the foreground look like grass and the "Ark" just a small model. If the vegetation is not grass then it could be a reasonable size. I get the impression that it is on a river rather than a lake, and possibly a tidal one for it to get beached.
I'll have a guess as it being on the Conwy River between Conwy and Betws - y Coed, let's say Llanwrst just to pin it down.
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Dam-it I,ve given you a clue ! ;D
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So are you saying it is a model? _))*
Could be anywhere you placed it - your back garden for example but that's within the Three towns.
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Is it in the Elan valley near Rhyader?
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No, but you are warm Hollins, you obviously picked up on my clue ! and Yes it is a model, but I don't have a river in my back garden, so it isn't there.
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Lake Vyrnwy perhaps?
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It is certainly where there is a DAM but I don't know the area well enough except for Hollins punt at Lake Vyrnwy which was dammed up to form a reservoir to collect and send water to Liverpool. A couple of villages lie underneath the waters. The river has the same name as the Lake.
ZXZ
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Lake Vyrnwy perhaps?
Well done Hugo. It is part of the sculpture park below the dam at Lake Vyrnwy. Sadly it has all become very neglected-- something to do with change of ownership of the area which used to be Severn Trent Water, but has now been divided between 4 owners. It was a gloomy day and it made the sight of alot of the wood carvings even worse! The Noah's ark was one of the better ones-- the famous leaping dolphins looked like a pile of firewood. :(
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Whoops - I seemed to have refered to Hugo as Hollins! Sorry! Fingers faster than the brain! Z**
I'll have to have a look next time I'm there.
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Where in the Cotswolds will you find this building?
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Is it the Bewery Office in Stow on the Wold?
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I'll drink to that one Medz, it looks like it's spot on. $good$ Z** Z**
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Correct and well done!
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Where in Wales will you find this beautful house?
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erddig, wrexham
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Very quick dwsi!
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Another one for a Saturday night!
The building on the right of the photo is a revolving restaurant. Where is it and what is the name of the famous film that was shot there?
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Wasnt it a James Bond film, On Her Majestys Secret Service? Don't know where it is though. :roll:
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I think it is
The Piz Gloria Revolving Restaurant on the Schilthorn in Switzerland
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Well done. A good joint effort. Both correct!
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One more, does anyone recognise where this wonderful tree is?
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Bodnant Garden?
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Correct and well done.
A garden of many gorgeous trees.
Goodnight!
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Where am I, or to be more accurate, where was I?
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Moscow?
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No, sorry ME, not Moscow. I've never been there.
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My first guess on this one is going to be - Frankfurt, Germany!
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No sorry, not Frankfurt.
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The last picture looks like Prague. Could it be there?
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No sorry, not Prague.
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Zurich
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&well&
Correct!
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This was the giveaway in the end. I thought one of the others was possibly the Rathaus!
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Only just out of the Three Towns area, whats the name and location of this sad ruin
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/DSCN0433.jpg)
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/DSCN0434.jpg)
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Plas Dulas in Llanddulas
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Well that didn't last long :o well done! $good$
http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/11650-Plas-Dulas-Llanddulas-February-2011 (http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/11650-Plas-Dulas-Llanddulas-February-2011)
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It certainly is Plas Dulas, a building that will sadly soon demolished to make way for yet more noddy houses.
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Such a shame if it does get demolished, how can it be allowed? $angry$ Loads of Noddy houses about already !
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That issue has been batted around the courts I believe, and after several appeals... demolition (or part demolition) is indeed the verdict.
It appears that not enough people felt strongly enough about it, and a viable alternative was not forthcoming.
Makes me think that Colwyn Bay Pier could end up the same way.... and maybe other structures in Llandudno too.
If it happened to Pen Morfa, is anything safe?
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A house in large grounds is always rich pickings for developers. Unfortunately, Planning Law backs developers in destroying these sort of houses, as replacing one house with 20 small ones (for example) is encouraged.
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Seems the (planning) law is an ass!
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It seems that there are a lot of mature trees around the building so if any one is against the application the first thing to do is to get the Tree Preservation Officer down to inspect the site. (Contact CCBC )
He will then make Tree Preservation Orders (TPO'S) against the trees that he considers worthy of preservation. I've come across that situation a few times and it does make developers think twice.
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I think that did come into play Hugo, from memory..... but its about a year too late now.
Appeals all exhausted, its coming down. It may already be demolished at least in part.
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Where am I?
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If you don't know Hollins how on earth can we find you? :)
It's not your place in Switzerland is it?
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Sorry Hugo. I thought you would get it. I'm sure one of your trips went there.
Here are two more photo clues. It's in the UK, in fact in Fester's home county.
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It looks like Harrogate so could that be Betty's Tearoom?
Lovely Fat Rascals there if it is!
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Yes,
&well&
Shall I bring you some back?
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The Photoframe in the garden is a great idea.
I thought Bettys would have looked more traditional inside than that.
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I can still taste them Fat Rascals, they are absolutely yummy! $dins$
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Somewhere like the Carlton in Llandudno would be an excellent location for a similar business to Bettys to open.
Would rake it in too...
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So, what is a 'fat rascal' ?
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Its a biscuit of some description I believe.
The open area of parkland near Betty's is called 'The Stray'
Its a wide expanse of greenery and open space in the middle of town.
Played many a game of football on there. Always a very long walk to the changing rooms, I recall.
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It's a sort of cross between a cake and a scone with cherries and raisins in it. Delicious with butter on . They are bigger than a scone and very filling.
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Hmm, not my kind of thing then, I'll stick with the sponge cake that erindoors makes and Cadburys Twirls D)
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Here is a link to the Betty's ordering page for Fat Rascals. It makes them sound better than my description.
http://www.bettys.co.uk/product/Bettys-Fat-Rascals,19172,37.aspx (http://www.bettys.co.uk/product/Bettys-Fat-Rascals,19172,37.aspx)
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I used to spend a lot of time at a call centre in Harrogate. My one abiding memory of the town was being invited out on a staff Christmas do and staying at a hotel very near Betty's. As Christmas do's go it was rather a liquid one and I ended up back in my hotel at about 2 oclock in the morning and was so worse for wear I kept waking up thinking the ceiling was falling down on me! I woke up the next morning to find the person in the room above had (probably in a similar state) in fact left the bath running and the ceiling in my room had indeed fallen through and I'd slept through it. The perils of alcohol.
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Anyone remember a MOST unusual occurrence that happened one day around June 1976 or maybe 1977? All along the coast from Rhos through to Rhyl (maybe further) but only about a mile or so inland. All one day and to a reduced extent the next day. I have never experienced anything like it. I don't remember ever reading anything about it in the press, why it happened etc. I still don't know what caused it but I am sure everyone who experienced it will not have forgotten it Mike
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Anyone remember a MOST unusual occurrence
Fester buying a round? :laugh: &shake&
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Was it this one by any chance?
An event that took place on 23 January 1974 in the Llandrillo area of north Wales.
At 8.38 pm there was a huge explosion, followed by an earth tremor (which was felt as far away as Liverpool). Lights were seen in the sky on and off until 10 pm. Police stations across north Wales were deluged with 999 calls and a police were called to Llandrillo where they carried out a search of the lower slopes of Cader Bronwen at around 10 pm, as well as searching the mountains on the following day.
This event has since become a major UFO story.
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http://www.ufocasebook.com/wales1974.html (http://www.ufocasebook.com/wales1974.html)
I think Ormegolf is possibly talking about a dense fog from the description, the ufo story is interesting though (I like things like that!)
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The Wikipedia link provides a more balanced view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Mountain_UFO_incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Mountain_UFO_incident)
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The Wikipedia link provides a more balanced view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Mountain_UFO_incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Mountain_UFO_incident)
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That's all part of the government cover up! :laugh:
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The Photoframe in the garden is a great idea.
I thought Bettys would have looked more traditional inside than that.
It used to !
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No, Yorkie, although I remember the UFO incident well, I remember being with my family and we all heard it clearly in Towyn.
But the incident I refer to was in mid summer, both 1976 and 1977 were very hot and I always thought that had something to do with it.
Does no one remember what appeared to be large black clouds flying in off the sea for hour after hour, one cloud after another.
And everyone outside running for cover behind doors and windows.
What were the black clouds made up of?
And it was all along the coast from at least Rhos to Rhyl.
Come on Dave, you know the amusement arcade business, the arcades in Rhyl were absolutely solid with humans, all afraid to step outside.
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Hordes of flies!?
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ladybirds ?
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Was it the year (1976) we had the plague of Ladybirds? Our white house in Rhos was covered in the little blighters!
Very hot Summer, hosepipe bans etc. etc.
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Very,very hot summer.
We lived in Yatton , Somerset then and remember millions of Ladybirds.
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There was a similar (but smaller) invasion of Ladybirds on the South coast in 2009:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204864/Plague-ladybirds-puts-families-flight-Holidaymakers-overrun-tens-millions-bugs.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204864/Plague-ladybirds-puts-families-flight-Holidaymakers-overrun-tens-millions-bugs.html)
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That's it, everybody. Ladybirds. It was like a sci /fi film. They all came inland in large black clouds from somewhere obviously off shore. Millions of them. Presumably they bred off shore. Anyone know if this is normal?
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What would they have bred on off shore?
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This house has an association with Llandudno but it isn't in the Three Towns area.
What is the name of this house and where is it?
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Lord Mostyn's house at Mostyn?
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No, sorry Dave.
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That's a tough one Hollins &shake&
I was thinking of Lewis Carroll's place in Guildford called Chestnuts but that is a brick building and some of the stone in your picture looks more like the Cotswolds stone.
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O'h no, it is unusual for the forum quiz brains not to have got it by now.
More clues needed.
It is about 45 mins drive from Llandudno.
It was built in the early 18th century at the time when the landed gentry all had their town houses on this street.
The connection is with the Mostyn family.
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Kinmel Hall?
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Mostyn House in Denbigh?
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Yes, well done.
Here is a link to the story of it's restoration.
There are many lovely Georgian buildings in Denbigh but what a shame to also see so many closed shops and boarded up buildings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-14084388 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-14084388)
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Where in North Wales will you find this unusual tiled mural?
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slaters abergele
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&well& detective dwsi!
It really is worth having a look if you are passing by or popping in to Tesco.
Brookhouse Pottery near Denbigh sell some beautiful work.
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Well I've never seen that before thanks for pointing it out I will pay a visit.
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It's pretty old but where exactly is this letter box?
))* $booboo$ It's in the three towns area! :-[
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Not sure if it's the one but I seem to recall an old post box in the wall on Killens Hill on the Great Orme, that's if it's still there.
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It's not that one SDQ but I bet there are not many letters posted there this week.
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In the wall at West Shore that runs round the old Plas Gogarth hotel site.
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It's not that one SDQ but I bet there are not many letters posted there this week.
Hmmm...is that because it's by a school that is closed for half term, maybe? The primary school up by Bodafon Fields?
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Good thinking Dave, it's in the wall of the house next to the school where the old schoolmaster lived years ago. &well&
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In which seaside town will you find this tower?
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It used to be in Morecambe, not sure it it still is!
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Morecambe Frontierland ? It's one of the few bits still standing.
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It used to be in Morecambe, not sure it it still is!
Yes your right DaveR and Medz it is in Morecambe, sort of opposite the art deco Midland Hotel $good$
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I use to go to Frontierland many years ago.
My Mum took the grand kids there regularly, even up to the early 2000's I think.
She told me there was nothing left of it now, is that really the case?
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Frontierland was originally known as Morecambe Pleasure Park, and was home to a LOG FLUME & 3 roller coasters: STAMPEDE, TEXAS TORNADO & WILD MOUSE. The park was renamed & re themed while under ownership by the Blackpool Pleasure Beach company. The park was suddenly closed and the Cyclone wooden coaster (then renamed the Texas Tornado) was torn down. The Wild Mouse roller coaster was relocated to another park owned by BPB, Pleasureland at Southport, this park also closed suddenly in September 2006. The log flume & Polo Tower in Morecambe remain standing, and were part of the plans to build a shopping mall on the site of Frontierland, the plans never came into fruition and Morecambe as a town has suffered steady decline since.
Now you know! ZXZ
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I use to go to Frontierland many years ago.
My Mum took the grand kids there regularly, even up to the early 2000's I think.
She told me there was nothing left of it now, is that really the case?
It is very difficult to see as there are 8ft high solid shutter plywood hoardings around the entire site painted blue. The polo tower is really all that is visible but I presume other rides would have been taller than 8ft!! and they can't be seen. Perhaps it is their version of the pier pavilion site!! it will be on the 'local eyesores' thread of the Morecambe town forum ;D
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When I was "cheating" looking for the answer to this quiz yesterday I found this which says the owners are Morrisons.
Jack, you are right, this link is to a forum which sounds rather familiar!
Good question though. I have learnt a lot about Morecombe!
http://www.joylandbooks.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1636&sid=7fb28e457a2aeb21b6a420021992e068 (http://www.joylandbooks.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1636&sid=7fb28e457a2aeb21b6a420021992e068)
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That's interesting Hollins because there is a Morrisons just a bit further down the promenade and it did looked 'cramped' so maybe they are planning to move at some stage. When you look at Morecambe seafront which is disjointed with dereliction, run down hotels and b&bs and some shops, bars and arcades it puts into perspective how wonderful the sweep of Llandudno bay is and what a great town it is. On the plus side for Morecambe tho is the huge sandy beach and the vista of the mountains in the distance (bit like West Shore really)
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Where will you find this white Stag?
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They must like their animals here because they even let them go indoors!
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It's Mole friendly, Rabbit friendly and people friendly and not too far away.
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Is it Plas Maenan Country House Hotel?
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It certainly is Hollins, well done. &well&
We were up there on Thursday and had a lovely coffee on the verandah overlooking the Carneddau
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I visited a castle in Wales today. Which one is it?
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Harlech
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Never been there before but with those mountains in the background is it Criccieth Castle?
On reflection I think that Barbiroli is correct and it must be Cadair Idris in the background.
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Right first time Hugo. It is Criccieth Castle. What a beautiful day it was there today.
Well done.
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I've never been to the Castle but you get a splendid view of it on the coast road from Porthmadog. Must remember to stop and have a look at it next time I go past especially now that I have a free Cadw pass. $good$
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Hugo, I thought CADW had stopped issuing the free passes. We both got one a few years ago, (over 60), and they are valid until February 2014, but I think we were among the last ones to get them before applications were closed.
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Mine came in the post a week before they stopped issuing them and is valid until 31st Jan 2014 so I'll have to get my money's woth before it expires! $hands$
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I paid my £3.20 but it was worth it for the view!
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How much do you think mine cost?
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A pony?
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absolutely nuffin' mate - absolutely nuffin'! Freebie - and wurf every penny! Z**
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Where in Wales will you find this memorial and whose life does it commemorate?
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Nelson by Britannia Bridge, Menai Straits.
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No, sorry.
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No, sorry.
Just my usual wild first guess! I'll do some delving now! ;)
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Llanfair P G - Marquis of Anglesey
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No, it's not him either!
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I wont bother to go through the whole gamut of statues, so I'll wait for the solution to be revealed! :D
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Clues needed?
It forms the centrepiece of a memorial garden and DaveR visited the town recently.
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Oh! It's not famous then? _))*
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Vale Street Denbigh http://g.co/maps/tg52u (http://g.co/maps/tg52u)
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Well done, detective dwsi!
Evan Pierce Memorial Garden, Denbigh
Dr Evan Pierce (1808-1895) was born in a small village just outside Denbigh and attended Denbigh Grammar School. He trained as a doctor at Edinburgh University and qualified in 1832. On his return to Denbigh that year he was faced with a cholera epidemic that had claimed 300 lives in one month. He joined other local doctors in caring for the sick and after hard work the epidemic was finally brought under control. In 1872 a number of his admirers undertook to commemorate his services to the community and this statue (Sicilian marble) was erected on a column of limestone, quarried from Denbigh. The garden and the statue have recently had a facelift.
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What is this odd looking piece of machinery used for in North Wales?
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Well done, detective dwsi!
Evan Pierce Memorial Garden, Denbigh
Never 'eard of 'im! Have I missed something?
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What is this odd looking piece of machinery used for in North Wales?
Seems to have plenty of knobs and whistles, and looks in need of a good overhaul. I'll make my usual unintelligent guess and say that it is Kaffe Nero's Coffee Machine! ;)
Other than that it may be in some way connected with water, possibly controlling a lock, swing bridge etc.
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Other than that it may be in some way connected with water, possibly controlling a lock, swing bridge etc.
Getting warm, Yorkie... $good$
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Harbour swing bridge Caernarfon?
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Harbour swing bridge Caernarfon?
That's the one. Well Done! $walesflag$
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Put 2 and 2 together as to where you'd been at the weekend --- and made 3 !
Cheers
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In which North Wales town will you find this plaque?
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Is that in Rhuthin, H?
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No, sorry.
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Market Street, Abergele?
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Well done!
I found this about it which I thought was quite interesting.
http://www.abergelefieldclub.co.uk/notebook/Medical_Hall_Abergele.html (http://www.abergelefieldclub.co.uk/notebook/Medical_Hall_Abergele.html)
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Here's an easy one. To which Council does this vehicle belong and where is it parked?
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Conwy CBC and it looks as though it is in a space meant for bikes !!! ???
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NO! Wrong! Try again. ;)
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Liverpool?
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Sorry, not Liverpool. Not in a major city.
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Complete guess. Weatherfield and somewhere on Coronation Street.
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Sorry again!
Enough of this silly question!
A Google question with images selected, will reveal that it is a Road-sweeper's Wheely-bin from Waltham Forrest, suitably parked in the special bays set aside for such vehicles! Didn't think anyone would get it! _))*
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Paddy may have used this but where was he living at that time? $walesflag$
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Do you want the (w)hole answer? ;)
The Town Council have apparently heard about this hole and they are sending a couple of men to look into it! L0L
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Well there's no need for Paddy to leave his hut then!
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Was that a clue?
If so I imagine that it could be the putting green at Happy Valley.
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The clues are there Nemesis but it's not in the 3 towns area.
You may get there by a long bridge but you can use another road. Does that clue sound Irish to you? $walesflag$
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Saw one of these at Blarney Castle! Z**
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You may well have done but if you're looking for Paddy from here you won't see him because he's long gone.
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Is the Bridge that takes you to this place really 7040 yards long! :o
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The clues are there Nemesis but it's not in the 3 towns area.
You may get there by a long bridge but you can use another road. Does that clue sound Irish to you? $walesflag$
In a word--- Yes !
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Paddy,Murphy and his mates were kicked out of their huts hundreds of years ago. $walesflag$
Nemesis, have you gone metric and forgotten all about yards?
1760 yards = 1 mile
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Its not Irish if you play golf in New Jersey at the Ash Brook Course :golf:
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Yorkie, I'm surprised at you I thought that you would have got it straight away with all those clues. D)
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Wanted to give everyone else a chance! $walesflag$
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Holyhead mountain hut circles?
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Well done Hollins Cytiau'r Gwyddelod or Irishmen's Huts as they are called that are by South Stack lighthouse and you can get there via Four Mile Bridge or take the other route through Holyhead. &well&
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Where will you find this futuristic looking branch of Caffe Nero?
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I'll take a guess at Manchester Airport?
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You're not right but you are not too far away!
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Is it that small triangle shaped shopping mall in Manchester city centre, not sure if it may actually be called the Triangle?
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Trafford Centre?
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Well done SDQ, exactly right and it is called the Triangle. It's a real shame because a lot of the shops are closed in there now.
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Two part question! What is and where is this?
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Water pipe up above Dolgarrog I think?
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That didn't take long :laugh:
Yes you are right ME, here is a view looking down the pipe with the River Conwy below. $good$
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I went up there over 30 years ago looking for old narrow gauge railways ;D
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Melin-y-Coed - DOLGARROG DAM DISASTER http://bit.ly/Je2Vw8 (http://bit.ly/Je2Vw8)
'Nov. 2nd 1925. The Dolgarrog Disaster' (1925) :: Gathering the Jewels http://bit.ly/LMu6l4 (http://bit.ly/LMu6l4)
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In the old days you would have gone into this building to listen to a concert but what is it used for now?
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Is it the Manchester Free Trade Hall where one could listen to the famous Halle Orchestra?
If it is then I think today it is probably a restaurant or hotel.
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Yes, well done. The original facade of the Free Trade Hall was kept intact and they built a completely new and modern hotel behind it. it is the Radisson Edwardian Hotel now.
They built the Bridgewater Hall to replace the concert hall.
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OMG-- Went to see Demis Roussos there in the early70s.
As for the Halle orchestra, I used to do the hair of the Harpist and one of the Violinists, way back!
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In which North Wales town will you find this unusual building?
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is it abergele
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Very well done Norman and so quick!
It is a catholic church.
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Where's this one then? $walesflag$
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You and me should know this one!
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Would this be a place to shelter your paunch? :o It sounds a cheeky place to me! ??? $walesflag$
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You could sit on these seats outside the church and harbour your thoughts or if you're feeling more energetic you could climb this Welsh bare hill of the paunch from where this place takes its name. The clues are very easy for me.
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Borth -y-Gest
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Well done Barbiroli, Borth Y Gest it is. &well&
I was expexting me or rather ME to get it first as he has lived in that area for a number of years. It's a pretty little village and there are some nice views from Moel Y Gest too.
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From my recent holiday (there's a clue) - This floating restaurant was once the yacht of a pop group.
Can you say what group and where it is located? And the name of the yacht?
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The Beatles ?
Funchal ?
Vagrant ?
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Absolutely correct! ZXZ
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Now what is the name of this one?
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It is too small to be Balmoral and I do not think it is Boudicca or Black Watch so I would say it is more than likley Braemar.
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Just can't beat the Members on this Forum! Right again. ZXZ
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Was that your holiday accommodation Yorkie?
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Aye - it was indeed. Unfortunately they have made a few economies since last time which was rather annoying.
Only the second cruise with Mr Olsen so will think seriously about who to use next. Don't like the new super liners with up to 3000 people and the Braemar with just over 800 is just about right. Also missed a port of call for no real reason.
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I saw these yesterday, but where are they?
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/DSCN1764a.jpg)
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/DSCN1777a.jpg)
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Prestatyn?
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Well that didn't last long! well done, I saw them yesterday I thought they looked great!
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/DSCN1777.jpg)
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Where would you see this? Is it cursed perhaps?
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Was it cursed here perhaps?
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That's him in the middle but where is he?
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You are very knid to us with your clues Hugo!
Is it St Eilian's Church, Llaneilian. Anglesey?
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It is indeed St Eilians Church in Llaneilian. We had a walk in that area yesterday and got soaked so we stayed in the Church for a while. It's a lovely little Church with lots of history and a cursing well near the shoreline! &well&
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This coal bunker doesn't look new to me, in fact it looks quite old. Can anyone shed any light on where it is? $walesflag$
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It's not in Trinity Church but could there be some connection?
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I've just watched this coal bunker on a film so it's famous really. There's more to this coal bunker than meets the eye.
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It reminded me of that old Christmas cracker joke " What's black and white and red all over " but it's not like that now, especially in today's light.
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I saw it when I was there on 25th January but I'm an old romantic anyway. That's the last clue today because I'm tired and it's time to put the lights out.
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25th January is Burn's Night - so it could be the coal hole for storing the black stuff until it was required to stoke a furnace or boiler, maybe the pump for a mine. Just my usual guess but really haven't a clue as usual!
WWW
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25th January is also St Dwynwen's Day so i'm guessing its on Llanddwyn Island?
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Jack, you must be an old romantic like me! St Dwynwen the Welsh Patron Saint of lovers lived there and had her Church built on the Island.
The coal bunker is behind the black and white lighthouse although the lighthouse was partly painted in red for the Demi Moore film Half Light.
I saw a clip of the film on U-Tube yesterday and lo and behold the showed a shot of the coal bunker. Blink and you'll miss it though!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQ6EU3uCo4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQ6EU3uCo4#)
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Not the usual view you see of this building in the UK but what is it called?
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I think I remember you going to Highclere Castle Hugo. Is it there?
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Hmmm yes, interesting one this. I thought of a number of neo-classical piles up and down the country - Castle Howard, Knebworth House, Chatsworth - all sandstone and with similar perpendicular turrets, but no - it's not any of them I think. It does look a little like one of the Oxford colleges, Christ's I think - but I can't see the shield well enough....
PS: I have a couple of questions too. Should I wait until yours is answered first Hugo? - I have never quizzed the forum before you see...
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There's not much that gets past Hollins. Well remembered, Highclere Castle it is.
Here are better known photos.
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Where will you find these two? $walesflag$
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Bodnant Gardens.
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No sorry Yorkie, I noticed them when I was walking to the Little Valley. $walesflag$
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Outside the Royal Goat Hotel in Beddgelert
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Spot on SDQ, I was walking through Beddgelert to Cwm Bychan ( Little Valley) when I saw them outside the Royal Goat Hotel &well&
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So, a trio of brain ticklers from me then. The first will be a familiar object to Llandudno natives, there were many of them throughout the town in the past. I remember we had three of them dotted around my primary school.
1. The question is, WHERE was this one when I took the photo in 2008? - the background is removed otherwise it is too easy, but I can post the shot with the background if no one knows the answer:
(http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/336/yffynonariangwyn.jpg)
The second is probably far too easy, but here goes...
2. What are the NAMES of these two radical women who fled the tyrrany of forced marriage and flew in the face of a disapproving society to follow their dream?
(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9373/3townsquizquestion1.jpg)
And finally...
3. After swingeing cuts to the British navy, this is the UK's last remaining aircraft carrier. Here we see her undergoing sea trials, but WHERE is the great ship being put through her paces?:
(http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7506/3townsquizquestion2.jpg)
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2 -> Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby
3 -> Llanfairfechan boating lake
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CORRECT!! - and Q1?
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1 -> Rhyl Prom?
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1.- Llandudno Promenade.
Is it near the slipway?
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Spot on Bri - ardderchog!!! $good$
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You don't have to roam too far from Llandudno to see this which is above the door of the building, but where is it?
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It's got centuries of history!
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In fact you could say that it was built in the MCD Century??
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I'm lucky because I've been there many times, some have only been there once while others have never wanted to go?
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Could one say that it was an IN - convenience to have to use the facilities it has to offer? ;)
Or it could be Aberconwy House!
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Nice try Yorkie but I'm afraid that it's incorrect and is further south, Those stone blocks on the building could even be recycled and about MC years older than the present building.
The earlier building had a completely different purpose than the present one too.
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Its not in the City of Bath is it??
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Portmerion?
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Possibly Trefriw Wells Spa ?
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Yorkie's the nearest by far but he's roamed too far south. $walesflag$
Fester's in the right era though for the original site.
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I've cropped this photo as it would be too easy otherwise and it wouldn't be Fair? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Caerhun Church
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Well done Yorkie, I knew you would get it in the end. Above the door is a weathered medieval stone panel of a crucifix. &well&
St Mary's Church in Caerhun built in the 14th Century on the site of the Roman Fort of Kanovium. A friend's neighbour worked there as a cleaner and while she was working there one day saw something walk through the wall of the Church. I wonder.......
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Where will you find this lump of windblown sculpture?
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Monument Valley, Arizona?
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Monument Valley, Arizona?
Sorry SDQ - not on this occasion! ££$
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Garden Of Eden, Arches National Park, Utah.
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Didn't last long did it? &well&
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What was this building and where is it?
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Is it Lowther Castle near Penrith?
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Sorry Nemesis it isn't :'(
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A hotel at Soldier's Point, Holyhead?
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Well done Hollins! :D It is the former Soldier's Point Hotel now very derelict along with the next door Porth y Felin House which the RAF owned for many years. I believe that both are included in the new plans for the Holyhead marina development.
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Where is this and which road is below?
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I'll have a guess at Crib Goch in Snowdon and the road being the A4086.
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No, sorry.
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Tryfan perhaps - and the A5? ?{}?
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It is the A5, well done, but it isn't Tryfan. Close though!
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Is it the part of the climb (pinnacle ridge) up the side of Pen yr Ole Wen, opposite Ogwen Cottage
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Absolutely spot on. &well&
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This was a bit off the beaten track but not far from a Norman Castle so where is it?
1st clue it's not Windsor Castle. $walesflag$ $welsh$
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St Agnes Cemetery, Conwy by the look of the undergrowth!
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Nice try Yorkie but it's not in Conwy. It's off the beaten track so I'll accept the area eg city,town, village etc rather than the precise location. $walesflag$
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It has to be a guess, and assuming that it is North Wales I will be so bold as to suggest Rhuddlan, one of the first, if not the first Norman Castle to be built in Wales.
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That's a good guess but it's not Rhuddlan. It is in N Wales but the castle is even earlier than Rhuddlan castle.
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Flint?
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Nice try Hollins but it's not correct. This faithful river is only a trickle here? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Harlech ?
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I can now only have a go at Brecon or Tenby ! Although the Windsor connection could suggest another!
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Is there such a place as Dyserth Castle?
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Harlech, Brecon and Tenby are incorrect I'm afraid.
It's in N Wales and the location is not known because of it's Norman Castle but is better known for other things?
The Windsor connection could help perhaps or even the faithful river which is recorded in the Doomsday Book. $walesflag$
Perhaps I'm going soft but here's another clue as it's only easy if you know the area. Edward I didn't build this castle, his Dad did!
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Deganwy?
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I posted this without seeing Jack's posting as it takes me so long to type!!
Dyserth it is. Well done Jack as this was quite hard. &well&
Dyserth Castle was built by Henry III ( Edward I 's father) it didn't last long and was destroyed by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1263 and there is little left of it as it has been destroyed by the quarry.
There's a nice walk Jack from Meliden to Gwaenysgor and returning down along the Afon Ffyddion ( Ffydd = faithful $walesflag$ )
to come out by Dyserth Waterfall.
If it's any consolation to anyone, I lived in Dyserth for about 7 years and didn't know that there was a Norman Castle there. :-[
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Thanks Hugo, I used my initiative/cheated. I recognised the photos from the walking thread and trawled through twenty pages of that thread to find out where you had taken them!! :laugh:
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You little Devil Jack! I was going to do another question on that same walk but I'm stumped now. :(
Yorkie's good on quizzes and he gave me some tips on posing questions especially if I use photos with them. I'll have to think of something harder next time.
Thanks for the info about that spooky place in Trearddur Bay, It's time that that place had a face lift because that is one super location for a property
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I don't suppose this one will last very long but - where and what is this?
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Is that in the garden of the monastary at Penmon, over on Anglesey?
Monastary may be the wrong word, church or priory perhaps.... but I was there recently, and the wishing well type thingy, St Seiriols?.. in the garden by the lake looks just like that.
I believe that the structure was only built in Victorian times, but the well itself dates back almost 1000 years.
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St Seiriol's Well I think it is called.
Seiriol was an early 6th century saint, who created a cell at Penmon Priory on Anglesey, off the coast of north Wales. He later moved to Ynys Seiriol (Puffin Island). He was a son of King Owain Danwyn of Rhos.
According to legend, he and Saint Cybi were good friends, and would meet weekly near Llanerchymedd, at the Clorach wells. Saint Cybi would walk from Holyhead, facing the rising sun in the morning and setting sun in the evening. Saint Cybi was known as Cybi Felyn (Cybi the Tanned), as he was tanned during his journey. Seiriol, travelling in the opposite direction, from Penmon, would have his back to the sun. Thus, he was known as Seiriol Wyn (Seiriol the Fair). Rhyd-y-Saint railway station (English: Ford of the Saints railway station) on the Red Wharf Bay branch line near Pentraeth, was named so as Seiriol and Cybi are said to have met there.
Seiriol was a younger brother of King Cynlas of Rhos and King Einion of Llŷn. His cell at Penmon is said to have been rebuilt by his brothers, as they didn't think his humble residence was good enough. St Seiriol's Well (Ffynnon Seiriol) lies in a small chamber adjoining its remains. Both are protected by Cadw, the publicly-funded body responsible for the historic monuments of Wales. Adjacent to them are the church and ruins of a monastery also dating back to Seiriol's day.
In his old age, Seiriol retired to Ynys Lannog which subsequently became known (in Welsh) as Ynys Seiriol. Later it would be known to the Vikings as Priestholm, and is known as Puffin Island in English since the 19th century.
Saint Seiriol is commemorated 1 February in both the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches.
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Thanks for the additional info Nem, I love it there, its so peaceful..... I get to go to such places so rarely.
I am so envious when I read those amazing walks of Hugo, Jack and the others....
This is why it makes such a change for me to know the answer to a quiz question on here, (well I hope I'm right!)
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It's such a peaceful and relaxing setting and worth the visit to see it and the other buildings nearby. I think that the original cell may have been on the left of the 1st photo.
A friend of mine had an embarrassing time when he went to the well. He bent over it to throw a small coin in and as he did so a pound coin fell out of his pocket into the water. He needed the pound coin so he rolled up his sleeves and pulled it out of the water but prayed that no one had seen him do it just in case they thought that he was pinching the money that people had left.
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I was quite correct - it didn't last long. Congrats to all and thanks for all the additional information. I won't put a picture of the Dove Cote on and ask the question because I suspect you will all know that also!!
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This is all that is left of this property and the person who lived there was born of a poor family but was very generous in later life.
What was their name and what did they do?
It's in N Wales but that's the only clue today seeing as I was rumbled by Jack!
It's only easy if you know it, otherwise it's hard.
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If Jack can find the location of the cottage it may help but on the other hand it may not!
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It's only easy if you know it, otherwise it's hard.
A really profound statement Hugo! L0L
I haven't a clue having seen so many derelict cottages dotted around the country, it could be any one of them! I'll have a bash at somewhere in Anglesey! Mr Jones and Family and he was a basket maker.
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I really don't have a clue but will take a wild guess!
Is the property 'Ysgwrn' the home of Hedd Wyn the poet?
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That's true Yorkie and it's a hard one but I'll try and help as much as possible.
Jack, it's not correct and I haven't had a walk in the area where I took the photo.
We are looking for a woman, she came from a humble background and went to work in Old Colwyn as a domestic servant in the 1800's
The cottage and the legacy she left are within 5 miles from the 3 towns area
Her husband was called Charles and not Jack
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Would it be Eleanor Frost we're looking for, Hugo?
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I thought that it would have lasted longer than that but well done Dave. Did you get it from the clues or the picture?
The cottage is on the left about a mile from Bryn Y Maen and the legacy she left was the church in Bryn Y Maen
The Cathedral of the Hills built of limestone by Eleanor Frost in 1897 in memory of her husband Charles Frost, JP of Caernarvonshire and HIgh Sheriff. Eleanor born of a local poor family became a domestic servant of the Frost family who lived in Old Colwyn eventually marrying their son Charles. By then a formidable weatthy woman he also bequeathed her £24000, she spent more than this on the church still leaving £31000 at her death
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It was the clues that gave me the idea. Is that cottage not far from a crossroads about a mile past Bryn Y Maen?
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Too many clues there then Dave, but it is that cottage that you have mentioned. We've driven past it many times and watched it slowly deteriorating.
It has been painted and drawn by many people over the years and we have a sketch of it that my wife drew about 25 years ago. Apparently the story goes that Eleanor when she was a young girl said that if she ever had enough money she would like to build a church for the village and years later she was able to do just that
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Where is this Cromlech in Wales?
It's an easy one this time and the clue is that it is located in a place beginning with the letter "LL"
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Allor Moloch Burial Chamber, near Glan Conway
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Hendre Waelod Neolithic Burial Chamber, LLansanffraid, Glan Conwy - http://goo.gl/maps/G5If (http://goo.gl/maps/G5If)
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Ludo's got it right, LLansanffraid it is. &well&
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Another nice easy one because the weather is so bad today.
Where is this?
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Is that the cromlech just above the YHA at Rowen?
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Hugo,
Allor Moloch is an alternative name for Hendre Waelod, see link: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1529 (http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1529)
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Well done Jack, you have probably passed it on one of your Carneddau walks.
BrianP Thanks for pointing that out but it was the location I was looking for that began with the letter LL and that was of course Llansanffraid Glan Conwy. I didn't want to make it too easy.
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Can anyone on the Forum post a message with the word "and" included five times, one after the other so that the sentence actually makes sense? An oldie so I'm sure someone can do it! ££$
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Apart from something described by old Arkwright in Open All Hours I seem to recall this.
The landlord of a pub called The Pig And Whistle asked a signwriter to make a new sign. When he saw it he thought that the words were too close together so he said to the signwriter “I want more space between Pig and And and And and Whistle”.
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Absolutely right, it can be any pub of course! Z**
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An easy one nearby, no points for guessing the age of the property but where is it and an extra point if you can name it? $walesflag$
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I thought that I'd made it too easy but obviously not. I'll catch the bus from LLandudno and will see it again but which bus do I have to catch to go past here?
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It looks from the hill behind that the house must be in Dwygyfylchi or Capulelo?
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Well spotted Jack, it is in Dwygyfylchi and the back ground gives it away. Just one point though Jack and I'll have the other. Glan Y Coed is on the corner as you come from St Gwynan's Church.
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What is the address of this building and who was involved with an incident there? Sorry about size of pic, ddn't realise until it had been posted.
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Knowing you, Yorkie, it probably has a Portuguese connection.
Therefore, has it something to do with the disappearance of Madeline McCann?
If so, is it a ground floor apartment at 5A Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva, Praia da Luz?
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Not surprised you got it immediately, Bri. $walesflag$
And with all the 35 odd British police also now involved in the enquiry, after Metodo 3, 2 ex CID bods and now this lot there is still no further news of the girl. I wonder if such expense will be spared for any other little girl who goes missing in the future?
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Which motor and motor cycling circuit is this?
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Es ist der Nürburgring in Deutschland - 70Km südlich von Köln.
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Das it's korrekt mien Freund! Tot ziens!
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This former Railway tunnel is somewhere in North Wales. Which organisation uses it now?
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I think it's the old Penrhryn Slate Railway, now used as a Cycle route. $walesflag$
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Das it's korrekt mien Freund! Tot ziens!
Yorkie, your spelling is atrocious!
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Fingers are much too fast and the keyboard just can't keep up the pace!
Plus I have forgotten most of my German. But the Dutch bit is Korrekt! D)
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Fingers are much too fast and the keyboard just can't keep up the pace!
Plus I have forgotten most of my German. But the Dutch bit is Korrekt! D)
Klopt!
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I think it's the old Penrhryn Slate Railway, now used as a Cycle route. $walesflag$
One aspect of your answer is correct. ;)
No public access is allowed to this tunnel now...for very good reason!
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Looks like Dinorwig to me, part of Electric Mountain power station.
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Is it the Bomb Store at Llanberis? Therefore no public access! $walesflag$
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Looks like Dinorwig to me, part of Electric Mountain power station.
Merddin's got it, I'm afraid, Yorkie! Its official name is the Dinorwig Cable Tunnel, originally part of Dinorwig Quarry but used now to carry the 400,000 volt cables that transfer the electricity generated by Dinorwig Pumped Storage Power Station to the National Grid.
Dinorwig Power Station, located adjacent to the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, North Wales, is Europe’s largest pumped storage hydroelectric power station. It is also one of the fastest, most dynamic power plants in the world, capable of delivering its full station output of 1800 MW in only 12 seconds.
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The two foot gauge railway is a clue, connected to the Llanberis Lake Railway. The Penrhyn Quarry Line is currently being rebuilt starting at Coed y Parc, Bethesda, I'm not sure how far it will run, but the Welsh Highland Railway was successfully rebuilt! D)
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The two foot gauge railway is a clue, connected to the Llanberis Lake Railway. The Penrhyn Quarry Line is currently being rebuilt starting at Coed y Parc, Bethesda, I'm not sure how far it will run, but the Welsh Highland Railway was successfully rebuilt! D)
http://www.penrhynrailway.co.uk/ (http://www.penrhynrailway.co.uk/)
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I was just about to post that very same link! :)
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Ok, how about this one. Where will you find this building in North Wales?
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I'm sure I know this, I'll let others have a guess first!
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...is it the fortification built by Llywelyn the Great, Castell Dolbadarn?. It looks like Cadw are renovating it if it is - if so, I hope they do a careful job!.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/Dolbadarn.jpg/800px-Dolbadarn.jpg)
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Not Dolbadarn, I'm afraid, Ludo. This building had an industrial use.
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No one else seems to know so I'll say Parys Mountain on Anglesey
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No one else seems to know so I'll say Parys Mountain on Anglesey
...and you are quite correct. It is on top of Parys Mountain, one of the highest points on Anglesey, at an altitude of 138 meters (450 feet) and can be seen for miles around. It is also the only remaining industrial windmill. Instead of grinding grain, this windmill was used to pump water out of the copper mine on Parys Mountain. As the photo shows, it is currently being renovated.
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This is the Yard at the Snowdon Mountain Railway Station in Llanberis. The large flat wagon with white containers on it at the front of the photo, what is it used for? I might have to ban ME from answering this one, as I'm sure he'll know!
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Not seen it myself but at a guess, would this be the means by which fresh water is conveyed to the summit cafe etc.
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Sounds right to me, although I can't answer as I'm banned _))*
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Well, you're both correct! ;D
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Where in North Wales will you find this half burnt out bungalow - a clue is its not that far out of the three towns area?
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That will be on the cycle/coastal path between Llanddulas and Pensarn. It has been like that for years.
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Correct, Jack! I can see that these are far too easy, let me find a more difficult one....
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Where will you find Oscar's Lounge in North Wales...?
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The former Ship Inn in Bangor?
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I was hoping for a Deganwy joke from someone but I think you're right, Jack, it is Bangor.
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Where in North Wales is this?
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Looks like Caernarfon
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I'll have my usual wild guess at Denbigh Indoor Market. ZXZ
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Between you, the correct answer lies. It's the Indoor Market in Caernarfon. $good$
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Where exactly are these figures?
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It's in the north and not too far away. $walesflag$
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Is it on the left going up the hill into Rhuddlan just after you have crossed the bridge over the River Clwyd?
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Well done Gwynant, I saw them yesterday for the first time and they looked really nice. &well&
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This room has an "Alice" theme.
Where is it?
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This room has an "Alice" theme.
Where is it?
Sorry forgot the photo on the first post. Brain is going!
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Australia?
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Good thinking but it is a bit closer than that!
;D
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Bodysgallen.
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No!
However it is in another hotel and a nice place to eat.
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St Tudno?
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No, it's not in the 3 Towns but not too far away.
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I was going to say the Daresbury Hotel but that's not nearby so I'll guess at The Kinmel Arms at St George. Certainly good food!
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No sorry, further away than that.
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OK! I'll try Tan yr Onnen, Nr St Asaph with Patrick and Sara to look after you. :D
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O'h dear, no still not right. I've never been there. Is it good?
I need Hugo to think up some good cryptic clues.
Think afternoon tea party.......
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Boston, Mass,?
Last guess, Erddig House, Wrexham or Chirk Castle.
Now gonna watch the 5 ring circus on TV.! _))*
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Sorry, none of those!
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What about Oddfellows in Chester?
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Well done Hugo, correct!
http://www.oddfellowschester.com/the-tea-rooms (http://www.oddfellowschester.com/the-tea-rooms)
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Where was I on Wednesday? within an hour and a quarter of llandudno.
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/P7290050.jpg)
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Carrog
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no but quite near.
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eeermm... is it perhaps from a canal boat on the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct looking west towards Llangollen?
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Well done Ludo, it's a great trip!
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/P7290040.jpg)
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/P7290043.jpg)
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Where would you see this? $walesflag$
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Looks to me like Chris Wren, buried in St Paul's, London
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Nice try Yorkie but it's not Christopher Wren.
You'll have to look further north $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Well done Ludo, it's a great trip!
Great photos ME - it looks like you really enjoyed it!. Your photographs really brought back memories (http://threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1689.msg49570.html#msg49570) for me!
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not the mausoleum at Bodnant???
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You're in the wrong valley I'm afraid Nemesis.
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Well I never, I didn't think this would have been difficult for some forum members.
As a connoisseur of good food I would think that Hollins must have dined in one of the good restaurants nearby.
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Just for elimination purposes, Chester Cathedral. &shake&
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You are on the right track Yorkie, it's in a Church but it is not Chester, It is in North Wales $walesflag$ $wales
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St Asaph Cathedral?
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St Asaph Cathedral?
Don't know of any good restaurants nearby. :D
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It's not St Asaph either.
Although this Church has been bypassed it has not been neglected and is well worth a visit.
When I lived in that area I used to regularly go to this restaurant for Sunday lunch.
I wish that I was going there today, good food lovely surroundings and the relaxing sound of a babbling brook that passes nearby.
Was this building once a Mill? $walesflag$
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Bodlewydden
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The Brookhouse Mill near Denbigh?
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Betws yn Rhos
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The Brookhouse Mill near Denbigh?
That was a red herring Bri. Think Cymraeg $walesflag$
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Last clue will easily give it away so I'm looking for the name of the Church now.
Two clues now one for the ladies and one for the guys:-
Ladies first
There's a nice ladies shop nearby, but the prices.....ouch! still can always have a nice coffee there to recover from the shock!
Guys next
Hang on a mo, this guy was not Joe Public because he was a big wig in more ways than one and lived in a big Hall nearby?
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Bodrhyddan Hall?
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Sorry Bri but you're going in the wrong direction after your last guess. If you haven't been inside this Church you must go as there is a lot of history there.
Remember the clues are there! $walesflag$
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Y Felinheli?
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Sorry SDQ you're miles away.
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The Church is in a big valley and east of the Conwy Valley. Bri Roberts is the nearest location wise but he was thinking in English? $walesflag$
Does that help a lot?
Dave and Suepp should definitely know where it is and I bet Hollins has been very near there too.
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Llanrhaiadr. Is the Church ST DOGFAN'S?
The shop is The Lodge!
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Well done Yorkie &well& The full title of the village is Llanrhaeadr Yng Nghinmeirch and you can get an extra point if you can pronounce it. ;D
The Church is called St Dyfnog's and is well worth a visit. The sculpture is of Maurice (mo) Jones the local squire and there are a number of other interesting features inside like the Jesse window. The Church was bypassed when they built the main road lower down.
St Dyfnog's Holy Well is nearby and that is worth going to see too.
The Lodge is the well known Ladies Clothes shop and my favourite restaurant there is the Nant Y Felin. Nant = brook Y = the Felin =Mill
At the heart of the beautiful Vale of Clwyd”
Welcome to St Dyfnog’s Church
At St Dyfnog’s we try to reach out to everyone in our community and beyond, encourage people in their spiritual journey and provide sacred space for all to use.
St Dyfnog came here in the 6th century and many continue to visit his holy well, in the wooded dell behind the church.
Entering the church through a fine 16th century carved timber porch, you are immediately aware of the glorious stained glass of the Jesse window, which was completed in 1544, and the peace of this special place.
During the Civil War, the window was taken out and buried in the oak chest to protect it from damage by the Parliamentarians. It was put back in 1661.
The west window contains even earlier glass and other attractions include an ornate monument to Maurice Jones, who died in 1702, and a golden pelican of 1762. The 15th century wood carvings, in the hammer beam panelled roof above the sanctuary, are not to be missed!
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Realised I got the church name wrong and it should be St Dyfnog but was too late to modify! When would you like to hear me pronounce the name of the place? ;)
I'm quite good at pronunciation, though I just haven't a clue what I'm saying! L0L
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You worked well on that one Yorkie and deserved full points. $good$
I had to delay putting in my walking photos as I know that you would have guessed it immediately because of the numbers etc
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I noticed that you hadn't posted any photos near the number of the quiz item. You're getting a bit too crafty. The give away in the end was the expensive shop with the coffee and it being in the valley. I got the church mixed up with Bishop Morgan Thomas which was a different Llanrhaiadr. I remember some years ago giving a performance at the Kings Head in Llanrhaiadr with a local Morris Dance Group. Their name was Clerical Error, wonder if they are still around!
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I bet Hollins has been very near there too.
Hollins didn't have a clue where it was despite extensive research on the internet!
I am becoming an expert on North Wales churches with your questions Hugo. It is fun trying to find out the answers though.
I have never been to Nant y Felin but I will try it now you have recommended it, thanks.
I noticed you started you walk at Rhewl. I had an excellent afternoon tea there recently at the relatively newly opened cafe at Homewood Bound.
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If you haven't been to the Church in Llanrhaeadr Hollins then you must go as there is a lot to see inside and that woodland dell with the Holy well is also worth seeing.
I must admit that I haven't been to the Nant Y Felin for years so I can't vouch for it now. If I didn't live so far away from that area then I would still be going there. Don't forget to post the Hollins Taste Test if you do decide to give it a go.
Thanks for the tip on Homeward Bound, I'll try it when I'm there again.
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Wat's a Jesse window?
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Jesse Window, Llanrhaeadr
A perfect Jesse window, which was first set in the wall in 1533. At the bottom reclines Jesse, with his son King David playing the harp directly above him. All the kings wear ermine. There are also some prophets included. During the Civil War, 1642, the window was taken out and hidden because the Parliamentarians often smashed coloured glass windows. It was restored in 1661.
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Oh thanks for that I'd neverheard of it before.
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Neither had I until I Googled it! D)
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Where would you find this ? $walesflag$
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Haven't a clue! And probably won't even be trying to find out! _))*
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Nor me, Hugo, you make them far too hard for me to get right.
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That looks to me like the mitred bishop in the Church of St. Saeran, Llanynys - am I right?
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You are spot on Ludo and without any clues too. Well done &well&
It was closed when we called after our walk last week so I never got to see the painting of St Christopher on the wall.
Directly opposite the door is St. Saeran’s greatest glory, a huge 15th century wall painting of St. Christopher. Rediscovered under plaster in 1967, this rare survival is much the finest medieval wall painting in North Wales. The saint – according to legend a giant who served as a ferryman – is shown carrying the infant Christ across a river, with a flowering staff in his hand and a shoal of fish round his feet. The patron saint of travellers, Christopher (‘Christ-bearer’) was often painted opposite church doorways, where wayfarers could easily glimpse his image and thus (it was believed) be preserved from ‘fainting or falling’ all that day. The belief lives on in the St. Christopher’s of modern key-rings and car dashboards.
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An easier one then for local knowledge. What is the name of this lake?
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Llyn Anafon, guessed from looking at the map, looks like Anglesey in the background.
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Didn't last long did it? I think you're right ME. $good$
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It didn't last long did it? Well done ME it is Llyn Anafon $good$
That time we started from Aber and took the path through the valley to get there.
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Amazing really when you think I've never been there or heard of it! _))*
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See how lucky you are with this one ME. The name of the lake and the mountain I was on when I took the photo? $walesflag$
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Tricky as I can't see a picture? :D
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You would have got a special bonus if you'd have guessed that one ME.. :-[
Here is your clue then..... the photo $walesflag$
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Is it Llyn Foel, taken from the top of the East Ridge on Moel Siabod?
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I can see the similarity but it's not correct but it is in the Snowdonia National Park.
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how about Foel Fras?
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After looking more closely I think it could be Llyn-y-Gadar looking towadrds the Mawddach.
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Well spotted Gwynant. It is Llyn Y Gadair looking down from Cadair Idris. It was quite hard so I posted one with some background in it to help. That is the Mawddach in the distance. &well&
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Where will you find this?
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In the absence of any local landmarks I would hazard a guess at Bull Bay, Anglesey or if not Cowes, Isle of Wight. :laugh: $good$
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No, sorry neither of those but you are on the right track with an island.
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I thought I had pictures of ALL the pained cows (see https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=painted+cows&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=A7g9UKuoA8jX0QW0qoCoDA&sqi=2&ved=0CDcQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=566 (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=painted+cows&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=A7g9UKuoA8jX0QW0qoCoDA&sqi=2&ved=0CDcQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=566) ) having posed a similar puzzle some time ago, but I ain't got this one! I'll take a guess at Ibiza.
But here's her Sister.
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No sorry Yorkie it isn't Ibiza. I remember your question about the painted cows before. They do a similar thing in Switzerland as well but this is closer to home.
The clue is in the breed!
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I have witnessed the tradition of painted cows on Tynwald day on the Isle of Man - could it be one of these (http://www.iomguide.com/interests/cow-parade/cow-parade.php) ?
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Sorry, not the Isle of Man either!
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My Previous answer last night was supposed to be "tongue-in-cheek" with bovine-sounding locations (sorry about that!) but as your reply was that it is on an island and the clue is in the breed, I think that it is located on the island of Jersey (as Jersey cows have fringes like that) but I'm afraid I don't know exactly where. ?{}?
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You are getting close but still not the correct island!
Sorry I didn't get your bovine links, blame it on the late night or me being a bit slow!
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It's Guernsey I think?
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Well done Hugo, you are correct.
We were over there for a wedding at Tourteval church which you can see in the background of this photo of the real cows!
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Here is a 'current' question.
Where is this Church? and why is it receiving more than usual attention at the moment?
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Is it a Scottish Church in connection with the discussions about legalising Gay Marriages in Scotland? Could it be Kilcaldy?
Or is it Holy Trinity & St Mary's Church, Grimsby?
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looks like the one near the park in Chester but if it is i don,t know the connection
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No none of those--try again, will post another clue tomorrow.
Just as asmall clue-- the newly edged graves under the willow tree are significant.
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Are theroots of the willow tree affecting the graves? Don't know where it is though!
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No White Rabbit-- I don't think so.
The graves have just been re-furbished and the railings re-painted-- I know the blue is ecclesiastical blue, but it looks a bit 'loud'
http://www.wenlock-olympian-society.org.uk/ (http://www.wenlock-olympian-society.org.uk/)
The church is Holy Trinity Much Wenlock.
The graves are of Willam Penny Brookes and his family. I did take a pic, but as we had just had a heavy rainstorm the grave top was standing in water and not very visible.
Much Wenlock has ' made a meal ' of it's connection to the Olympic Games with trails, plaques and exhibitions. The Olympian Society was formed in 1860 and led to the birth of the modern games.
The link above will explain why.
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Who is this fellow and where is he?
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Have you been to Moelfre Anglesy recently because that looks like Richard (Dick) Evans
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Well done Hugo. I thought you would get it because I remember you saying that you had walked the whole of the Anglesey coast path. That is what we have been doing today. I will post something in the walking section when I have sorted myself out.
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I'll look forward to seeing your photos then Hollins. We may be going to Moelfre in a few weeks for a short walk around that village, it's such a nice area around there.
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Where would you find these structures and what is their purpose?
(I hope this comes through OK as this is my first attempt at posting a photo!)
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(I hope this comes through OK as this is my first attempt at posting a photo!)
Well done, Gwynant. &well&
And you always told me modern day technology was not for you. :rage:
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Thanks for posting a new quiz question Gwynant.
Are they navigation markers at Carmel Head on Anglesey?
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Carmel Head/Trwyn y Gader lies at the extreme north west tip of Wales on the Isle of Anglesey. Offshore are The Skerries/Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid guarded by a lighthouse, while to the east of them is Maen y Bugael/West Mouse. This is one of three small islands - East/Ynys Amlwch, Middle/Ynys Badrig and West/Maen y Bugael off the north coast.
On the mainland opposite West Mouse are two large triangular stone towers erected by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board in the 1860's as an aid to navigation on this dangerous coastline. The two towers line up with a third marker on West Mouse.
These navigation marks are the Coal Rock Beacons, known colloquially as the White Ladies. The sight-line through them and the West Mouse Beacon aligns with the dangerous Coal Rock, which is awash at low water spring tides. This lies a little further offshore beyond the Mouse. Coal Rock is the centremost of a group of three - Ethel Rock to the west and Archdeacon Rock to the east. Coal Rock is a hazard to navigation as it lies sufficiently far offshore (one and a half miles ) to constitute a danger to vessels making a passage to or from the Point Lynas/Amlwch direction and passing outside ( to the north of ) the Skerries. This was particularly so in the days of sail when coastal traffic was intense and the need to tack against adverse winds made diversion from a direct course necessary.
In addition to the beacons Trinity House marked the three rocks mentioned each with its own buoy (black conical ) and at night the Skerries Lighthouse shone a red sector over the area warning of the danger. The beacons were last painted in 1955 when a party was put ashore by the Trinity House Vessel "Argus", which used to be based in Holyhead. Many thanks to Norman Sheldrick for much of the above information.
Any practical use of the towers would have been very many years ago but they remain in excellent condition. Today's commercial shipping keeps well clear of this coastline, with its fast currents and notorious rocks although yachts and fishing boats are a common sight. Further details on the history of this site are most welcome, please contact me here.
Carmel Head is a beautiful area of rocky coastline and is accessed by the Anglesey Coastal Path and from other footpaths in the area. As there is little shelter and no habitation on this coastline the weather forecast should be checked before starting out Stout footwear and appropriate clothing are also recommended.
I obviously got the info from a website but I was surprised to see the name Norman Sheldrick as if it's the same one he was one of the guys who taught me during my apprenticeship with WWA in the mid 1980's! Small world.
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Well done Hollins and SDQ ( also special thanks to SDQ for all the additional information on the "White Ladies"). I was a bit worried that half a day had passed and there were no answers to the post, (especially from Hugo who usually has the correct answer within 10 mins. of posting!.) I had just written a reply to the Richard (Dick) Evans question last night, and when I went to post it he already had posted the answer. I had the pleasure of meeting Richard Evans many years ago at his house in Moelfre and he was the most humble and unassuming man, considering he had won two RNLI Gold Medals for gallantry during his time as coxwain of the Moelfre lifeboat. I happened to be on the headland in Moelfre on the day of the M.V."Hindlea" rescue and the conditions were absolutely appalling, and the statue in Moelfre is a testament to a very brave man.
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Thanks Gwynant for that interesting insight in to Dick Evans. I'm glad I took the photo now.
I remember the first quiz question I put on, I was panic struck when nobody responded for quite a while.
It would be good if more people could post some. I like trying to find out the answers.
This one took some serious googling.
I got the info from the same article as SDQ.
http://www.penmorfa.com/porthwen/carmel%20head.html (http://www.penmorfa.com/porthwen/carmel%20head.html)
Some good photos on there as was yours.
$thanx$
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That was a toughie for your starter Gwynant, it was doing my head in trying to think where they were. I must have walked past them a few times but just could't remember where they were. $good$
You were lucky to have met Dick Evans in person because he was a remarkable man and to have witnessed that day on the headland in Moelfre. Dick and all the Lifeboat crew are so brave and put their own lives at risk every time they went out on a rescue.
I remember seeing the TV programme "This is your life" when he was on it and it was really interesting to watch
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Nice bench with lovely views. It could be anywhere but I wonder if Jack sat here?
Where exactly is it?
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If you suffer fron vertigo then you wouldn't see this place but would take the short cut to the RSPB place instead $walesflag$
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Is it somewhere around Ellin's Tower at South Stack on Holyhead Mountain perhaps? Must confess to not noticing it!!
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Spot on Jack, &well&
from the car park head to the cliff and walk along there to Ellin's Tower. It's a narrow path on the cliff edge and not advisable on a windy day.
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Which English seaside resort would you find this polar bear?
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I have a vague recollection of seeing a Polar Bear at Morecambe, but its years ago, and the memory fades.....
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Sorry Fester not Morecambe, here is another picture from the same seaside town as a clue!
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Ohhh... Its Whitby.
I should have known, I have been there so many times.
The only place I can eat a crab thats even tastier than a Great Orme one!
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$good$ Well done Fester!
No idea why there is a polar bear on the roof of Holland & Barrett, anyone else know?
Was in Whitby on Friday it was so busy with holidaymakers enjoying the sunshine as was Robin Hoods Bay where we stayed the night.
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Where in Wales would you find this small island?
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Is it st Catherine's island in Tenby???
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Well done rob. I thought Hugo would be first on that one!
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I must celebrate, Ive got one right at last. Z**
Jack:
The polar bear was once part of Whitby's Christmas decorations & was put on a raft in the water covered in lights. It was put where it is for a change one year - - & never removed. (probably forgotten about).
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Jack:
The polar bear was once part of Whitby's Christmas decorations & was put on a raft in the water covered in lights. It was put where it is for a change one year - - & never removed. (probably forgotten about).
Thanks for that Rob, had me wondering! Don't tell Wrex though as he will want it for Llandudno's Xmas lights ;D
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Where is this beautiful summer scene? I am not sure if the object in the foreground is an old fishtrap or the wreckage of an old boat.
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On the Menai Strait in Anglesey, or the coast of it anyway almost opposite Plas Menai Sailing School.
Can't be more specific I'm afraid.
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It's not the one you are thinking of Yorkie at Moel Y Don but that's Llanddwyn Island in the foreground with the Llyn Peninsula behind it
It's a ship wreck on the beach at Traeth Penrhos in Newborough and before Hollins can get out her Carl Rogers book on the Anglesey Coastal path the picture is on pg 70
As you got from that wooden wreck to the Island look out to sea and you may see a girder sticking up. That is the remains of another ship wreck it's like a metal skeleton standing in about 20 foot of water and about 200 yards out. Last time I was walking there I swam out to the wreck.
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Well done Hugo, ( brave attempt Yorkie!), absolutely correct as usual. It was a fantastic summer's day in early August and we parked the car by the bridge over the Cefni in Malltraeth then walked along the embankment to the estuary and round onto Traeth Penrhos. Not a soul to be seen anywhere except one guy digging for bait until we crossed the causeway and onto Llanddwyn Beach and then the whole world and his dog seemed to be there! We walked round the Island and then back into Newborough Forest emerging at the church at Newborough, down into the village and then caught the bus back to Malltraeth for a pint at the Joiner's Arms. A good walk taking in sea, fields and forestry (and sun on the day!) and no discernible inclines to speak of. Thanks for clearing up the matter of the mystery object in the photo.
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The inside of a nice little Church but where is it and what is the name of the Church? This will be slightly easier for some! $walesflag$
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It's not a very old Church but the purpose of building it was quite appropriate in view of the name of the town! $walesflag$
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The town's name has a link to both the land and the sea and that's true it's not a red Herring! $walesflag$ $welsh$
I'm looking for the name of the Church too.
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It reminds me of the Mediterranean in more ways than one so how could anyone walk past the Church and not go in?
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The town reminds me of a town in North Wales but without the fish? $walesflag$
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No guesses! this must be hard, but the town's been in the news this week when a well known globetrotter and roving reporter posted a photo of the Church on the internet. $walesflag$
No more clues until tonight because I'm off walking now and if no one has guessed it by then, then there will be an easy clue tonight $walesflag$
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Is it a plaice near here? :twoface:
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No, it is in Wales but much further south.
The Mediterranean reference to the Church is Malta and the North Wales town is Denbigh. Does that help a bit? $welsh$
Answers in Welsh, English or Maltese accepted. $walesflag$
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Is it in Tenby? No idea where or what it is called though!
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Hollins, you have surprised me because you're the roving reporter who posted the photo of the Church on the internet! :o
One point if you guess the Welsh name from this photo and remember, the clues are there in the photo. $walesflag$
Another point if you guess the Malta connection.
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My god.......I think she might have got it. Well part of it, still don't know the Malta connection.
Is it St Julian's Church, Tenby harbour? Tenby= Dinbych-y-Pysgod=Little Town of the Fishes.
Good one Hugo!
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I once stayed in a place called St. Julian's in Malta on a family holiday as a kid, it was a converted military base and we were in what was the officer's quarters.
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At last Hollins, well done. &well&
The Church is on the right in your photo of Tenby Harbour and St Julians is a coastal town in Malta as SDQ has mentioned. I couldn't post another photo of the Church as it is so well known that it would have been too easy
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The church in Tenby was a very hard one unless you had been there, Hugo. I didn't glean enough from your clues to hazard even one guess! While we are one a religious theme where would you find this church? It is within 40 miles of Llandudno, and there is an additional clue in the photo.
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Hi Gwynant,
Believe me, I thought Hugo's quiz was hard and I was in Tenby!
Still puzzling over your quiz now, no idea.
Cheers!
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St. Cyngar's church, Llangefni?
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Absolutely correct SDQ, it is St. Cyngar's Church, Llangefni, also known as Eglws-y Plwyf, which is at the start (or finish) of the Nant-y-Pandy Nature Reserve Walk. We took a No. 32 bus out of Llangefni, got off at the Forestry car park just beyond Rhosmeirch (where we were amused to read the "flick-it-with-a-stick" notice about the dog-poo that Jack mentioned in the Great Orme thread recently!) and followed the path back past Llyn Cefni and alongside the old Pentre Berw-Amlwch railway line, which still has the tracks down and I believe is under consideration for a Llangollen type restoration. Took about an hour from getting on the bus to arriving back into Llangefni, and is another flat enjoyable walk. As you normally come up with extra info. perhaps you could tell me what big the works/factory is next to the dam across the head of Llyn Cefni.
Thanks also for your reply Hollins, I had absolutely no ideas about the Tenby church question, even after Hugo's extra clues!
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I couldn't make it too easy Hollins because I knew you were on the loose in that area The east wall of the church is covered with a bobbin trawl with imitation lobsters, crabs and starfish in the meshes. This was originally put in place for a Harvest Festival in the 1960s to represent the harvest of the sea, and they have remained there ever since.
It was built in the late 1800's for the seafaring community of the town and one click on Google "Fisherman's Church" would have got it.
SDQ is spot on and I was looking in the wrong area.
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Do you mean the Cefni water treatment works? I was based there for 18 months during my apprenticeship with the WWA.
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SDQ, I never realised that I was so close to home with you with the Cefni Reservoir query! It looked like a manufacturing plant. Anyway thanks for the info. I do quite a bit of walking on Ynys Mon and I appreciate any extra knowledge. Thanks very much again.
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SDQ, I never realised that I was so close to home with you with the Cefni Reservoir query! It looked like a manufacturing plant. Anyway thanks for the info. I do quite a bit of walking on Ynys Mon and I appreciate any extra knowledge. Thanks very much again.
The upper building is the main treatment plant, the lower building has the pumps (below ground) and the fluoridation unit at ground level. The smaller building beside the pump house is the workshop cum stores where we were based.
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Where in North Wales will you find this rather sad looking building?
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Judging by the colour of the paintwork, I suspect it's the property of Arriva Trains Wales...
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Yes, and it is to let.
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I'm torn between Abergele & Pensarn and Fflint Stations.
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It's one of those!
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I'll go for Abergele & Pensarn!
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Correct!
It seems amazing to me that you can have completely closed up station buildings, no staff and yet the trains still stop there, passengers get on and off and that's it.
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Correct!
It seems amazing to me that you can have completely closed up station buildings, no staff and yet the trains still stop there, passengers get on and off and that's it.
There is One member of staff on duty
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Thanks SDQ.
What does the one staff member do?
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He's in the Signalbox.
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Thank goodness for that!
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Network Rail have been trying to let those buildings for years, with no success. They must be asking too much rent.
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He's in the Signalbox.
You are right SDQ. Nice little box too!
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Whilst on my last cruise (just back) the following boat attracted my attention. Does anyone know its name, who owns it (or has owned it) and where it was moored when the shot was taken? An extra 5 points if you can say how much it sold for when last she changed owners? (I was thinking of buying it but didn't have enough loose change!)
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I think that is the W hotel in Barcelona?
Don't know anything about the boat though.
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Ah! You are so right H, I have shown that W before. Guessed that you would be the first to twig that! :D
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I don't know the answer, but it reminds of the one I saw moored in Palma, Majorca when Mrs Fester and I were there in 2006.
Apart from the one we saw was so large that it had TWO separate heli-pads on deck, plus at the rear of the vessel it had a smaller 'yacht' built in to the boat, which was still bigger than my house, and could uncouple and set off on cruises on its own!
Security was tight when I approached the quayside to get a closer look, and it was rumoured to belong to Roman Abromovich, the owner Chelsea FC.
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Roman Abramovich is a past owner. Abramovich had it refitted adding a second helicopter pad (forward), four zero-speed stabilizers and modifications to the exhaust, mast and stern. But he sold it shortly after.
That should help to find the answers. ;)
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Is it the Pelorus that was sold for 300 million Dollars in 2011 ?
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That was easy wasn't it? Well done Hugo!
Now owned by David Geffen an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, and philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, and DGC Records in 1990. Geffen was also one of the three founders of DreamWorks SKG in 1994.
So there you have it! :D
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Here is another easy one. Where is this?
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Easy Yorkie &shake& I'll start off with Portland Bill
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Sorry, I should maybe have said that it is not in UK, although there is a rather tenuous connection! ZXZ
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Gibraltar?
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Trafalgar?
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Europa Point Lighthouse Gibraltar
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Hollins has it with Gibraltar - it is the Europa Point Lighthouse overlooking the Strait. Well done H! ZXZ
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And 1-rob-1 by the look of it. H was just a short head in front. ;)
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Last one from my recent holiday. Where and what etc?
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It would seem that a clue is required - It is a religious building, does 1812 help? ;)
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No it doesn't....
No significant battles in 1812, not in the Mediterranean region at least.
1812 saw the battle of Borodino, 80 miles or so from Moscow.... immortalised in the 1812 overture.
No church like that in Borodino.
I originally thought it might be Cadiz, Spain... but I don't think so now.
Another clue please Mr Yorkie!
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Ah! Thou art on the right track, and Borodino is connected! Just think of who won and who lost! Natal may be a clue. ZXZ
It is a Cathedral.
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Ajaccio?
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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Ajaccio
I cheated and Googled your answer Hollins !!
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You're welcome Nemesis!
I cheated because Mr Hollins got it because he knew where Napoleon was born.
Good one Yorkie. I thought I had been there because I thought it was somewhere like Cuitadella in Menorca but I have never been to Corsica so I was totally on the wrong track.
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Right on both counts! The 1812 reference was to Napolean who was born (natal) in Ajaccio. I think as I had said it was a Cathedral and H said Ajaccio the point is hers. However, the full title should also get at least 2 Brownie points! Well done both. $good$
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Where is this railway terminus?
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Kyle of Localsh
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Well done Merddyn Emrys. I should have known you would get it. I saw a locomotive named after you (different spelling) on the Porthmadog-Blaenau Railway last week! This is a picture taken from nearly the same spot showing the Skye Bridge and beyond. We travelled from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh which is a "Great Railway Journey" and as you can see the weather was absolutely beautiful.
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Looks great! When I was last there, there was no bridge to Skye! My name here is from the locomotive on the Festiniog Railway, not quite the correct Welsh spelling though as it's Merddin on the loco as spelt in Victorian times! likewise the official name of the railway was wrongly spelt for the 1832 Act of parliament, they only used one F in Ffestiniog!
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A sculpture - but what's it called, who by and where is it?
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Woman and Bird by Joan Miro in Barcelona?
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You're too well travelled Hollins! Despite the name, Joan is a man as I am sure you know. &well&
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What famous person lived here? There's no doubting the house is in Wales. $walesflag$
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Dylan Thomas?
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Well done SDQ that was quick, perhaps the doubting "Thomas" gave it away. &well&
It's the boathouse in Laugharne.
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Something a bit more local. Where will you find this fella?
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Near the station entrance Betws-y-Coed
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I knew that would not last long amongst all you sharp eyed individuals. &well&
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Where in Wales will you find this structure?
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Pensarn-- children's playground, by the cafe nearest the station.
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Well done Nemesis, very quick!
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Thanks-- we often stop there to walk the dog if we have been to Rhyl, to Wilkinsons or Matalan.
Isn't there a big spider somewhere there too?
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Where was I walking today?
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Victoria Dock, Caernarfon?
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Well done Bri. $good$ We took a bus to Caernarfon, and followed the Lon Las Cycle Track from the Victoria Dock to Y Felinheli, which follows the old British Rail track for about 4.5 miles and is almost completely flat (except for the final descent into Y Felinheli) where we had a swift pint in The "Garddfon" right on the Straits before getting the bus home. Couldn't help noticing on the walk that the old Ferodo factory is in a terrible state now and almost derelict (as we have seen in Dave R's recent photoshoots)
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That sounds an interesting walk Gwynant. Where is the entrance to Lon Las cycle track? Is it past the block of flats at the eastern end of the dock?
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Yes, you are in the right area, Llechwedd. If you keep walking East after the flats you will come to the start of the path in the public car park which is just below Morrisons Supermarket. It runs along the old B.R. track past Ferodo, fork 2nd left at the roundabout which leads onto the Y Felinheli bypass and then downhill past "Crossings Cottage" down to the waterfront past the boatyards in Y Felinheli, where there is an excellent pub called Y Garddfon, which serves coffee as well as beer/bar meals. It is approx.4.5 miles long and takes just over an hour or so.
It is much quieter than the Lon Eifion path which starts just past the Welsh Highland Railway station at the other end of Caernarfon and runs in a westerly direction for 12.5 miles up to Bryncir. This one is great on a bike as it has a very slight uphill gradient most of the way (not too steep as it used to be a railway track too) on the outward leg but very relaxing on the return leg!
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These are two very old Ficus Trees but do you know where in Europe they are?
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Valencia?
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Valencia?
Ha! Not Valencia H .... You'll have to try again! CC could be a clue.
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Cadiz?
Yorkie, have you just returned from another cruise with Fred?
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Cadiz?
Yorkie, have you just returned from another cruise with Fred?
Absolutely correct, Bri! What kept you? Reputedly brought to Cadiz by Chris Columbus the intrepid explorer.
Didn't anyone notice that I wasn't here? You're right on all counts. I did have my ipad with me and kept a watching brief on the Forum to make sure everyone was behaving themselves. ;)
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Where in Wales will you find this row of beach huts?
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Llanbedrog
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Well done Yorkie, correct.
They were moving them down from the car park to the beach when I was there in April.
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I Googled "coloured beach huts in Wales" and there was the identical picture!! D)
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In which case, Google has become the ruination of quizzes. &shake&
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But unless you have been to the location, Google is your only chance. :)
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Yes, you are in the right area, Llechwedd. If you keep walking East after the flats you will come to the start of the path in the public car park which is just below Morrisons Supermarket. It runs along the old B.R. track past Ferodo, fork 2nd left at the roundabout which leads onto the Y Felinheli bypass and then downhill past "Crossings Cottage" down to the waterfront past the boatyards in Y Felinheli, where there is an excellent pub called Y Garddfon, which serves coffee as well as beer/bar meals. It is approx.4.5 miles long and takes just over an hour or so.
It is much quieter than the Lon Eifion path which starts just past the Welsh Highland Railway station at the other end of Caernarfon and runs in a westerly direction for 12.5 miles up to Bryncir. This one is great on a bike as it has a very slight uphill gradient most of the way (not too steep as it used to be a railway track too) on the outward leg but very relaxing on the return leg!
I must give that one a try. When I visited Ferodo, I walked back into Caernarfon but could have carried on to Felinheli, thinking about it.
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In which case, Google has become the ruination of quizzes. &shake&
Just intelligent information gathering - we all do it! D)
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Where did I see this chappie today?
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Haven't found it yet but the date is MMXII or 2012 in English, so it ain't very old! ;)
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Don't think it was there last time I visited this place !!
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Is it at Bodnant?
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Possibly the new Welsh Food Centre.
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I like the Lunar avatar Yorkie! ;D
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Just for the benefit of the disbelievers! L0L
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In which case, Google has become the ruination of quizzes. &shake&
Just intelligent information gathering - we all do it! D)
I must remember to claim that as my defence next time I am caught tapping away on my iphone in a pub quiz! WWW
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No, nowhere near Bodnant.
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Don't think it was there last time I visited this place !!
Probably the same for all of us! If it is so new it's unlikely to be guessed! WWW
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No less likely than somewhere far flung where some of us have never been . :twoface:
There is a connection with Llandudno-- read some of Wrex's posts !
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York Railway Museum perhaps?
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Llandudno Station
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Think of gardens-- blooms, not as far as York though.
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$3towns$ Y^^Y Z@@ :-}}} &well& $booboo$ $lol$ $cool$
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Harrogate - Put the funnies first for a change!
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I can see this is going no-where !
It is an award given by Wales in Bloom to Criccieth and is situated on the paved area below the Maes.
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This may be an old Horse trough but where exactly is it? $walesflag$
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Too Easy!!!
Ffordd Gwyllt, Llanfairfechan.
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I can see this is going no-where !
It is an award given by Wales in Bloom to Criccieth and is situated on the paved area below the Maes.
Well you must confess that it is rather remote! ;)
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Too Easy!!!
Ffordd Gwyllt, Llanfairfechan.
It certainly was, well done 1 Rob 1 &well&
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Where will you find this Dome and what lies underneath?
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Is it the Basilica of St Peter in Rome and the tomb of St Peter is underneath?
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Sorry Hugo, good try but not Italy.
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Is it in Corsica or Menorca? ;)
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I wish that I'd have kept my Fred Olsen brochure and then I would have had a clue. :(
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Is this better Yorkie?
The Invalides Complex
The complex of buildings known as Les Invalides sits in Paris's 7th arrondissement and consists of museums and monuments related to the military history of France. The most recognizable and well-known part of Les Invalides is the Dôme des Invalides,
Dôme des Invalides
a gold-domed building now used as a burial site for a number of the country's war heroes
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I wish that I'd have kept my Fred Olsen brochure and then I would have had a clue. :(
I wonder if it was this one?
http://www.fredolsencruises.com/plan-cruise/cruise-details/m1222/Western-Mediterranean-with-Corsica (http://www.fredolsencruises.com/plan-cruise/cruise-details/m1222/Western-Mediterranean-with-Corsica)
So far we have had Barcelona, Ajaccio and Cadiz from Yorkie. D)
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Hugo - you're very close - almost close enough for me to give you half a point, but I'm gonna make you earn the other half by answering the question in full. Specifically what lies underneath? :D
Bri, that was the cruise, but we didn't go anywhere near the Dome in question, in fact the place was not even on the itinerary. ;)
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Your a hard task master Yorkie but is it the Metro that you are looking for?
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Hugo, I think Yorkie is after Napoleon Bonaparte! ;D
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Hollies has it once again. It is indeed the dome of Napolean's Tomb. The clue was in the lie! And after my recent question about Ajaccio I thought it would be answered a bit quicker. Such is life. And you were so close Hugo. ZXZ
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No! You can't give it to me. I didn't have a clue until Hugo got the Invalides. Well done Hugo I say because I looked at many, many domes online and still couldn't find it.
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Up to you. What say we call it a tie? &well& Both of you.
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You're a gentleman Yorkie. $good$
Thanks Hollins, I was lucky as it was only the second dome I looked at but I must pay more attention next time to Yorkies clues.
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Where in North Wales are these located?
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Plas Mawr, Conwy for my starter guess. ;D
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Nope.
It is out of this area but in North Wales.
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I'll try this then:
Dog Tongs dated to 1815 from St. Bueno's church – these were used to catch unruly dogs and expel them from the building.
So it must be St Buenos Church, Clynnog Fawr on the Llyn Peninsular!
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Well done, Yorkie.
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What was the name of this horse and who was its owner? When it was alive, of course!
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Marengo, Napoleon's horse :D
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Well done - didn't last long did it? Pushed old Nap once to many times! ZXZ
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The power of Google!!!
http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-09-89-1 (http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-09-89-1)
D)
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I always enjoy looking at the quizzes but I'm absolutely useless at them. On the odd occasion when I do know the answer, someone else has got there before me. I got quite excited when I saw Bri Robert's question at the top of this page - but I was a day too late! :(
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Here's another from my travels - where is this very popular Restaurant? Now that shouldn't be too difficult should it???? ;) ;D
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Portimao?
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Good try but not the one in Portimao although it is not a million miles away. Have another go ££$
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Monchique looks more like it. $dins$
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Well done again. It is just outside tithe town of Monchique on the road to Foia which at 902 metres is the highest part of the Algarve. Unfortunately spoilt by the mast and arrays of the monitoring equipment to detect foreign or other aircraft etc. I must find something a little more difficult for my next attempt to bet you all. ZXZ
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What is this and where is it now located?
I have a second clue available if it proves too difficult.
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It is the Blue Peter Polystyrene Setee used for the program. I am led to believe that it is still in use with the BBC. Z**
This Two piece sofa set was manufactured by CNC for the revamped (2011) BBC – CBBC – Blue Peter Show. The sofa set includes the provision for a pop-up television and some of the materials used in manufacture to create the flowing curves and shapes include Extra High Density Fire Retardant Polystyrene, and various composite materials.
The sofa set was finished in High Gloss White providing a very durable and superior high quality finish suitable for long term use.
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Very good again, Yorkie, but where is it now located?
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I phoned the manufacturers and the chap said it was still in use with the BBC! If it ain't there it must have been moved. I originally thought of the Design Centre in London but I haven't followed that up. ZXZ
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Is it in Salford?
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Just watched BP dated 11 October and it is on the set near the end of program. If it is recorded in Salford then I agree with Hollins.
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Well done both of you.
It is now in a much smaller studio in MediaCityUK down on Salford Quays in Manchester.
Here is the second clue I was going to give you.
I didn't realise there were so many different Blue Peter Badges.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/articles/about-blue-peter-badges (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/articles/about-blue-peter-badges)
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Here is an easy one, what building and which town?
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Ha! Ha!
I couldn't possibly comment on this one, that is a clue everyone!
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Ha! Ha!
I couldn't possibly comment on this one, that is a clue everyone!
I was hoping you would give it a miss and leave it to the rest! ZXZ
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is it a burger bar in Switzerland ?
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That was not its original use, and I doubt if it would ever be one. Mind you Schloss Macdonald does have a sort of ring to it! L0L
You are in the right country.
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Repeating this as lost on previous page.
Here is an easy one, what building and which town?
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I'll try the Castle Chillon Montreaux but I'm not very confident of that.
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Zahringen Castle in Thun, Switzerland.
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Well done SDQ - Just where Hollins was a couple of days ago!! Surprised no one else picked it up! &well&
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Who is the artist behind this statue and where in the world would you find it?
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Is it wrex wasting away in 2020 on the North Shore after just finally getting CCBC to do something about the lack of sand?
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Think it is by Alberto Giacometti but haven't a clue where it may be, unless it is the Sahara Desert! ZXZ
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I think Yorkie is spot on and the Walking man statue is in the Nevada Desert.
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I think Yorkie is spot on and the Walking man statue is in the Nevada Desert.
I don't think that the sculpture is the walking man. The walking man is actually depicted in a walking pose, whereas this one appears to be stationary. In fact this one could be by a different sculptor entirely!
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I'm afraid that is incorrect, wrong continent too!!
Will give you a clue if you can't get it (and give me time to think one up!!!)
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Should add that this is one of 51 sculptures in this area by the same artist. He modelled them on the people who lived in the nearest township to the installation.
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Borgonovo, Switzerland is the best I can suggest. I think this may be "The falling man" but still not sure.
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Sorry still wrong continent! So that is Europe and the Americas out!!
The artist is British but born to a German mother and Irish Father and grew up in Yorkshire!
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Would never have got it without your last clue Jack!
$hands$
Lake Ballard is located 49.3kms NorthWest of Menzies, 166.47kms NorthWest of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, 170.46kms South of Leinster and 282.17kms NorthEast of Mukinbudin, in the state of Western Australia.
Salt Lake 51km from Menzies. Significant for its 51 sculptures by Antony Gormley , who scanned the locals and mapped there bodies in 3D, then reduced them to 2/3rds there normal size. The finished product is a sculpture refered to as the insider. The cast is an alloy made from molybdenum, vanadium and titanium , materials that are found in the Archean Rock of W.A. Best time to view the sculptures are sunset, sunrise and on a full moon!!
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Just got back on line so missed the excitement. Never gave Gormley a thought! Better change my name. _))*
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Yes congratulations Hugo, Lake Ballard Western Australia. I went a couple of years ago and what an extraordinary location for a work of art, literally miles from anywhere down a dirt road, temperatures reaching 46 degrees centigrade and it has only rained there 7 times in 215 years.
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Thanks for that Jack, how fascinating.
So were these the precursor to the Crosby ones, do you know?
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http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEAQtwIwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVeIDvX23HYs&ei=83iAUJqMOufD0QW1yoDACA&usg=AFQjCNHQz6EqveZAYV9BQNBdQuxaFwUUIg&sig2=MCfimLc6uD9sTsh7IerY2A (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEAQtwIwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVeIDvX23HYs&ei=83iAUJqMOufD0QW1yoDACA&usg=AFQjCNHQz6EqveZAYV9BQNBdQuxaFwUUIg&sig2=MCfimLc6uD9sTsh7IerY2A)
Don't know if I've copied this properly but there is an interesting u tube video on these statues
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Thanks for that Jack, how fascinating.
So were these the precursor to the Crosby ones, do you know?
Hi Hollins, No it was the other way round! The Crosby sculptures were commissioned in 1997 while the 'Inside Australia' sculptures were put on Lake Ballard in 2003 as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Perth International Arts Festival even though Lake Ballard is 780km from the city of Perth.
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Where would you find this striking piece of modern art?
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RNLI Memorial in Poole, which commemorates those who lost their lives at sea while saving others from the early 1800s to the present day.
Hope this is the one! :D
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$good$ Well done Yorkie. We had a look around the RNLI Headquarters while we were there and it is a very impressive set-up. There is an indoor pool where they can simulate storm conditions and all manner of high-tech facilities available for the training of lifeboat crews. Also in the area (see below) was the bronze statue of Baden Powell sat looking across Poole harbour over to Brownsea Island where the inaugural Scout Movement camp was held in 1907.
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This is CHARLES - where is he located now that he is in retirement?
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Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum?
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Absolutely correct Bri! Nice little group of exhibits they have. Didn't think it would last long but I'm sure the NT will be grateful for the exposure. ;)
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And the sisters of Charles, Linda and Blanche are still running on the Festiniog Railway, we travelled behind Blanche just 2 weeks ago D)
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This is the decapitated statue of a famous (or infamous man), but who is he, where is the statue and (if possible) why was it beheaded?
Had to remove picture as it showed the name!!! _))* Now back blocked out!
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Statue of António de Oliveira Salazar
Santa Comba Dao, Portugal
Date of incidence: 1974
This bronze statue of former dictator António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal was beheaded with dynamite in the 1974 “Carnation Revolution”, a military-led coup d'état, started on April 25, 1974, that replaced the dictatorship with a democracy after two years of a transitional period known as PREC. Located in Salazar’s city of birth, Santa Comba Dao, the statue’s head has been stored for over 30 years in the attic of City Hall. There is current discussion that the statue may be restored and placed in a newly planned Salazar museum
The Portugese writing on the base gave it away.
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What a mine of information is contained within the four walls of this Forum! Correct again.
Is it maybe bout time we got a quiz team together to challenge those Eggheads on the BBC? :D
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What a mine of information is contained within the four walls of this Forum! Correct again.
Is it maybe bout time we got a quiz team together to challenge those Eggheads on the BBC? :D
I'm pretty sure they don't allow Google searches on Eggheads!
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Where is this building and what is it used for? Easy peasy! :D
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I never use Google seaches for these quizzes, it spoils the fun.
I like to have a guess, or I know it for sure, I state the answer.
In this case, I'll have a guess at The Bodleian Library in Oxford? I've been there, it looks very much like it.
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That was on a few months ago| Not the Bod but a good place for information gathering! :D
The clue is in the caption.
You can only Google for something if you know something about what you're looking for.
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I'm stumped, but was Fester in the right area as the old building looks like it is made from Cotswolds stone?
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Another clue, many a politician has passed through its portals, and it is also a delicious mess. ;D
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Another clue, many a politician has passed through its portals, and it is also a delicious mess. ;D
With the last clue, I reckon it has to be one of the Buildings at Eton College, but I'm afraid I don't know which one exactly.
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Absolutely correct Gwynant! It is a view of the main building front elevation. In the centre of the pic is a statue but is not clear in this pic. Eton is anagram of note, lots of MPs went there and, of course there is a nice desert called the Eton Mess. &well&
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In which English city would you find this lady, and what record-breaking building is she striding away from?
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Salisbury Cathedral. The Walking Madonna by Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993)
The long shadows provided a clue.
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$good$ Well done Yorkie, and after I had spent ages learning how to digitally scratch out the title on the plinthe of the statue as well! The statue is in the shadow of Salisbury Cathedral which has the tallest spire in Britain with a height of 123 metres (404 ft.). You can see her in the picture below, she is the 6th person from the left. $good$
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What people? ;D
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Here is another easy one. Who is this and where is it?
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Memorial to Edith Cavell at St. Martin's Place, London.
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Well done! Not too difficult that one.
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What is the building that is reflected in this photo and where is it?
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I got a blank on this one so far. Too little evidence! :D
Bit like the construction of the Canton Tower in China but I don't think that is the one.
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No, much closer to home and in the UK. It is made largely of stainless steel.
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Is it called the Lowry Tower by any chance? That would put it in Salford Quays.
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Well done, correct!
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Another well known building, but which, where, and who lived there?
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Seems like a clue is required.
You could get dizzy over an Eastenders lady here. WWW
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Seems like a clue is required.
You could get dizzy over an Eastenders lady here. WWW
Of course, I should have realised earlier.
It is obviously that well known stately home called Spinning-Dot Cotton Manor
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It is in the little known village of Grant-Mitchell, near the fictitious town of Walford.
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Fester - my goodness - you are so nearly correct. In fact only a mile or so away! Someone is sure to get the answer now from your strong clue. But just in case here's another cryptic comment.
Jimmy Saville had no involvement with the place, although there is a dirty Den connection and the Vic's Owner's Son has a strong part to play. :D
Try another guess. ££$
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Hughenden Manor in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. In the 19th century it was the country house of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
I don't watch Eastenders so I have no idea what the clues refer to.
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Well done SDQ. The references cover The Queen Vic as Victoria was a regular visitor. The Son of the Vic's owner is Ben and that was the PM. Den is the end of the name. Dizzy refers again to Disraeli.
&well&
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What and where is this and in which film did it feature?
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Is the film Tomb Raider with Lara Croft and the location is Ta Prohm which is the modern name of a temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia?
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Now I really thought that would keep us going for at least 24 hours - how wrong I was! Well done Hugo. Z**
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Where will you see this?
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LLangollen!!
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That didn't last long! Well done &well&
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What is the link between the mast and the ship?
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Rotterdam
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That lasted all of 14 minutes! Yep, the Eurotower in Rotterdam, and the SS Rotterdam, cruise ship.
But can you say what connection I have with it?
Well done Mull. ZXZ
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Either something to do with construction of the tower , cranes etc,
or
Ship , Rotterdam is now a floating hotel .
Have you cruised on the ship or stayed on board in Rotterdam ?
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Sorry, Mull, not right with any of the suggestions. One or two on the Forum may be able to get near to the answer!
;)
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Fred Olsen?
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Sorry Bri - not Fred or his Gang. In fact probably better if I just tell you that it is where my Father came from! He was born in Rotterdam but came to the UK with his Father in 1909, so he was probably more British than Dutch.
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Where are these two birds?
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Betws-y-Coed outside Station?
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Spot on Yorkie, well done. &well&
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You maybe forgot that I put King Kong on the Forum a short while ago! (Page 88). He is another resident of B-y-C Station. D)
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I did forget and I'm going to have to buck up my ideas if I want to get a difficult one for you Yorkie, ?{}?
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Where in Wales will you see this?
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Looks like a slate quarry, could be Dinorwig, or Dorothea Quarry near Pen y Groes? Or one of many near Blaenau Ffestiniog?
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It is a slate quarry but you haven't named the correct one yet.
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Above Cwm Penmachno?
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No, sorry Jack, not there.
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Nantlle Valley?
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No, sorry Fester.
How was the Hilton and Motorhead concert?
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Penrhyn Quarry?
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No sorry, not that one.
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Motorhead were as fantasic as ever... as were the superb cocktail bars in Manchester.... (hic)
Didn't stay at the Hilton this time, got a cheap deal elsewhere.
My next stab at this quiz, (assuming Merddin hasn't pinned it) .... Hafod Y Wern, (Bangor)
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Rhosyyd quarry
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Well done Rosie! It is Rhosydd quarry.
Here is a link to an excellent website about it. There is a photo of the dry stone arch on the photo gallery page 2.
My husband was walking there today. I am going to put a post on the walking section with more photos if anyone is interested.
http://www.penmorfa.com/Rhosydd/ (http://www.penmorfa.com/Rhosydd/)
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I've been to Rhosydd many years ago and indeed explored inside the mine, there were two of us in there. I remember us walking up an incline holding on to a cable that pulled the wagons up and down, we only had torches with us and were heading up to the daylight at the top. Once we reached the top we noticed a huge iron counterbalance weight on the rails held only by a very rotten wooden cable drum :o :o upon seeing this we very carefully inched our way down and back out! I expect that the weight has since descended rather quickly! :laugh:
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It's a lovely walk up there providing the weather is ok.
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Where exactly will you find this?
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on a box of corn flakes?
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I can't be sure, Hugo, but I feel that I have seen this somewhere in the Moel Fammau area, perhaps at Loggerheads or in the surrounding area. Sorry I cant be more positive in the exact location.
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Somewhere around Coed Llandegla?
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Nice try Jack but you're not correct.
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In the car park at Bwlch Penbaras , below Moel Famau.
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Spot on Gwynant. &well& &well&
It's at the start of the walk up to Moel Famau from the forest car park. It wasn't there the last time I walked up to the top so it must have been placed there faily recently.
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Are they trying to encourage Black Grouse back to that area Hugo?
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looking at the grass around the base it looks to have been there some time, and the bare patch at the side looks like the children have been jumpping off and on to it
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Thanks Hugo but I feel I must own up to phoning my walking companion to check the location of the grouse carving, but I knew we had passed it recently in that area as I had pointed out in an earlier reply tonight.
A fairly easy one this, where would you find this (very!) coastal property.
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Treaddur Bay? My usual wild guess.
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Unlucky Yorkie, but for a wild guess you are not too far away!
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I've walked past it when I walked around the Anglesey coast and think that it is in Red Wharf Bay.
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Are they trying to encourage Black Grouse back to that area Hugo?
Yes that's why you get those unusual markings in the heather.The Grouse feed on the young shoots of the heather but need areas of older woody heather for nesting and shelter. You must have a walk in that area Jack as I'm sure that you would like it.
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Is that property not in Bull Bay, Anglesey?
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Hugo and Fester you are on the right island (nearly!) but not in the correct location. Yorkie has had the closest guess so far. Apologies for the delay in replying.
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Caergybi ? Holyhead.
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Very close Yorkie, but exactly where on Holy Island? Hugo, as you have walked the Coastal Path, you are right , you must have passed this spot!
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Is it a small bay near Anglesey Aluminium?
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$good$
Well done M.E, that's close enough for me! It is actually the old bathing house for the Penrhos Estate, and has now been converted to a private dwelling. The view shown below from the point at Gorsedd-y-Penrhyn at the seaward end of Beddmanarch Bay on the Penrhos Reserve looking towards Caergybi shows it in a more recognisable location. If you go on to Google Maps and get Anglesey Aluminium on screen, look for the liitle bay at approx. 2 o'clock from the plant and zoom in you will see it very clearly. It's a beautiful spot for a house but not much fun in a North-easterly gale!
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Google maps is how I found it! ;D
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I was on he maps also but couldn't find a name, although I did see Penrhos. Never having walked the area I had no direct knowledge. Wonderful these Google maps! ZXZ
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I didn't see that cottage on my initial walk around the island but must have seen it when I walked around the Penrhos Nature reserve but it does look similar to some cottages on the Pentraeth to Red Wharf Bay stretch of the walk and that's what made me think that it was there. Unique location but there are drawbacks as you say Gwynant.
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Here's a photo of a milestone. I'm not looking for the road, but can anyone tell me the name of the cafe nearest to it? ?{}?
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Conwy Falls Cafe, on the A5?
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This is a Maths problem with a bit of triangulation! And I ain't got a map. :(
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Google maps? ££$
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Well done ME. &well
I crossed the A5 when I did the Capel Garmon walk and took a photo of the milestone.
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Where in North Wales would you find this building and what is it used for now?
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Plas Rhianfa is simply beautiful. A Grade II listed 21 bedroom architectural masterpiece that stands proud overlooking the Menai Strait on Anglesey. This Loire Valley style French Chateau offers unique character, charisma, exceptional views and luxury facilities throughout.
Situated near Beaumaris on Anglesey, Plas Rhianfa is a spectacular property with all suites offer private luxury bathrooms. The perfect venue for wedding receptions, wedding breakfasts, meetings and corporate events, Plas Rhianfa is simply spectacular and its prominent position cannot be missed.
Standing proud over the Menai Strait and looking onto Snowdonia, Plas Rhianfa offers guests a choice of dining options, including the 42' Banqueting Hall, Grand Hall and private dining in reception rooms. On a summers day guests can enjoy outdoor dining overlooking your own private beach and jetty.
Inside, the property boasts superb features, typical of the Victorian era. Four elegant and vast reception rooms are complemented by the banqueting hall, wine cellar and tasting rooms, spa rooms, gym, games room and lounge bar.
Outside, the listed gardens terrace down to the private beach where a jetty allows boats to moor and access the house directly from the Straits. The perfect way to arrive, or depart in style.
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Correct and well done, see "room with a view" shortly!
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You beat me to it SDQ.
I spent a very pleasant couple of days in Beaumaris this week, and drove past Plas Rhianfa on the way home.
I was intrigued by its beauty and immediately googled it when I arrived home.
A fabulous edifice with superb views.
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Where was I headed when I took this photo earlier this year and what is directly behind me at the spot where I took it?
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From that point were you heading North, South, East or West, or just a minor point of the compass?
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It looks like Moel Siabod and if it is there is a quarry behind you?
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$good$ Well done Hugo, abolutely correct. We were heading up to the east ridge on a beautiful summer's day. The flooded quarry is a lovely peaceful spot, but I was there one day and a woman walker had her dog with her which was scrambling about above the pool and it fell in. As you can imagine she was frantic and we had a hell of a job to get it out as the sides are so steep. It's one place you do not want to fall into,I'm sure you'll agree.
Yorkie, many apologies for the lack of directions, I will ensure that I am more specific in future!
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Where in North Wales will you find this rotting edifice?
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Longshot - Trevor Pier on the Llynn Peninsular.
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Now if you'd have said Trefor Pier, I'd have said you were spot on! ;)
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I've spelt it phonetically! F = v. I searched for North Wales rotting wooden pier and there was a mention by the Trefor (sp) diving club about the state of the wooden section. Powerful stuff this Google! ZXZ
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Was it really necessary to Google to find out where this pier is? Just think along the North Wales coastline.
Actually I dont look at this thread very often because I think searching on your PC is taking all the fun out of it Mike
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Is Trefor Pier open, and safe to walk on?
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No, locked up. Definately very unsafe.
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Was it really necessary to Google to find out where this pier is? Just think along the North Wales coastline.
Actually I dont look at this thread very often because I think searching on your PC is taking all the fun out of it Mike
Each man to his own. Without the fun of searching I would never have got the answer in 100 years. As it was I still had to hazard a guess. It's OK for you locals! ZXZ
Sometimes I can be looking for hours, and during that time I also gain knowledge about the area, so it is also educational! :P
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I knew the answer because I was able to recognise Llanddwyn Island and Anglesey in the background but that's only through local knowledge. I have used Google before and you can spend some time on it and learn a lot in the process.
I do try to post questions that can't be googled and use Welsh sometimes to make the answer not so obvious as I know that Yorkie's on the trail. $good$
Chwarae teg, whatever method you use is always a learning curve.
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I have never used Google in my life.
In fact I have never heard of it. ;)
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O.K., apparently googling doesent always take away the fun. However, here is a question and I doubt very much you will ever get this answer from Google.
A few years ago, in the days before Station Road in the Bay as closed to traffic,a large "obstruction" arrived at the Conwy Road end of Station Road effectively making it impossible for any traffic to enter. It was there for five or six days and nights.
What was it and why was it there?
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Was it Dave R's ego, Mike?
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I have never used Google in my life.
In fact I have never heard of it. ;)
Well, it is about time you looked up "Fester Llandudno" - there are about 250 pages about you, Bradford, the Emporium and lots of stuff I just dare not repeat on this Forum! _))* _))* _))*
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Was it Dave R's ego, Mike?
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I have never used Google in my life.
In fact I have never heard of it. ;)
Well, it is about time you looked up "Fester Llandudno" - there are about 250 pages about you, Bradford, the Emporium and lots of stuff I just dare not repeat on this Forum! _))* _))* _))*
Well, I did as you suggested, and other than a few threetownsfum posts which mention me, and a Motorhead forum post, I could find nothing which concerns me personally.
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I have never used Google in my life.
In fact I have never heard of it. ;)
You now have! L0L
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A few years ago, in the days before Station Road in the Bay as closed to traffic,a large "obstruction" arrived at the Conwy Road end of Station Road effectively making it impossible for any traffic to enter. It was there for five or six days and nights. What was it and why was it there?
Is it possible to give the exact date? Or at least the year? I'm on the case! ZXZ
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Was it one of those Dolas that was on display and blocking the entry? The Dolas being a concrete structure that they used at Llanddulas for the coastal protection when they built the A55.
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It wasnt that large piece of slate that was supposed to be a water feature in Station Square when they did the A55, was it? Never worked, as I recall!
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Was it the new Andy Pearce Mersey Class Lifeboat being delivered to Llandudno? Stopped to let the locals have a good gander at it.
Certified not from Google! ZXZ
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Come on, Mr Ormegolf, don't keep us all in suspense!
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I should know this but don't so what is the answer Mike. ?{}?
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Sorry everyone, I had completley forgotten about asking this question.
The date would have been around Jan/Feb 1946 ----- or maybe 1947.
As only one member asked when it was, and the thread has been open for ages because I forgot about it, I've no doubt that most have you have lost interest --- so I'll tell you.
Avery,very hard winter, frost day and night. Eventually all the elect cables came down and there was no electricity for around a week. But, unfortunately, as the elec was cut off one of the long two compartment single deck trams was passing, and came to rest right across the top of Station Road, and all attempts to move it came to nothing. Mike
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Does anyone have an idea what this is and where the photo was taken?
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Underground car park, Liverpool. Note CCTV Camera in lower left corner! (Just a wild guess) ZXZ
Alternatively, Chester Bus Station. :D
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It looks like it could be the funnel of a ship going under a bridge but I've no idea where.
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It looks like an underground car park but why would they have a CCTV camera on the floor? Perhaps near the Etihad Stadium! :)
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Gwynant is on the right lines but which ship and under which bridge?
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The Queen Mary sailing into New York under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, I think. ZXZ
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Well done, Yorkie.
Well the Queen Mary 2 to be more accurate as these days the Queen Mary is a floating hotel in Long Beach, California.
Incredibly, QM2 passes under the bridge with only four metres to spare!
Shortly after passing under the bridge, one meets this view on the port side.
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I should have got it t the first attempt but I saw it as a pair of doors instead of a funnel. Thanks to Gwynant for pointing me in the right direction. 5 points to Gwynant. ZXZ
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$thanx$ Thank you very much Yorkie, very generous of you. Must be the Christmas spirit! $good$
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$walesflag$ Where in the North Wales area would you find this tributary, which is not usually as full as this and was photographed the day after torrential downpours in 2005?
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Avon Tryweryn on which is is the White Water Centre near Bala. Just a wild guess.
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I don't think it's the Afon Tryweryn as it is too rugged and it's more like the Snowdonia area.
I'll have a pop at Nant Peris looking towards the route to LLyn y Cwn but I'm far from certain. ?{}?
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Sorry not correct, Yorkie (or Hugo whose post I have just seen). I think that some of the walking fraternity might recognise it as it is very close to a popular start/ finish point for walks.
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Mr Hollins says, "Is it Ogwen?"
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Could it be near Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog?
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Mr. Hollins is absolutely correct, well done! It is the stream that comes down from Llyn Idwal (Afon Idwal?) where it comes down between the Cafe and Ogwen Cottage and goes under the lane then down into the Ogwen Falls. You can see how wet it had been by the amount of water flowing down into Cwm Idwal in the distance. I have posted a few other pics. below that I took on the same day of the bridge just above the Cafe looking up and downstream, and also of the confluence with the Ogwen river just after the bridge over the A5.
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Wonderful photographs.
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Incredible photos Gwynant, I've seen it bad there before but never anything like that. $good$
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Incredible photos Gwynant, I've seen it bad there before but never anything like that. quote]
You're right Hugo, I also had never ever seen so much water coming down off the mountains before and those pics. were taken 24 hours after it stopped raining! On that day I also stopped at Pont Cyfyng in Capel Curig, (see first 2 pics. below) and also at Ogwen Bank outside Bethesda where you can just see the caravans in the park the other side of the Afon Ogwen.
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A question relevant to a recent news item. Who is the gentleman standing up and what event is he at?
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Another toughie Dave, any chance of a clue here? It looks as if it's in the 50's but I can't place any faces. ???
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The year is actually 1921 and the gentleman standing up is one of Britain's greatest composers, he's there to celebrate the opening of a business. A key clue is there's a link with a recent event in the business world.
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Sir Edward Elgar who opened the first HMV Store in Oxford Street, London in July (?) 1921.
Music to my ears if you tell me I am correct! ¢¢##
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You are correct! It was Sir Edward Elgar opening the world's first record shop at Oxford St in 1921. The shop was, of course, HMV.
Elgar also opened the Abbey Road Studios in 1931. Here's a little clip of him at that event:
Elgar conducts Pomp and Circumstance March no.1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrzApHZUUF0#)
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Can you name the PLACE, the DATE, the EVENT and the SHIP NAME.
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HMS Conway, training ship ran aground in the Menai Straits while on way back to Merseyside for a re-fit on 14 April 1953?
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&well& That was the easy one. Now what about this?
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Looks like the Admiral Graf Spee sinking after being scuttled on the 18th December 1939.
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Correct in every detail - I thought it might have lasted a few minutes longer. ;)
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There is a connection between Llandudno and the Battle of River Plate and the scuttling of the Graf Spee! Richard Codman of Llandudno was the 'rangefinder' on HMS Exeter and apparently sighted the Graf Spee to unleash the first salvo in the battle. I presume he was something to do with the Punch and Judy Codmans? He died later in the war.
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Can anyone guess where you will find this fine example of Urban Transport?
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Rhyl? :D
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Nearly! D)
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Somewhere in the Caribbean near Rhyl!
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As the chances of anyone guessing is rather remote I will tell you it is in Gambia. Just to remind all that there is a fine Gambian Horse and Donkey Trust there that looks after I'll treated or ill animals. Donations always welcome. Details at their web site.
$thanx$
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Where in North Wales is this and what is it?
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/P1010637.jpg)
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Burial Chamber?
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Yes Dave, but where?
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On Anglesey?
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Yes, you could have been near it this weekend!
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Looks a bit like Bryn Celli Ddu?
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It looks a lot like it! ;D Well done $good$
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Well worth a visit if you are on Anglesey. Bryn Celli Ddu
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/P1010640-1.jpg)
(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i331/penrhynpigeons/P1010643.jpg)
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Where will you see this red water wheel?
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It's in North Wales, west of the river Conwy! $walesflag$
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The mill on the road from Glan Conwy towards Bodnant on the right. Do not know the name of it.
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That's the mill in Pentrefelin Yorkie but it's not the one and is east of the Conwy River. This wheel is further west and in the Snowdonia National Park.
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Thank you H, that is my daily advancement in local knowledge! )*)&
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You're welcome Yorkie but unless you have put on your hiking boots you may not have seen the wheel and will have just driven past it. $walesflag$
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OK so a couple of tries to save me coming back.
Melin Pant-yr-Ynn near Blaenau Festiniog.
Or the one at Sygun Copper Mine
It's not the one at Inigo Jones' and I can't find any more!
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Well done Yorkie because one of them is correct. &well& But which one? and I can only take your first answer. So here is a big clue!
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Hugo, I thought it looked like the Afon Glaslyn, but I must admit that I checked on Google maps and if you zoom down onto the bridge over the river to Sygun Mine and turn downstream you will get practically the exact view that you had on your photo.
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I'll go for Pant-yr-Ynn, Lord knows where the mill is though! :D
If that's not the answer then someone else can have a go! And if they get it wrong I'll wonder what the World is coming to! ZXZ
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I'll go for Pant-yr-Ynn, Lord knows where the mill is though! :D
If that's not the answer then someone else can have a go! And if they get it wrong I'll wonder what the World is coming to! ZXZ
That's a great guess Yorkie, but I'm afraid that it's wrong $hands$
First prize to Gwynant. &well&
I took the photo from the bridge over the Afon Glaslyn when I did a Beddgelert and Cwm Bychan walk.
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I took the photo from the bridge over the Afon Glaslyn when I did a Beddgelert and Cwm Bychan walk.
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Hugo, I did that walk about 20 years ago after camping out overnight in Cae Du just outside Beddgelert. The weather that day was beautiful and the views from Mynydd Sygun were brilliant in all directions. We took a small detour over to look down onto the village and then back down to Pont Aberglaslyn through Cwm Bychan. I was interested in the aerial tramway pylons which are still there from the time when they were used to carry the copper from the mines down to the railway. An added bonus then was that we could walk back to the campsite through the W.H.Railway tunnels which were not in use then. There was a huge puddle in the centre (and darkest part) of the longer tunnel and we didn't know how deep it would be as the floor was quite uneven but Mrs.Gwynant led the way!
There are some great pictures of the walk on www.mywainwrights.co.uk (http://www.mywainwrights.co.uk)>2009walks cwmbychan (4th July 2009) online by Gary Richardson, one of which features your photo of the waterwheel, and also of his journey up from Waunfawr on the WHR.
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Thanks very much for posting that link, that's a nice website and the photos of Cwm Bychan were quite unusual because it is not normally as wet as that in the valley.
Those pylons are still there and the area around Beddgelert is beautiful. The film Inn of the 6th Happiness was filmed not far from that watermill and it is lovely recognising the scenery when I have been watching the film.
That camp site at Cae Du has been much improved in recent years by the owner Tony and his Dutch wife. My wife's Aunt and Uncle used to take their caravan there every year and we have seen all the improvements taking place over the years.
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Which city is this?
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Dubai by any chance? :D
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Seville? or Cadiz?
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Fester is the closest and Fester you have been there yourself!
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Lisbon?
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No, sorry Bri, not Lisbon.
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What about Cannes?
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or Malaga?
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No, neither of those. here is another photo clue taken from the same rooftop.
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Almeria?
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No, sorry Jack.
You did well with Hugo's last quiz though. That was a good one, had everyone guessing!
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Palma?
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Yes! Well done.
It is the view from the roof terrace of the Hotel Palacio Ca Sa Gelesa in Palma, Mallorca.
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What is the name of this lake? $walesflag$
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Looking at the silhouette of Lliwedd in the background and the abundance of rhododendrons in the surrounding area I reckon it is Afon Glaslyn.
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It's the name of the Lake that I'm after Gwynant. You'll know it and ME should certainly know it! $walesflag$
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Hugo, I meant to put Llyn Dinas but when I was checking it on google it has Afon Glaslyn written right across the lake. Sorry!
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Yes, looks like Llyn Dinas, (or the mirror lake as I call it!)
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Well done Gwynant, I thought that you would get it quickly and I also expected ME to get it too, after all his namesake had a fort there called Dinas Emrys. $walesflag$ $walesflag$
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Here's a little quiz; about the difficulty level of the TV show Only Connect
What is the next letter in this sequence after m?
e, i, s, h
t, m,
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Answer = o
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Care to elaborate at all, Cordy? :roll:
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Morse code
E = .
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T = _
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Although I am aware of Morse code, (dots, dashes etc).... I'm no wiser really.
I must be as thick as a whale omelette.
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Where and on what did I see this while out walking today? It was within a 25 mile radius of Llandudno. $walesflag$
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Holyhead ferry?
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Mostyn Docks.
Freight ferry
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I got the ferry bit right. $good$
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Sorry Martin and Mull, neither of you is right on either location, in fact the P&O logo is a bit of a red herring?
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After looking again at the photo which accompanies my recent question I realise that after offering the two ferryports in the area as answers, (although Holyhead is more than 25 miles away), there is nothing further in the photo which gives any further positive clue as to it's whereabouts. So here are a couple of pointers:- The vessel is named after a famous old Welshman (long dead), and is usually berthed at a location which is within 100m. of a recent (within the last 15 days) location of a question on the other Quiztime thread. $walesflag$ ££$
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Thanks for the clues Gwynant.
Is it the Prince Madog research vessel from Bangor University?
I think we saw it when we were walking from Beaumaris recently.
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$good$ You're dead right Hollins, it was tied up alongside Porthaethwy Pier when we had a very enjoyable walk over, then under. and back over the Menai Bridge yesterday.
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Where will you find this etched into a grade II listed building within 15 miles of Llandudno?
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Haha, this is a building I nearly bought about 10 years ago!!! I'll let others guess the location. ;)
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Haha, this is a building I nearly bought about 10 years ago!!! I'll let others guess the location. ;)
Must be a Coffee Institute! ;D
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I've seen that somewhere recently... is it in Penmaenmawr?
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Not coffee related and not in Penmaenmawr either!
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It was for sale 10 years ago for £35k if that helps... :laugh:
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The stonework and distance from Llandudno fits Llanfairfechan but I haven't a clue where exactly it is and I'm still looking. ???
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I knew this one as well DaveR but won't spoil the guessing. A fine building for £35K. What put you off?
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Not Llanfairfechan either I'm afraid Hugo!
As a clue it isn't on the coast!
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Is it the Llanrwst Institute on Denbigh Road, Llanrwst?
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Well done Gwynant $good$
Hopefully DaveR knows a bit more but I think it was built as the Memorial Institute so presumably built after WW1?
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I knew this one as well DaveR but won't spoil the guessing. A fine building for £35K. What put you off?
It was very run down at the time, lot of the carved stonework etc needed replacing. I didn't have the cash to both buy and renovate it, sadly.
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Hopefully DaveR knows a bit more but I think it was built as the Memorial Institute so presumably built after WW1?
It's an interesting building but I don't know a lot about it. It was subdivided into flats at some point and was pretty tatty when I looked at it.
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In which Hotel and City will you find all rooms have these fabulous tiled bedheads?
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Looks like the Hotel Nova Sintra in Sintra, Portugal to me.
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DaveR, as your guess is in Portugal and it's also Yorkie, you are probably correct.
But how on earth did you manage to guess that?
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Looks like the Hotel Nova Sintra in Sintra, Portugal to me.
Pity that the answer is incorrect! Certainly in Portugal but much further South than Sintra. ZXZ
Also much bigger establishment with almost 200 rooms.
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DaveR, as your guess is in Portugal and it's also Yorkie, you are probably correct.
But how on earth did you manage to guess that?
There is a thing called GOOGLE, Bri!
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Is it the Hotel Apartamento Brisa Sol in Albufeira?
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Is it the Hotel Apartamento Brisa Sol in Albufeira?
Hugo - you've done it again! &well& Absolutely 100% correct. We have just returned from our early Spring holiday at this great Aparthotel.
I think the one found by DaveR must have been an extra that maybe fell off the back of the lorry delivering to the Brisa Sol. :D
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Another Portugal one, just for fun. Where is this fishing boat moored?
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Hmmmm! No answer yet, so maybe a clue is needed.
OK, so the clue is simply, that there is no better clue than that which already exists. Hope that floats your boat!
;D
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Bom Sucesso, would that be moored in Lisbon?
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Unfortunately - No! No Bom Success for you this time. Again the answer is much further South. ££$
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Is this the one in Olhao.....?
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMGC6C_Caque_Bom_Sucesso_Olho_Portugal (http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMGC6C_Caque_Bom_Sucesso_Olho_Portugal)
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&well& Hollins! It is indeed the boat that I photographed whilst on holiday this month. The location is actually given on the bow lettering where OL can be seen above the name. This is the registration letters for Olhao where it is registered. Easy to find really! :D
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On my recent sojourn I came across the two headless gentlemen below. Does anyone know where they are located and for what reason. The photograph is not very good and I had to do a bit of (very) amateur retouching!
One for Bri?
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Burtons?
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It had to be someone! Well thought out, Bri, but totally incorrect. _))*
A clue, they are displayed in a glass case, which necessitated the retouching to remove the reflections.
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Is it that glass case at Liverpool airport with the Beatles suits in?
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Right again, Hollins! Actually the suits of John Lennon after who the Airport is named.
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Where in England will you find this slightly smirking fellow?
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Is that Canterbury Cathedral?
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I'll come clean and say Bath Abbey!
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Yorkie is correct, well done. It is Bath Abbey in the background taken from the Roman Baths which are an amazing sight.
Here are a couple of photos of the baths.
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That looks like a place worth visiting, fascinating.
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Looks as though it could do with a change of water!
Definitely worth a visit as do all the old Churches and Cathedrals in the UK. Some fantastic examples of the Mason's Art can be seen and appreciated. Many interior as well as the exterior features are also worthy of the attention of a good photographer.
Look out for the distinguishing "marks" of the Mason on individual stones. Collecting "marks" can be as interesting as collecting train numbers! Or even more so!
ZXZ
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That looks like a place worth visiting, fascinating.
It was DaveR. Here are a few more photos to inspire you.
We were really lucky. We were staying with friends who live there. They took us on a grand walking tour of the city.
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$walesflag$ Where in North Wales will you find this gable-end mural? It is easily visible on a well used road and bus route.
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What an amazing coincidence! We passed this on Sunday and commented on it. I'm not going to give it away but all I will say is we passed it on the way back from Pembrokeshire.
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A School in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Workshops for nursery aged children to create murals to be fixed to the school's outer walls. Coloured ... Ysgol y Moelwyn, Blaenau Ffestiniog 2008.
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Yorkie, you are correct in stating that it is in Blaenau Ffestiniog, but your location is incorrect. It is actually on the side of a shop (Beatons, Chartered Accountants) at the junction of the A470 (Church St.) and Heol Foty (Lord St.) and can be seen clearly on Google maps. Ysgol-y-Moelwyn is about a quarter of a mile away to the south-west in Wynne Road. Only you and Hollins (who drove past it last week-end, but didn't give the game away, thanks Hollins!) came up with answers so well done anyway.
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Small error on my part for failing to read the full text! Yes it is a work by Catrin Williams and she seems to be quite a prolific Artist with works being exhibited and commissioned for many parts of the UK. A bit more knowledge in my brain box! :D
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DaveR's new headquarters perhaps?
Where is this place?
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In view of your recent photos from the Roman city of Bath, and the the fact that the word "Forum" is Latin for "meeting-Place", (if my ageing memory serves me right!), can I hazard a guess at Bath? Sorry i can't be more precise. By the way thanks very much for your consideration in not immediately divulging the answer to my mural question yesterday!
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Hi Gwynant,
I was amazed when your mural question came up as we had only just been past it!
Sorry but my photo isn't in Bath. It is much closer to home in North Wales.
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It is The Forum Tea Rooms in Denbigh!
And I did NOT use Google!
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&well& Yorkie
Thanks, Hollins. Realising that it was most likely to be a Cafe or Restaurant I did a search in Trip Advisor! :D
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Where in North Wales will you find this viaduct? $walesflag$
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Looks familiar but I shall say....nothing. :D
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Llan Ffestiniog?
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Close enough Jack, it is actually taken from the level crossing in Blaenau Ffestiniog where the line curves right on the way out up through Bethania, Manod, Llan Ffestiniog and eventually to Trawsfynydd.
It is beginning to get overgrown nowbut I seem to remember somebody talking a couple of years ago about opening a man-powered bogie system from Blaenau to Traws for tourists but I have heard nothing since. I would imagine it would have had to be operated on a one-way system as I don't think there are any passing loops on that stretch.
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The bit that goes through the town was badly overgrown when I visited back in 2005:
(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/15/20756500_8c87b1952c_z.jpg?zz=1) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/20756500/)
Disused Railway- Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/20756500/#) by [davidrobertsphotography] (http://www.flickr.com/people/davellandudno/), on Flickr
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What a change since I was last there in 1992/3. We were still running trains with spent fuel out of Trawsfynedd to Sellafield then but once the power station was decommissioned these ceased.
That part of the line in the town was always an eyesore with all the usual dumped bags,shopping trollies, and I see the tyre is still there.
They need to tackle the overgrowing bushes before they take over the whole area. Once that stuff takes a hold it is a major job to get rid of it.
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Where in North Wales will you find this memorial?
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What a change since I was last there in 1992/3. We were still running trains with spent fuel out of Trawsfynedd to Sellafield then but once the power station was decommissioned these ceased.
That part of the line in the town was always an eyesore with all the usual dumped bags,shopping trollies, and I see the tyre is still there.
They need to tackle the overgrowing bushes before they take over the whole area. Once that stuff takes a hold it is a major job to get rid of it.
I made a train journey for the first time in 10 years at the end of last year and was amazed at the difference in various areas around the lines. Some, and indeed some stations, were pristine. Others were nothing short of rubbish dumps.
I shall be making the same journey next week and will notice which areas are the worst.
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Denbigh War Memorial
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Correct again!
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This isn't far away but where will you find it? $walesflag$
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It cold be about 30 miles away or it could be much closer! ???
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It is on David Robert's Photography Blog and is the insignia of Trinity House. This one appears above the door of a former Lighthouse. Sorry do not know which one!
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Is it on this building?
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More info:
The emblem of Trinity House appears above the door of a former Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage at Penmon Point on Anglesey.
Trwyn Du Lighthouse is a lighthouse between Dinmor Point near Penmon and Ynys Seriol, or Puffin Island, south east Anglesey, at the north entrance to the Menai Strait (grid reference: SH 6 44815) and marking the passage between the two islands.
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I saw the sign on the other cottage Hollins but it could have been on the one in yours too. Well done and Yorkie and I think Dave knew it but didn't let on. So well done the three of you. &well&
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Where will see this door? $walesflag$
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Is it the mausoleum at Bodnant ?
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I agree ME, definitely Bodnant.
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You are both spot on &well&
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This is a cinema in England.
Anyone know where it is and what it is called?
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Alhambra Cinema, Keswick. Is that close enough? _))*
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&well& Yorkie. Quick and very close! Have you been there?
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Never been in the Alhambra, but have been to Keswick. But on this occasion I just chose the right keywords for my search.
So, here is an easy one where and what is this a picture of?
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A motor racing circuit obviously, but surrounded by greenery... so likely to be in the UK.
I'll guess Silverstone?
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Sorry Fest, not Silverstone. This is Silverstone..
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Portugal?
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Portimão, Algarve.
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&well& SDQ. It is the new F1 Circuit just outside Portimao in the Algarve. Was hoping to get a ride round the track on my recent holiday there, maybe next time!
*cycle*. ZXZ
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Sorry Fest, not Silverstone. This is Silverstone..
Same thing really.
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This post box has a special significance. Does anyone know why and where it is?
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Got the feeling that there could be 1,001 answers to this but I am going to plump for The Albert Dock, Liverpool as being a celebration of the first red post box of many years ago. ZXZ
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Got to make them a bit harder as you are answering them too quickly!
No it isn't in Liverpool.
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Got to make them a bit harder as you are answering them too quickly!
No it isn't in Liverpool.
This one is hard enough, thank you! :D
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Now being half Yorkshire I suddenly thought, "I wonder if it is that one from Leeds that does not have a Royal Cipher on it." Maybe that is why the front is not in the photograph - N'est pas?
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I'm afraid not!
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Oh well, I tried! Reckon I'll have to admit defeat on this one. . . . . . . . ZXZ
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Surely not! It's a question of survival........
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posted in error.
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Here is a clue. It is next to a branch of M&S.
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That is a great help! :o
It is the one in Corporation Street, Manchester where the IRA planted the bomb that blew up a major part of the area in 1999, I think!!!!!!! :D
It has a Plaque on the front detailing the incident.
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That's the one!
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Got there in the end! But it certainly was a hard one! Sorry to say I had to use Goole for this one. L0L
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Sorry to say I had to use Goole for this one. L0L
Interesting spelling mistake there! _))*
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Sorry to say I had to use Goole for this one. L0L
Interesting spelling mistake there! _))*
It is a peculiarity of this darn iPad. It just cannot spell! ;D
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Mine often predicts the wrong worm! ;D
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Mine often predicts the wrong worm! ;D
That's called a Barkerism. _))*
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I came opon this commemorative stone during a recent walk in the North Wales area. Where is it situated?
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Glyn Valley?
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Canal-side memorial Froncysyllte. ZXZ
To see this memorial: leave the A5 at Froncysyllte and turn onto B5434. Find a parking spot in the village and head for the canal towpath. Walk along the towpath towards the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and you will pass this monument.
Chirk Castle Limestone Company and Canada Bill are the inscriptions.
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Spot on Yorkie. We parked on the other side of the valley in Trevor, walked across the aqueduct and then carried on along the towpath, through the tunnel and past the Kronospan plant and on into Chirk, a distance of about 4 miles (and all on the flat!) where we had a very nice (and very reasonable) lunch in the Hand Hotel, and then caught the 64 bus back down to Froncysyllte. The stone is called "Set in stone" and features the old picks of the quarrymen and as you say a stone-carving of Canada Bill.
I don't know who Canada Bill was but Google tells me that there was a Canada Bill Jones who was born in Yorkshire and emigated to America when he was 20 where he was a notorious riverboat gambler, but I don't think it can be the same person.
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That's a nice walk Gwynant, we did that earlier last year and went up to Chirk Castle then we walked back along the canal to Trevor Basin. I don't know how long it was but it seemed quite far
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you should have tried the chiken and chips at Chirk golf club with a view of the canal, well recommended
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I've just got home after having bumped into a BT engineer who told me the location of M.E's poser about the telephone exchange in Allanson Road, Rhos, hastily logged on with the answer and found out that Hollins had beaten me to it after the latest clues which were posted after I left home.
Never mind, here is a fairly easy one after the last one!. Where would you find this in North Wales? (And for a bonus point what is currently situated next to it and why?)
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Is it Portdinorwic ?
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Well done, Mull. If this question had run for a while ( and mine never do!), I was going to post a further photo clue (see 1st Photo below) which shows the answer to the bonus part of the question just visible behind the bridge. The brand new £2.7m. Tamar Class Moelfre Lifeboat RNLB "Kiwi", (see 2nd photo) which was built with the help of a donation from a seafaring New Zealander was tied up there last Wednesday. When I asked why she was there and not on station at Moelfre, I was told that there were problems with the planning and construction of a new boathouse to house her there, and she was moored either there or Holyhead to shelter from the strong N/E winds which were in force at the time, as she is normally on a mooring in Moelfre Bay, and therefore the crew could only access her by tender. The old Tyne Class life-boat is still on station in the old boathouse at Moelfre until the problems with Ynys Mon C.C. and the residents of the village are sorted out, and the next meeting is due later this month. When I told the Dockmaster where I was from he said that he had heard that we had been having the same problems with planning at Llandudno, and I confirmed that and said it had been going on for years.
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I had no idea with this one, I've been there just once over 35 years ago!
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Where in North Wales will you find this building and what is it used for now?
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Not in Denbigh, is it?
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Correct, I'll have to go further afield with my questions!
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Town Hall I believe, also let out for private and other functions. Good idea to raise revenue. ;)
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Where in North Wales would you find this waterside location?
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Greenfield, it's the view across one of the lakes in the Greenfield Valley Heritage Park.
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Well Done Dave, I have agree with Hollins, we will have to go further afield with our questions (or make the locations harder to identify!).
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Well Done Dave, I have agree with Hollins, we will have to go further afield with our questions (or make the locations harder to identify!).
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Some are hard enough already. I hadn't a clue where to start on that one! Remember the answers are only easy if you know them. ;D
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Easy one, and one person (who knows who she is) isnt allowed to answer! ;D Where in North Wales is this?
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Plas Rhianfa, between Beaumaris and Menai Bridge, overlooking the Straits.
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Plas Rhianfa, between Beaumaris and Menai Bridge, overlooking the Straits.
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Where in North Wales was I walking yesterday?
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Photo taken in Bangor on the North Wales Cycle Route (5?). Not sure of exact place. ZXZ
On route from Bangor to Llanfairfechan (or vice versa).
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You are right in saying it is on a cycle path Yorkie, but it's not the No 5, or the correct location.
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:-}}} Yorkie, I owe you an apology! I've just been studying Google Maps and the No.5 Sustrans path does in fact join on to the No.85 (Lon Las Ogwen) path not far from where that photo was taken, so strictly speaking it is on the Bangor-Llanfairfechan No.5 route. My sincere apologies if you have been looking for another location. I thought the No.5 path went in to Bangor through Llandygai past Penrhyn Castle, and that the Lon Las Ogwen Path (No.85) was a separate route on it's own. $good$
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Gwynant, no problem, i know nothing about cycle paths but managed to hit on a similar photo and that was what it said about it. Another successful hunt that I enjoyed! It was not exactly easy and I learnt a lot about Sustrans on the way. :D
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Yorkie, I owe you an apology!
Not something you hear every day... :laugh:
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Too true! L0L
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Right, will Yorkie be able to resist answering a new quiz question?
As promised I have moved further afield, that's enough of Denbigh!
I am in an English seaside resort, which one?
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Looks like Sidmouth to me?
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O'h Dave, how clever. Back to Denbigh it is then! &well&
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What was Sidmouth like? Never yet been there but its on the list. :)
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It is very old fashioned!
The promenade and sea front is largely unspoilt like Llandudno but is it in the Regency style. There is a lovely promenade, not as long as Llandudno but there are dramatic red cliffs at either end. There are beautiful thatched roofed houses everywhere.
Here are a few photos to show what the seafront looks like.
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Some nice photos, H. It all looks very tidy and well maintained.
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Yes, you are right there. There are also some immaculately maintained gardens at one end giving a really good impression to visitors.
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What is this building and where is it?
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Looks like a Mosque..... Bradford? :laugh:
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I think we all know that Fester's guess of Bradford isn't correct but it is in England.
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Is it Exeter Cathedral?
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Yes!
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I had quite a shock when I saw Exeter Cathedral. I had never been there before and I went to the cafe on the roof of John Lewis for a coffee and this amazing building appeared in view!
Here are a couple more photos of it just for interest.
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After reading Dave.R's new instructions for the automatic resizing of photos to be posted I thought I would try it out in conjunction with a quiz question. Where is this Pier to be found?
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Cromer pier lifeboat station.
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That must be a near record, only NINE MINUTES! ZXZ
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Google images helps! :D
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that,s got to be cheating
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Not really, having never been there, how else can we guess it? Just using available data! ;D
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Absolutely right M.E. The pier has been refurbished and the new life-boat station with a new boat have been added. There is a very interesting RNLI museum situated next to the old station which has a lifeboat in it (like the Seawatch museum in Moelfre) and has a lot of information on Henry Bloggs , who like Dick Evans of Moelfre earned the Institution's Gold Medal twice. Down the coast at Lowestoft there is a statue (also like the Dlck Evans one at Moelfre) to the local Lifeboatmen there.
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Nice photos, Gwynant. Glad the new photo uploading system is working well for you. $good$
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Here is a little teaser. What, where and who was responsible?
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It's a very small pic, anything to do with Portugal? ;D
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Ronaldo?
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Sorry about pic size, no automatic adjustment for this one. It is in the UK and there is a link between this and the previous poser! I chose the silhouette on purpose.
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Something to do with the RLNI?
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Could be, but not as far as I am aware. Here is another pic.
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Definitely not Ronaldo then! :laugh:
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That is 'Verity' by the artist Damien Hirst and it's situated in Ilfracombe....beautiful sculpture - would love to see it in the flesh so to speak.
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Well done Sam. The link of course is that it is on the pier in Ilfracombe. I had a couple of great years in the area when I was in the R.A.F. At Chivenor.
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In which North Wales restaurant was I sitting when I took this photo?
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Dylan's Pizzeria?
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Dylan's Pizzeria?
Correct! On the shores of the Menai Straits at Menai Bridge. A very pleasant place to enjoy a meal.
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You don't have to go far to travel under the bridge but where is it?
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It's on the B5381 Glan Conwy Corner - Betws-yn- Rhos road just after you start up the hill from the Black Cat roundabout.
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That didn't last long did it! Well done Gwynant &well&
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Sorry about that Hugo! I just happened to be using that road earlier this week so it rang a bell!
Now where is this rock situated? It is also not very far away from the 3 town's area but I think it looks as if it
could be on Easter Island.
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Just a wild guess, is it on the cycle route by the Penmaenbach tunnel?
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We'll call that a 1-1 draw then Hugo after the last question! It is exactly there, but it can only be seen by cyclists or walkers actually on the cycle route or the beach as the A55 goes through the tunnels there.
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I don't think this one will last very long either but you can but try!
Where will you find this memorial?
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The Albert memorial in Manchester?
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Well done DaveR. Correct.
The red strips were leftovers from the Manchester United celebrations on Monday night.
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That banner looks like its hanging from the Midland Hotel, the northern equivalent of the Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras. The same architect, Giles Gilbert Scott, designed Hafodunos at Llangernyw, in the same Italian gothic style:
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6224/6310652338_7d89c49d68_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/6310652338/)
Hafodunos Redux No.1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/6310652338/#) by [davidrobertsphotography] (http://www.flickr.com/people/davellandudno/), on Flickr
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It's a different building on the corner of Albert Square. I think it is a restaurant now but I can't remember the name of it.
I didn't know about the architect so thanks for that info.
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It's a different building on the corner of Albert Square. I think it is a restaurant now but I can't remember the name of it.
I didn't know about the architect so thanks for that info.
Oh yes! :-[ The Memorial Hall, designed by Thomas Worthington, in the Venetian Gothic style.
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What is the name of this monument and where in England is it?
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Bell Rock Lighthouse
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No, not right this time Yorkie.
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With approx 90 lighthouses in England, I think I'll need a clue for this one. ZXZ
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It's one of the other ones! ;D ££$
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Looks like it is Hoad Monument, Ulverston, England
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Ah! A replica of the third Eddistone Lighthouse, no wonder I was confused! Great quiz item. :D
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Well done ME. I couldn't trick you then!
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I had assistance from my good friend Mr Googleimages! ;D
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Isn't Bell Rock lighthouse many miles out in the middle of the Atlantic Yorkie?
I saw a brilliant documentary about how they built it. Brave, brave men...
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Perhaps the tide was out when the picture was taken! :laugh:
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I was certainly a few miles off course but it was the first one that came into my head! And that's got a few dents and holes in it nowadays! ;D
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Funny place for a lighthouse!
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Not really so funny! Not if you're a sailing person. Many a fine lighthouse is placed on land that is some distance from the water. They are used to give a bearing to the navigator and warn of danger, not as a homing beacon! My favourite is North Foreland as it guards against the treacherous Goodwin Sands and is a homely sight before entering the Thames Estuary towards London (when I lived there).
The tallest land based lighthouse is North Ronaldsay in Scotland.
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Where was I during this week ?
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As most of you know I don't enter the quiz arena very often.
BecauseI'm no goo at them.
But to me this looks a bit like part of Clovelly in Devon
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Must remember to visit specsavers as I can't read the name on the cottage door! :(
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Well my very wild guess this time is Harlech. ;D
I think the Cottage name is Gibraltar - I did go to Specsavers but don't know how good the specs are!
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Sorry Mike----too far away.
Yes the cottage is Gibraltar Cottage-- but I don't think there is any connection. But it isn't Harlech.
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Do I get half a point for that?
OK so now I'll suggest Caernarfon . :D
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Not really ! ;D
Still not right!
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Barmouth.
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? :D
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Hebden Bridge?
Hope you had a nice holiday wherever it was.
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Spot on SDQ. I have always wanted to look at 'Hen Bermo' as the locals call it, so set off upwards one afternoon. I decided that I had better try the hill before my legs wouldn't let me !!It was absolutely fascinating-- I had read up about it before I went, so had a rough idea of how steep it was---coming down was the worst.
My OH is sitting in the little red car that you can spot right at the front of the car park in the photo I took from up there.
Thanks Hollins-- it was only a quick break of 3 nights, but a nice change.
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Another view
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It's not in the Three Towns but it's very near, but where is it?
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I'm not looking for the name of the town but the street that it's near.
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Station Road. ZXZ
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That's a good try Yorkie but it's not near enough!
There are a lot of Station Roads in this area so you'll need to be closer than that. ???
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There's a lot of B***y post boxes also! ;)
OK so I'll have a go at Strydd Fawr both in Llanfairfechan!
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Yorkie, you're close but not close enough.
ME certainly knows the name of the street but has he seen the letter box yet even if it's on his wish list ???
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Is it The Close, Llanfairfechan ? Which we have looked around some time ago, very nice too!
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That's Close enough, well done ME &well&
Hope that you enjoyed your visit to The Close all the buildings in the Street are listed including the letter box.
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Cheers Hugo, we both loved The Close, we wish modern buildings could look so good!
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Gosh! I was close to the Close, but not close enuff! ;D
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If you haven't seen it before Yorkie then it's worth a look.
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Where is this cafe?
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No idea at all, but I will guess at Bodnant!
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No, sorry, not Bodnant.
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The new(ish) Marks & Spencers just over the border in Cheshire?
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Yes, well done. The M&S at Cheshire Oaks, great roof!
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Where and what is this building?
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Unfortunately this is a well repeated form on many Churches and other achitectual edifices, so it could be almost anywhere in the Uk, France or Europe in general. So I am not even going to hazard a guess. ££$
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Bodelwyddan, St Margaret's church ?
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Brilliant, well done.
I had only ever driven past it before but today I had the chance to have a closer look and very beautiful it is.
Here are a few photos which maybe of interest.
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Forgot this one.
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Where might you see this street art?
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Forgot to add that it is only just outside the three towns area!!
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In subway to Penmaenmawr Beach. ZXZ
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I will add that this is a sprayed stencil and there may be more than one in the area! ;)
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There must be more than one in that area as this one was on the cycle path near Penmaenbach Tunnel :) Well done Yorkie $walesflag$
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There must be more than one in that area as this one was on the cycle path near Penmaenbach Tunnel :) Well done Yorkie $walesflag$
Flikr picture here:
Buzz Aldrin..... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttphotos/7863422756/#)
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Where would you find this block of flats?
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Chester by the river?
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Chester by the river?
Indeed it is, I wondered if the colour would give the game away. :laugh:
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What is the name of this fountain and in which city is it located?
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After 4 days and no answers it would seem that no one knows!
Here is another relatively easy one. Where will you find this organ keyboard? Not UK.
And the organ.
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You're dead right Yorkie, it had been there so long I had even forgotten I had posted the question! Anyway the answer was the "Leaf Boat Fountain" in Swansea, which is right in front of Swansea Castle (no, I didn't know Swansea had a castle either, till I was there recently) and the Swansea B.T.Tower, which is just visible on the left of the photo below.
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After 4 days and no answers it would seem that no one knows!
Here is another relatively easy one. Where will you find this organ keyboard? Not UK.
And the organ.
Is it the Cathedral Organ of Saint Steven in Passau? I thought that you said it was easy Yorkie!
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Must have been easy, Hugo, you got it absolutely right. The largest in Europe! &well&
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You are quite right when you've said in the past that you can learn a lot by Googling because my first thoughts were that it was in Portugal.
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Where will you find this mix of old and new?
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on the strand in liverpool
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Well done Norman, that was quick!
I'm glad I wasn't in this vehicle/boat when it sank in the dock yesterday.
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They got a real DUKW ing! Not a pleasant experience, makes one wonder where was the 'elf and safety? Probably didn't explain any emergency action to the punters so chaos would have been the order of the day. I don't know if life jackets were worn but I think they should have been issued and used for the duration of the trip. :(
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I'm sure I remember the Queen having a ride on it on her last visit.
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I remember saying to my friend last week when i saw it that it didnt look too safe.
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I think it has sunk previously too. Philip Oliver an actor who played Tinhead in Brookside was involved with another guy and featured in a TV programme called Four in a bed when they had a boat in Albert Dock doing a B & B business there. The DUCW played a part in the programme.
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Footbridge crossing A55 at Tan y Bryn Road over to Conway Road, between Colwyn Bay and Mochdre.
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I thought that as well at first Yorkie, but surely that is in the 3 towns area. Is it the footbridge over the river overlooking the waterfalls behind the Old Woollen Mills in Trefriw?
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Yes the A55 bridge is much wider. I think Trefriw seems likely.
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I thought that as well at first Yorkie, but surely that is in the 3 towns area. Is it the footbridge over the river overlooking the waterfalls behind the Old Woollen Mills in Trefriw?
It's not that one Gwynant but as you are so near I'll give you that one. It's the bridge over the river across the road and in front of the Old Woolen Mills in Trefriw.
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What was built near here in 1893 ?
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does this help?
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I'll try this
Llety'r Dryw
Llety'r Dryw is a house in Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1893 for John Eden (uncle of Anthony Eden) and designed by the Chester firm of architects, Douglas & Fordham. About 1960 it came into the possession of Denbighshire County Council and used as the Fire Brigade Headquarters, and about 1990 it was taken over by the North Wales Police Authority. The house has been described as a "simple stone-built villa", which has been "inspired by 17th-century vernacular work of Northern England". The listing description says it is a "freely interpreted neo-vernacular house of considerable architectural quality".
It is built in random rubble, with red sandstone dressings; it has a slate roof with a crest of red tiles, and brick chimneystacks with stone caps. It consists of a main range, with cross wings having coped and finialed gables, and a service extension behind. Much of the original joinery remains in the interior of the house.
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A good try Yorkie but it's not in the Three Towns Area, although it isn't too far away. $walesflag$
DaveR has seen it but hasn't seen the date on the stone. ???
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DaveR has seen it but hasn't seen the date on the stone. ???
Have I now! ;D Is it on a building..or some other structure?
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Criccieth Lifeboat Station
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DaveR has seen it but hasn't seen the date on the stone. ???
Have I now! ;D Is it on a building..or some other structure?
Yes :D
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Criccieth Lifeboat Station
Another good guess Yorkie but this is in Conwy County.
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I have seen it...but can't remember where it is! :roll:
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After checking Hugo's recent walking posts and realising that the wall is built of Penmaenmawr granite I put 2+2 together and looked more closely at the Pen/Llanfair viaducts information and discovered that there is an avalanche shelter built to prevent boulders falling onto the railway line there and a stone dated 1893 was inserted into the parapet walls at the time of building. I have got this walk down on my list for this summer, but so far the tides haven't tallied with the weather or the availability of the friends that I do the walks with. Cracking question Hugo, as not many people would have been on that walk!
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You are definitely on the right track and spot on Gwynant. &well&
It's only a relatively short walk but well worth it. I've wanted to do it for years but never got around to doing it. I knew that it could be done because I could see the sand a long way from the headland and also when I've read books about the past I believe that they took stage coaches around on the sand. ( I think the passengers had to get out and walk on that section)
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Where in North Wales will you find this interesting roof?
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On top of a building! And I claim the Prize! :D
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Wild Guess---- Ruthin Gaol ?
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No, sorry not Ruthin.
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North Wales Hospital, Denbigh?
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Hi Jack, no not Denbigh this time! ;D
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Abergele? The school opposite Tesco?
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Well done DaveR!
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Casgliad y Werin Cymru - NATIONAL SCHOOL;ABERGELE JUNIOR SCHOOL
To give it its correct name. I was just too late on this one! :D
Well done Dave. &well&
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The roof is very distinctive! ;D
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Yes, it is a great roof and chimneys. It reminds me a bit of the roofs in Beaune and Burgundy in France.
It obviously was a school but the sign above the door now says Abergele Youth and Community Centre.
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Hugo, I am guessing that as you had a very recent walk starting and ending in Penmorfa ( "Top of the sea marsh?"), and the fact that there is a King George's Playing Field in that village is leading me towards that location, but I have no idea what lies below the inscription.
Incidentally, there are some programmes on S4c this week between 2000 and 2300 on Tuesday, Wed, Thursday and Friday which might be of some interest to you and your walking companions about climbing. One of them features Ioan Doyle from Bethesda and some of the others feature Eric Jones who has a café on the road to Beddgelert below the cliffs in Tremadoc, and the rest are about Everest and one on the "Dragon's Back Race".
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Playing fields were provided in all parts of the country to remember King George V. I belive the text underneath is something like:
for the use and enjoyment of the people.
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Da Iawn Gwynant $walesflag$ you have got the village correct but not the answer to what lies beneath, we were walking on the main road so the answer can be seen from the road?
Thanks for the info about the TV programmes, I'll have a look at them
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Playing fields were provided in all parts of the country to remember King George V. I belive the text underneath is something like:
for the use and enjoyment of the people.
Good thinking Yorkie but we are not looking for an inscription of any sort, but the object underneath is clearly visible on Google streetview (I think)
It is, I've just checked :D
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Hugo, I can see where it is, but not what it is! It looks like two arched gates, one above the other, but I can't read the notice on the gate on the top one. I'm thinking it could be connected to the nearby church in some way. Is it the entrance to a well or a spring?
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You've got it Gwynant &well&
It's like a well but fed from a stream. I remembered it from many years ago when I walked along the road from Bangor to Porthmadog and bathed my feet in the water to cool them down.
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Wild guess Llyn y Parc, Betwys y Coed. :D
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A good guess Yorkie but I'm afraid it's not correct. It is in Conwy County but not near Betws.
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Welsh Mountain Zoo?
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Sorry Nemesis but it's not in the Three Towns area although it isn't far from Colwyn Bay
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The park in Abergele?
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That's the one Dave, Pentre Mawr in Abergele &well&
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Where in Wales will you find this building and what is its use now?
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Tywyn Cinema. ;)
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Correct.
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Where would you find this structure in the North Wales area?
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Yorkie's Wild guess - Gwrych Castle. ;D
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It is a castle Yorkie, but not that one. It is within a 15 mile radius of the Three Towns.
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I'll have another bash at Dolbadarn Castle, and if that ain't right I must be losing my touch! :D
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Sorry unlucky again Yorkie. I must admit I had never even heard of this castle myself until I came upon it while out walking today, it is very well hidden in trees but is positioned on a hill. An extra clue, it is within a couple of miles of one of the more well-known castles in the North Wales area.
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I'll pass on this as I've been there a few times. It was built more than 100 years before the other. nice walk Gwynant. $good$
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The only near local one I can find that seems to fit the bill is Twthill Castle near Ruddlan. Fongers crossed as they say on Tele! ;D
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You are on the right track Yorkie, but you are in the wrong area. As I said in my last post it is only a couple of miles away from a more well-known Castle, but slightly off the beaten track. ££$ $good$
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It was actually built more than 200 years before the more well known castle but it only lasted 3 years before it was captured and destroyed by the Welsh. $walesflag$
perhaps another clue will help Yorkie,
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As no further answers are forthcoming, I'll throw in a couple more clues. Although it is within a 12-14 mile radius of Llandudno, the shortest route by car is 30 miles. It also can be seen clearly from the air on Google maps, and as I have previously stated it is within a couple of miles of a much more famous Castle. During a siege by the Welsh 124 Norman soldiers were killed but the Castle was not taken during that siege, but it fell later. It was originally a "Twthill" ( timber walls and buildings on top of an earth mound), but was eventually replaced by a stone structure, and was allegedly used by the Home Guard during World War 2.
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My other thought, which I considered to be too far away to match the clue was Dinas Bran near Llangollen. Maybe that's the one? :D
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Yorkie, you are looking in absolutely the wrong area. It is in an area of 12-14 miles of Llandudno "as the crow flies", but whereas the crow can fly over the sea, the car has to take the long way round!
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Am I getting warm with Beaumaris Castle being the well known castle and this tiddler being in the Penmon area?
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Castell Aberlleiniog would seem to be the solution! :D
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Congratulations Yorkie, absolutely correct. I have to apologise for not answering your message about "Beaumaris Castle and this tiddler" earlier , but I was out enjoying the early evening sunshine and "putting the world to rights" in my local!, and I have only just come in. I must admit I had never heard of Castell Aberlleiniog myself until this Thursday when we had a walk from Llangoed round Penmon Head and beyond and passed it en route. Again, well done for your perseverance skills!
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Ooh, well done to Jack and Yorkie.... it is now on my list of castles to visit. Never heard of it, must find it.
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Again, well done for your perseverance skills!
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My knowledge of North Wales gets broader and broader each time there is a poser on the Forum. This one has taught me not to be omnidirectional, or at least buy a new compass! :D
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It was built in 1090 by the Earl of Chester but was captured and destroyed by the Welsh 3 years later. It's in a lovely woodland setting with a stream running nearby and when I last walked along the path the smell of wild garlic was everywhere.
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Ooh, well done to Jack and Yorkie.... it is now on my list of castles to visit. Never heard of it, must find it.
It's only recently become accessible, since WG spent a lot of money clearing the vegetation and creating an access path to it.
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The original structure was destroyed by Gruffydd ap Cynan and the present ruins are thought to date from the medieval period
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A closed Pub...not far outside the Three Towns area...but where and what is its name?
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Is it Queens Hotel - Llanrwst?
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Is it Queens Hotel - Llanrwst?
Well done, Paula. Its situted on what would have been the main road through Llanrwst before the railway was built. $good$
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Another closed pub/hotel not that far out of the Three Towns area, on a main road so Im sure it wont last long:
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Is that the Fairy Glen Hotel on the A470 just outside Betws Y Coed?
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Is that the Fairy Glen Hotel on the A470 just outside Betws Y Coed?
It is, Hugo, and I thought that you might be the man to get this one. $good$
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I park my car behind the Hotel when I have done the Conwy Falls walks and the Capel Garmon walks but I still didn't recognise the hotel immediately.
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Fairly easy this one but where would you see this?
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Seafront at Pensarn, unveiled by BBC wildlife team.
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Well done Yorkie I thought that you'd get it soon. &well&
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I've been past this many times but not noticed it before. Where is it exactly?
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On the Old Highway in Colwyn Bay?
EDIT: Ignore that guess, I'll try on the B5106 between Llanrwst & Betws Y Coed.
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Sorry but you are wrong with both guesses but you are getting warmer ?{}?
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I can only guess that it was built to mark Victoria's Diamond Jubillee, but no idea where it is. :(
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It is related to water but Witches don't brew in this one even if the nearby area sounds the same?? ??? $walesflag$
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There is no cauldron in the picture but I believe that there is one nearby but which road is this water feature on? $walesflag$
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Pen Llithrig y Wrach
On the A5
That's a real stab in the dark! :D
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It is Yorkie and it's wrong I'm afraid. If it's not a Witches cauldron what other cauldron could it be and which road is it on? $walesflag$ $welsh$
By the way, I just missed you at Mike's Golf Course as apparently you were there two hours before me. :golf:
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It is Yorkie and it's wrong I'm afraid. If it's not a Witches cauldron what other cauldron could it be and which road is it on? $walesflag$ $welsh$
By the way, I just missed you at Mike's Golf Course as apparently you were there two hours before me. :golf:
I didn't know Yorkie played golf? :golf:
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I think he was just saying hello to Mike like I was when I passed by with my walking friends.
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It is Yorkie and it's wrong I'm afraid. If it's not a Witches cauldron what other cauldron could it be and which road is it on? $walesflag$ $welsh$
By the way, I just missed you at Mike's Golf Course as apparently you were there two hours before me. :golf:
I didn't know Yorkie played golf? :golf:
Hugo, sorry I missed you!
DaveR, I used to play 5 times a week but following some surgery a few years ago, I gave up. I was a Member of Maesdu G C, but played a lot more when we lived in the Midlands.
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I spent a happy 45 minutes chatting to Mike and sunning my nobbly knees. ZXZ
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It's a good hobby to have. I urge everyone to visit Mike's course and spend money with him. :golf:
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Now if you found this Welsh Cauldron you'd be a lot nearer to finding the answer as it's about 100 yards away from it. $walesflag$
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Find the bridge over the cauldron and you're nearly there but which road is it on? $walesflag$
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Find the bridge over the cauldron and you're nearly there but which road is it on? $walesflag$
On the minor road leading from Pont Y Pair Bridge, just past the toilets and car park?
http://goo.gl/maps/Lczer (http://goo.gl/maps/Lczer)
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Da iawn Dave &well&
Pont = Bridge
Y = The
Pair = Cauldron $walesflag$
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Pair - another word for my Welsh vocabulary! :D
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Yorkie, you're very good at finding the answers so sometimes I have to give the locals a chance. ;D
If there is a word that gives the answer but needs translation I sometimes put a $walesflag$ by it. But not always :twoface:
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Where in North Wales is this entrance leading to?
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It looks like one of the gates leading to Gwrych Castle. Probably the main gate by the junction with Abergele Road and Tan Y Goppa Road?
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Well done Hugo!
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What and where is this?
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Is it part of the Roman Amphitheatre in Pepper Road, Chester? It looks like the same red-tinged sandstone that was used there.
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"Glasfryn" Roman Baths at Tremadog, for my not quite so wild guess. $lol$
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Is it part of the Roman Amphitheatre in Pepper Road, Chester? It looks like the same red-tinged sandstone that was used there.
It is. $good$
In fact it's a shrine dedicated to none other than Nemesis!
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Wheeeee ! Fame at last !
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What is this and where is in exactly? $walesflag$
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I'll have a bash at the Llangollen Viaduct.
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What is this and where is in exactly? $walesflag$
Chirk viaduct?
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Part of the Dam at Lake Vyrnwy?
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Mikethewatch has got it exactly correct. &well&
Yorkie, I think that you knew it too judging from your photo which looks very much like one I took, but it is located at Chirk.
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I thought it was all one viaduct! That will be my daily advancement in local knowledge for today! ;)
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I thought it was all one viaduct! That will be my daily advancement in local knowledge for today! ;)
My friends are on the Aqueduct and the Railway viaduct is the taller structure. The Chirk aqueduct is a lot smaller than the more well known one of Pontcysyllte. It's a nice walk over the aqueducts if you are ever in that area Yorkie.
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This graffiti isn't that far away but where would I have seen it?
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Under the A55 bridge at Llanddulas near to Raynes Jetty.
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You're on the right road Tosh but going the wrong way I'm afraid.
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Is it one of the tunnels leading from the beach/promenade in Penmaenmawr up into the town?
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Junction Crossings opposite the old Crosville Garage?
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Not this one Bri.
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Is it one of the tunnels leading from the beach/promenade in Penmaenmawr up into the town?
It's not in or on a tunnel Gwynant but you're getting warm.
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Is it one of the tunnels leading from the beach/promenade in Penmaenmawr up into the town?
It's not in or on a tunnel Gwynant but you're getting warm.
I'm sure that you'll see it one of these days Gwynant
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Sorry to be vague but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, somewhere around and / or under the road network around Llandudno Junction, A55. rail network.
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How about under the fly-over/ roundabout complex leading from the A55 eastbound into Pen from the A55?
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Yorkie's mad guess!
The tunnel under the railway in Conway leading from Rose Hill Street to the Car Park on the Llanwrst Road. :D
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Gwynant, it's not correct but you're near enough so I'm not going to milk it anymore.
It's the path from the beach that goes over the railway and under the A55 and comes out near the new tunnel. I took the photo when I walked along the shore from Llanfairfechan
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Where is this? I have a feeling that Hollins may know this one. :)
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Is it the indoor market in Chester, the one near the Cathedral?
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Yorkie thinks it may be Wrexham Indoor Market. :D
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You're both not a million miles away, but not yet the correct answer.
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Oswestry market?
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Oswestry market?
Not the one, but you're getting closer!
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Is it Shrewsbury Indoor Market?
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Is it Shrewsbury Indoor Market?
Well done, Gwynant, it is the excellent indoor market in Shrewsbury.
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What about the canopied section of Shrewsbury's Indoor Market?
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I like Shrewsbury very much, my favourite TV show of recent years, Cadfael, was partly filmed there.
Also, I have attended and played in football matches at Shrewsbury several times, at DaveR's favourite stadium.... Gay Meadow! :laugh:
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Where will you find this building?
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Is it the old Oswestry station?
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Is it the old Oswestry station?
Correct! It's a distinctive building, thought it wouldnt last long. It now houses Buffers restaurant and a Chemist!
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What building is this, just a few miles outside the three towns area?
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Is it Hafodunos Hall?
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Is it Hafodunos Hall?
Correct, Hugo! $good$
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Where would you find this house? Again, like the previous question about Hafodunos Hall, it is just a few miles outside the 3 towns area.
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Penmaenmawr, Fernbrook road?
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It was the very next photo that you took after the one of the Jubilee Pillars. Yorkie used to get all mine that way and then told me how he knew. Chwarae teg Yorkie. $good$
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Well Done Mike, I've never seen it before. Well spotted Hugo, I must admit that I always study your newly posted walks when searching for your quiz questions as well, but I forgot the numbered photos!
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Sometimes I renumber the photos Gwynant when I post on the quiz but Yorkie's rumbled it I think. ;D well he has now!
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Saturday night quiz for us stay at homes!
Where in England will you find this unusual building?
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Yorkie's wild guess - Warrington, certainly not Bath. :laugh:
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Not Warrington or Bath and as a clue it isn't in Norfolk either!
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is it harrogate
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No sorry Norman it isn't Harrogate but I can see why you thought that.
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A wild guess at Buxton?
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No sorry not Buxton.
A clue, it was built in 1823 and we saw it in a town on the way to North Norfolk.
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It just has to be Stamford, Lincolnshire. :D
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Well done. Correct. It is now a private house.
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Where is this in N Wales and a bonus point if you get the exact year? $walesflag$
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Is it the 1950's museum in Denbigh?
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http://secretscotland.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/suspected-arson-destroys-denbighs-cae-dai-50s-museum/ (http://secretscotland.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/suspected-arson-destroys-denbighs-cae-dai-50s-museum/)
A suspected arson attack destroyed the Museum on 1st December 2009. Since then the owner has fought to reopen the museum and an interesting discourse is available at the above web site. ZXZ
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Is it in one of the miners cottages that were dismantled in Tan-y-Grisiau and rebuilt in the Slate Museum in Llanberis? There are four of them, all furnished in different eras and that would be the last one representing the 60's.
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Gwynant is spot on with everything. &well&
It was the cottage I liked least as I can remember all those things in the 60's
The others were furnished in different decades and I much preferred them
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Where in the North Wales area would you find this footpath, river and bridge?
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I forgot to include the photo! Apologies, it is my birthday today and I was out last night!
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Yorkies mad, mad guess - well not that mad - Afon Llugwy, Betwys y Coed. :D
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No sorry Yorkie. I'll throw in a clue, the bridge is carrying a disused railway line.
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Is it Beddgelert by the Aberglaslyn Pass ?
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No Hugo, it's not there either. The footpath is also a cycle-path and the bridge is only a couple of miles from an important North Wales town.
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Looks like the old Penrhyn Quarry railway near Porth Penrhyn, Bangor.
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No sorry M.E, but you are getting warmer! The bridge still carries the tracks of a disused B.R line, is very near a leading N.Wales town, and also a nature reserve.
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Another try after hours of research - Old railway bridge over Afon Cefni in The Dingle, Llangefni, Ynys Mon. $walesflag$
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Well done Yorkie, your "hours of research" have paid off! The bridge carried the old Anglesey Central Railway, which closed to passengers in 1964, but carried on with occasional freight traffic to Amlwch until 1993. It is unusual in that the lines and sleepers are still there and there are rumours of plans to reopen it, but the estimated cost is alleged to be around £25m. The Dingle nature reserve in Llangefni is a nice relaxing walk and takes you out upriver to Llyn Cefni reservoir and the forestry beyond. I've posted a few pics in case anyone hasn't seen it before.
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Interesting! Could be a good preserved line.
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That looks like an interesting walk too. I had heard rumours about a railway line reopening going to Amlwch but have heard no more about it.
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That looks like an interesting walk too.
You'd have to wear platform shoes to walk that route Hugo. 8)
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Where is this statue and what does it commemorate?
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It's the statue of Fryderyk Chopin in Deansgate but is it to commemorate his visit to Manchester in 1848?
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I recognized the buildings as Manchester city centre.
Have not walked/ran through Deansgate in years.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2944234 (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2944234)
Damn, Hugo just posted before me! $angry$
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And me!
He visited Manchester in the year before his death at the early age of 39.
On Monday, August 28th, 1848, a gravely ill Fryderyk Chopin gave
a Gala Concert before a rapturous audience of 1200
at the Gentlemen’s Concert Hall, which was situated at the corner of
Peter Street and Lower Moseley Street.
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http://www.polishheritage.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144:dramatic-chopin-statue-unveiled-in-central-manchester&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=159 (http://www.polishheritage.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144:dramatic-chopin-statue-unveiled-in-central-manchester&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=159) ¢¢##
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Blimey, that was far too easy! Well done everyone.
Trojan, Deansgate has changed a lot fairly recently around the area just before Kendals where they have built a big new complex of shops and offices called Spinningfields. The quiz question is situated on the opposite side of the road to the Spinningfields side. I took this photo last night (again with DaveR's wonder camera!) and this is the Spinningfields side of Manchester, on the left the Armani shop and on the right Rylands library.
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Are they decorated Christmas trees I see? :o VV
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Yes, I did wonder about that myself but it was definitely only last night!
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Are they decorated Christmas trees I see? :o VV
A bit late, normally about the first week of August is the time to start Xmas merchandising! _))*
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What, where and why famous? Out of area.
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Bishop Morgan, Penmachno, translation of bible into Welsh?
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That's it Jack, Ty Mawr Wybrnant.
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Bishop Morgan, Penmachno, translation of bible into Welsh?
That's it Jack, Ty Mawr Wybrnant.
Between the pair of you, that didn't last long - not that I expected it to. Fantastic collection of Bibles there, many written in Dialect such as Scouse, Pigin etc etc. the curator does a fine job explaining and reading for Visitors. ZXZ
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Now for something entirely different, and maybe a little more difficult. Where and what is this garden?
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Bodlondeb, West Shore ?
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Bodlondeb, West Shore ?
This is General Knowledge - Out of Area - not in the in Three Towns. Sorry! ;)
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Port Meirion?
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Fantastic collection of Bibles there, many written in Dialect such as Scouse
And the Lord said unto thy Mother "Hey Mam, where's me shirt? I'm going down the ale house for a few bevies wid that soft lad Peter".
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Port Meirion?
Sorry - not Port Meirion! ££$
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Fantastic collection of Bibles there, many written in Dialect such as Scouse
And the Lord said unto thy Mother "Hey Mam, where's me shirt? I'm going down the ale house for a few bevies wid that soft lad Peter".
_))*. I'm wondering what the bible in 'pigeon' is like?
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How about the Rose Garden at Windsor Castle
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How about the Rose Garden at Windsor Castle
You are so close I must give it to you. It is actually the Moat Garden, and well worth a visit if one is down that way. &well&
Another view.
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_))*. I'm wondering what the bible in 'pigeon' is like?
Well for those interested here is a sample. The whole lot is on t'internet!
God Make Da Firs Guy
(Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7-8; 1 Corint 6:16, 15:45, 47; Efesus 5:31)
Dat time, wen God, da one dey call Yahweh, wen make da world an da sky, 5All ova da world, neva even have bushes inside da fields. Neva have grass dat come up inside da fields, cuz da God Yahweh neva make da rain come down on top da groun yet, an cuz neva have nobody fo work da groun. 6Had fog come up outa da groun, an da dew from dat was da ony watta dat da land get, dat time.
7Den da God Yahweh take dirt from da groun an make one guy. God blow on top his face fo make da guy come alive. Az how da guy get life inside him.
God Put Da Guy Inside One Place Wit Trees
8Da God Yahweh wen plant plenny trees one place ova dea Eden side, da east side. Dass wea he put da guy he wen make. 9Da God Yahweh make um grow outa da groun, all nice kine tree you like look at, da kine dat make fruits good fo eat. Inside da place wit all da trees, inside da middo, had one Tree Dat Can Make You Live Foeva if you eat da fruit, an one Tree Dat Can Make You Know Wass Good An Wass Bad if you eat da fruit. 10Had one riva dat come up inside Eden an give watta fo all da trees inside dat place. Outside, da riva split up an come four diffren riva. 11One riva get da name Pishon, an go aroun da outside Havilah land. (Dass da place wea get gold inside da groun, 12da bestes kine gold, an gum from one tree fo make perfume, an rocks da kine fo make jewelry.) 13One nodda riva get da name Gihon, an go aroun da outside Cush land. 14One nodda river get da name Tigris, da one dat go by Assyria on da east side. Da odda river, dass da Eufrates Riva.
ENJOY! :D
http://www.pidginbible.org/Concindex.html (http://www.pidginbible.org/Concindex.html)
And Scouse
http://kenanderson.net/bible/html/scouse_gospels.html (http://kenanderson.net/bible/html/scouse_gospels.html)
Any other Language
http://www.biblegateway.com/ (http://www.biblegateway.com/)
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Where would you find this bridge in the North Wales area?
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It looks like the new cycle track by Glasinfryn on the old mill road to Pentir I tried to check it on Google Street view but the cycle track wasn't completed when the Google photos were taken. ???
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Spot on, Hugo. We were walking the old railway track from Tregarth to Port Penrhyn when they were erecting the bridge a couple of years ago, and one of the lads working on it showed us the soundproofing layer that they were putting on the bridge deck to muffle horses hooves so they wouldn't "spook" with the echo as they crossed the bridge! We thought he was taking the p**s, but there was a story in the Daily Post about it the next week.
If you look in the original picture I posted you will see a train signal just to the right of the chimney of the house. The owner is obviously a railway enthusiast as his garden in full of old railway memorabilia and fittings, both from local stations and from further afield.
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An easy one if you know it. Where is this house and what was it previously?
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I think it was a pub, but I just cannot remember where it is. :D
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Nearly right Yorkie but it wasn't a pub, just very near one.
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There's a Church and a newer graveyard nearby. $walesflag$
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Is it very close to Capel Curig? Wasn't it a school?
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It's not in Capel Curig but somewhere in the Conwy Valley and it wasn't a school. There is an old and newer school nearby though.
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Within 100 yards of each other on this one street this place has closed, so has the old school, the pub, Chapel and the Church with the newer Cemetery.
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Dolgarrog? I know I've seen it, its so frustrating...
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Nice try Fester but it's on the other side of the River Conwy. Does this other photo help? It's further up the street
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My guess is Llanrwst, but I haven't a clue what the building is or was.
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I think the village might be Capel Garmon, but don't know the building's former use :'(
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Jack's correct, the village is Capel Garmon and the house was previously the village shop.
I was up there on Thursday checking a walking route for some OAP's that I'm taking up there next week. The house was a shop many years ago and was very sympathetically converted into residential use. Since the White Horse Inn ceased to be a pub the village seems to need some TLC and this nice property looks across the road to this run down pub .
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Where is this building in North Wales?
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Is it that wobbly bridge going over to the shopping centre in Wrexham?
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I knew it would be you to get this one, H! Yes, its the Eagles Meadow Shopping Centre in Wrexham. I found Wrexham to be a very pleasant town to visit.
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Where in the North Wales area would you find this standing stone and what does it commemorate?
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The area remind me of Parc Menai but I've no idea where or what the stone commemorates. Still thinking on this. ?{}?
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Not Parc Menai, Hugo, but I can understand where you see the resemblance.
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Is it a Gorsedd Stone marking the site of a past Eisteddfod? No idea where but i'm also working on it. :D
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No Yorkie, nothing to do with an Eisteddfod. A small clue, what kind of stone is the standing stone formed from?
$walesflag$
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Is it the Quarrymen's memorial at Allt-Ddu?
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No Yorkie, nothing to do with an Eisteddfod. A small clue, what kind of stone is the standing stone formed from?
$walesflag$
Slate? ;)
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Well Done Jack, it is. (Also well done Yorkie for your observation!) We took the trail on from the memorial on out above the entrance to Electric Mountain with views over Dolbadarn Castle and Llyn Peris and on to the point where it starts to descend to Nant Peris. We didn't go all the way down as it would have meant walking all the way back up to the car at Allt Ddu and also the rain was starting to come down the Llanberis Pass. (Some photos attached)
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Not even in Wales, but these fellow's home has been mentioned before on the Forum.
Where are they ?
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That's a real toughie and I've no idea where. Are they on a pub somewhere in Chester?{}?
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Sorry Hugo-- you are way off.
Clues? Built in 1619 it got its present name in 1863. It's name has a connection with Prince Charles.
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Yorkie says Feathers Hotel, Ludlow. :D
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Yorkie says correctly ! well done. ;D
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Where in the North Wales area would you find this and what does it mark?
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Is it the cycle path along the Welsh Highland Railway, between Caernarfon and Dinas? (Pure guess!)
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Sorry not that M.E., but you are in the right area of North Wales with your guess.
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Is it the old track bed from Tryfan junction to the slate quarry, now a footpath?
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Sorry no again M.E., but a good effort. When I say you are in the right area of North Wales, I mean you are within a radius of 15 miles of the location of the slate stone marker, which incidentally can be seen on Google Earth road maps (if you know where to look!).
££$ $walesflag$
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Is it the cycle path along the Welsh Highland Railway, between Caernarfon and Dinas? (Pure guess!)
Is it the old track bed from Tryfan junction to the slate quarry, now a footpath?
Merddin Emrys is actually extremely accurate in parts of both his descriptions of the site of the slate marker stone in the photo in his two guesses, (but it's not along the W.H.R. line) , but he's not geographically correct.
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A short message for ME.
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A short message for ME.
:laugh: looks like a cycle path image on the slate, so is it the cycle path near Caernarfon on the old British Rail trackbed?
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I was wondering when you would attempt this one Yorkie. You are in fact much closer to the location and correct (as was M.E.) in saying it is an old track-bed, but not that one, which I think is known as "Lon Las Menai."
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you've been to Llangefni and Llanberis recently so I'll plump for the disused railway track in Llanberis although I can't find it on Google.
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Not there Hugo, you must have walked this one judging by one of your correct answers on this thread, and in fact Yorkie also did some relevant research which resulted in his correct answer to another one of my questions in this area. It can just be picked out on Google, but you have to be in the correct spot, zoom down and then look over a gate!
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Is it on the old Penrhyn quarry track that goes through Tregarth? I've had a peep over a gate on Google but either have picked the wrong area or wrong gate. ?{}?
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You've got it Hugo. If you Google the B4409 as it leaves Tregarth by the Shiloh Chapel crossroads and travel app. 150mtrs west past the Garage/Depot on the left you come to the sign for the Lon Las Ogwen cycle path, also on the left. Look down the track and zoom in to the left of the wooden fencing and you can just see a bit of the toothed shape of the stone on the right of the path. It marks the start of the lower part of the 11 mile cycle path from Ogwen Cottage and follows the old narrow-gauge and also part of the old B.R. Bangor-Bethesda track bed over the new bridge which you identified recently down to the end at Porth Penrhyn
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I was wondering when you would attempt this one Yorkie. You are in fact much closer to the location and correct (as was M.E.) in saying it is an old track-bed, but not that one, which I think is known as "Lon Las Menai."
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This one was a bit too complicated for me, so I left it to the experts in Welsh topography! :D
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This one was a bit too complicated for me, so I left it to the experts in Welsh topography! :D
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Sorry about that Yorkie, try this one, it's a bit less involved and a good deal more conspicuous! On which imposing and very important North Wales structure would you find this?
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Menai Suspension Bridge?
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No, sorry Dave, but I can understand why you tried that guess. The stonework is very similar.
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Is it the Brittania Bridge then?
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Well done again Hugo, two in a day! It's a nice easy circular walk from the Menai Suspension Bridge along the N.W.Coastal Path through the woods alongside the Swellies to the Brittania Bridge and then back along an alternative different route. There is a section of the old tubular bridge which was damaged by fire in 1970 which is on a plinth below the pillars (see pics.)
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Where will you find this ancient British Rail sign, its only a few miles outside the Three Towns area?
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Is it on the cycle path by the jetty at Llanddulas?
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Station Road, Llanfairfechan, funnily enough I thought of having that as a quiz question a few months ago! (Hope I've got the right sign! :laugh: )
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Where will you find this building and what is its purpose?
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Milton Keynes indoor ski centre!
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ME, you were right about Station Road, Llanfairfechan, btw. $good$
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ME, you were right about Station Road, Llanfairfechan, btw. $good$
Thanks Dave, I was wondering! $thanx$
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Milton Keynes indoor ski centre!
And you are absolutely correct about MK Snow Dome, to give it its correct title. I thought that may have taken a bit longer!
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My Son and Heir treated us to a fabulous meal at a new restaurant called AQUA. If you're ever down that way Hollins..................! :D
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We used to live in Oxfordshire a few years ago and remember the building that looked like a crashed spaceship when we drove through MK usually going to a classic car show! I didn't know what it was until I asked my good friend Mr Google! :laugh:
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How about this one ME? Not too far from Oxfordshire.
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Looks like The Cotswolds, Chipping Campdem?
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It is in the Cotswolds but not Chipping Campden.
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Morton in the Marsh! D)
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Yes...and the name of the building?
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Redesdale Market Hall ;D
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Well done. You are the quiz star today!
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No one more amazed than me, you either know it or you don't! $thanx$
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I've passed this building many times but only when I was stuck alongside it in traffic recently did I notice the tower. It's in the North Wales area but not so very far away. Where is it?
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It's that chapel in LLanddulas on the corner of Abergele Road and Beulah Avenue
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Only half a point I'm afraid Hugo! It is the building and the location you describe, but it is in fact not a chapel but the Llanddulas Village Hall. I always thought it was a chapel too until I read the sign outside. (See pic. below.)
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Where exactly was I when this photo was taken? $walesflag$
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Inside a Cromlech?
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Very good Fester but which Cromlech was it?
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The mountain in the background looks like Moel Siabod, with the Snowdon Horseshoe and the Glyders off to the right, makes me think it is in the Capel Garmon area. That, and the fact that you visited a Neolithic Burial Chamber up there on a recent walk, (and Fester's recent guess) could be the view from inside it.
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Correct and very well thought out Gwynant, it was taken from inside the burial chamber at Capel Garmon. Well done to Fester too.
The walk was called " The tomb with a view" and it is quite appropriate.
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I'm sure this will be guessed very quickly.
What and where is this piece of "stuff", and what is its claim to fame?
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How about the ancient yew tree in Llangernyw - reputed to be 4000 years old?
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How about the ancient yew tree in Llangernyw - reputed to be 4000 years old?
Well, it looks like a tree, and it is a tree, but sadly not the one in Llangernyw! Nice try. ;)
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Is it the Bleeding Yew Tree of Pembroke?
Often one sees sap coming out of an old tree, usually where it is healing up, but usually these “bleeding” areas heal up quite quickly. Recently I came across a most remarkable yew tree when I visited the ancient village of Nevern in Pembrokeshire. It has a 6th century church (St Brynach’s Church) and in the churchyard there are a number of ancient yew trees (Taxus baccata). One of these yews near to the gate is called the “Bleeding Yew” which is about 700 years old
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Breaks my bleeding heart to have to admit that you are 100% correct! I hoped for a little longer, but knowing the depth of knowledge on this Forum I suppose it was not to be!
&well& Hugo. :D
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I must admit to looking at that bleeding branch and then doing a Yorkie myself. ;D
Just goes to show that an old dog can learn new tricks $good$
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Where is this building in North Wales?:
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Llanberis?
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Not in that part of North Wales, I'm afraid.
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The Eco School in Llangefni, on Anglesey? ZXZ
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You're heading further away now, Yorkie. As a clue, this building is owned by Welsh Water.
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Near Ruthin?
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Is it part of the new Dwr Cymru complex in the Mynydd Llandegai area on the road between Deiniolen and Tregarth?
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Near Ruthin?
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Is it part of the new Dwr Cymru complex in the Mynydd Llandegai area on the road between Deiniolen and Tregarth?
I'm afraid not. ME was closest when he guessed it as being near(ish) Ruthin.
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Is it the Llyn Brenig visitor centre?
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Is it the Llyn Brenig visitor centre?
Well done, H! $good$
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Did you try the bacon butties?
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Did you try the bacon butties?
I had the 'Fishermans Breakfast'. :o It was ok, 6/10. The cafe was staffed by a team of mainly disinterested young girls. Great view from the balcony outside though.
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Whilst on the subject of water, here is an easy one. Where is this?
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Is it the exit point on Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake), where the flow of the River Dee can be controlled to suit the water sports such as kayaking, white water rafting that take place further downstream?
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I have it as part of the National White Water Centre so your full detail would appear to be totally correct. &well&
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Yorkie,
I thought the centre was near Frongoch and that the water supply comes from the River Treweryn
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Yorkie,
I thought the centre was near Frongoch and that the water supply comes from the River Treweryn
Well in that case, Gwynant is wrong. Anyone else want to have a go now we all know the answer? :D :D :D
My ignorance at knowing which lake fed it. However, it flows from West to East so it can't be Lake Tegid. Messed that one up, right proper! _))*
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My answer was solely based on zooming in on the exit of the River Dee at the bridge where the B4391 crosses the eastern end of Llyn Tegid, where you can discern some concrete buttresses and trees etc. on Google similar to those in the photo, and not on any local knowledge! But the River Dee flows in a south-west to north-east direction from Bala down to Chester. Yorkie, you must know where you took the photo!
WWW $walesflag$
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Ah! But there lies the rub, as Shakespeare would say! It was not I that clicked the shutter, although the information I had, plus my own limited knowledge, confirmed it as connected to the National Wild Water Centre.
From my own visits to the centre itself I am aware of the direction of flow.
I will now go and stand in the corner for one hour as recompense to all. _))*
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Ah! But there lies the rub, as Shakespeare would say!
I believe Old Conwy Cucumberman over on Thoughts of Oscar also said that.
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My answer was solely based on zooming in on the exit of the River Dee at the bridge where the B4391 crosses the eastern end of Llyn Tegid, where you can discern some concrete buttresses and trees etc. on Google similar to those in the photo, and not on any local knowledge! But the River Dee flows in a south-west to north-east direction from Bala down to Chester. Yorkie, you must know where you took the photo!
WWW $walesflag$
I would have had no idea where it was without the prompt from Gwynant. I've rowed a boat from Llyn Tegid down a part of the Dee and remember the water being very calm and just like a mill pond. The River Treweryn is different altogether and apart from releasing the water for the water sports it has at times released it to try and wash away the algae that sometimes appears on Llyn Tegid. I was in Treweryn some years ago but didn't see that structure then.
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I've used the Watersports Centre Cafe on a number of occasions with the Car Club and they do a decent coffee and a great bacon butty! ^*^0
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Where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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In a field near a hedge! :D
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In a field near a hedge! :D
You're hedging your bets there Yorkie, so minus one point to you ;D
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First clue is:-
It's not in a field and it's not near a hedge! ??? $walesflag$
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So far I must have found about a million Celtic crosses, but sadly, nothing resembling this one, so as they say on Dragon's Den, "I'm out." :D
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You should be able to see it on Google street view but you can't, but it's still worth a view. ???
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I'm going to have another attempt, that it is at a viewing point on the B5113 not far from the Llanwrst to Nebo Road (B5427). ZXZ
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Right idea Yorkie, but wrong place unfortunately. You need to go east and it's on the hillside.
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If you're coming down the hillside you'll see it on your left!
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Got it! It is on the left side of a hill (if you are descending), and some distance East of the B5113 and within the general are of the Clwydian Hills to the West of Denbigh! L0L
In other words, I haven't got a clue! ZXZ
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You've got it all correct Yorkie and I've even told you the name of the road but where is it?
This clue is a give away
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One last try:
A new Celtic Cross has been commissioned by Prestatyn & Meliden Churches Together (Cytun). It stands on Gwaenysgor Hill, overlooking the town of Prestatyn. The Church of the Holy Spirit and Prestatyn Parish Church chipped in £1500 towards the cost. The cross will shortly be dedicated by the Lord Bishop of St Asaph.
The info may be a bit out of date.
Persistence pays off so they say, just hope I'm right! ZXZ
Gop Hill is also around there, I believe.
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Well done Yorkie, I knew you'd get it in the end.
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The road down from Gwaenysgor to Prestatyn is actually called the Hillside and the photo was taken from the viewpoint car park on the left as you are driving down.
The road itself is out of view but it is in between the grass bank and the hedge and the Google Street view must have been taken before the cross was erected.
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We actually know the hill and have been up it many times to visit my Wife's Aunt and Cousin who live in Gwaenysgor! I drive with my eyes closed, of course! :D
We have a book titled "ON COMMON GROUND Gwaenysgor Flintshire", "An Exploration of The History of a North Wales Village from 1850 to 2000". This was written by Roger Hadley who was the Husband of my Wife's Cousin! A fascinating volume.
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Maybe of interest to all our walkers.
Walking with History
Walking with History, a guide to walks in Gwaenysgor and Trelawnyd was written by Roger Hadley, who was an enthusiastic member of the group until his death in 2001. It was published in 2000 to accompany the establishment of the Millennium Trail, which was created with a grant to the Trelawnyd & Gwaenysgor Community Council.
The Gwaenysgor Conservation Group took responsibility for work on the walks in this parish. The Millennium Trail was opened by Sir Dafydd Elis Thomas in January 2001. Roger Hadley was also the author of a history of the village entitled On Common Land: an Exploration of the History of a North Wales Village from 1850 to 2000, which was published in 2003. The blurb on the dust cover says:
"Well illustrated, rich in detail, full of characters and controversy, the book is both a good read and a doorway into the past of our grandparents and great-grandparents.”
Copies of the book are available from Clare Wenger Hadley, Tir Gwelyog, Gwaenysgor, 01745 856377
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Where in the North Wales area would you find this warning/information sign? $walesflag$
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Talacre. $good$
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Well done Yorkie. I'd never been there before and we took our bikes down on the car-rack and cycled to Prestatyn and back on the Coastal Path/Cycle Track last Wednesday. It is a part of North Wales which we hardly ever visit since the advent of the A55, and the path is a nice easy flat ride. There is a lot of conservation work being done there, and the dunes and beach are very unspoilt. (pics below)
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I think it is one of very few places with such a warning, as supposed to be quite dangerous. ???
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More zinc cladding....where this time?
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Sorry to say I find this picture much too obscure to even hazard a guess, except to say it is probably on a building somewhere. In fact there could be more than one building with a similar view. However, someone will probably recognise it! ???
However, not to be outdone, I will suggest that it is part of a Sports (Football) Stadium. ;D
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Well done Yorkie. I'd never been there before and we took our bikes down on the car-rack and cycled to Prestatyn and back on the Coastal Path/Cycle Track last Wednesday. It is a part of North Wales which we hardly ever visit since the advent of the A55, and the path is a nice easy flat ride. There is a lot of conservation work being done there, and the dunes and beach are very unspoilt. (pics below)
That Car Park floods very easily at High Tide, so be warned!
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That Car Park floods very easily at High Tide, so be warned!
I realised that when I read the sign Dave, which is why we parked the car in the free car park in the Smuggler's Arms, on the landward side of the sea defences!
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More zinc cladding....where this time?
Some clues needed?
It is in North Wales and this new building was opened in 2008. The zig zag metalwork parts are entrance gates.
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Is it the Ruthin Craft Centre?
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Yes, well done Hugo.
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I tried Google Street view on the place last night but with so many trees around the building I couldn't be sure if it was the one. Your clue today certainly helped. $good$
You can sometimes see Waxwings feeding there when the berries are out.
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I was there yesterday to visit the exhibition of David and Margaret Frith's pottery which unfortunately finishes today.
I managed to resist buying anything there but on the way back called in at their studio and more correctly their sale shed in the back garden where these two beauties were hiding. Still it gives great pleasure to be able to buy such lovely things from local artists.
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Another building, but where is it and what is its purpose?
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Portugal?
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Portugal?
Ah! Not this time Bri! ;D
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I think a clue is needed.....
Another picture of the building and room service!
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Is it the C & A Stores in Berlin?
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and what is its purpose?
Must be a hotel = room service. $dins$
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Is it the C & A Stores in Berlin?
Well, actually the first three floors are. C&A is an International chain of clothing stores founded in 1841 by Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer, Dutch textile merchants.
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The rest of the building is a Swissotel Hotel.
http://wikimapia.org/1837072/Ku-Damm-Eck-C-A-Department-Store-Swiss%C3%B4tel-Berlin-Hotel (http://wikimapia.org/1837072/Ku-Damm-Eck-C-A-Department-Store-Swiss%C3%B4tel-Berlin-Hotel)
Interesting sculpture on one corner of the building.
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What's the name of this building and where is it located?
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The two structures on the left and right are actually lifts.
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A few more shots:
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Yes it is the Swissotel in Berlin! Well done Trojan! :D :D
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In answer to Trojan...
The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California. Built in 1893, the building was commissioned by LA mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and designed by local draftsman George Wyman.
It is located at 304 South Broadway and 3rd Street, and has been the site of many movie and television shoots, rock videos, and works of fiction.
I hope that's right!
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Reminds me of a Victorian prison!
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It is located at 304 South Broadway and 3rd Street, and has been the site of many movie and television shoots, rock videos, and works of fiction.
They filmed part of Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner there
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In answer to Trojan...
The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California. Built in 1893, the building was commissioned by LA mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and designed by local draftsman George Wyman.
It is located at 304 South Broadway and 3rd Street, and has been the site of many movie and television shoots, rock videos, and works of fiction.
I hope that's right!
It certainly is! $good$
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It is located at 304 South Broadway and 3rd Street, and has been the site of many movie and television shoots, rock videos, and works of fiction.
They filmed part of Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner there
Yes, it has been used extensively by the film industy.
http://youtu.be/TLtO81spJrc (http://youtu.be/TLtO81spJrc)
A short video that intercuts between Blade Runner and a 1964 episode of Outer Limits called Demon with a Glass Hand. The scenes are set in the Bradbury Building, located in downtown Los Angeles
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What is the name of this rock and the island to the right of it in this photo?
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Ailsa Craig and the Isle of Arran off to the right?
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Well done Gwynant!
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A famous staircase but from where?
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Titanic?
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Got it in one - &well&
The Grand Staircase.
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I had a day out yesterday and came upon these four little urchins peering round street corners. Where was I?
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I'm going to have a punt at Manchester for starters. :D
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Yorkie, was the ice cream van the clue? _))*
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Ashton-Under-Lyne
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Ashton-Under-Lyne
Certainly looks like it.
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Yorkie, was the ice cream van the clue? _))*
Paolo is from Sicily, and I knew it wasn't there. ;D
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Yorkie, was the ice cream van the clue? _))*
Paolo is from Sicily, and I knew it wasn't there. ;D
His son is from Collyhurst.
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Well done SDQ, and also Yorkie for the area. While we were there we also visited the Portland Basin Museum which is well worth a visit for the local area history. Also we noticed while on the Manchester Ring Road a chimney on an old mill with "TUDNO" painted on it. Apparently, (according to Google) it was an old cotton mill, (Ryland NO.3), but is now a biscuit factory, but where did "TUDNO" come from in this area? (not a quiz question, just curiosity!)
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Portland Basin Photos.
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Can anyone recognize the tower on the right?
I'm sure someone will give it a shot.
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It's the one Fred Dibnah didn't knock down! :D
My wild, or not so wild guess, is Chester Shot Tower. ZXZ
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It's the one Fred Dibnah didn't knock down! :D
My wild, or not so wild guess, is Chester Shot Tower. ZXZ
That's the one!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Shot_Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Shot_Tower)
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Bit of luck there as I wasn't too sure of the river, and there was quite a few to choose from. :D
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A cracked up road but where does it go to and from?
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It's the famous Route 66 !
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Excellent, except you have not answered the question! :D
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Chicage - Santa Monica?
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In the words of the song - "From Chicago to L.A."
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I had a day out yesterday and came upon these four little urchins peering round street corners. Where was I?
Was that trip with Voel Coaches Gwynant? It sounds like a nice day out. $good$
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Chicago - Santa Monica?
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Well done to all who said Chicago to Santa Monica! ;D
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Was that trip with Voel Coaches Gwynant? It sounds like a nice day out. $good$
Yes Hugo it was, we use them occasionally as they go to some interesting places and the day trips are very reasonable. We have to travel to Abergele to get picked up, but you don't have to worry about driving, parking, finding your way around to the car parks etc., and on Tuesday we were met by the Ashton-u-Lyne Marketing manager who gave everyone a nice linen "Goodie Bag" with lots of offers, vouchers for the shops and restaurants as a bonus! The one for the "eat-in" Fish,Chips and mushy peas with free tea and bread and butter for £4.20 was especially welcome and one of the best fish I had tasted in years.
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By coincidence, Gwynant, Mrs R went with Voel once again yesterday and travelled to Bury Market.
She takes her car all the way to Dyserth and leaves it in Voel's car park in order to pick up the coach there.
It is then straight into her car upon return and home.
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I do the same Bri when I go on Voel's trips and have enjoyed many a nice trip with them. $good$
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Where is this and what legend does it hold.
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Maen Llia (SN 924 191)
Standing just 60m off the minor road between the Senni valley and Ystradfellte, this is a relatively easy and impressive stone to visit. Made from a massive sandstone block which stands 3.7m high,the task of moving and erecting it must have been a huge challenge, especially as it is likely that a quarter to a third of the whole stone is below ground. On a clear day it can be seen from quite some distance down the Llia valley suggesting that it may have been important as a territorial marker. Standing at an altitude of 573m (1880 ft) it is also thought to be the highest standing stone in South Wales.
Legend has it that the stone goes down to the river, the Afon Llia to drink on occasion. This tale seems likely to be an allusion to the fact that
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Legend has it that the stone goes down to the river, the Afon Llia to drink on occasion. This tale seems likely to be an allusion to the fact that the observers were stoned at the time
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I thought it would be one for Hugo! I came across it by accident and considered it worthy of this Forum. Well done Hugo. :D
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Not too far away, where is it?
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Gwydyr Castle, just outside Llanrwst.
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Spot on! We paid a visit yesterday, a very atmospheric place, you can sense the history!
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Well, you may have guessed that this photo was taken in Manchester after my recent day out there...but where?
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Is it the Town Hall?
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Is it the Town Hall?
I'm afraid not, Bri. I did visit the Town Hall as well, and it was a very impressive building.
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University of Manchester Library.
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University of Manchester Library.
I suppose I can let you have that one, Yorkie. The building itself is called the John Rylands Library, but it does house the University of Manchester Library.
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Starbucks? Costa? Caffe Nero?
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Starbucks? Costa? Caffe Nero?
Yorkie's already answered the question mate. $good$
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Where and what is this?
Right up Fester's street this one.
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Starbucks? Costa? Caffe Nero?
Yorkie's already answered the question mate. $good$
I know this!
Now Yorkie, I'm not so sure I like the 'unsympathetic' extension on that property?
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Now Yorkie, I'm not so sure I like the 'unsympathetic' extension on that property?
Not my fault, blame Yorkshire CC who must have approved it! ;D
Oops, I've given a clue.
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Yorkie, I must have Googled everything in Yorkshire but nothing has turned up. ???
Are we looking for a Stately Home?
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Yorkie, I must have Googled everything in Yorkshire but nothing has turned up. ???
Are we looking for a Stately Home?
Ah! So you haven't guessed all my secrets? You must choose the correct key word in your search. Think of opulent buildings, opulent rooms and try a search using the name of one of our lady Members for example! ZXZ
You may be rewarded!
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Ha! Good one, Hollins Hall?
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Nemesis Manor?
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Plas Pendragon?
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Ha! Good one, Hollins Hall?
Hollins has it right! It is indeed Hollins Hall, a Marriott Hotel in Bradford, Yorkshire. &well&
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Here's another, what, where, legend etc.?
A clue, there is a tenuous link with another Forum Member.
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I think it is Tintagel castle but I can't remember the legend.
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I think it is Tintagel castle but I can't remember the legend.
The castle is Tintagel but that is only one third of the answer. ;)
But as it will now be easy to Google it I may as well tell you. The cave is called Merlins cave and the Castle is supposed to be the Birth place of King Arthur. :D
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On one of my rare visits to this thread.
Don't give someone like me time to think about it, do you?
Around 7.30 I looked --- thought that seems familiar --- 30 mins later still thinking --- an hour later all done and dusted and answer provided.
Not by me of course. I'm still thinking what county is it in
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Ha! Good one, Hollins Hall?
Hollins has it right! It is indeed Hollins Hall, a Marriott Hotel in Bradford, Yorkshire. &well&
Good Heavens, I have attended many functions, and been the best man at a wedding there, but I did not recognise it.
Sadly, I am called upon to be best man again in 6 weeks time, for the same Groom, different Bride and different venue. :(
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Sadly, I am called upon to be best man again in 6 weeks time, for the same Groom, different Bride and different venue. :(
Same speech? :D
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Stayed at the Castle Hotel with my Dad during the 1960s-- Spooky in those days.
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Name and location of this North Wales Church.
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Is it St Cynbryd's Church in Llanddulas?
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I just can't get away with anything, can I? Well done again, Hugo!
Think I'll have to find a few places where walkers don't go. :D
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Another church, also in North Wales. Where?
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I'll suggest that it is St Margaret's Church at Boddlewydden, as I can't find another one that it may be. ZXZ
Otherwise known as the Marble Church.
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No sorry Yorkie, and apologies for the delay in answering, I've just come in. Try looking in the "other half" of North Wales, it's not on a main thoroughfare but it's on the way to a view of "life in the past".
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Dinorwic Church, is it called Christ Church?
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Very well spotted Hugo, I think my clues are getting too revealing! It is called "Eglwys Crist" (Christ Church) and is on the outskirts of Deiniolen ( on the route to the Llanberis quarries walk) and also has the added feature of what resembles an outside altar with a cross at the front of the church. (see photos below)
$walesflag$ &well&
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Where exactly would you see this? $walesflag$
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Just a little too obscure for me! ZXZ
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I don't think that you can Google this one Yorkie, you'd have to know where it is first before it would show up or to have passed it when out walking!
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Dorothy Quarry?
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Sorry ME it's not Dorothea, there was a little red Herring there if you sea what I mean!
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Something to do with fishing, near the sea?
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I think this is on the beach down at Morfa Nefyn, on the path that leads to the Ty Coch pub on the beach?
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That's a nice walk Dave but you're on the wrong path.
At low tide you will spot the sad and rusting remains of a boat in a seaweed covered gully.
The winch is a guide to this point.
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I'll have a guess with Anglesey! Perhaps somewhere around either Rhoscolyn?
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On the Little Orme, I know that there is a larger version there belonging to the old quarry workings at the top of the very steep, man made slope.
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Is it on the Anglesey Coastal Path out on the headland on the route from Aberfraw round to St. Cwyfan's Church?
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Gwynant is spot on again. &well&
I looked for the boat but couldn't see it when I was there.
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What do you know about this odd structure?
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Dog Bark Park Inn
Cottonwood, Idaho
This beagle-shaped inn was built in 1997 by chainsaw artists Dennis Sullivan and Frances Conklin, who sold enough chainsaw wood carvings on QVC one year to invest in their pet(!) project. The main building, named Sweet Willy, is accompanied by a 12-foot-high wood carving of another beagle named Toby.
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Now that wasn't difficult, was it? ;D
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Let's try a harder one then. $walesflag$
Three clues:-
It's in N Wales
The street was once the main road
Mrs Catherine Hughes was the shopkeeper ???
Possibly Google proof.
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Llanbedr?
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Do you mean Llanbedr Y Cennin Yorkie? If so it's not there or any Llanbedr either.
The shop in the photo is near the school and also the Chapel
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Capel Garmon?
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It's a good guess Jack and I can see the reason why you said Capel Garmon but it's not correct. I'm sure that you must have been past it sometime, perhaps it's appearance has altered since the photo was taken.
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The road that runs past the old shop is near the A470 and has something in common with it, you can't see the old road on Google Street view though.
I bet Gwynant has seen it but may not have recognised it as it has changed so much since the photo was taken
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I don't recognise it at all Hugo, but I'll have a stab at Blaenau Ffestiniog /Tan-y-Grisiau.
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It's not Blaenau Gwynant, but nearer the three towns.
I'm sure that you will have gone past it but it's unrecognisable from the photo. Can't make it too easy with any more photos because it will be too obvious. The road doesn't have any cars on it but you do see many walkers roaming about the place.
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Betwys y Coed?
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Very good Yorkie, you're getting warmer but still not correct.
It's more of a rural setting with hills and meadows. $walesflag$
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Dolwyddelan?
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That's very close too Yorkie, but not close enough I'm afraid.
Remember the clues are already there! $walesflag$
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Penmachno?
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Abergwyngregin ? Z**
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Too far away Jack and Yorkie you're way off.
It's within 5 miles of Betws Y Coed
Have a look at the clues again they should tell you exactly where it is.
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Pentrefoelas
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It's not Pentrefoelas Yorkie but I'll give one last big clue that should pinpoint it.
The ancient main road that passes through the village was possibly the first direct road built between North and South Wales. Similar to the A470 but predating it by many hundreds of years.
The cottages may be over 300 years old but the road was there long before that and through the village it looks more like a road than a causeway. $walesflag$
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This is beginning to get to me Hugo, it worries me when I have allegedly been somewhere and can't remember it! How about Capel Curig? (possibly in the Pont Cyfyng area on the approach to Moel Siabod on the old Sarn Helen route)
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My lack of knowledge of the area doesn't help with solving the clues but now I have decided it is one of two places, either Trefrew or Nebo!
I'm Google eyed searching for old Roman and Medieval roads and even old Drovers' tracks! :D
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I'm surprised Gwynant as you have been on so many walk in the area. It is on the old Roman Road of Sarn Helem (Helen's Causeway) but that starts at Pentre Du on it's way over to Dolwyddelan.
I've even given the name of the village in a cryptic clue, albeit in English, Hill and meadows $walesflag$
It's the only photo I've ever seen of the village before it was abandoned in the 1940's. I'll put you both out of your misery as you are so near and tried so hard.
The shop was in the now abandoned village of Rhiwddolion, not far from Llyn Elsi. The buildings were pretty old and an inscription on a fireplace is from the 1600's. Here are some photos of the village now and if you had of seen them earlier you'd have guessed it straight away.
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No way I wouldhave guessed it! The closest i got was searching for Roman Roads. On the right track but that's about all. Good game! :D
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You did very well Yorkie and thanks for trying so hard. You weren't so far away at the end. $good$
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Well at least I know that I have been there! I have been through the village on a circular walk from Betws over the Miner's Bridge and up through Rhiwddolion, ( I keep forgetting you throw clues in "yn Cymraeg!"), and back to Betws via. Llyn Elsi. Well done Hugo, that was a hard one.
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Thanks Hugo, embarrassingly I've been there too!
I find it quite a spooky place so much so that I'm sure it gets a degree or two cooler as soon as you go through the farm gates as you enter the village.
Never seen the photos of it as it was - nice to see.
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You did very well Yorkie and thanks for trying so hard. You weren't so far away at the end. $good$
I think it is time to get the Welsh dictionary out ready for your next quiz! ;D
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You won't need a Welsh dictionary for this one.
Where is this and what is the name of the person that made it?
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Looks like some kind of Heath Robinson type contraption?
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Yes, Fester it is very like a Heath Robinson contraption and it is a working model like his but he didn't make this one.
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It's military and it's got a red beer crate attached to it.
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Here are some more photos of it which will give clues to its location.
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Looks like a bit of Fred Dibnah's handiwork! :D
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Possibly in an aviation museum, but not Cosford as far as I remember.
Might be the early helicopter/autogyro more commonly called the Flying Bedstead.
Come on ME, help me out here.
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No, it isn't in a museum and it isn't in the UK. It is on the border of two other countries.
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A very wild guess Hollins as you seem to have been all over Europe this year!
Is it the Munich International Trade Fair?
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No, sorry Hugo. my trade fair days are thankfully well and truly over!
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I think it may be in the Lago Centre in Konstanz, which is a shopping area for people from both Germany and Switzerland.
Who made it? Hans Liebherr? :D
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No, sorry.
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Possibly in an aviation museum, but not Cosford as far as I remember.
Might be the early helicopter/autogyro more commonly called the Flying Bedstead.
Come on ME, help me out here.
Sadly I have no idea! :laugh:
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Tosh was closest with his aircraft theme and it was a good idea of his to ask for ME's help.
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One more try.
In the Tinguely Museum in Basel
made by Jean Tinguely
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It's a glider launcher or less romantically a baggage unloader.
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One more try.
In the Tinguely Museum in Basel
made by Jean Tinguely
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Correct maker Yorkie but wrong location!
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I came, I saw, I Googled and found the museum, I even found the exhibit but there's no name on it, drat.
The thing is, that it isn't really anything specific is it?
Never mind at least it spurred me into action.
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So Tosh, go back to your aircraft idea and tell us where this exhibit is at present.
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I don't know, I am completely googled out.
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O'h dear. That's enough googling for one day. Here is the answer.
http://www.euroairport.com/en/event/Jean-Tinguely-s-Luminator-returns-to-a-public-space-thanks-to-EuroAirport,49228.html (http://www.euroairport.com/en/event/Jean-Tinguely-s-Luminator-returns-to-a-public-space-thanks-to-EuroAirport,49228.html)
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You know, I thought it was the "Luminator" L0L L0L L0L
But I was toooo shy to say so.
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Do I get a point for the maker? :D
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What is the name of the port in the distance?
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Is it Mahon in Menorca?
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Well done!
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still got a stone bottle of gin from there bought in the eighties.thought it was there but a long time no see.not changed much
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Me too, I don't know why I bought it as I don't like the stuff. Lovely Island though for a nice relaxing holiday.
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did you get yours from the distillery at Mahon Hugo,had a look around it and bought the gin as a souvenir may be a drop left, turned to the highlands now and the bird life (Grouse) medicinal of course.
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Yes, I drove there in a hired car and all I can remember about Mahon are the narrow streets there as I had a lot of trouble finding a place to park the car.
Wouldn't mind going back though. $good$
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we went on one of the boat trips it took us past the house of Richard Branson, he was on the landing stage near his yacht, they pointed out different places of interest as we were leaving the harbour, it was a very good trip out, as you I would love to go back there again but I can.t see it somehow. That photo that Hollins posted brought back some very good memories
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looking at the photo again it looks like the bay opposite the room were it was taken is the bay were his house is,and I think it was a prison that was later turned into a hospital on the island in the distance. It.s that long ago I may be way out. the other bit of useless info was that Nelson.s Lady Hamilton lived across the way.
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You have got a good memory snowcap. Yes, it is called Hospital Island. Here is a bit of history about it on this link.
http://www.menorcaminorca.co.uk/hospitalisland.html (http://www.menorcaminorca.co.uk/hospitalisland.html)
You should have come with us to fill us in on all the local who lives where info!
I hope you and Hugo do manage to come again although this morning it is a bit rainy but still very warm and humid. Shopping for us in Mahon today so I hope I have better luck parking than Hugo did.
Here are two more photos which show the island a bit more clearly and another one looking the other way and out to sea. There are lots of modern contemporary villas on this side now.
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Sorry that last photo was the wrong one. This is the view looking the other way out to sea.
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I'd like to think that one day I'd go back to Menorca and I was thinking about Cala Galdana just a few days ago and did a Google Street view on the properties overlooking the bay.
Fantastic location and I could easily live there, that's if my Lottery numbers come up tonight. :)
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Back to N Wales, where and what is this building?
It's only easy if you've been inside it.
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Is it the inside of the dove-cote at Penmon, Ynys Mon?
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Nice try Gwynant but it's not the Dove cote at Penmon.
Too soon for any more clues.
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Is it Criccieth Castle?
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Conwy Castle?
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It's not a castle but it is over 300 years old.
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The Windmill at Parys Mountain?
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I'll try The Goblin Tower, Denbigh.
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Sorry Dave and Yorkie but neither is correct.
You can see it from Moelfre and allegedly from the Tree Towns area too. &shake&
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There are two in the Three Towns but what are they and where is the one I was in today?
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If you look out of the other door opposite then Moelfre is just a few miles behind you.
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No guesses today?
Then this will give you the link to the Windmill Hill. $walesflag$
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It's The Vadre. ZXZ
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Sorry Tosh but Granny's Armchair in Llanrhos is only a link or a clue to the answer. &shake&
Where was I when I took the first photo and what is the building?
Another clue is that it wasn't on the Vadre or in the Three Towns area.
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The Tower on Tower Hill, Abergele? There is a Moelfre slightly further inland.
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Well done Gwynant, I threw a red herring and an English to Welsh clue in but it didn't fool you. &well&
On my OS map the land is called Gallt y Felin Wynt ( The Windmill Hill) It's a Watch Tower built in the 1600's to communicate with other Watch Towers. To the west was the Church Tower at Llandrillo Yn Rhos and to the west again with the Watch Tower on the Bryniau at Llanrhos ( better known as Granny's Armchair)
I was hoping the red herring of Moelfre may have led people to Anglesey and not to Abergele.
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Hugo, I must confess that I had been looking at the ruined church near Din Llugwy by Moelfre (Ynys Mon), and I was looking again at your picture and trying to link "Bryn Gwynt" etc. and other Welsh translations and Mrs. Gwynant, (who is a native of Abergele), walked past behind me and said "that's Tower Hill", and also confirmed the existence of the other Moelfre at the same time! So I cannot take the credit as I am an honourable man (and also she is still standing behind me!)
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Fortunately I got the Morlfre link as we have friends there but just couldn't find the right tower! Good one!
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One point each to Mr & Mrs Gwynant.
Well done Yorkie, I tried to throw you off the scent but you didn't take the bait! $good$
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Holiday time again.
Which beach is this boat on ?
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Treaddur Bay.
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Sorry Tosh.
Not with a Registration number like that.
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The boat registration is St Ives so I'll guess that it's St Ives even though the beach doesn't seem familiar to me.
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Portmeor Beach.
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Sorry it is not in Cornwall,which is south of the 3 Towns.
Have a look the same distance to the north
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Is it on Mull somewhere because that's about the same distance north?
Just checked and it can't be Mull as it is 100 miles nearer to the Three Towns than St Ives. ?{}?
You were in Inverary yesterday, was that where you took the photo?
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When I said same distance north it was a rough estimate.
Keep looking at Mull. Lots of white beaches up here, but which one is it ?
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I have had to resort to google to try and find the answer to this one but it was most enjoyable looking at all the beautiful beaches up there.
I've never been but it looks lovely.
Anyway, is it at Fionnphort?
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Well done Hollins.
It is Fionnphort beach, Isle of Mull, on the Sound of Iona.
Fionnphort has been my home for the past 18 years.
The hill in the background is Dunni,(pronounced Dun-E) on Iona with Iona Abbey to the left.
More information about the village and area on
www.iona-bed-breakfast-mull.com/fionnphort/fionnphort.h (http://www.iona-bed-breakfast-mull.com/fionnphort/fionnphort.h)...
MFV "Pioneer" used to fish out of St Ives ,Cornwall, but for the past few years has been owned by a local Fionnphort fisherman.
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What a beautiful place to live mull. What took you up there? Are you able to buy most of what you need on the island or do you have to make a lot of ferry crossings?
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After 35 years with my previous employer I took the chance of early retirement.
Being a regular visitor to Scotland ,especially Mull after seeing an advert for a postmans job here on the Ross of Mull I applied and was appointed.
I had lived in York for the previous 14 years and coming here was a completely new style of life.
Having always enjoyed hill walking I then joined the local mountain rescue team which has now become part of Oban MRT. 15 years ago I started training with SARDA and eventually qualified with my search dog Drift. I am now training another one, Fly, another Border Collie.
It is good to have a trip to the mainland every 2/3 weeks and have a look around Oban which has the usual supermarkets etc. We usually fax our shopping order to the Co-op on a Wednesday and a carrier brings it over from Oban on a Friday.
Would love to join in with Hugos walking group sometime when we make it back to Llandudno.
All the best from the Ross of Mull
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Sounds a lovely life. Hope it lasts like that for you for many years more to come.
My husband is also a keen walker and had occasion to call out the mountain rescue for the first time ever in May. He was so grateful to see them. You all do a fantastic job.
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No wonder you are so happy up there Mull as it sounds an idyllic life and you're making the most of it too. I've only ever been to Scotland 3 times so I haven't seen much of that beautiful country but I've been wanting to go to Iona and Mull for years and hope to do it when circumstances permit so thanks for posting the photo with Iona and the Abbey in the background.
I don't think our "Last of the Summer Wine" group could keep up with you on any walks as those Mountain Rescue guys are extremely fit but we do enjoy our walks.
Before you moved to York were you from Llandudno originally because your posts about the West Shore seem to reflect a good memory of the area prior to the latest sea defence there?
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Rough up here this morning Hugo,wind now out of the north ,much colder, and the 0950 ferry from Oban has been cancelled so I guess that's us into winter again.
Now reached 70 so have slowed down a bit but still enjoy getting out.
I was born in Liverpool but my family all come from Llandudno/Conway area.
My nain lived in Penrhynside so I spent most of my school holidays there in the 1950/60s . After my father retired they moved back to the West Shore area,so spent a lot of my boys holidays there, from the mid 1970s.
Keep thinking I would like to investigate the family history but never seem to have the time.
All the best
Ross of Mull
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It's rough down here too. I was due to walk up Snowdon today but we called it off because one person couldn't make it but I'm not disappointed. 50 MPH gusts were forecast and temperature were freezing above 900 metres so I'm staying indoors today.
You'll have the same memories as me of the West Shore, all those steps on the sea wall and those sandhills and WW 2 buildings but at least we can remember them even if they are no longer there, younger people are not as fortunate as we are.
I haven't bothered too much with my family history either and have dozens of photos of people but have no idea who they are. If only I had asked my parents when they were alive!
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Back to quizzing!
Where is this and for what is it famous or infamous?
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The church in Portugal that the McCanns like to "use".
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Very topical ..... Thought it would go quick!
The Church at Praia de Luz that may contain some secrets to the mystery, who knows? ZXZ
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Where would you see this Church? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Although this beautiful Church is about 70 miles away it reminds me of home in the Three Towns area in the 1960's. I wonder why? $walesflag$
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:-}}} $booboo$
Just checked Google and the place is in England!! It didn't sound English to me though so it must be a little bit of Wales in England.
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The connection that made me think of the Three Towns is in a wide road, but it isn't really! ??? ??? $walesflag$
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If you guess the name of the building in the street that has a name that sounds like a wide road then you will have found out part of the name of this Welsh sounding English village. ??? ???
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The village shares part of its name with a building in this wide road in the Three Towns triangle and this building is no longer a home.
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It must be hard if there have been no guesses and I suppose Yorkie has been on the beach all day. $good$
Some more photos of this picturesque village and if no one has had a guess then I'll reveal part of the name tomorrow
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This small Shropshire border village has a Welsh name. Part of that name can be seen on the front of a building in Llandudno Junction
Look at the clues again and the answer should be easy:-
Wide Road?
this building is no longer a home
If you have found the name then you are half way there, all you need is the other half to give it its full name.
If no one has had a guess by the next time I am on here then I'll reveal part of the name :)
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I have been following your clues Hugo, and I travelled up and down Broad St. in Junction and Mostyn Broadway (on Google Streetmaps!) after yesterdays hint but have found nothing. The only link I have found is two villages in Shropshire named Porth-y-Waen and Treflach just outside Oswestry (74.3 miles away, and just over the English-Welsh border), which have a connecting road a road named Blodwel Bank, the same name as the old Blodwel Home in Junction.
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Gwynant, with your help we have found a LLanyblodwell Church that looks rather like Hugo's photos.
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but what is the connection with a wide road?
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BROADWAY?
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Bri, the connection with a "wide road" is that the old Blodwel Home was in or very close to Broad Street in Llandudno Junction.
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Hollins has found the Church and the village so well done. It is one of the most beautiful Churches I have ever seen and well worth a visit. In fact I'm hoping to go back soon with my wife to show her the building. &well&
The clues I gave hoping that it would lead to part of the answer can be explained as follows:-
is in a wide road, but it isn't really! NO it's in Broad Street
this building is no longer a home Blodwel Home in Broad Street ceased to exist when it was taken over by offices
The sign "Blodwel" is still on the front of the building despite its change of use. Perhaps "Blodwel" wasn't visible through the trees when you looked Gwynant. but you were on the right lines with the Blodwel connection
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If I can help someone on my way through life Hollins, my living won't have been in vain! On a much more serious note I bet your other half was glad he was not climbing on Pen-yr-Oleu Wen yesterday, that was a dreadful accident, and the poor guy was entirely blameless by the sound of it.
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Bri, the connection with a "wide road" is that the old Blodwel Home was in or very close to Broad Street in Llandudno Junction.
Thank you, Gwynant.
Passing that building today still traumatises me becuase when I was little my father always threatened to send me there if I did not behave myself.
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Bri, the connection with a "wide road" is that the old Blodwel Home was in or very close to Broad Street in Llandudno Junction.
Thank you, Gwynant.
Passing that building today still traumatises me becuase when I was little my father always threatened to send me there if I did not behave myself.
My Mam did the same Bri and that's why I couldn't make the clues too obvious because everyone my age would know the name of the home.
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Bri and Hugo, I feel for you with those threats of what would happen if you are naughty.
Gwynant, that sounds like an horrific accident and one of several in the area in the last few days.
How awful for everyone concerned including the poor rescuers.
I have to be honest it was Mr Hollins that got the church. His dad used to live in Oswestry and sort of recognised it but without Gwynant we would have been lost.
Hugo, I think you should have been a writer for cryptic crossword clues!
The church does look fantastic. Did you do a walk around there?
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We had a couple of short walks to see two historical sites in the area and really enjoyed them. I've seen that Iron Age Hillfort so many times from the main road and grabbed the chance on Saturday to walk around it.
Those recent accidents in the Ogwen Valley were horrific and I really feel it for them and their families. I got caught out there a few months ago when the mist suddenly came down but I opted for caution and came down the safer way even though it took me 5 hours to get back to my car. The alternative doesn't bear thinking about.
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I was in the wrong place for the last quiz, but here is one for you.
Who is this, what specifically is he famous for except busking in Albufeira as he does now?
Clues will follow as required!
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Yorkie, are you still on the beach sunning yourself as no clues have come for this teaser.
I can't see the face clearly but I'll have a wild pop at Adam Ant. I don't know what he has done other than being in his group Adam and the Ants. ??? ???
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I am back in PB now. Clue - I'll give you a penny for your thoughts. :D
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Another wild guess Lionel Morton of the Four Pennies. ???
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Oh Heck Hugo--- you are really travelling back in time now !--- Juliet ????
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Another wild guess Lionel Morton of the Four Pennies. ???
We're they renamed 1.66666666666 Pennies after decimalisation? :D
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Plastic money was just coming into vogue at the time! :D
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Look's like Freddie Starr has fallen on hard times... :laugh:
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Look's like Freddie Starr has fallen on hard times... :laugh:
Not quite as famous! One of a group that was a one hit wonder in the 60's. $good$
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Another clue. Here they are at the height of their success! ¢¢##
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Peters and Lee $good$
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Peters and Lee $good$
&shake&
Peters and Lee were a duet. Lennie Peters died in 1992 and Dianne Peters was a woman
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Everything I am doing is to try and give decent clues, and here is another. When the Band broke up he was involved with other groups and as a session player for other artistes.
$elvis$
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The Swing Blue Jeans or The Merseybeats.
One of them used to work for the Prudential.
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Sorry, no again! Clue . . . . Their only hit was at number 6 in the Charts for 10 weeks. If I give the year it will be too obvious. ;D
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Roy Hammond and the Souls April 1966 with Shotgun Wedding?
Just seen the photo of Roy Hammond and my answer is wrong :-[
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Last clue for tonight.
You have the name of the Group, albeit in a cryptic form, and also the title of the song in previous clues. I'll reveal all tomorrow! :D
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Justin Haywood of the Moody Blues? ???
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Justin Haywood of the Moody Blues? ???
Sorry - No!
I mentioned PLASTIC money and also PENNY. (The Band)
I also gave you EVERYTHING I AM. (The hit song)
Now you can do the rest! $elvis$ $elvis$
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I take it that you mean The Plastic Penny.????
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Paul Raymond ?
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Paul Raymond ?
Isn't he still with UFO?
Plus I think he's left handed.
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Paul Raymond ?
Does he still have that review bar in Soho?
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Paul Raymond ?
Does he still have that review bar in Soho?
Different Paul Raymond! _))*
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I am led to believe that the subject of my quiz is Mick Grabham but as I don't know him personally it could be one of the others. He now refers to himself as Jose.
:D
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Where is this building and for what purpose was it built?
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I'll guess it is in Wales, now to find out exactly where and for what purpose! :D
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Might it be one end of a suspension bridge?
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Is that a question or an answer Mike! I only ask that as you got the correct answers to my two previous questions on the whereabouts of the clock towers in Llanrhos and Penmaenmawr, (now I know why you are called Mike the Watch!) This is another view of the same building from another angle.
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Ok it's Telfords suspension bridge
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Well done Mike, I presume you mean the Menai Suspension Bridge. I know that Telford built the Conwy Bridge and the Bristol Suspension Bridge I think as well. I believe the building is used to monitor the amount of traffic that uses the bridge as well as housing the securing points of the suspension chains into the bedrock.
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Nice to see one of Telford's 'Sunburst' gates in the photo too. They were made of wrought iron with radiating bars forming a sunburst design.
http://www.geolocation.ws/v/P/88233498/sunburst-gate-from-original-menai/en (http://www.geolocation.ws/v/P/88233498/sunburst-gate-from-original-menai/en)
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Gwynant, be careful your search for the ultimate quiz question doesn't land you in hospital. The view from the second photo, straddling double white lines in the middle of the road looks a bit precarious!
Great photos though especially the ones from unusual angles.
Jack, thanks for mentioning about the gates. I hadn't noticed them properly before.
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Hollins, thank you for your concern about my safety but I was actually stood on the central island area of pavement and using the zoom lens. I certainly haven't got suicidal tendencies and it looked far more daring than it was!
While we are on the subject of tall structures where would you find this tower in the North Wales area?
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Headlands hotel
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I don't know what the place is called but it's that lovely building next to the Promenade in Llanfairfechan ( alongside the river)
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Correct again Hugo, I forgot to check the name of the building at the time but you might be able to pick it out on the left-hand gate of the property in the photos below, it looks like "Morannedd" or something similar. The right-hand gate post says "Private- Keep out!" It's a beautiful old house in a lovely location and very close to the excellent cafe which is a perfect place to end the day after a walk in the Carneddau.
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A row of beautifully maintained Georgian town houses - which UK town?
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I'll have a punt at Hampstead Village in London. 8)
Or it could equally be Knightsbridge. ;D
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I don't know what the place is called but it's that lovely building next to the Promenade in Llanfairfechan ( alongside the river)
There is an association with Janet Street Porter, Llanfairfechen and this house.
I think her mother originated here and she came here for the summer holidays.
You may know more than I. 8)
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C.ould be Edinburgh
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Not London or Edinburgh. It's actually a town which is not far from a major City in North-West England.
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Bolton?
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I'll have a punt at Hampstead Village in London. 8)
Or it could equally be Knightsbridge. ;D
Is it Chester opposite the modern hotel whose name escapes me?
Bit vague isn't it but Chester anyway.
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Not Bolton or Chester, I'm afraid. It's a town that you wouldn't really associate with such fine architecture. ;)
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Rochdale?
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It's a bit closer to us here in North Wales than Rochdale.
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Hamilton square Birkenhead.
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Hamilton square Birkenhead.
Murph is spot on, of course. Birkenhead is usually thought of as being a bit run down, but Hamilton Square is the equal of any London Square.
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It is still thought of being run down because it is but I am biased because I live in wallasey right next door.
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Where will you find this "graffiti"?
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I'll try The Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany. ZXZ
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No sorry. It isn't in Germany. It is a kind of promotion for a rock restaurant/bar.
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Hard Rock Cafe?
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No, it isn't a branch of Hard Rock Cafe and it isn't in the UK.
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A wild guess at the Rock Bar 84 in Wettingen Switzerland?
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Sorry Hugo but you are correct with Switzerland.
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Is this the place then Albis’ Mountain Rock Café Valais?
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Hugo, you are becoming an expert on Swiss Rock bars but no that isn't the one. The answer is in this next photo.
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Hugo, you are becoming an expert on Swiss Rock bars but no that isn't the one. The answer is in this next photo.
Is the top right Bruce Springsteen? Near to Fester's friend Lemmy
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Not sure. It looks a bit unfinished over there.
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Hugo, you are becoming an expert on Swiss Rock bars but no that isn't the one. The answer is in this next photo.
Is the top right Bruce Springsteen? Near to Fester's friend Lemmy
That's Lemmy alright.
Coincidentally Motorhead's next gig is in Zurich, Switzerland.
I just hope they make it because Lem has had serious health problems this year, and I have tickets to see them in two other cities the following week.
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Wall of Rock mural in Zurich
Or
Mural des Rock Business, same city. $elvis$
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No, not Zurich. The name of the restaurant is written in to the painting but I must admit that it isn't very clear on the forum version even though I can see it clearly on the original photo. Yorkie, you have been to this city and I think you once complained about all the graffiti there!
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Sorry, I should have typed Basel!!! Fingers faster than brain! :D
Here's the pic I got from search. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSuW7TRp0a__rCH-Zf3zuW9ZqD_FnDu1pyJ7oNItKOQ7TtIJxuG
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Yes, it is L'Unique in Basel.
http://www.lunique.ch/ (http://www.lunique.ch/)
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Where is it, what is it?
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A beach in Portugal?
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A car park in Portugal?
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Is it a notice in Leiria, Portugal about Unicycle Day?
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ME, wrong. BR wrong. Hugo, got the right idea but just on the wrong track! :D
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The start of a disabled track? Probably in Portugal ;D
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Portugal is correct, but exactly where? Nothing particularly to do with being disabled but disabled people could be involved.
There is no beach there and it isn't a car park. It is a good place to watch the Sun go down.
;D
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Are we talking about the Cape St Vincente area?
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Are we talking about the Cape St Vincente area?
Exactly, but why is it there? ???
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See http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHGkfQHN4Fc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOHGkfQHN4Fc (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHGkfQHN4Fc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOHGkfQHN4Fc)
3.30 minutes in. The sign is the start of the St Vincent to Vila Real de Santo Antonio coastal route and the starting place for a cycle race. It is a bit like our Sustrans route but just does the 100 or so miles along the Algarve Coast.
It is alongside the Lighthouse complex.
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Where did I see this today? $walesflag$
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Wood n't know, but I'll try to find out! :D
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So, if I happen to meet a man in the woods with no trousers on, what should I do?
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So, if I happen to meet a man in the woods with no trousers on, what should I do?
Confucius, he say man with trousers up can run faster than man with trousers down, ball in your court, what wood you like to do?
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Youn mean I have a choice?
Let's see now this man has no trousers and looks considerably younger and fitter than I.
So, given the choice I will stay out of the woods thank you.
Don't like the analogy of balls in courts either.
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All I can guess is that the man on the seat, tying up his bootlaces is a waymarker on one of your walking trails. Just can't locate the right one!
*&(
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He wasn't Yorkie, I just came across him after I had finished a walk that I hadn't previously done before.
I just found him parked on that seat and he did have trousers, ( just in case Tosh pays a visit)
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He wasn't Yorkie, I just came across him after I had finished a walk that I hadn't previously done before.
OK so he is at either Land's End or John 'o Groats! $walesflag$
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Seriously though, I will make a tentative stab at Gypsy Wood Park, Caernarfon. Got to start somewhere! ;)
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Here are some more photos that may help, It isn't in Gypsy Wood Park but it is in a sea marsh so my O/S map tells me. $walesflag$
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The warden is near but not up there!
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Access to this land on the sea marsh is not restricted but the marsh warden is never far away.
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After your two clues mentioning the "marsh warden" is it near the old Marsh Warden pub in Rhuddlan (now closed and semi-derelict)? I have walked up to Rhuddlan on the cycle track and back down the other side of the Clwyd fairly recently alongside the sea-marsh area but I didn't see anything like those. I know there is also some sort of a bird sanctuary/wildlife area on the other side of the road from the Marsh Warden on the site of the old Rhuddlan railway station as well so perhaps it is in there?
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I couldn't throw you of the scent Gwynant, too many clues I think. &well&
It's the nature reserve across the road to the closed Marsh Warden Pub. The reserve is on the land called Morfa Rhuddlan and as you know in English is called Rhuddlan Sea Marsh.
I've attached a photo of the old Station and the lines of it run through the reserve.
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Here is a difficult one - I think so anyway! Where will you find these little piles of stones all carefully arranged by the public?
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Standing Stones of A87 ?
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Sorry Mike, not this time. The piles of small stones are maximum a couple of feet high
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Brimham Rocks?
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Sorry N. Remember where I have been recently! ;) It was the high point of my trip! :o
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Are they the Moledros of Cape St Vicente?
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Sorry to say, the descrition is correct but the location is some miles (or kilometres ) out. The clue should have given you an early warning that I was being a bit devious. It's on the radar! :D
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Are they on Foia by Monchique then?
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Are they on Foia by Monchique then?
Absolutely correct, Hugo! I would have been most disappointed if you had not got it, especially after the last clue! The highest point of the Algarve at 902 metres with fab views to the coast at Portimao and Alvor. Here's another pic with all the early warning stuff. :D
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Thanks Yorkie, now here is another one closer to home. It's in N Wales but what is it and what street is it in? $walesflag$
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Am I correct in thinking that each motif is made up of pieces of tile, like a mosaic? $thanx$
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Yes, that's correct. Good luck Yorkie. ££$
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As it hasn't been Googled last night here is the first clue:-
It isn't off the beaten track but you could say that it's a mini outdoor pursuits centre.
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Within the Wesh Mountain Zoo.
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Nice try Tosh but I'm afraid that it is not within the Three Towns or even Conwy County.
It has a good mountain bike track as well as a lake nearby. $walesflag$
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I'll try Llyn Brenig Outdoor Centre. :D
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Good thinking Yorkie but too far away. I think Jack or Gwynant may have gone past while on their walks but even if they wanted to go in they couldn't. Far too old! ;D
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Is it that Marsh Tracks place in Rhyl?
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You're in the right place Dave so I'll give it you. It's the Dens Project in Marsh Road Rhyl. &well&
The Dens Project is new project funded by Denbighshire's Family First, Co-managed by the OakTree Centre and Rhyl Adventure Playground, and supported by Denbighshire County Council Countryside and Youth Services. This Project will be looking at giving children the opportunity to play in a way that perhaps they can not always do so in todays society. Based on the Morfa Playing Fields and utilising the large expanse of public space that lies behind it, this Open Access Project will run every Thursday evening between 4.30pm & 6.30pm. Children will be encouraged under the supervision of Play workers to build dens and ropeswings and Play in an environment that they might not previously have felt safe in accessing. Parents/Carers are more than welcom to pop down when the sessions are running to find out more about what is happening. PLEASE NOTE this is an "open access Playscheme" for 5-13yrs. The term open access means that children aged 5-13yrs of age are free to come & go as they please. We cannot commit to keep a child on site until collected by parent or carer
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Thank you, Hugo! $good$
Where in the North West of England will you find this Pier?
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My instinct is to suggest Wigan! :D
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Think Wigan pier is on the canal Yorkie !
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No, this Pier is most certainly on the coast. $good$
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Southport??
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A few miles from Wigan, Grange over Sands.
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Not Southport or Grange Over Sands, I'm afraid.
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St Annes
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I'll try another with Saltburn-in-Cleveland. ZXZ
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Saltburn-in-Cleveland is on the East coast, not the North West!!
Its a very nice place though. $good$
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I think 1-Rob-1 might just be right... ;) ;)
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St Annes
It does look very much like St Annes and the metal work is also similar
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It is St Annes Pier, well done Rob! $good$ St Annes was a very pleasant little seaside town, just down the road from Blackpool.
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Saltburn-in-Cleveland is on the East coast, not the North West!!
Its a very nice place though. $good$
Can't catch you out! :D
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Where will you find these splendid chimneys?
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I'm sure I've seen something similar when working in Chester but can't remember where. So I'll say Chester.
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Well done. It is the building that houses the Fisher German office at 4 Vicars Lane, Chester CH1 1QU
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Where will you find this little Chapel. Clue it is not in UK! (surprise, surprise!)
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No idea so it's going to be a wild guess ---- A beach Chapel somewhere in Portugal.
Armaceo de Pera for my first guess. ???
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Good start Hugo, but not correct, although the country is right. Not near a beach and the clue is in the picture. Armacao de Pera has one of the best beaches in the Algarve, but the Chapel is some 25 miles away. ;)
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Another wild guess then St Sebastian Chapel Monchique
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Another wild guess then St Sebastian Chapel Monchique
Oh! You are so close! Just look at those stones on the carpet, remind you of anything? :D
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I had noticed those "moledros" on the carpet but couldn't find a chapel in Foia.
However I'll say Foia as there may be a Chapel there, even a military one. ???
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Got it! Looking straight out from the Chapel door are the Moledros, just across the road. It is a quaint little place but I don't know whether it has a name, why it is there or who it is used by. Just down the road in Monchique is another small Chapel, Santa Teresa, which IS on Google!
:D
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Where was I last Sunday?
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Trafford Centre?
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Trafford Centre?
Correct, of course!
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Trafford Centre?
Correct, of course!
Took all of three and a half minutes. . . . . What kept you? :D ;D
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An easy peasy one. What are they and why the numbers?
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Dave, you ask where was I last Sunday?
The more religious amongst us (of whom I am sorry to say I am not one) often complain that places like this obvious example are supplanting religion.
Retail is the new religion on Sunday, and I would image Traffod Centre is probably the best, or worst, example.
So, Dave, where will you be next Sunday? On your knees in a Baptist chapel? You could always do your Trafford shopping on a Monday. Mike
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An easy peasy one. What are they and why the numbers?
Are we back in Portugal and those are the Cork Oak Trees that are due to have the bark stripped for making corks for wine bottles? ZXZ
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Quite right ! The cork bark is only stripped every 9th year and the number shows when it was last stripped. Cork is still used for most (if not all) Portuguese wines and certainly for fine wines by other wine producers.
That's enuff Portugal for a while! $walesflag$
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Dave, you ask where was I last Sunday?
The more religious amongst us (of whom I am sorry to say I am not one) often complain that places like this obvious example are supplanting religion.
Retail is the new religion on Sunday, and I would image Traffod Centre is probably the best, or worst, example.
So, Dave, where will you be next Sunday? On your knees in a Baptist chapel? You could always do your Trafford shopping on a Monday. Mike
Sorry, Mike, I just realised it was actually Saturday I was there! $good$
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Sorry, Mike, I just realised it was actually Saturday I was there! $good$
Shalom! :D
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What and where is this well known building?
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The old government offices in Dinerth Road, opposite Geordies Garage. Possibly? :D
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It's not in the Three Towns area but it is in N Wales $walesflag$
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Well it ain't well know to me, so another possibility is Abergele Hospital. :D
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It's not Abergele Hospital but I feel certain that you've seen it Yorkie, even if you haven't stopped and gone in.
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I think that it is a "Tin Tabernacle" or Church, maybe on the coast East of Colwyn Bay, (Pensarn?) but I can't seem to find one that matches, and I cannot recall seeing it if I ever have. :D
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I'm afraid that it is not a tin tabernacle or church although there may have been some hymn singing in the building sometime.
It's famous in its own right and on a main road west of Colwyn Bay. It has been photographed a lot and I bet Dave has got at least one photo of it in his collection.
I would be very surprised if you and Mrs Yorkie hadn't seen this building or known about it.
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A complete stab in the dark---
The WI in Llanfair P.G.?
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Spot on Nemesis. &well&
This was the first WI to be founded in the UK and was started there in 1915. The "tin building" was added to the toll house in 1921 and this photo is one that most people would recognise.
I was walking in the area yesterday and took the photos at the back of the building
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Never been there! :D
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It was your comment about hymns which made me think of the WI. Never seen that side of it though, only from the main road at the front. Once spent a very interesting morning in the graveyard of St Mary's Church where alot of people who died during the building and repairing of Britannia bridge are buried.
Did you go as far as to visit the giant stone lions under the edge of the bridge.? They are worth a visit-- also Nelson standing in the Menai Straight.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Stone+Lions+Britannia+Bridge&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=3vN8UuS7AYbxhQey24DQAw&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=858&bih=540 (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Stone+Lions+Britannia+Bridge&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=3vN8UuS7AYbxhQey24DQAw&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=858&bih=540)
Lots of pics here.
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When I added the clue about the Hymns I thought at the time that it was one clue too many but well done anyway. We had actually been under the bridge on our short coastal walk and one of my photos of St Mary's Church was taken from the spot where the Memorial Stone was in memory to those people who died in the construction of the bridge. I think there were at least 17 people who died in the construction of the bridge.
Never been there! :D
I'm shocked Yorkie :o
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I been to the Island but turned left as soon as over the Bridge to go to the Race Circuit. Been to Beaumaris and a few other places, but never to Llanfair PG. I found it difficult to ask the directions! :D
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I been to the Island but turned left as soon as over the Bridge to go to the Race Circuit :D
Yorkie, you must have driven past it! It's by the Marquis of Anglesey Column.
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This tower is rather infamous. What was the incident that made it so and where is it?
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Yorkie, you must have driven past it! It's by the Marquis of Anglesey Column.
Who? ;)
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In answer to Hollins. . . .. St Georges Wharf Tower (also has other names) in London. A helicopter crashed into it. ZXZ
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Actually I better qualify that. The Copter crashed into a Tower Crane at the Tower. :D
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Correct Yorkie.
How about this one then. Where and what is this?
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Emirates Airline - Europe A la Carte at the O2 London. ZXZ
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It is at the O2 but what is the building used for?
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It is at the O2 but what is the building used for?
Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is the home of Ravenbourne College. ;D
A Design College, a subject, I believe you studied. ZXZ
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Correct. Here is a link about the building. I was fascinated by it. Here are a few more photos.
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/13/ravensbourne-college-by-foreign-office-architects/ (http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/13/ravensbourne-college-by-foreign-office-architects/)
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Where will you find this sculpture?
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Footplate statue at Flint railway station.
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Well done SDQ.
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Where and what is this building?
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As you've been in London, is it the MI5 building?
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Well done Jack!
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Is it the mi5 building, why would they tell everyone ?
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Is it the mi5 building, why would they tell everyone ?
Some people just can't keep a secret! :D
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Where did I see this guy today?
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As you've been in London, is it the MI5 building?
I hate to be pedantic, but its actually the MI6 (SIS) Building. Z**
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I hate to be pedantic, but its actually the MI6 (SIS) Building. Z**
You are quite right mi5 is at Thames House on Millbank. Both, however, very fine buildings. ;)
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As you've been in London, is it the MI5 building?
I hate to be pedantic, but its actually the MI6 (SIS) Building. Z**
I LOVE being pedantic, what other pleasures would I have?
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:laugh:
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I have put myself in detention.........could do better!
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Where did I see this guy today?
Beddgelert. :D
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Well done ME &well&
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Some I know and most I don't know! :laugh:
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I thought that you might have got it as it's near your old territory.
What about this stone, where would you see it?
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By the side of the road that passes underneath the Menai Bridge.
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Spot on Dave. $good$
I'd forgotten that you had been there fairly recently and would have seen it.
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Spot on Dave. $good$
I'd forgotten that you had been there fairly recently and would have seen it.
I actually took a photo of it, thinking it would come in handy for the quiz thread too! :laugh:
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Where exactly will you find this tableau? An easy one for Saturday evening.
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Would this be when you we having lunch at the old lighthouse (O Farol) in Albufeira?
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Would this be when you we having lunch at the old lighthouse (O Farol) in Albufeira?
O Farol is just a cafe but serves the best jug of Sangria in Town, or so I am led to believe. Actually no lighthouse ever been there just a bit of poetic licence. The one on the cliff is just a guiding light for the fishermen, as this area is Praia de Pescadores, or Fisherman's Beach. The Pescadores now operate from a new purpose built marina and harbour the other end of Albufeira. Their days of dragging their boats up the beach are long gone, as has the spectacle of watching them return with their catches and selling them from the boat or the nearby fish market, now also moved.
The tableau is a memorial in honour to the Fishermen and their families through the past years.
Well done Hugo! ;)
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Where exactly would you see this bench on your travels in N Wales? $walesflag$
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I didn't see it there last year but it's obvious why and you can see it on Google. That's if you already know where it is. :)
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If you're walking past you won't miss seeing the bench in this small area. $walesflag$
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Lovely views downhill from the bench but I didn't see any fish on my travels although I did keep to the path.
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Looks like you're on your own with this one, Hugo! :D
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It must be hard then Yorkie because I'm sure that Jack, Gwynant and Welshwiz have all been there so here's a photo to make it easy.
It's behind you as they say in Panto!
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The bench is located right in the middle of this little valley, so it's impossible to get past without seeing the bench. $walesflag$
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Ah! So what's the name of the Valley? It looks to me like one of the Glacial Valleys possibly running parallel to the A5. But that's me now exhausted! ;D
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Hugo, this one has really got me thinking, but after studying the "behind you" picture you posted and reading about your recent Beddgelert walk I think it could be in the Cwm Bychan area as I think the picture shows the view down the Aberglaslyn valley towards the coast, with the lower slopes of Moel Hebog off to the right, and also the existence of wild rhodedendron in the area.
I walked the route many years ago, from Beddgelert North to Llyn Dinas and turned right uphill to walk back over to Cwm Bychan and down past the old pylons to return through the tunnels on the the WHR track (before it was relaid!) back past Gelert's grave to Beddgelert but I don't recall passing the bench so I could also be completely wrong!
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The date on the bench shows, I think, 1965-2005 so it probably hasn't been there that long. :D
Do I get half a point? ;D
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Gwynant you have got the location correct and the reason you haven't seen it is because it wasn't there until 2013. It's a Memorial Bench in Cwm Bychan and is located between the small waterfall and the first pylon. In fact I took the last photo while sitting on the bench eating my sandwiches. &well&
The walk from Beddgelert is called the Fisherman's Path and Cwm Bychan ( Eng Little Valley ) $walesflag$
Yorkie, it can be googled but only if you know the location. I put in Google "Memorial Bench Cwm Bychan" and some nice photos of the area came out and a guy was sitting on the bench
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The date on the bench shows, I think, 1965-2005 so it probably hasn't been there that long. :D
Do I get half a point? ;D
I'm afraid not Yorkie, the date is 2013 anyway and after all I did tell you the name of the place. "Little Valley" ( Welsh Cwm Bychan) $walesflag$
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I'll have to brush up my Welsh, and start going to Specsavers.
Try this one, where, what and what special attraction does it have.
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For a change, have I got this one?
Yorkie, it is the Las Vegas Stratosphere with the Big Shot on top which is the highest thrill ride in the World.
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For a change, have I got this one?
Yorkie, it is the Las Vegas Stratosphere with the Big Shot on top which is the highest thrill ride in the World.
It is just not your Day, Bri. Certainly height is part of the equation but not in LA. :(
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Is it the Macau Tower?
It has an observation deck with panoramic views, restaurants, theaters, shopping malls and the Skywalk X, a thrilling walking tour around the outer rim. It offers the best view of Macau and in recent years has been used for a variety of adventurous activities. At 233 meters, the Macau Tower's tethered "skyjump" and Bungee jump by AJ Hackett[1] from the tower's outer rim, is the second highest commercial skyjump in the world, after Vegas' Stratosphere skyjump at 260 meters.[2] The tower was created by the architecture firm of Craig Craig Moller.
The tower is one of the members of the World Federation of Great Towers. Besides being used for observation and entertainment, the tower is also used for telecommunications and broadcasting.
ower?
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As you must know, Hugo, you are 100% correct. One of my Grand Nephews took the plunge (so to speak) and did the bungee jump a few days ago, and is now the possessor of a certifcate and a Tee shirt. Rather him than me! There is a video on u tube showing one brave (or idiotic) person doing the jump! :D
&well&
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Another, maybe a little more difficult.
What, where and to what does the arch lead?
One click could give you the answer!
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Watch the nesting storks at the gates of the Old Town in Faro, the capital city of Portugal, on the Algarve coast. The storks nest in any structure with height, including the bell tower and dome of the Camara Municipal de Faro. Background music is "Fastest Man on Earth" by Jahzzar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWX_abynDJ4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWX_abynDJ4)
Do I get a bonus point for the video. D)
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Well, well, well! I am surprised, as you are not quite correct! The very amateurish video has it wrong. The Camara, or Town Hall is on another side of the square and separated from this structure by a road. These are the correct details. Score? I'll give you 7/10 for a good effort! :D
The neoclassical Arco da Vila (Town Arch) in Faro is a main entry gate into Faro's Old Town (Cidade Velha). The Arco da Vila was designed by Genoese architect Francesco Xavier Fabri, commissioned by Bishop Francisco Gomes, who supervised the reconstruction of Faro after the devastating earthquake of 1755.
The top of the arch of Arco da Vila includes a clock and bell and the figure in the niche at the front of the arch is St. Thomas Aquinas. The archway stands on the site of the ancient entry gate into the Moorish city. One walks through the arch and up to Largo da Se (Cathedral Square)and into the old walled town of Faro with narrow cobbled streets. Nesting storks may also be seen on the building.
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Where would you see this feature on a walk in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Yorkie's wild guess, Llanfair P G.
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Good guess Yorkie and you're getting nearer, but not quite there yet.
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You have to pass this if you have done this coastal walk and it's only about 30 yards away from the water. $walesflag$
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What dark secret does this place hold? ???
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I went to the café but didn't have any of their black magic but instead enjoyed a coffee and one of their local biscuits. ???
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Aberffraw?
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Well done Hollins, I thought that it was hard with the clues I gave but I couldn't show any photos as the location would have been obvious. The water feature is in Bridge Street on the corner with the quay and opposite the old bridge. &well&
Was it the Aberffraw Biscuits that gave it away?
The other clues related to the Jack the Ripper story and the Black magic there.
"A lingering local story has it that this is the house where the serial killer Jack the Ripper was born and bred.
That his name was Evan Thomas, son of the local pharmacist.
Every time there was a murder in London, he always used to come home, He used to come here on holiday from London.
He took enough poison to kill a carthorse and killed himself off.
Jack the Ripper committed the murders of women, in Whitechapel in 1888.
The Anglesey archives show that Evan Thomas came home from London shortly afterwards.
He killed himself in June of 1889, and the inquest report said he did so... ..' While in a state of temporary insanity.'
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Yes, it was the biscuit clue that gave it away to me. Hope you enjoyed them.
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What is this building and where in England is it?
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temporary insanity???????? :o
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Is it the Mansion House, York ?
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No sorry. It isn't in Yorkshire.
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Dartmouth? ZXZ
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No, but the county it is in does begin with D.
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John Smedley Mill, Derby! (Thanks Google! ;D )
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Well done. John Smedley still manufacturing beautiful knitwear in Lea Bridge, Derbyshire.
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Where will you find this ship?
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Belfast?
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No sorry, not Belfast.
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This is on the Thames Path Walk in London, Probably taken when you were down there recently! :D
Actually it is only a bit of a ship! ;D
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I was trying to throw you off the scent with a Derbyshire question.
It is in front of the building of the International Maritime Organisation on the Albert Embankment in London.
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Here is a really difficult one. What, and where is this? What significance does it have?
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The Key In The Pavement
On London’s Marchmont Street there are a number of odd objects embedded in concrete paving stones, including a pineapple, a fish and this key. In 2007 an artist created them to symbolise the tokens left behind by impoverished mothers who needed to identify their babies. The children were left in the Foundling Hospital at Coram Fields, to await collection when their mothers were better-off.
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Very well done, I thought that would be a real teaser! &well&
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Now here's a very difficult and an obscure one too. $walesflag$
It's not exactly the Via Ferrata but it is an aid in walking but where exactly is it in N Wales?
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Great Orme! $walesflag$
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Nice start Yorkie but it's not in the Three Towns.
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Snowdon?
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Not Snowdon but it is in Snowdonia and the next photo was taken nearby.
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Somewhere in the Beddgelert area?
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Is it the footpath by the river in the Aberglaslyn Pass (Fisherman's path?) ?
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Well done ME it is on the Fisherman's Path in Aberglaslyn, It must have been put in recently because I've not noticed it before when I've done the walk. &well&
You were in the right area Jack but ME was spot on with the location.
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.here is a strange house. Tell what you can about it. :D
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It's been hard work Googling this one Yorkie. ;D
The Tower House at 29 Melbury Road (originally 9 Melbury Road) is a large late Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea. It was built between 1875 and 1881 in the French gothic revival style by the architect and designer William Burges for himself. It has been a Grade I listed building since 1949
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You got it right, but missed some of the latest information which I was hoping for! &well&
Known as the Led Zepplin Tower.
It’s hard to believe this tower is in central London, but it’s at 29 Melbury Road, Kensington, and looks like something from a horror film. It’s supposed to contain an astrology hall, reflecting the interests of its owner, Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, and surreal filmmaker Kenneth Anger once lived in its basement. Fans make pilgrimages there, which must be annoying when Page is looking out of the window doing the washing up. No lift, but there’s a stairway to heaven.
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What about this then. What and where?
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There is a clue if you know the year of my birth. . . . D)
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The Battle of Cable Street mural London E1
Hundreds of thousands of anti-fascists took to the streets of London's East End on Sunday October 4th 1936 to stop Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts marching through a prodominently Jewish part of London. The Communist Party played a major part in the mobilisation along with the Independent Labour Party and the Jewish Ex-Servicemen's Association.
The mural was started in 1976 and finally completed in 1993. The work, by a number of local artists, was attacked by vandals several times while it was being painted. The design was based on original photographs of the battle and the buildings of the day. Some of the people who took part in the battle are depicted in the mural along with others who symbolise the people of the East End today.
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I thought it looked like a bunch of communists! Perhaps Kowalski is depicted in it? :twoface:
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&well& Hollins! I think you've found the same web page that I used! I better not try any more of them! :D
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An easy one for this Sunday. What and where is this building? $walesflag$
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If that's an easy one, Lord knows what your hard one's like! :D
However, I'll have an even wilder guess at Rhyddlan Castle. $walesflag$
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Site of the old Parliament Building in Rhuddlan.
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Spot on Dave &well&
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Well, I weren't so far off, all based on your recent trip! :D
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On the afternoon tea Menu, but where?
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McDonalds ?
Just a shot in the dark there..... WWW
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The Berkeley?
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Sorry Mike, but I think you knew that you were slightly off track! :D
Hollins, not right this time, but don't those cakes look delightful? ;D
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I might not be on the right lines for this but is it on the Orient Express?
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Ah this may be a bit of a Sleeper! Not the OE, never been on board. You'll have to try a different track. ££$
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A pal has suggested that one must be crackers to go there at the price they charge. ;D
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The Ritz?
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Ahhh... RITZ crackers..... why didn't I think of that?? $good$ $good$
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TheMedz is totally correct! &well&
It is certainly an experience not to be missed if you are ever in the vicinity! Don't know what it costs now but last time I went it was a finger short of an arm and a leg! :D
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I can see where you got your link from Yorkie,
http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29 (http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29)
However, I am suspicious that it is correct because for one thing it is the wrong crockery. The Ritz have gold and white and I am sure no coloured glasses.
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Hollins is WAY too classy!
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However, I am suspicious that it is correct because for one thing it is the wrong crockery. The Ritz have gold and white and I am sure no coloured glasses.
I looked at Google Images and I think you're right. Well spotted H!
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The Berkeley, Knightsbridge?
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I can see where you got your link from Yorkie,
http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29 (http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29)
However, I am suspicious that it is correct because for one thing it is the wrong crockery. The Ritz have gold and white and I am sure no coloured glasses.
You are quite correct Hollins as to the web site http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29, (http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29,) now tell me why the text refers to afternoon tea at the Ritz? If it is NOT the Ritz then the author of the web page is wrong NOT ME!
However as some people on this Forum just LOVE to CRITICISE, I will allow them their small moment of false pleasure.
I would guess that I have eaten and drank in more CLASSY and EXPENSIVE London Hotels than every other person on this Forum, but cannot account for the Ritz's choice of crockery when they want a publicity photograph. The crockery used has enhanced a shot that with plain bordered crockery would have been rather mundane and uninteresting. There may be a photographer amongst us who would agree with that sentiment. :rage:
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It isn't only the crockery that made me think the website you used was incorrect. It was also the cakes which in my opinion look a bit naff.
In particular the bikini biscuits as there is a strict dress code at the Ritz you know. ;D
However joking apart you can buy those biscuits and I doubt that the renowned pastry chefs at the Ritz would ever allow bought in items to their restaurant.
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I can see where you got your link from Yorkie,
http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29 (http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29)
However, I am suspicious that it is correct because for one thing it is the wrong crockery. The Ritz have gold and white and I am sure no coloured glasses.
You are quite correct Hollins as to the web site http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29, (http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29,) now tell me why the text refers to afternoon tea at the Ritz? If it is NOT the Ritz then the author of the web page is wrong NOT ME!
However as some people on this Forum just LOVE to CRITICISE, I will allow them their small moment of false pleasure.
I would guess that I have eaten and drank in more CLASSY and EXPENSIVE London Hotels than every other person on this Forum, but cannot account for the Ritz's choice of crockery when they want a publicity photograph. The crockery used has enhanced a shot that with plain bordered crockery would have been rather mundane and uninteresting. There may be a photographer amongst us who would agree with that sentiment. :rage:
Do you want your dummy back?
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Or the doors widening ? :twoface:
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I can see where you got your link from Yorkie,
http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29 (http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29)
However, I am suspicious that it is correct because for one thing it is the wrong crockery. The Ritz have gold and white and I am sure no coloured glasses.
You are quite correct Hollins as to the web site http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29, (http://travel.uk.msn.com/travel-advice/images.aspx?cp-documentid=151799751&page=29,) now tell me why the text refers to afternoon tea at the Ritz? If it is NOT the Ritz then the author of the web page is wrong NOT ME!
However as some people on this Forum just LOVE to CRITICISE, I will allow them their small moment of false pleasure.
I would guess that I have eaten and drank in more CLASSY and EXPENSIVE London Hotels than every other person on this Forum, but cannot account for the Ritz's choice of crockery when they want a publicity photograph. The crockery used has enhanced a shot that with plain bordered crockery would have been rather mundane and uninteresting. There may be a photographer amongst us who would agree with that sentiment. :
Do you want your dummy back?
Don't be f*****g stupid Steve! _))*
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An up to date picture of the crockery at the Ritz.
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Never mind the crockery it's the cakes I'm after. $dins$ ZXZ
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Never mind the crockery it's the cakes I'm after. $dins$ ZXZ
Just where is the very best fancy cake shop locally? Pinnington's and Sumner's have long since gone, and all I can think of is Fortes in Rhos. ZXZ
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Another afternoon tea puzzler. Where would you be served afternoon tea like this? ?{}?
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Subject to correction I can tell you that this is in the
Burj Al Arab Hotel, in Dubai. Probably one of the most expensive hotels in the World. Fantastic palatial accommodation, and everything else to match. Tea is served in the Skyview Bar which as the name implies is near the top of the building with great views. :D
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Burj al Arab? Yes... I believe that when it was first opened, it was the worlds only SEVEN STAR hotel.
It was followed (I think) by two more.
I have always wondered what type of service and quality that rating got you for your money.
Sadly, at £14,000 per night room rate, I am most unlikely to ever find out!
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Thats the trouble when the Company Expense Account stops! I know the feeling! :D
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Where will you find this nicely restored Mansion in North Wales?
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Plas Coch Holiday Homes Lanfair PG ?
;D
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Plas Coch Holiday Homes Lanfair PG ?
;D
Correct answer! The new owners have turned what was once a near derelict house into a stunning mansion.
http://www.plascochholidayhomes.co.uk/ (http://www.plascochholidayhomes.co.uk/)
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Where would you be if you saw this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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BAE Systems, Hawarden Airport for a rough guess. :D
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Sorry Yorkie but it's further west. The photo was taken from an unusual angle!
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The photo looks like it might have been taken looking upwards so it coiled be the underside of a road bridge. Menai Suspension Bridge possibly?
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Is it the underside of the raised section of the Rhuddlan Bypass where the path/cyclepath from Rhuddlan to Rhyl passes underneath beside the Afon Clwyd?
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It is the underside of something but this is what the Menai Suspension Bridge looks like from below.
I was in Gwynedd when I first saw it years ago!
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Underside of the Telford Railway Bridge. Maybe! ;D
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Or maybe not Yorkie. Nice try though.
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I saw it in Anglesey earlier this year ???
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Beaumaris Pier could be the answer, but then again, it could not! I await with trepidation! :o
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It's not the answer Yorkie but you're getting nearer. :)
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Aberleiniog Castle Walk? $walesflag$
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Sorry Yorkie but you're going the wrong way.
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Caernarfon Aircraft Museum????? See if this guess takes off! :D
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I'm afraid that that crashed too! :)
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I first saw it in Gwynedd some years ago but then saw it in Anglesey earlier this year and yet it hadn't moved. So what did I see? ???
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Caernarfon Aircraft Museum????? See if this guess takes off! :D
A big barrage balloon! :o
Or an airship! $walesflag$
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Britannia Bridge?
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Looks like the suspension cables on Conway or Menai bridge taken from below.
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Dave is correct. &well&
A few years ago I walked on the Caernarfon side of the Straits and went under the Britannia Road Bridge and it wasn't until late this year when I walked under the Bridge on the Anglesey side.
Yorkie, you could have got it straight away as I made the mistake of not changing my photo numbers, something you advised me about a few years ago.
Mull, good try but Dave was spot on with the location. Hope that you and your property were not affected by the storms that hit Scotland and the rest of the UK last week.
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Note to self - must learn to count the bridges - i thought we had done them all! _))*
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I'm sure certain Forum members will know where this is in North Wales...
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Not sure but is it the Indesit/Hotpoint factory at Boddlewydden? ZXZ
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Not the old Hotpoint factory, I'm afraid. It's actually on Anglesey.
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Wylfa ?
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It's not Wylfa, although it's not that far away from the Wylfa site. $good$
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RAF Valley? $walesflag$
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Is it the Kanatxx Lng Limited Amlwch site?
The old railway lines are just out of sight on the photo.
Canatxx is a new company which is planning to build a LNG gasification plant on the site of the old Octel works.
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Aluminium works?
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Hugo is correct! It was originally the Associated Octel plant at Amlwch, later Great Lakes Chemicals, then latterly owned by Canatxx. It was built to extract Bromine from seawater. When I visited though, the Canatxx sign had been removed and the whole place looked almost abandoned.
http://www.amlwchhistory.co.uk/Canatxx.html (http://www.amlwchhistory.co.uk/Canatxx.html)
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It's a lovely place for lunch...but where in North Wales am I?
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The Corn mill in Llangollen?
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The Corn mill in Llangollen?
Correct! A great place for a meal, especially if you can sit outside on the decking overhanging the river:
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Where will you find this coat of arms in North Wales:
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On the gates of Bangor Pier. ;D
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On the gates of Bangor Pier. ;D
Correct! $good$
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Where in North Wales would you find this shunting engine? $walesflag$
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Dolgarrog?
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Very good DaveR $good$
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Where could you tuck into this delightful display?
And how many calories in the whole lot?
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Portugal?
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OMG imagine the E- numbers in that lot.
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Sorry, not Portugal. And not that many calories. ££$
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Must be fake cakes then Yorkie and yet they look delicious. Where are they though, I'm still thinking on that. ?{}?
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On a closer look they seem to be made of towelling of some kind, no idea where though!
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On a closer look they seem to be made of towelling of some kind, no idea where though!
Must give the answer now. It is actually a display of towels, made to look attractive. This is in Barcelona but there are others in other cities. Calorific value, absolutely NIL. ZXZ
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On a closer look they seem to be made of towelling of some kind, no idea where though!
Must give the answer now. It is actually a display of towels, made to look attractive. This is in Barcelona but there are others in other cities. Calorific value, absolutely NIL. ZXZ
Although I would imagine that if you ate them, they would kill you much more efficiently then their real life counterparts.
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Where is this hall and what was its original use?
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Is it the Middle Temple in London?
The name is recorded in the 12th century as Novum Templum, meaning 'New Temple'.[3] It is named from a house belonging to the Knights Templar. The 'Old Temple' was located in Holborn. The name is shared with Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Temple Church and the Temple Bar.[3]
History[edit]
The Temple was originally the precinct of the Knights Templar whose Temple Church was named in honour of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The Knights had two halls, whose modern successors are the Middle Temple Hall and the Inner Temple Hall. Only the Inner Temple Hall preserves elements of the medieval hall on the site, however (namely, the medieval Buttery).
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Ah, thou ist becoming a bit too clever me thinks! Will have to raid some of my own archives, remove EXIF data and make sure they are NOT on Google.
You, of course, know that you are correct. Don't bother going there the food is rubbish! &well&
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The shield on the wall with the St George's flag helped a lot. D)
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What is this building and where is it?
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Dubai International Airport?
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Well done SDQ. It is the newish Terminal 3 building which on completion, was the largest building in the world by floor space, with over 1,713,000 m2 (18,440,000 sq ft) of space, capable of handling 43 million passengers in a year and cost 4.5 billion US dollars.
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Another easy one for Sunday. Where exactly in N Wales is this?
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Trevor Basin Hand
A stone hand make from bricks and steel work, spanners, chains, etc on the Trevor Basin side of the Llangollen Canal, as a rough guess! ;)
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10 minutes exactly Yorkie, that didn't last long.
Well done &well&
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Another very easy one. See if you can beat 10 minutes. $walesflag$
Where will you see this?
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In the garden at Loggerheads. ;)
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That must be a record! Trust me to pick one where you've just spent some time walking. &well&
I know it's Christmas but I'll have to get my scrooge hat on and get a toughie. :)
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;D
In the meantime, where will you find this building under construction in North Wales?
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I hope I'm on track with Caernarfon Harbour. $walesflag$
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On second thoughts it could be the new Moelfre Lifeboat Station. $welsh$
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Neither is correct, I'm afraid. Obviously, there is a maritime connection and this building is part of a recent larger engineering project.
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The redevelopment of the Westbury Mount site in Menai Bridge, of the SEACAMS project, running in the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, is the only other I can think of at present.
VV VV VV
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Mostyn?
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Neither is correct, I'm afraid. You might see a dragon crossing the water nearby...
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Dragons being a class of sailing vessel, I will move my guess to the development of Porth Penrhyn, which is the new location for Dickies Boatyard, amongst further development to exploit the commercial aspects of the Port.
I* I* I*
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A good guess, Yorkie, but you're heading the wrong way along the coast. This building's construction is part of a larger regeneration scheme for a coastal town
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RHYL
bARBIROLI
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RHYL
bARBIROLI
Correct answer! This building is part of the Dragon's Bridge project at Rhyl. $good$
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In which building in North Wales would you find this sign?
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Bangor Cathedral perhaps?
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Bangor Cathedral perhaps?
Spot on, well done! $good$
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Can anybody name this beach and where is it?
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Maho Beach, St. Maarten.
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Correct.
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Boxing Day swim, but where?
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Goscar Rock - Tenby
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Well done!
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do you have to be certified before you enter the water or is it just taken for granted
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To get us back on track - where is this, and you have only 5 minutes to answer!
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Portugal by the Sea? :laugh:
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Puerto Banus - Marbella.
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Systema, sorry you are not right. ME right country, but where exactly? WWW
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So, to but in. No holiday photos.
But, general knowledge, part of the title.
Advertising. Probably the best sound bite of all time "Wonderloaf. The same price as ordinary bread"
The only thing it was is, it was ordinary bread. Depending on your choice of flavour etc it was no different to its main competitors. Mothers Pride and oh dear I've forgotten the name but their distribution depot was opposite hot point in the junction. Was it country maid?
But, mid 1970s all over the country, prime advertising sites alongside main roads had posters "NOW AT LAST FOR BRITAIN ITSELF" Nothing else. No clue as to who or what it was all about. Even the men who where puting up the posters had'nt got a clue"
Who or what was it advertising?
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Systema, sorry you are not right. ME right country, but where exactly? WWW
No idea, never been there! L0L I always guess Portugal for your questions! ;D
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Villamour Marina
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&well& Systema, absolutely correct. Millions of Dollars, Euros and Pounds that never go anywhere! ;D
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Last time we were there they had just started building it. ;D
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Last time we were there they had just started building it. ;D
Snap 8)
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Advertising. Probably the best sound bite of all time "Wonderloaf. The same price as ordinary bread"
The only thing it was is, it was ordinary bread. Depending on your choice of flavour etc it was no different to its main competitors. Mothers Pride and oh dear I've forgotten the name but their distribution depot was opposite hot point in the junction. Was it country maid?
Sunblest. $sunny$
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An unusual monument in a field. Where in North Wales is it, and which famous writer is it dedicated to?
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That's Dr Samuel Johnson's Monument in Denbigh, is the writer Beatrix Potter?
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That's Dr Samuel Johnson's Monument in Denbigh, is the writer Beatrix Potter?
I think you will find that the Dr himself is the famous writer having made great contributions to English Literature. Beatrix Potter also stayed in the area with her Uncle, possibly even at The Dr's cottage, and so there is a connection.
:D
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That's Dr Samuel Johnson's Monument in Denbigh, is the writer Beatrix Potter?
I think you will find that the Dr himself is the famous writer having made great contributions to English Literature. Beatrix Potter also stayed in the area with her Uncle, possibly even at The Dr's cottage, and so there is a connection.
:D
I'm after a second opinion here Yorkie but you are probably correct, where's Dave gone to though? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBJ32-QXZc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBJ32-QXZc)
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The link doesn't work for me. I get an error message. :(
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That's a shame Yorkie but it's only a short clip of Dr Johnson's cottage and monument lasting just 1min 16 secs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBJ32-QXZc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBJ32-QXZc)
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Hugo is correct, its a monument to Dr Johnson, who lived outside Denbigh.
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Another monument in N Wales but where is it and who is it dedicated to? $walesflag$
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This phallic erection is:
The Pillar of Eliseg, originally a tall stone cross, is still a striking landmark. Now only part of a round shaft survives set within its original base. Almost invisible to today's visitor, the Pillar once bore a long Latin inscription saying that the cross was raised by Concenn, ruler of the kingdom of Powys, who died in AD 854, in memory of his great-grandfather, Eliseg who had driven Anglo-Saxon invaders out of the area. The Pillar stands on a mound of unknown date and function. By the late seventeenth century the Pillar was no longer standing, but the damaged inscription was recorded by the famous Welsh antiquary Edward Lhuyd. The mound was dug into in 1773 by the local land-owner Thomas Lloyd and is reported to have contained a stone cist with a skeleton.
More info available at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full-ori.php.en?Id=1360 (http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full-ori.php.en?Id=1360)
:D
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Well done Yorkie, spot on. &well&
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Does this photo ring a bell with anyone? What and where is it? $walesflag$
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If I may be so bold, may I suggest the bell tower is that of
St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanweollwyfo
ZXZ
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Go to the back of the class Yorkie and do a 100 lines " I must try harder" ;D
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Further dedicated research has revealed that it may be the South Entrance of Llwydiarth Church, Welshpool, which was built in 1854, as can be seen by the dated stone.
I hope this is Q.E.D.
:D
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Pay attention Yorkie and stand in the corner! $smack$
This old school is much nearer home. $walesflag$ $walesflag$
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Schooldays C1916 at the old schoolhouse $walesflag$
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Capel Garmon School will have to be my last attempt at this one! ;) :D ;D
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Top of the class Yorkie, well done. &well&
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The pic of the Class of '16 was the giveaway! $good$
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Why, which one is you Yorkie? ;D
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Why, which one is you Yorkie? ;D
Front row, second from left, which makes me about 105! ;D
And aren't you the one wearing your Sister's frock in the middle of the second row? _))*
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Oh no, it's another afternoon tea question!
Where this time? In UK.
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Free Trade Hall, Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester at a rough guess! Horrible cups! $drink$
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Correct!
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For all you racing fans. What Racecourse is this?
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Portugal? ;D
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Portugal? ;D
Actually, I don't know of any Racecourse in Portugal, but must check next time I am there! Sorry ME not Portugal! Bit nearer to home actually!
ZXZ
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Chester?
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Non Mon Amie, more continental ! Z**
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Paris?
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Deauville?
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Deauville?
I thought someone would say Longchamp before Deauville, but I underestimated the intelligence of the Members!
Absolutely correct Hollins. &well& picture taken at a Meeting last August.
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Whereabouts in North Wales will you find this converted Stable Block? Up until a couple of years ago, it was just a derelict ruin.
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Erddig?
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Is it on the old Chester Road in Holywell?
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No correct answers there, I'm afraid. This is a tricky one, if I'm honest, as it's hidden down a country lane in Denbighshire, by a river. The Stables were derelict for many years, until recently converted into housing. It was originally part of a very large mansion, that was demolished in the mid 1800s.
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Faenol Fawr?
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I'm afraid not, Bri.
Another clue - the river that is close to is the River Clwyd....
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It is a big building and very close to the River Clwyd and I'm looking at it on Google Earth but don't know the name of it! :rage:
It's by the big wood and below Pen Y Cloddiau ?{}?
Was it Llangwyfan Hospital?
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How about Lleweni Hall Denbigh?
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How about Lleweni Hall Denbigh?
Spot on, Hugo, it is the Stables at Lleweni Hall. $good$
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Some nice windows on a Welsh Church but which Church? $walesflag$
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Caldey Island, St David's, the church on Weatherman Walking! Great windows! D)
I loved this window!
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Very quick ME, I did a similar walk when I was on the island. &well&
I've just watched the recording of Weatherman Walking tonight.
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Yes I had seen the programme just a few hours ago! I went there as a child, the boat from Tenby docked along side old concrete boats from WW2! I wonder if they are still there! Looks a lovely place!
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Just found this pic on the net from 1963, about the time I was there!
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I didn't notice them when I was there but did see this boat. It's a beautiful tranquil place and I'd love to go back again one day.
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Here is another fine building seen on my latest travels.
What and where is it?
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That's a toughie Hollins because it could be anywhere in the world! ;D
I'm concentrating on Switzerland, only because of the number of your photo. Still thinking on what it is and where, ?{}?
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Okay Hugo, first clue.....NOT Switzerland!
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That's me snookered because I thought it could be Ittengen Charterhouse in Warth. :(
Back to the drawing board and get my atlas out. ?{}?
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Is it in Dubai?
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It is in Europe and it has a connection with drinking.
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The Trinkhalle (pump house) in the Kurhaus spa complex in Baden-Baden, German was built 1839–42 by Heinrich Hübsch in a complementary architectural style as the spa's main building. The 90-metre arcade is lined with frescos and benches. The spa waters are said to have curative powers.
A branch office of Baden-Baden's tourist information bureau is located in this historic structure.
QED :D
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Correct!
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Here is another to do with drinking! What and where?
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Hofbrauhaus, a brewery in Munich?
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Hofbrauhaus, a brewery in Munich?
Thought you would get this one. Yep it is the Hofbrauhaus in Munchen. Fantastic place. I supped a few litres in there when I did drink! Was amazed at how the waitresses could carry so many full Steins of beer at the same time.
Z**
&well&
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Where is this pub dining room ?
Not in 3 towns but in North Wales
(http://tinyurl.com/p3mmf8d)
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A wild guess at the Blackboy pub in Caernarfon.
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Spot on Hugo; we stayed in Caernarfon for a few days last year
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/cogla/Wales/BlackBoy3_zpsf1fbb253.jpg)
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The Castle in the fireplace and the two brass looking etchings made me think of the Blackboy Pub.
Hope that you enjoyed your stay there, I've heard some good reports about the food there. $good$
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Where in N Wales would you find a phone box, letter box and a new shop all together? $walesflag$
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To narrow it down a lot, the new shop, phone box and letter box are in Conwy County and less than 20 miles from the Three Towns area.
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Penmachno
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That's a good try Yorkie and I can see why you thought that, but it's not correct I'm afraid.
I've seen a lot of walkers go past here but none going into the new shop. $walesflag$
I'm sure that some of our walking forum members have gone past at sometime as it's on the main road through this place.
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I've been past it a few times. If it gives Yorkie a clue, the road it is on is between 2 pubs... ;)
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I've been past it a few times. If it gives Yorkie a clue, the road it is on is between 2 pubs... ;)
No good telling me PUBS, I'm teetotal! ;D
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Is it Llanbedr y Cennin?
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Is it Llanbedr y Cennin?
It certainly looks very similar to this place I photographed a few years back! :laugh:
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4002/4689148450_a84a5701a1_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/4689148450/)
Decline of Western Civilisation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/4689148450/#) by [davidrobertsphotography] (http://www.flickr.com/people/davellandudno/), on Flickr
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Where in N Wales would you find a phone box, letter box and a new shop all together? $walesflag$
new shop = siop newydd. $walesflag$
Cunning, Hugo.
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Well done Jack and Dave. $good$
This photo was going to be my next clue but you both beat me to it.
Bri, it gives Yorkie a chance to brush up on his Welsh. :) $walesflag$
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Bri, it gives Yorkie a chance to brush up on his Welsh. :) $walesflag$
Ik ben heel blij met de Welsh ik ken, en ook mijn Duits, Frans en Portugees, maar toch bedankt.
ZXZ
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is that double dutch yorkle?
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da iawn Yorkie, yr wyf yn creu argraff gyda'ch amrywiol ieithoedd ond byddai iaith fwy Cymreig yn eich helpu
i gael rhai atebion. $good$ $walesflag$
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We would be able to get more answers if google would work in Welsh. :)
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It does. $walesflag$
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da iawn Yorkie, yr wyf yn creu argraff gyda'ch amrywiol ieithoedd ond byddai iaith fwy Cymreig yn eich helpu
i gael rhai atebion. $good$ $walesflag$
You are, of course, quite right Hugo, a little more Welsh would be of great help. Unfortunately my present knowledge of the language is mainly limited to the usual everyday pleasantries and lots of names of things and places. I just cannot string a sentence together. However, i shall now be looking for the cryptic Welsh in your future "clues".
Snowcap, it was just plain old ordinary Dutch. Merci, danke schon, obrigado.
$uk
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From Yorkie- ''Unfortunately my present knowledge of the language is mainly limited to the usual everyday pleasantries and lots of names of things and places. I just cannot string a sentence together''.
I know the feeling Yorkie, I just don't have enough phlegm to achieve it!
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Yorkie, the reason I do things like that is that I know that you are so good at finding things and try to make it a bit more of a teaser but I put this after the clue to let you have an idea. $walesflag$
For instance in the last one if you had put " Siop Newydd Conwy" into Google you'd have got the answer immediately and that wouldn't have been a challenge to you, so I changed it to new shop instead, but trust Dave to have already taken a photo of it!
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Where will you find this desirable property? Also what is its famous attribute?
It has certain similarities to some Dutch Buildings but is in England.
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I think a clue is needed here Yorkie as these old plates of meat are getting tired walking around London.
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Three clues.
It is number 10
Alice would like it.
Nearest tube is Marble Arch.
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Another clue:
It has an interesting feature similar to the Groene Lantaarn Restaurant in Amsterdam. *&(
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Final clue. It is only the left side of the red building with the door and window on first floor.
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Donastia Restaurant. ---- edit - no it's not, wrong door ;D
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Donastia Restaurant. ---- edit - no it's not, wrong door ;D
You're right - You're wrong! :D
There is a strong link with Conwy Quay, and if you don't get it now I'll have to tell you! ££$
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London's smallest house - 10 Hyde Park Place.
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London's smallest house - 10 Hyde Park Place.
Dead right - the smallest Restaurant in Amsterdam is built between two buildings as is the Smallest house in Conwy. And 10 hyde Park Place is the smallest in London.
10 Hyde Park Place
The smallest house in London is barely a metre wide. Perhaps built to block a right of way through to St George's graveyard, and hence deter grave-robbers, it dates back to 1805 and is now part of Tyburn Convent. The tiny house was actually hit by a bomb in 1941, during World War II.
Hyde Park Place W2
Tube: Marble Arch
&well&
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Another easy one. What, where and why was it built?
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Surprise, surprise - Portugal.
The Belem Tower in Lisbon but I haven't a clue why it was built.
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it was built in the 16th cen as a fort to protect that part and the monestary, the weather was rough when we were there in september
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Well, I reckon that is half a point each! ))*
Bri, all the info is on Google! :D
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Here is an easy one, no clues needed!
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A clue obviously required.
You could have a Warner's week end here! :D
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Bodelwyddan Castle?
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Of course it is, well done! $walesflag$
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Where will you find this beautiful patterned marble?
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Arabic: جامع الشيخ زايد الكبير) is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates and is considered to be the key for worship in the country.
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Yes, well done. Here are some of my photos taken this morning in the rain.
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Lucky you!
Where is this lovely chateau, and what is its name?
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Wow Hollins, what a beautiful Mosque. Obviously no expense spared.
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Lucky you!
Where is this lovely chateau, and what is its name?
I'll have a quick guess at Castell Coch near Cardiff although it doesn't look very red in the photo.
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Wow Hollins, what a beautiful Mosque. Obviously no expense spared.
Yes, it was absolutely stunning. I was particularly impressed with the floral marble patterns and how feminine it is. I found this article which I thought summed it up quite well and has some more info but no costs of course.
http://arabiczeal.com/sheikh-zayed-mosque-floral-exquisite/ (http://arabiczeal.com/sheikh-zayed-mosque-floral-exquisite/)
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Lucky you!
Where is this lovely chateau, and what is its name?
I'll have a quick guess at Castell Coch near Cardiff although it doesn't look very red in the photo.
I'll have to ban you Hugo! Much too clever for my simple puzzles! &well&
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Wow Hollins, what a beautiful Mosque. Obviously no expense spared.
Yes, it was absolutely stunning. I was particularly impressed with the floral marble patterns and how feminine it is. I found this article which I thought summed it up quite well and has some more info but no costs of course.
http://arabiczeal.com/sheikh-zayed-mosque-floral-exquisite/ (http://arabiczeal.com/sheikh-zayed-mosque-floral-exquisite/)
When we visited the 2nd largest mosque in Egypt last year, my wife was not allowed inside.... and a particularly aggressive old man didn't really want any infidels going inside.
Only when tour guides tried to calm him down did he allow anyone to stand in the doorway and peep inside. But no further.
It was a waste of time, and made me realise what an intolerant religion Islam 'can' be.
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Here is another easy one. Where is this? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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There was a motte and bailey castle here but it was destroyed many years ago but where is this place? $walesflag$
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There was a motte and bailey castle here but it was destroyed many years ago but where is this place? $walesflag$
Were Mott and Bailey the precursors to Marks and Spencer?
At a rough guess I would say that this is the place! Took me all of 5 minutes!
At Sycharth are the well preserved earthworks of a medieval castle occupying a low knoll in the base of the Cynllaith valley, below its steep wooded slopes. The castle may be as early as the twelfth century, but direct evidence is lacking. It was fullsomely, but obliquely described in a poem of about 1390 and was burnt in 1403, having no further history.
This is a motte and bailey castle, consisting of a large ditched earthen motte or castle mound, 50m in diameter and 10.6m high with a 26m diameter summit, with a crescentic bailey platform, 64m across and 32m deep, on the south-west side. Excavations of a small part of the motte top in 1962-3 only uncovered evidence for two timber framed buildings, part of what the 1390 poem describes as 'a fine wooden house atop a green hill'. Further buildings, including a great lordly hall, would have stood within the bailey. The poem mentions a mill, fishponds, a warren and a deerpark containing a lodge.
:D
This is a pic of reconstruction of same.
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Well done Yorkie &well&
Sycharth Castle one of the homes of Owain Glyndwr and a place I visited last year for the first time.
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Who are the two horsemen? Where are they playing?
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Prince Harry and Prince William
10th Anniversary of the Audi Polo Challenge – Coworth Park, Ascot
Less than 5 minutes on Google D)
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It's easy if you know how! And you obviously know how! I must start using my own pictures and remove the exif detail before I post them! :D
&well& $lol$
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Here is a small test one. Who is the famous person connected with this transport company, and what is the name of the driver?
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Here is a small test one. Who is the famous person connected with this transport company, and what is the name of the driver?
the famous person is H. M. Queen Elizabeth II.
The driving force behind Lambourn Racehorse Transport Ltd is its managing director MERRICK FRANCIS
http://www.lrtltd.demon.co.uk/index.htm (http://www.lrtltd.demon.co.uk/index.htm)
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When we visited the 2nd largest mosque in Egypt last year, my wife was not allowed inside.... and a particularly aggressive old man didn't really want any infidels going inside.
Only when tour guides tried to calm him down did he allow anyone to stand in the doorway and peep inside. But no further.
It was a waste of time, and made me realise what an intolerant religion Islam 'can' be.
That is a real shame Fester and shows how a misguided fool can give Islam a bad name. I had the shear good fortune to live in Cairo for 3½ years and never came across such intolerance. Just goes to show what can come out of the bottle once the cork is out. Blame the man not his religion.
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the famous person is H. M. Queen Elizabeth II.
The driving force behind Lambourn Racehorse Transport Ltd is its managing director MERRICK FRANCIS
http://www.lrtltd.demon.co.uk/index.htm (http://www.lrtltd.demon.co.uk/index.htm)
What a shame. Ignoring your second post which is not relevant to the question, your answer is not quite correct, but so close I cannot leave the question outstanding.
The famous person who started the company was the Jockey Dick Francis who was Merrick's Father. Although having a Royal Warrant, the Company has no other connection to HM the Queen, although Dick was said to be the Queen Mother's favourite jockey.
The Main Driver is my own Daughter who has been a driver for the Company for a number of years.
ZXZ
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Ignoring your second post which is not relevant to the question
Sorry about where my second post appeared Yorkie but Jesters comment on what was said on page 252 post 3773 merited a reply
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Sorry about where my second post appeared Yorkie but Jesters comment on what was said on page 252 post 3773 merited a reply
Quite often this thread turns into a conversation, just can't be helped! No probs for me!
Going back to the quiz, my Daughter went across to Ireland on the early ferry, today. With this weather the Lord knows when she will be back! She was supposed to be returning early tomorrow! :D
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My Daughter went across to Ireland on the early ferry, today. With this weather the Lord knows when she will be back! She was supposed to be returning early tomorrow! :D
Let's hope she comes back on the Ulysses. It's big enough to ride out the storm. ££$
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A trip over the border took me to this place. Where is it?
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Been Ghost hunting? ;)
Shrigley Hall Hotel is an impressive manor house set in the picturesque countryside of Macclesfield, Cheshire. It comes with bags of luxurious features, but is also reported to be home to one or two ghosts.
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If that is Shrigley Hall Hotel, I stayed there for a very drunken golf weekend a couple of years ago.
I met Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick in the bar.
Dunno about ghosts, but I was visited by a lot of different spirits during my stay! :laugh: :laugh:
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Shrigley Hall it is, well done Yorkie. &well&
The Church has been converted to a very nice leisure centre and is connected to the hotel by the glass conservatory on the left of the photo. The lights did go on and off all day but that was more to do with the power supply than the spirits.
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Where will you see this sign? $walesflag$
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Seen that recently..... but can't place it. I was in Caernarfon, is it there?
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Sorry Fester, it's not in Caernarfon and not in Gwynedd either.
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Rhyl Marine Lake?
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Spot on Jack. &well&
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Where is this and what name is associated with it?
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The Ridgeway, somewhere near Whitehorse Hill?
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The Ridgeway, somewhere near Whitehorse Hill?
I am presuming you mean the National Walking Trail near Uffington in Oxfordshire. If so, you are not correct, but then again, you are not a million miles away. 10 to 1 someone will get it.
ZXZ
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Lambourn?
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It is indeed part of Lambourn, but I will leave it a little longer for more detail and a name. The lead horse is Sprinter Sacre.
:D
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Valley of the Racehorse?
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Valley of the Racehorse?
That is the general name for the area, so I will award half a point and for the other half tell you that it is actually Nicky Henderson's Gallops. Training ready for Cheltenham in the not too distant future.
The quoted horse could be worth a bet! :D
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Where would you find this in N Wales?
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Welsh Highland Railway, near Beddgelert, Aberglaslyn Pass ?
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I thought that you'd get this one ME, well done &well&
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$thanx$ The locomotive in the stencil looks to be Russell, currently being rebuilt.
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Where in England will you see this?
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Hazard a guess at:
"Quantum Cloud" is a 30 metre high x 16 metre wide x 10 metre deep elliptical cloud sculpture which stands on four cast iron caissons in the River Thames adjacent to the O2 arena and the Emirates Air Line cable car in London, UK. It is the work of "Angel of the North" sculptor, Antony Gormley, and is formed from 1.5 metre long lengths of randomly oriented steel sections which diffuse at the edges and condense into a 20 metre high human body form at the centre. At the time of its construction it was the tallest sculpture in the UK. The engineering design team of Elliott Wood Partnership and LUSAS consultancy services worked closely with the Gormley to develop the full scale realisation of his vision for the client, the New Millennium Experience Company. Fractal growth software written by LUSAS was used to develop the structural form, and modelling and analysis with LUSAS finite element analysis ensured the unique structure was fit for purpose.
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Correct.
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Where in N Wales did I go today? $walesflag$
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Yorkie's rough guess
Dolwyddelan Castle or ???? Z**
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Good try Yorkie but I'm afraid that it's not correct. It might be tough if you haven't been there already, hope that it lasts longer than some of my other ones.
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It's gonna be tuff, I haven't the faintest idea but will have another go with Dolbadarn Castle at Llanberis. ZXZ
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Fester's house? :laugh:
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Fester's house? :laugh:
I ain't the one who lives in a castle! ?{}?
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Sorry Yorkie, it's not Dolbadarn Castle but you are getting nearer. ???
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Dolwyddelan ?
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Sorry ME but Yorkie has already guessed Dolwyddelan and it was wrong. He's also said Dolbadarn which was wrong too but was getting nearer with that guess.
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Where is it? $walesflag$
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Caernarfon Castle, or ?????? :D
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Not Caernarfon Castle either but here is a photo of some more steps.
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Have you been over to Rhuddlan again? Image posted at 4 in afternoon so you must have been not too far from home! I bet you'll tell us it was Conwy! :D
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Yes, I have been over to Rhuddlan again, but it's not there. That's going in the wrong direction too.
It's not Conwy either as that's also too far east. Good detective work there Yorkie so I'll show you some more steps.
This place is on what was once an iron age hill fort. ?{}?
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I've nearly run out of steps here, there can't be many more can there?
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This must be my last try as there are 570 hill forts in Wales and a lot of them in the North West. So I'll have a bash at
$walesflag$ The Castle of Rhys y Gruffedd $walesflag$
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That's incorrect Yorkie but don't give up on me yet as I know that you have seen it. ;D
I'll put you out of your misery now for all your efforts and show you this building. If you've seen this cottage then you know where I was.
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I am reminded that another of your favourite haunts is Llangollen so what about
$walesflag$ Castell Dinas Brân $walesflag$
or is that too far East also?
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Wrong again Yorkie, I thought that the cottage might have been a give away. Here it is again from another angle.
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Wrong again Yorkie, I thought that the cottage might have been a give away. Here it is again from another angle.
The cottage doesn't mean a thing to me, no idea about it, except that the sign on the wall tells they have CCTV! Z**
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You couldn't have seen it then as you drove past but what makes you think this is a castle? $walesflag$
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Is it the Marquess of Anglesey column? And is that expanding foam holding it together??
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You couldn't have seen it then as you drove past but what makes you think this is a castle? $walesflag$
First instinct, round tower, clockwise ascending stairs, thickness of wall, didn't think of columns being hollow. That's my daily advancement in local knowledge!
ZXZ
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Spot on Jack &well&
Good try Yorkie $good$
We went up the 115 steps and apparently it is closing to the public on Friday so we were lucky to have gone there when it was open.
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Well done Jack and also Hugo. What a brilliant quiz question! I had no idea you could go inside it so it was very interesting to see those photos. Thanks.
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Thanks Hollins, my friends and I have never been to the top of the column but always wanted to go. You pay 75p at the cottage before you go up and we were lucky because it may close today to the general public.
That was expanding foam as you said Jack and I suppose at just 75p a visit it isn't viable to keep it open at present.
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Another "easy one" where would you see this plaque in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Do you have a better image, it is not reproducing very well. :(
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I'll see what I can do Yorkie but it will have to be later today though. I was looking at it myself after posting it and did think that there were too many clues there and that you would bound to have got it straight away.
It's only easy if you know it though.
I've just tried it with another photo and hope that it helps. Good luck $walesflag$
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Is it the plan of the walk of the Roman thingy down at Trefiw?
Sorry my mind's gone blank this morning.
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I can only suggest that it is a plan of a Hill Fort or Walled Town from Ancient times. I could not get a clear image of what appears to be lettering, but what I did get was more Hieroglyphical than something readable. No idea where it is but just to have a guess , I'll say Conwy.
$walesflag$
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Is it the plan of the walk of the Roman thingy down at Trefiw?
Sorry my mind's gone blank this morning.
I'm afraid it's not Tosh and it relates to a later period than the Romans.
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I can only suggest that it is a plan of a Hill Fort or Walled Town from Ancient times. I could not get a clear image of what appears to be lettering, but what I did get was more Hieroglyphical than something readable. No idea where it is but just to have a guess , I'll say Conwy.
$walesflag$
It is a plan Yorkie but not of anywhere in Conwy. I'm sorry that the image isn't better but there is a big clue there somewhere. ???
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With the crown and the coat of arms, is it something to do with the Prince's of Gwynedd project?
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Well thought out Jack, so where is it? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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No idea - Aberffraw?
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Sorry Jack but it's not Aberffraw. Any more guesses?
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Only that you were on Anglesey for the last quiz question I will try either Llys Rhosyr or Penmon?
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Tourist Information Centre, Conwy? $walesflag$
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Only that you were on Anglesey for the last quiz question I will try either Llys Rhosyr or Penmon?
OK Jack you're hedging your bets there. Which one will you try? ;D
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I'll go for Llys Rhosyr ;)
If I'm wrong and Yorkie nips in and claims the prize by saying Penmon I won't be a happy bunny :laugh: :laugh:
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I'll go for Llys Rhosyr ;)
If I'm wrong and Yorkie nips in and claims the prize by saying Penmon I won't be a happy bunny :laugh: :laugh:
Spot on again Jack. &well&
I'll have to make them a bit harder next time ;D
It's Prince Llewelyn's Palace in Newborough and although I've been there several times I hadn't noticed the plaque before. It's set flat on raised ground near to the ruins, apparently they have only excavated about a quarter of the site so far.
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OK! Get your maps out! As the caption says where am I? ZXZ
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Portugal!
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You're correct ME but does Yorkie want the exact location?
My first wild guess at Monchique. ???
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You're correct ME but does Yorkie want the exact location?
My first wild guess at Monchique. ???
Portugal is right, so far as it goes. But Monchique is the answer I was seeking. Stopped here to sample the local vino when I used to drink the stuff. Monchique also has plenty of water from the local spring.
ZXZ
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stick to the latter Yorkie with a drop of scotch In it just to flavour it if you know what i mean. ( freeze the water first to kill any germs)
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stick to the latter Yorkie with a drop of scotch In it just to flavour it if you know what i mean. ( freeze the water first to kill any germs)
When I lived for a few years in Bonnie Scotland, I took up drinking Whisky. However, the tale was that it was the water that killed you, so I had the occasional dram of Glen Grant, which I was informed, should not be adulterated with H2O! As I am still roaming the Planet, it just shows how effective was the advice!
Nowadays, of choice, I am TT.
ZXZ
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Whilst on our travels last weekend, we saw this steam train. Which town's Station is it leaving? I've left the very prominent building on the hill in the photo as a clue... ;)
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I think I may know this one but am I banned DaveR?
;D
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The building looks like Hardwick Hall and so I will guess the Station could be Sutton-in-Ashfield. $walesflag$
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Where's Dave, has he gone off on another jaunt?
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Sorry, I haven't been around. Yorkie is incorrect, I'm afraid and I don't see why you shouldn't answer it, Hollins, as long as you name the building as well. :D
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Where's Dave, has he gone off on another jaunt?
He last posted on 6 March shortly after 9 a.m., 3 hours after I posted my answer! No posts since then. Maybe on holiday or major IT collapse! ???
Oooops, question answered while I was posting.
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Okay, is it Matlock and Riber Hall?
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I think it's called Riber castle, but spot on, it is Matlock. Nice little town. $good$
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Where would you find this in North Wales.?
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Mad guess at Barmouth! :D
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Near a Castle ?
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Yorkie--- no not Barmouth
Cordy-- Yes very near a castle ! ;D
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Couple of metres from here ?
(http://i.imgur.com/EU90MkP.jpg)
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Could be-- but where exactly ? :D
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Is it at the Victoria Dock in Caernarfon?
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No sorry, not Caernarfon.
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I'll try Portmeirion, not that I have any confidence in my answer! :D
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No not Portmeirion
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I'll have a pop at Beaumaris.
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No-- not there either.
Clue ???
Overlooked by a castle,which has 2 bays to look at !
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Criccieth?
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I'll have a try at Ruthin but am thinking that this "castle" may be a hotel and not the real thing. ??? ?{}?
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Harlech?
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Criccieth it is !
On the hill leading down from the castle there is a converted chapel. The tiles form the floor of the front yard. Well done Dave R ;D
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I was way out !
My piccy I took at Caernarfon last year
(http://i.imgur.com/EU90MkP.jpg)
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I was way out !
My piccy I took at Caernarfon last year
Was that at Victoria Dock? I'm sure I saw it here.
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Yes Victoria Dock; this was close by
Magyar has Hungarian roots
(http://i.imgur.com/smAnEc2.jpg)
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Where and what is this building?
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Is it the Urbis Centre in Manchester?
Urbis is an exhibition and museum venue in Manchester, England, designed by Ian Simpson and completed in 2002. From 2002 to 2010, the centre hosted changing exhibits on popular-culture themes including urban living, art, music, fashion, photography and videogames alongside talks, gigs and special events. In 2012, it re-opened as the permanent National Football Museum
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Well done Hugo, correct.
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Not too far away but what is it and where is it? $walesflag$
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This may help?
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Is it that school/education centre on the Llanrwst Road out past Bryn y Maen Hugo?
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I know the one you mean Jack but it's not that one.
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This will make it a lot easier?
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Unlucky for some but you might see it if you catch the right one? ???
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Is that to indicate it's on the 13 bus route Hugo?!
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It is Dave, so what is it and where is it?
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If you are still on the No13 Bus looking for this place you'll see it by the crossroads. $walesflag$
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If you are still on the No13 Bus looking for this place you'll see it by the crossroads. $walesflag$
It's a school(?) up at the Llysfaen crossroads!
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Yes, you got off at the right stop Dave, it's actually the Llysfaen Village Hall. Well done &well&
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I saw this on a walk today in N Wales but where is it and what is the place called? $walesflag$
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It's next to the beach and sea and is called a cave! :D
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It's next to the beach and sea and is called a cave! :D
It's not near the sea and it's not a cave either.
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It's next to the beach and sea and is called a cave! :D
It's not near the sea and it's not a cave either.
Well that's sorted me out! :D
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Is it a slate mine cavern? Llanfair?
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I've had a good old search and found so many Adits and Mine entrances and caverns in North Wales, I don't know where to start! I'll have to give up on this one. ZXZ
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It isn't a slate cavern or at Llanfair.
It is near some caves so don't give up yet Yorkie as I'll post some more photos which may help.
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Here's a photo from the other side of this structure.
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Is it Buttermere lake in the Lake District ?
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No Mull, it's in North Wales. Here is another photo that may help.
There is a river below and the caves are above this structure! $walesflag$
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Is it Buttermere lake in the Lake District ?
It may as well be in Timbucktoo for all I can tell! _))*
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The river lends its name to a town nearby, so where was I yesterday? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Gwynant is right, the quizzes have been hard lately. I will have a try though. Is it the River Elwy?
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They can't be too hard though Hollins as you have the correct river. It is the River Elwy and the town is therefore Llanelwy ( St Asaph) $walesflag$
But where was I when I took those photos/
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Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site?
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Spot on Hollins, well done. &well&
We visited this archway yesterday before we went up to the caves above there. It was the first time I had walked in that area and it was a very interesting walk.
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I'm getting in with what I think will be an easy one before Hugo hits us with his hard ones!
This is part of a window in North Wales. Where is it and what is the building used for?
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I'm wearing out a lot of shoe leather looking for this building Hollins, and you thought that mine were toughies! &shake&
I'm still thinking about this one ?{}?
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To be honest I haven't got a clue. ??? There is a reflection of what looks like a hedge and trees in the window so I'm thinking of a retail park.
With no conviction whatever I'll say Ruthin and the Craft Centre although I've never seen windows like that there.
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Mold Theatre? $walesflag$
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Sorry lads you are both incorrect so here is a clue. I was driving past it only about 10 minutes after leaving Rhos on Sea.
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I hope you didn't break the speed limit Hollins ! ;D I couldn't see it on the roads out of Rhos so I'll have a drive around again. ^*^0
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I think DaveR will know the answer but here is a photo with more detail in the meantime.
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Welsh Mountain Zoo, reptile house.
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No, sorry, still not the correct answer.
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Could it be at Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel
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No, sorry, it isn't a hotel.
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Is it a caravan park in Pensarn?
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No, it isn't a caravan park either! Sorry Jack.
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Is it that place in Glan Conwy near the football field? Haven't a clue what the building is for but I can see cars parked there and the lights are similar.
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No, not in Glan Conwy.
Here is a clue, the building was opened in 2010.
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Eirias Park Sports Complex? I sem to be able to see a reflection of lights in the pic. ZXZ
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No, nothing to do with sport.
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OK, so now I'll try the Eirias High School. As I'm a thousand or so miles away I can't dash round and have a look!
ZXZ
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No, it isn't a school either!
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Welsh Government Offices, Llandudno Junction. $walesflag$
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No, sorry. It isn't in the Three Towns area. It is by the side of a roundabout.
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North Wales Business Park just outside Abergele?
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Yes, but which building?
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Gwrych Medical Centre?
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Hooray! Well done.
The stained glass window is called Nurture and was designed by local artist Paul Jones.
"It represents the philosophy of medicine and medical practice with an angelic, mother nature like figure standing on a pile of medical books."
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We had few days away last week and came upon this building on a headland on our travels. Where is it and what does it represent?
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Looks a bit like the North Foreland Lighthouse, but could be something entirely different! ZXZ
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Is it Marwick Head , Orkney.
Tower comemorates sinking of HMS Hampshire with General Kitchener on board enroute to Russia in WW1.
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Neither of those two answers are correct I'm afraid, Yorkie and Mull, and it is not a lighthouse. It is much closer to home, and the first clue is that the headland and building are facing out to sea in due westerly direction.
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Is it the Pen Dinas monument at Aberystwyth?
The monument was built as a tribute to Field Marshall Wellington, and his victorious campaign in the Battle of Waterloo
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No, sorry Hugo, it's not Aberystwyth but it is situated under 100 miles from Llandudno on a westerly-facing headland.
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Bradda Head is a rugged headland in the south-west of the Isle of Man, in the British Isles, rising to a height of 382 feet (116 m). It shelters Port Erin Bay from the north.
There is a clifftop walk, the Coronation Footpath, up to the head and around the head via Milner's Tower. This was built in 1871 as a view tower in memory of William Milner of the then-famous Milner's Safe Co. Ltd., maker of fire-resistant safes and a local philanthropist. His tower is built in the shape of a key and lock. The Mourne Mountains of Ireland can sometimes be seen from the summit.
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Well done Blongb, absolutely correct. The town of Port Erin reminded me of Cemaes Bay in Ynys Mon (see attached photos), and we travelled there from Douglas on the 3ft gauge steam railway which was a very nice scenic trip.
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That looks gorgeous Gwynant. The Isle of Man is a place I would like to visit but I have always been put off by not being able to find suitable accommodation. Could you recommend where you stayed?
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The only FIVE STAR hotel is the ARCHES, The Arches, Tower Road, Port Erin, Isle of Man, Port Erin, IM9 6PP .
Enjoy! ZXZ
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We were on a 5 day coach trip with GB Tours Hollins, so we were only in a 3 Star Hotel called the Rutland Hotel, which is on the Central Promenade in Douglas. I checked it out on Trip Advisor before we booked it and it had very good reviews, and had been recently refurbished. It was certainly good enough for us, as we only needed somewhere with clean, comfortable rooms, decent food, and a good pub nearby with real ale, and it was all that! I hadn't been to the Island since the early sixties when I went over on my 650cc Triumph with the Conway and District Motorcycle Club for TT week and it cost £7 for a week half-board then. We were very lucky with the weather last week and thoroughly enjoyed the break. The scenery is a cross between Anglesey and Ireland, which is not surprising considering it's location!
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H, you may find this to be to your taste.
http://thetownhouse.im/?gclid=CK2E9cDTur0CFaoewwod06oAag (http://thetownhouse.im/?gclid=CK2E9cDTur0CFaoewwod06oAag)
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Thanks both for the info and suggestions. I will do some research and let you know where I end up. Probably be early May.
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It's only easy if you know it, but where did I go today?
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It's one of those Crypts that the Cat Crept into, C*****d, and Crept out again! $drink$
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It could very well be!
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After getting drunk down there, did the bully get a wack on the head and was he really entombed behind this wall?
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Shame the bully couldn't appreciate the brickwork!
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Cor ! Wish I hadn't watched Endeavor last night !!! :o
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This is a big room almost as big as a banqueting hall.
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OK! I'll have a punt at Chirk Castle to get the guessing going. :D
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It's on a hillside but not Chirk Castle or any other castle. In fact it's only about 200 years old. Good try though Yorkie but you may want some more clues later. ?{}?
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I wonder if these photos may help? &shake&
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I'm positive that Bill's little boy wasn't responsible for any of this damage!
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Just had a bit of inspiration and wonder if it may be Hell Fire Caves at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire? :D
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You're getting there Yorkie, $good$ you've got the right country but it's further north.
Here's one of the entrances that we went down and another one inside
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If no one has guessed it by tonight then I'll post a photo of the building above and that will clinch it.
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Was it an air raid shelter?
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Is it Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool?
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I' going to say part of the Nottingham Caves of which there are tons! :D
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Well done Jack. Spot on and I hadn't even posted my photo of the house ( or what's left of it) &well& What gave it away?
Williamson Tunnels Edge Hill Liverpool
We had a pre arranged tour there on Sunday and it was a great experience. The charity is run by very hard working, knowledeable and enthusiastic volunteers and well worth a visit.
The Williamson Tunnels consist of a labyrinth of tunnels in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England, which were built under the direction of the eccentric businessman Joseph Williamson between the early 19th century and 1840. They remained derelict, filled with rubble and refuse, until archaeological investigations were carried out in 1995. Since then excavations have been carried out and part of the labyrinth of tunnels has been opened to the public as a heritage centre.
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Thanks Hugo! It was a wild guess!
I had never heard of Williamson Tunnels until very recently when I saw them on a TV programme. Must admit it is somewhere I would really like to visit - but haven't yet!
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Hopefully this will be a lot easier so where is this lovely Norman Church?
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Clynnog Fawr
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Nice try Barbiroli but it's not correct. It's further east and over the border.
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At least two kings have sailed from here! ???
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This was inside the Church and outside on the top of the wall surrounding the graveyard is a metal ring that boats were allegedly moored to.
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St Michael's, Shotwick?
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You've done it again Jack &well&
We stopped there on Sunday after the Williamson Tunnel trip. Apparently Edward 1 sailed from there to Wales in 1278.
Those marks in the Church porch are where people sharpened their arrow heads.
I've got another one lined up for you for tomorrow, but it's a two parter. One easy peasy but the other, well we'll see.
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Back to N Wales again and a question in two parts that Jack and Gwynant will know:-
Q 1 Where will you see this stone
Q 2 What is special about the stone
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I think I recognise where the area where the lane is situated, Hugo, and it's not too far outside the Three Town's area, (on the way to two more famous standing stones in a nearby bwlch if I'm right,) but I have no idea what the significance of this stone is.
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You've got the first question correct Gwynant, it's on the Roman Road towards Aber. That's the easy bit, but what is special about this particular stone?
Here are some photos of other monuments nearby
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Is it a boundary marker? :D
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Is it the mediaeval cross-incised stone on the Roman Road?
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That's a hat trick Jack &well&
I didn't know anything about it until I read Chris Draper's book "Walks from Conwy" so I decided to have a closer look about two months ago and at that time the Roman road was more like a river because of the rainfall we had last Winter.
It's a rare 7th or 8th Century Christian Prayer Station. The inscription consists of a cross within a circle but is very difficult to recognise unless the Sun is in a favourable position. Pilgrims must have passed that way on their pilgrimage to Bardsey Island
I had a really good look but couldn't make it out so I contacted Chris Draper via a friend to confirm I had looked at the right stone.
Will I ever get a question to beat you Jack, I'm beginning to doubt it, so well done
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Where in North Wales will you find this sculpture?
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Somewhere on Anglesey?
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No sorry, not Anglesey.
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The iron man of Llanbedrog?
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Well done Jack, another success! I think you will have to start setting some questions now.
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It looks rubbish, and belongs either in a skip, or 'weighed in' for scrap at Arch Motors! :laugh:
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Is this too easy ?
Not in 3 towns but North Wales
(http://img1.imagehousing.com/3/a2dc3e9912cea623034bb5e5d0fa6626.jpg)
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Beaumaris?
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It's the underused Bistro in the Bulkeley Hotel.
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Quite right too !
(http://img1.imagehousing.com/12/0b3a57339379e0b0e3f615bc5b1011f2.jpg)
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Where was I yesterday? The clues are there! :D
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Lingfield?
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Sorry, not Lingfield. ;) here's another tip! :D
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Where was I yesterday? The clues are there! :D
Is this the one Yorkie? Open Day
The 2014 Betfair Lambourn Open Day - April 18th
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As I said the clues were there! Just took a bit of thought and a quick search on Google. Well done Hugo.
Every Good Friday, due to no racing, the open day has been held and one is able to visit all the trainers' yards, pat the horses etc. The "field" has displays of all sorts and the Blues and Royals, and the Life Guards perform their Musical Ride. A display of superb horsemanship by all. There are parades of some famous racehorses, and Jockeys and Trainers are available to chat and sign books and autographs. All in all very interesting and enjoyable time.
Today we met Monty Roberts the famous Horse Whisperer.
We have spent the weekend with my Daughter who is a Driver for Lambourn Racehorse Transport.
ZXZ
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Thanks Yorkie, hope that you had a great day with your daughter $good$
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This is her box and a few Stable lads with their charges.
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What is the name of this crag and the lakes in this picture and an extra point if you can name the climbing route?
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No guesses so here are the answers.
Crag - Craig Cwm Silyn
Lakes - Llynau Cwm Silyn
Route - Outside Edge
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I have cropped the top from this photo as it gives the answer, but where is this famous venue? I expect one of two Members to give the answer almost immediately! ;D
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Donnington?
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Not Donnington, Mike. ^*^0
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Looks remarkably like the Ace Cafe in London! ;D
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It is indeed, and I thought you would be the first with the answer. Yes, the famous Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road in London, a Mecca for car and bike enthusiasts since the 50's.
Well done Merddin! &well&
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Thanks Yorkie $thanx$
I went to see this running a few weeks ago, but what is it and where is it??
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It looks like a Tiger Tank to me, probably built around 1943 and used in North Africa. Currently in Bovington Tank Museum?
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Spot on Dave, the only one running in the world! A great museum to visit!
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A bit nearer home in N Wales but where is this building? $walesflag$
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The road to Croesor, just off the A4085!
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Well done ME I thought that you would be the one to get it. &well&
We had a wet and windy walk up the Cnicht yesterday when I took the photo on our way home
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Did you call in to the little cafe in Croesor village, was very nice the last time we were there!
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We did call there but it was closed until the weekend! :( :'(
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Very rare. 24 hours without a quiz subject.
How about this quick is without a photo. In either the mid 1960s or maybe the mid 1970s all other the country large adverts appeared. " NOW FOR BRITAIN ITSELF"
Nothing else. No clue whatsoever. But it was obvious that someone's publicity department had untold millions, the site rentals were costing millions.
So, what was being promoted?
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I would like to say that it was before my time but it definitely wasn't and I've no idea whatsoever. ???
I'll have a pop at something topical and say the UK referendom of 1975 which was a post-legislative referendum held on 5 June 1975 in the United Kingdom to gauge support for the country's continued membership of the European Economic Community (EEC)
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Elf oil from France wanting to get into the British Market.
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After a few weeks the adverts were painted over to leave just
"NOW FOR BRITAIN IT'S ELF"
$uk
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Of course, Yorkie comes up with the correct answer.
Did you know this, or have you dug around to find out? I didn't think anyone would even remember these signs. I remember them, but I have got a peculiar talent at remembering absolutely useless things.
The important ones I forget with ease
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Of course, Yorkie comes up with the correct answer.
Did you know this, or have you dug around to find out? I didn't think anyone would even remember these signs. I remember them, but I have got a peculiar talent at remembering absolutely useless things. The important ones I forget with ease
At the time I was working for a French Company and we were encouraged to put Elf oils etc. in the vehicles. Must confess I did check it out on the PC but only found one minor reference to it in a book review about Billboard Advertising. If anyone tried on Google I doubt they would have come up with the answer.
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This milestone is in front of a building. What is the building and where is it ? $walesflag$
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Near Caerhun Hall?
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Nice try Bri but the distance doesn't agree with that on the milestone. You're on the right side of the valley though.
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Maenan Abbey, for a guess!
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Newborough Arms?
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Is it somewhere by the school or Y Beddol at Tal yBont?
PS. The Newborough is now a private residence I think.
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Yorkie, you're on the wrong side of the river!
Not the Newborough arms either.
Bellringer it could be somewhere by the school or Y Beddol at Tal yBont but where exactly?
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On the corner by the Old Mill, which is now a house. :D
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Sorry Yorkie, good try but it's not there.
It is between Y Bedol and the school ( the Dolgarrog school that is) but where is it?
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It is just to the right hand side of the Chapel next to the red brick gate post of the adjacent house. Don't know the name of the chapel. It is on the river side of the road. Just taken a drive there on Google Earth! :D
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Well spotted ME. I've been past the Chapel many times but only noticed it when I went on the Ardda walk recently. &well&
The photo is of the Chapel but the milestone is to the right and out of sight
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I think I better change my name to ME! But why? That is how I refer to myself anyway? :D
Hugo, I am Yorkie! L0L
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Well done, Yorkie.
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Yorkie, thanks for answering it for ME! I didn't have a clue! :laugh:
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Yorkie, thanks for answering it for ME! I didn't have a clue! :laugh:
No problem - but when the monstrous prize arrives will you please redirect it to my pad? ;)
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Yes, your iPad?
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Yes, your iPad?
If it is in the form of a convertible Bearer Bond then that would be fine. If not my home will be fine! $thanx$
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I stopped here today to have a drink and something to eat, but where was I ? $walesflag$
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We sat by the window and had great views across the Irish Sea while eating. $dins$
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Yorkie, I'm sorry for the mistake in not giving you the credit for winning the last quiz, so in order to atone for my error I am giving a clue for you only.
You have driven past this place! ^*^0
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It is a fine and well known old building, but the inside has seen better days.
It's only easy is you know it, but although many people have seen it have they noticed the saying above the front door?
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I'll try and make it easier for the weekend by recapping on my clues!
I was having a walk and was feeling peckish when I saw this empty old building so I stopped here today to have a drink and something to eat, but where was I ?
My friend and I then got our food and drink out of our rucksacks and we sat by the window and had great views across the Irish Sea while eating.
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I bet Eleanor wouldn't be happy with someone doing this to her property. ???
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No guesses yet, it must be harder than I thought. It must go today as I don't want it dragging on until next month! :)
It's in Conwy County and many people must have seen the building. Ormegolf definitely has and so has DaveR and I bet Dave has a photo of it somewhere in his collection..
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Another window that the lady could have looked out of.
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Yorkie, I'm sorry for the mistake in not giving you the credit for winning the last quiz, so in order to atone for my error I am giving a clue for you only.
You have driven past this place! ^*^0
I take it that everyone closed their eyes to read that? :D
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The quotation is from Psalms 95:5, and I believe the Place must be Caergwrle Castle in Flintshire. That's my first inclination. The Castle was given to Quern Eleanor or built for her by Edward.
Thank you for your other kind comments! ZXZ
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Yorkie, you're very close in what you have said about Lady Eleanor's building It isn't a castle but is very near one in Conwy County.
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Good views in both directions from this lofty building
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What it looks like from the side you don't see. ???
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I think it's the tower/turret high on the hill above the turn-off for Rhyd-y-Foel in Llandulas looking down on the old Beefeater Club and I think it's in the north western corner of the grounds of Gwrych Castle. I look forward to reading the details of this walk Hugo as I have just had my hip replaced and am looking forward to getting out and about again after a few weeks R & R, and some of your walks are just the job.
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Well done Gwynant, it is Lady Eleanor's Tower and is a listed building. &well&
Lady Eleanor's Tower, Llanddulas and Rhyd-y-Foel
Location
Strikingly located on a wooded crag, set back from and above the road; approximately 750m W of Gwrych Castle.
History
Early C20; constructed for Countess Dundonald of Gwrych Castle and one of the last of a number of folly towers, gates and similar erections built on the estate from c1819 until the beginning of the first war. Traditionally said to have been built by the grieving countess in 1915 to commemorate the loss of her son at sea.
Exterior
Square tower of two-and-a-half stages; of local limestone rubble on rock foundations. Segmentally-headed window openings to N E and W with access to the S; large corner crenellations give fictive battlements.
Reason for Listing
Included as a striking folly tower on the Gwrych estate, part of this nationally important Picturesque composition.
I hope that your hip operation has been a great success and that you are now free from any pain. I know people that have had it done and been very pleased with the results. We did the walk which was a bit of an exploration too as we visited the caves at Tan Yr Ogof too. Will be posting that asap after our trip now to B & Q. Hope that you have a swift recovery.
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That was interesting Hugo. I must have a closer look next time I am passing. I can't say I had really noticed it before.
I too would like to send my best wishes to Gwynant for a speedy recovery. Hope you will soon be out walking again and setting us some tricky quiz questions!
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Yorkie, I'm sorry for the mistake in not giving you the credit for winning the last quiz, so in order to atone for my error I am giving a clue for you only.
You have driven past this place! ^*^0
Never driven past it in my life! _))*
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Thank you for your good wishes Hugo and Hollins, much appreciated. While I'm on the subject I should like to record my appreciation and thanks to all the staff concerned in Yspyti Gwynedd, from the consultant surgeons and anaesthetists right on through to the nurses. The whole procedure went absolutely like clockwork and the aftercare, both in the hospital and also follow-up home calls by district nurses for dressing changes, soutre removal etc, and then the physio appointments in Llandudno General Hospital, all arranged by the hospital follow-up staff were "as it says on the tin". You hear so much in the media about the downside of current healthcare, some of it undeniably warranted, but my recent experience in Yspyty Gwynedd was a testament to all that's good and positive in the NHS.
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Glad to hear that all was well! In a couple of hours Er indoors goes into Glan Clwyd for a breast cancer op (mastectomy !) caught early they say, but still an anxious time! The care so far has been excellent!
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Best wishes to Mrs ME - hope all goes well for her
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I think it's the tower/turret high on the hill above the turn-off for Rhyd-y-Foel in Llandulas looking down on the old Beefeater Club
Was it once also called the Oasis Club about 40 years ago?
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Glad to hear that all was well! In a couple of hours Er indoors goes into Glan Clwyd for a breast cancer op (mastectomy !) caught early they say, but still an anxious time! The care so far has been excellent!
Please accept our best wishes and prayers for Mrs M.E. tonight, I am certain that all will be well. $good$
Let her know we are thinking about her.
The Festers.
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Thanks for that Fester, I will! :D
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I think it's the tower/turret high on the hill above the turn-off for Rhyd-y-Foel in Llandulas looking down on the old Beefeater Club
Was it once also called the Oasis Club about 40 years ago?
It was called TTs at one time, and was owned by a Lecturer from Llandrillo College.
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Glad to hear that all was well! In a couple of hours Er indoors goes into Glan Clwyd for a breast cancer op (mastectomy !) caught early they say, but still an anxious time! The care so far has been excellent!
Hope all goes well, ME.
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Yes, and my best wishes too. My sister in law had the same op and also reconstruction there and everything went well and she was looked after during her stays there.
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Thanks everyone, for the kind wishes, Hugo that helps put our minds at rest a bit! The op is postponed now for a week as she had a slight cold the other week which has left some sinus problems! They rightly do not want to risk it, so back home this morning! Sorry this has ended up in completely the wrong section!
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Doesn't matter what section you put something as important as this in mate.
Sorry to hear about the delay. Keep that good lady wrapped up, free from infection, and free from pigeon feathers!! (until the procedure is complete!)
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wish her all the best from all of us who know you ME, hope it is done sooner than later.
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All the best Mrs ME-- We shall be thinking of you
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Spotted this this morning--but where?
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All the best Mrs ME-- We shall be thinking of you
Thanks for all the kind thoughts, the operation is now planned for the 16th.
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Spotted this this morning--but where?
Is it at a coal mine?
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No--sorry. ;D
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Is it Pentre Mawr in Abergele?
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No, not there either. I think that this is fairly new, I don't seem to have spotted it before.
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I can't recognise the background, but is it in Ruthin?
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Looks like a simon Hedger job and I'll have a guess at Betws y Coed. I also think it is a new sculpture. ZXZ
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No neither, not Simon Hedger either.
Clues :-
1)The sculpture was made from a fallen sweet chestnut tree by a man who lives in France, but comes originally from Arthog.
2)Further than Betws from here.
3)Wool , cattle, railways and slate !!!
4)Yes it is new.
If no one has the answer by tomorrow I will post the link telling you about it.
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The sculpture is by ex-resident Alan Mantle (originally from Arthog) and contains forty-one figures. It's the first bespoke public artwork ever to be installed in Dolgellau. It is carved from a fallen Sweet Chestnut tree from near Craig yr Aderyn (Bird Rock)
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Well done Hugo-- spot on !
http://dolgellau.eu/parc/roots.html (http://dolgellau.eu/parc/roots.html)
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Where in North Wales will you find this building and what is inside it?
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Some clues.......it is very near the coast path and has a connection with the steel industry.
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With the ramped road surface I imagine it could be a refuge for a Security or Gate Man at the entrance to some works etc. So inside it would have a couple of chairs, a tea pot, and the impedimenta to go with such a use.
ZXZ
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No, sorry Yorkie. nothing like that.
The answer is more likely to be known by a female member of the forum and I know at least two have been there.
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Last clue and then I will give the answer if nobody gets it.
It is near a shipwreck.
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Inside you will find a railway engine. :D
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No! Inside are lots of lovely things to buy.
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I'm have another stab at Holywell or Greenfield Dock, not sure exactly what its name is. :D
Part of the old iron works.
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Is it Abakhan on the Coast Road by Mostyn?
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Well done Hugo. This building is crammed full of knitting wool for sale. There are several different buildings which are attractively arranged like a small village. The largest sells fabrics and another one sells craft and hobby items.
There is also a nice looking cafe and access to the coast path and the grounded ship.
A fascinating place and thank you suepp for the original recommendation.
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Thanks Hollins, I'm glad that you enjoyed your visit there. It's a nice place to visit and the food in the cafe is good too.
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Where is this and what is it called? $walesflag$
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I seem to remember something like this on the coastal path between Rhoscolyn and Tre-arddur Bay and it was called Bwa Gwyn ("White Arch"), but I think it was bigger than this one.
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It does look a bit like that one but it isn't. It is on Anglesey and so you could say that it's an island on an island, but what is it called?
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Well done Hugo. This building is crammed full of knitting wool for sale. There are several different buildings which are attractively arranged like a small village. The largest sells fabrics and another one sells craft and hobby items.
There is also a nice looking cafe and access to the coast path and the grounded ship.
A fascinating place and thank you suepp for the original recommendation.
I am surprised that you could stagger out of this place, knowing your penchant for crafts and knitting. !! ;D I have to put a padlock on my purse when I visit there, as I always find something fascinating !
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This photo may help.
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Yorkie's guess is that it is Mouse Island but not sure which of the three it is. ZXZ
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a very good guess Yorkie and you are pretty close but that is not the name of the island in the photo. $walesflag$ $wales
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We had a nice walk to the island yesterday and then walked on top of it as you can see in the photo. $walesflag$
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Could it then be Llanbadarig island which is a recommended walk? :D
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Another good guess Yorkie but I'm afraid that it is not correct.
Does this photo help?
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After having another look at your latest photo Hugo, I reckon that is the Skerries in the far distance which makes the island "Ynys-y-Fydlyn", which is just south of Carmel Head on the North West tip of Ynys Mon, and I believe that there is a lot of maritime history there. I have done the circular walk to Carmel Head from Cemlyn Bay past the "White Ladies" but never walked further round as the car was back in Cemlyn.
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Well spotted Gwynant, it is Ynys Y Fydlyn. We had a coastal walk from Church Bay ( Porth Swtan ) to Ynys Y Fydlyn and then returned via some country lanes.
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Hope that your hip operation is continuing to improve and I forgot to mention about two friends I know who had the op. One was a lady of 71 who was able to play badminton again after a couple of months. The other was the son in law of a guy that I used to go walking with and the son in law who had had two hip replacements and this guy both walked up Kilimanjaro together. $good$
Yorkie, Ynys = Island $walesflag$ but it's a bit like Llanddwyn Island and is only an island on certain high tides
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Yorkie, Ynys = Island $walesflag$ but it's a bit like Llanddwyn Island and is only an island on certain high tides
I find it necessary for me to cry, "FOUL,"
I was there at low tide so it was just like a pimple on an elephant's backside!
And, Thank you for today's Welsh Lesson, it is all being absorbed. :D ZXZ
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Where in North Wales would you find this little building? $walesflag$
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Going by the colour of the Gate, Portmerion or the garden that they own at the bottom of the road to Croesor.
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Nice try ME but it's not correct. It's a lot further North East. $walesflag$
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Here is some more of the photo but where is it? $walesflag$
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This place is located roughly midway between three Norman Castles but what is it called? $walesflag$
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It is a 17th century house with 19th century additions by a well-known architect. This house has been in the hands of the same family since it was built and features excellent master-pieces of art, armour, pictures, furniture
Admission Prices
House & garden: Adult £5.00, Child £2.00
Garden only: Adult £2.00, Child £1.00.
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Could it be Bodrhyddan Hall by any chance?
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Erddig? ZXZ
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Could it be Bodrhyddan Hall by any chance?
Spot on ME. it is in Bodrhyddan Hall. The photo was supplied to me by my walking friend Rhuddlan but I couldn't say that before as it would have been one clue too many. &well&
BODRHYDDAN HALL. The home of Lord Langford and his family, Bodrhyddan is basically a 17th century house with 19th century additions by the famous architect, William Eden Nesfield, although traces of an earlier building exist. The house has been in the hands of the same family since it was built over 500 years ago. There are notable pieces of armour, pictures, period furniture, a 3,000 year old mummy, a formal parterre, a woodland garden and attractive picnic areas. Bodrhyddan is a Grade I listing, making it one of few in Wales to remain in private hands and is available for weddings and corporate hospitality
There are two Norman Castles at Rhuddlan, the obvious one and the earlier one on Twthill and Dyserth Castle. Bodrhyddan is an estate between the 3 castles. I must admit that I've driven past daily and never been inside but it does look good from what I've been reading about the place
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Where would you see this? $walesflag$
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Bala Lake Railway?
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Nice try ME but it's not correct. I felt certain that it was too easy for you but good luck with your guesses.
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Llanberis?
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Good guess but not correct either.
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Is it Penmaen Bridge (not sure if I've spelt it right!) the toll bridge on the road between Barmouth and Dolgellau?
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I think it is!
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Merddin.... never mind all this quiz nonsense, how is Helen?? That's the only question I'm interested in!
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Fester, she is fine! Operation was on Monday, I brought her home last night! Bright and cheerful! The pic is just after she came home!
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Is it Penmaen Bridge (not sure if I've spelt it right!) the toll bridge on the road between Barmouth and Dolgellau?
It is Penmaenpool ME and by the look of your photo you were having a drink on the balcony of the George III pub &well& $good$
A big thumbs up to Helen too, she's looking good after that operation $good$ $good$
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Thanks Hugo! Not my pic though, grabbed it from Google images! I have been over the toll bridge (or as I call it the rickety rackety bridge) many times!
Helen is taking it nice and easy today!
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Whoever took the photo must have been enjoying a pint on the balcony of the pub just like I was yesterday. Z**
That bridge was quite rickety and we were just walking over it! I think that I'd put my foot down if I was driving over it just to get over as quickly as possible. ^*^0
Glad to hear that Helen is taking it easy and please pass on our best wishes to her.
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glad to see all went well with the op, hope Helen is in top form soon.
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Thanks Hugo! Not my pic though, grabbed it from Google images! I have been over the toll bridge (or as I call it the rickety rackety bridge) many times!
Helen is taking it nice and easy today!
Nice one.... really, really pleased to hear that.
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Great to hear that the op went well, best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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Thanks everyone, Helen is doing well, she had the drain and bag removed yesterday! Mind you her list of jobs waiting to be done increases every day! (Only joking! :laugh:)
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Which city is this?
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Looks like York
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Durham? Yorkie's even wilder guess.
Looks a bit like somewhere I know in Portugal at Castro Marim, the Castle which is famous for being associated with the Knights Templar.
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Well done Norman. It is York. The photo was taken from a very interesting building, now a hotel.
It was built in 1906 for NER (North Eastern Railways) as a "Palace of Business."
Here is a link about the history of it.
http://www.cedarcourtgrand.co.uk/Home/History-at-The-Grand.aspx (http://www.cedarcourtgrand.co.uk/Home/History-at-The-Grand.aspx)
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Where in N Wales will you see this object? $walesflag$
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if you have checked the time you may want to visit this place which is very near by. $walesflag$
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Looks like the sundial at St Beuno's, Clynnog Fawr?
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You're spot on Jack, it is the Sundial at St Beuno's Church in Clynnog Fawr, The other photo is of the well there. &well&
The sundial probably dates to the 10th or 11th century. It was for many years used as a footbridge across the Glan-Mor mill stream at Aberdesach. It was later used to support milk pails at Llyngele Farm. It was returned to Clynnog Fawr churchyard in 1930. The sundial face is eched with three lines, dividing a semicircle into four parts, the traditional method used in Saxon time to divide each 24 hour period into 8 equal parts, or tides.
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Where in North Wales would you find this carving, who is it and why is it situated there? $walesflag$
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As there have been no attempts on this one today I'll put another view of this picture panned away slightly which includes a clue to its location. I would have thought M.E. would have known this one, or in fact anyone who travels out and about in North Wales regularly, (although it does look a bit like Elvis!).
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To get things under way, I will suggest that it is Isambard Kingdom Brunel, sans stovepipe hat and cigar, maybe located somewhere near Bangor and his famous bridge across the Menai Straits!
The thought is good for a laugh if nothing else! ZXZ
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Error sorry
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Too many clues Gwynant but I'll try and beat ME to it.
It's a Carving of William Maddocks in Porthmadog $happy$
He was the man who built the Cob across the Glaslyn Estuary, thus considerably easing travel - by foot, horse and eventually by rail - between mid and north Wales
I did think he looked a bit like Elvis.
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Well spotted Hugo, it is William Arthur Maddocks, who built the cob which produced revenue through the tolls and which created the slate port which was named after him. The carving, which has a long bench attached to it, is situated at the western end of the cob but you only see it from the train unless you turn off the road. There are good views of the reclaimed land and also the Moelwyns, Cnict, Moel Hebog and the Snowdon Horseshoe in the distance (see attached photos).
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That was a good one Gwynant and a toughie too. I must admit I had Googleitis looking for that one until your last clue. $good$
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I didn't see this until now and I was there yesterday! Had another ride on the Festiniog Railway!
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I didn't see this until now and I was there yesterday! Had another ride on the Festiniog Railway!
We were on the other line M.E. using our "Cerdynnau" from Caernarfon on Tuesday and noticed the carving as we pulled in at Porthmadog. Took the car to Caernarfon and left it in Tesco's (where there are no parking restrictions), and cut down to the WHR station via the footbridge over the railway.
I was very impressed with the new WHR platform at Porthmadog and also the new outside seating area on the triangle between the two platforms. After a pub lunch in "Y Llong" by the park we came back on the 1520 1A bus which was a double-decker and went on a really "round the houses" route through Criccieth, Rhoslan, Glandwyfach, Garndolbenmaen, Nebo, Nasereth, Llanllyfni, Pen-y-groes, and Bontnewydd and finally dropped us off outside Tescos again 90 mins later after a journey nearly as long and scenic as the outward one on the WHR as we were sat in the front seats on the top deck!
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Here's a fishy one! Where will you find this scaly monster?
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This statue is located in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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This one?
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Thanks, I've always wanted to know! :D
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No quizzes for a while so let's see if anyone knows where this is, and what is it's name?
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Seems like a clue is required. It is in the Algarve, Portugal. Thought that would have bern taken for granted. :D
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Big White Hotel? Whatever that is in the local lingo?
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Big White Hotel? Whatever that is in the local lingo?
Hotel Branco Grande in Portuguese will get you nao punto! It is probably the biggest holiday complex in the Algarve quite near the Rio Arada. :D
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I give up,even for a wet Sunday, gave it my best, even Google street maps, &shake& :roll:
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I give up,even for a wet Sunday, gave it my best, even Google street maps, &shake& :roll:
Assuming that everyone else will also give up, I will reveal the answer.
It is the main part of Clube Praia da Rocha, there being a second part on the side of the road from which the photograph was taken, from about the 12th floor. Since then the accent as has bern on building fewer floors. We stayed in the place (when the photograph was taken), and we hate the complex, although we do like Praia da Rocha and the nearby main Town of Portimao.
*tumble* *tumble* *tumble*
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I haven't given up, I think it is the main part of Clube Praia da Rocha? :laugh:
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Absolutely correct! Very well done indeed! _))*
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$thanx$ it suddenly came to me! Odd though as previously I had never heard of it! ;D
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$thanx$ it suddenly came to me! Odd though as previously I had never heard of it! ;D
That's the power of subliminal advertising for you! You'll be buying OMO washing powder next! :D
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:laugh: We use the powder from Lidl, Formil very good too! $good$
Does anyone know where this is? We were there last Friday!
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Looks like Aberystwyth Station to me.
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Yes Dave, it is, I didn't think it would take long! $good$
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Another easy one, where is this and what is the name of the steam locomotive?
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I think it is the Talyllyn Railway. What a beautiful drive it is down that valley to the sea if I am right. Don't know the engine name but could it be Thomas the Tank Engine?
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Correct railway Hollins, but which loco and name of station? ;D
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Dolgoch at Tywyn wharf.
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Spot on Yorkie! Have several points! $good$ :laugh:
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just to help not in the UK. crt......Fay Manati
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Is it one of the New Zealand volcanoes; Tongariro or Ruapehu?
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not warm,.....sorry.
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$thanx$ it suddenly came to me! Odd though as previously I had never heard of it! ;D
That's the power of subliminal advertising for you! You'll be buying OMO washing powder next! :D
This Forum has no place for OMO-phobia. :laugh:
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Or SURFers, or even FAIRY flakes! _))*
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And the picture quiz is Lanzarote Volcano in Timanfaya National Park, Lanzarote. ;D
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Well done Yorkie, did you recognise it, or get it from the clue, the jumbled photographers name . $good$ $good$
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Well done Yorkie, did you recognise it, or get it from the clue, the jumbled photographers name . $good$ $good$
Sorry, Mate - Yorkie's secret! Took me about 30 seconds, and nothing to do with photographer's name!
I can't give any clue as to how I do it, as with some questions it does not work, which could lead to frustration amongst the Members. :D
P.s. I've never been to Lanzarote!
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Well done again,I'll try harder, fantastic landscape in the photo, that's why films such as....
Moby Dick 1956
One million years B.C. 1966
When dinosaurs ruled the earth 72
Journey to the centre of the earth 72
and even Dr Who 1984 were made there.
Here's another one, maybe should have used this first, so should be easy now,...... not where but, what.
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If I hadn't seen the name on your photo then I wouldn't have a clue but it's an aerial photo of the vines in Geria Lanzarote taken by French aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand awe-inspiring images from high above rain forests, farms, volcanoes, cities and many other geographical points of interest are transformed into abstract photographic art.
I'm surprised that Yorkie hadn't spotted it already but perhaps he's letting others have a chance.
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Well done Hugo, I did not notice the give away untill after posting, but, still good job. $good$
You can't say Y. is'nt a sport. WWW
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Well done Hugo, I did not notice the give away untill after posting, but, still good job. $good$
You can't say Y. is'nt a sport. WWW
Been out so only just seen it. Hugo has the secret! :D
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Yorkie's caught me out quite often in the past because of that but fair play he let me know how to get around it.
He still gets them right though even if I change them! $good$
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Pen and ink drawing next time. :laugh:
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Well done Yorkie, did you recognise it, or get it from the clue, the jumbled photographers name . $good$ $good$
Sorry, Mate - Yorkie's secret! Took me about 30 seconds, and nothing to do with photographer's name!
I can't give any clue as to how I do it, as with some questions it does not work, which could lead to frustration amongst the Members. :D
I take it you are referring to reading the EXIF data of the photo to determine if any GPS data is stored that could identify the location? :twoface:
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Well done Yorkie, did you recognise it, or get it from the clue, the jumbled photographers name . $good$ $good$
Sorry, Mate - Yorkie's secret! Took me about 30 seconds, and nothing to do with photographer's name!
I can't give any clue as to how I do it, as with some questions it does not work, which could lead to frustration amongst the Members. :D
I take it you are referring to reading the EXIF data of the photo to determine if any GPS data is stored that could identify the location? :twoface:
Actually, NO! I use a much easier and very simple system. I found, in the past, that messing about with EXIF Data, was a bit hit and miss and haven't used it for years. My method does not always come up with the answer, but when it does it is very quick and absolutely spot on.
On some occasions it gets close enough that a little bit of extra work finds the solution.
;D ZXZ
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What is this building called and where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Is it Gwdyr Uchaf Chapel?
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I thought Llanwenllwyfo St. Gwenllwyfo.
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Nice tries but you're both incorrect.
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Inside the building
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Does this help?
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The Rock Chapel, St Beuno's Jesuit Spirituality Centre, you see the system works! :D
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Well done Yorkie, you've got it. &well&
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Here's another one but a bit harder.
What is this place called?
What business once operated from here?
Where is it in N Wales ? $walesflag$
It's only easy if you know it!
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You'll find this place on a pleasant hill. $walesflag$
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The white house, Happy valley,butcher, baker, candlestick maker.... :D ......sorry I did try. &shake&
Com'on Yorkie.
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I'm beaten on this one. As H says, it is only easy if you KNOW it!
The nearest I can get is Flintshire and a Pub or School. Although it may have been a Brothel! :D
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Sorry Steve but you're nowhere near but Yorkie's on the boil again!
So come on Yorkie there are 3 answers to get. It isn't in Flintshire now but what business was it and on what pleasant hill would you find it? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Bryn Dymunol in Flint itself, and a School! $walesflag$
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Bryn Dymunol in Flint itself, and a School! $walesflag$
That's two out of three and I'm afraid that they are both wrong.
You must pay more attention Yorkie $smack$ It isn't in Flintshire now!
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I don't know where, but I get one of your clues, it was an S&M club..... WWW,,,,, :laugh:
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Because it's difficult I'll give a good clue:- It isn't in Flintshire now! but it once was! WWW
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Two out of three of the answers have already been mentioned but what's the third? $walesflag$ $welsh$
Name all three if you can.
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A brewery...... Z**
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Rhuddlan, and a School and Bryn Dymunol . And if that ain't right I'll have to give up!
Or it could even be Holywell ? $walesflag$
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Just got Bryn Dymunol, but nearest i got was a library
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I'm afraid they are not correct but it's not a brewery but it was a pub. So let's recap:-
1) Pleasant Hill $walesflag$
2) Was a pub Z**
3) A place in the old Flintshire County
That should make it a lot easier ;D
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Sorry Hugo, you win, I have given this my best shot, so if Y. feels the same .(think it's only the two of us?)
put me/us out of our misery........to much &shake& not enough :)
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Thanks for trying Steve, it is hard and the pub wasn't well known when I used to drink there over 40 years ago.
I'll give one last clue and if Yorkie doesn't get it then no one will.
1) A Welsh pub on a pleasant hill what could it be called? $walesflag$ $welsh$
2) It was a pub
3) It's in a small village in Denbighshire and in the Vale of Clwyd. It has a pub, church and school there still and was previously in the old Flintshire. I've seen the village named on the internet recently.
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Sorry Hugo, you win, I have given this my best shot, so if Y. feels the same .(think it's only the two of us?)
put me/us out of our misery........to much &shake& not enough :)
Ditto for me H, the only other suggestion I have is that it is Ewloe, but that's probably wrong. It may have been a Pub, but not being a drinking man, it is out of my league!
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I thought of the pub being Mount Pleasant Inn but that did not help. Could it be Moss?
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Thanks for trying Yorkie as I know that you always put a lot of effort into your searches. I took the photo when I had a walk in Tremeirchion this week.
The pub is one I used to go to in my younger days and was handy for all night drinking. It is set on a pleasant hill and that must have been the reason for it's name:-
Bryn = hill
Hyfryd = pleasant
So Bryn Hyfryd is the name of the old pub which has now become a private house. Well I did put the old $walesflag$ $welsh$ to give you a hint, I can't make them all too easy, can I? WWW
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Not very often the members give up but you got us all on that one Hugo.
Here is another one, hopefully a bit easier this time although I never seem to be able to judge that very well.
Where in England will you see this?
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Thanks for trying Yorkie as I know that you always put a lot of effort into your searches. I took the photo when I had a walk in Tremeirchion this week.
The pub is one I used to go to in my younger days and was handy for all night drinking. It is set on a pleasant hill and that must have been the reason for it's name:-
Bryn = hill
Hyfryd = pleasant
So Bryn Hyfryd is the name of the old pub which has now become a private house. Well I did put the old $walesflag$ $welsh$ to give you a hint, I can't make them all too easy, can I? WWW
It isn't the place that was called Starters, is it? They did meals but only starters and no main courses. $walesflag$
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I've never heard it called that Yorkie but then I left that area nearly 30 years ago. I've never eaten there but had many, many drinks there.
It seems that there was never any set closing hours in the place and if the owner got tired he went upstairs to bed and told every one to help themselves and put the money behind the bar and lock the door on their way out. $good$ ZXZ
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A bit easier Hollins! ;D You must have been every where in England on your frequent trips so it could be anywhere.
I'm still thinking on this one but will have a look around Manchester first. ?{}?
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Save you looking, not Manchester but it is in the north west.
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To get us started, Yorkie's wild guess is the Austin Smith Library in Liverpool. ZXZ
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No, it isn't Liverpool and it isn't in a city.
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OK, so i'll now try the University of Derby although not exactly in the North. ZXZ
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It does form part of the University of Derby but it is not in Derby so where is it?
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The Dome in Buxton If i'M NOT TO LATE..... :laugh:
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Well done SteveH.
http://www.visitbuxton.co.uk/things-to-do/the-devonshire-dome/ (http://www.visitbuxton.co.uk/things-to-do/the-devonshire-dome/)
Largest unsupported dome in Europe. It was a hospital when I lived there but started off life as a stables.
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$thanx$ I visited it, when I was a kid, but still had to find the name, my grandparents lived in Rhos , but my grandfather was from Doveholes, most of the family were connected to the quarries there, I have been trying to contact then recently, but no luck so far.
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Didn't get back in time to qualify my answer, but there we go! Z**
Why do they call it the Devonshire Dome when it is in Derbyshire? $walesflag$
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This is a print from a painting by a Famous Artist and is one of many pictures of Roses, Lilies and other Flora in a particularly famous Garden, painted for a particularly Famous person.
Can you name the Artist, the Garden and the Person?
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Bryn =Hill. Pleasant= Hyfryd.
Hi hugo, ment to say earlier, I did not realise 12 words in Welsh for the word pleasant, I took the first one given,
dymunol, will try harder in future. :roll:
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I think the painter was P.J.R for M.A. in the E.P......I also think (Yorkie is a good teacher), so have only given the initials, so as not to spoil it for others. here goes...
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I think the painter was P.J.R for M.A. in the E.P......I also think (Yorkie is a good teacher), so have only given the initials, so as not to spoil it for others. here goes...
Very good Steve, but the Garden is wrong as is the person, the artist is correct. Providing the initials mean the same for you as they do for me! Shouldn't be too difficult getting the other two thirds!
I have the whole lot of the Roses, Lilies and the Bouquets.
I did the same thing with the Welsh pleasant! :D
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OK. 2nd. go....E.J. is the person at C.M.....I hope..... &shake&
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OK. 2nd. go....E.J. is the person at C.M.....I hope..... &shake&
I think you will have to put it in full as I cannot reconcile your initial letters with mine, but you may be correct! H a g a t t y m b r! It's a bit like the Two Ronnies! :D
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Pierre Joseph Redoute......Empress Josephine......Chateau Malmaison......Hope I'm close after this... :)
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&well& Steve, absolutely correct. Didn't think it would go so quick. I'll have to find something a bit harder next time. ZXZ
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......... $thanx$.......... $thanx$........... $thanx$
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A very simple one. Where would you see this and with what is it connected?
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Pure guess, Llangollen International Eisteddfod ?
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Just some distnce further than Llangollen, but I see what you mean. ^*^0
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A clue. Add George VI to a famous tea shop and and then take a walk down the Strand and all will become apparent. :D
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Is it Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre London?
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Is it Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre London?
Knew you would get it from the clue! &well&
King and Lyons and Lyceum in the Strand. :D
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Where will you find this load of Bull? Easy peasy!
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More info....her name is Buyi Zama and she plays the part of Rafiki, now at the Minskoff theatre Broadway,
she's from the Kwo-Mashu Zulu tribe .
and without makeup. :D
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Quick guess.... Wall St.
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It's the Bull Statue in the Bowling Green New York
Actually Steve got it correct and it's known by both Wall Street Bull and the Bowling Green Bull
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I think were ok, so here you go....... ££$
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More info....her name is Buyi Zama and she plays the part of Rafiki, now at the Minskoff theatre Broadway,
she's from the Kwo-Mashu Zulu tribe .
and without makeup. :D
Are you sure she is the one I pictured? :D
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OK you are right.
Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, is a 3,200-kilogram (7,100 lb) bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica that stands in Bowling Green Park near Wall Street in Manhattan, New York City. Standing 11 feet (3.4 m) tall[1] and measuring 16 feet (4.9 m) long,[2] the oversize sculpture depicts a bull, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge. The sculpture is both a popular tourist destination which draws thousands of people a day, as well as "one of the most iconic images of New York"[3] and a "Wall Street icon"[4] symbolizing "Wall Street" and the Financial District.
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I think were ok, so here you go....... ££$
What info do you want? Name, place, etc.? $thanx$
And do we presume that it is nt in the three towns of Llandudno, Colwyn Bay and Conwy? ZXZ
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More info....her name is Buyi Zama and she plays the part of Rafiki, now at the Minskoff theatre Broadway,
she's from the Kwo-Mashu Zulu tribe .
and without makeup. :D
Are you sure she is the one I pictured? :D
I hope so, if not serves me right for being a smart **** :-[
New photo........yep, anything you want name place country NSEW .......
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It looks like a lifeboat of some kind or even an experimental craft considering that the war was imminent. Other than that I have not got a clue! :(
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The ref. No. does not apply , pretty sure its not 1939....don't go by this..... ££$
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The ref. No. does not apply , pretty sure its not 1939....don't go by this..... ££$
I don't think that if I knew the year it would make any difference! $walesflag$
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It's in the UK and don't over complicate......
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How about Govan Ferry,Glasgow ?
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Spot on Mull, .......,With that name I'm not surprised,
Spent a lot of time crossing over the Clyde as a kid........Well done... $good$ $good$
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Just going over some old photos, I'll put this in as an easy one type of plane.... ££$
Ian should know....
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Lancaster?
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Well done $good$ Now part two, which...... airfield, Sqd, plane number and name those in photo :)
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617 Squadron, RAF Scampton, plane No. ED932 and Guy Gibson and his crew, although I am probably wrong on all counts ZXZ
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Would this be the crew?
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Nearly right but, you can have the points, The photo was taken at RAF Fiskerton, 49th Sqd. 1943 but within a few weeks of it being taken, a few of them, including my father the tall one, were transferred to the new 617 Sqd. Scampton.
Dad worked at Rhos County garage, joined the RAF in 39 as a mechanic his plane was M-mother, I am still researching his history, he never talked a lot about those days.
Well done, I was joking when I said now for part two of the question, but you "did good" $good$
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617 Sqd. Scampton.
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Where and what is this building in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Chapel on corner Nant Y Gama Road / Mostyn Broadway ?
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Poss. just be weathering, but their might be a date in top circle 1911 or 1914 scout hut/school, cadets
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It's not in the Three Towns Mull but is further away from Llandudno.
Hope you liked your trip to Llandudno and am glad that you enjoyed the Fish & Chips at the Harbour View $good$
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Poss. just be weathering, but their might be a date in top circle 1911 or 1914 scout hut/school, cadets
There is a date and some details in that circle Steve but I'm not telling you about it yet! WWW
Nothing to do with scouts though
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Do you mean that you have done a bit of retouching, Hugo? I have a feeling we've had this one before. :D
Is it a Telephone Exchange, on Anglesey? $walesflag$
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Do you mean that you have done a bit of retouching, Hugo? I have a feeling we've had this one before. :D
Is it a Telephone Exchange, on Anglesey? $walesflag$
A bit of a crop actually Yorkie but here's some more of it to make it easier. It's not a telephone exchange or on Anglesey.
You may have driven past it, I have, Ormegolf certainly has and I bet Mull has too.
It was built before 1900 as you may be able to see on the circle. ;D
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Best I've got is village hall, checked surrounding areas, no luck. The date did not help 1811 or 1814? Is it one of the smaller towns within the three town area.
cobbled pavement,???
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You've been very busy Steve but it wasn't a village hall when it was built in 1869. I've just googled and can say that Yorkie has driven past it but obviously hadn't noticed it.
Because you've been so busy I'll show you the circle so you know what the building was, but you can still have a point if you tell me where it is!
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Thanks, still no luck, will wait for others.......the dates "Should have gone to Specsavers" :)
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This should help
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Thanks, still no luck, will wait for others.......the dates "Should have gone to Specsavers" :)
the origin of the building is there but you don't need to go to specsavers to see that just go to J28
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Would it by any chance be in Waen, and possibly now the Waen Brewery.
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Yorkie, the Waen Brewery is in Llanidloes in mid Wales. Is that the one you meant because I'm not aware that you have driven past there although I know that you have driven past the building in the photo?
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Anywhere near Rhuallt Hill, I'm looking J28 A55? :'( It seems very open , not R.O.S.
still a Sunday school? Towyn?
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Well done Steve, take Junction 28 on the east bound lane of the A55 and you immediately come on to a roundabout. The old Calvanistic Methodist Sunday school is on that roundabout. &well&
It's visible from the A55 and if you travelled on the old road before the A55 was built then you would have had to drive past it. I went past there yesterday when I had a meal at the White House in Rhuallt.
The building is not in Rhuallt but in the Waen at St Asaph and I was going to award Yorkie the point for saying the Waen but when he said the Waen Brewery then I had to take the point back off him. D)
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$thanx$ W'ell share it, I was so hit and miss, I was going to suggest you take me there, I would still have missed it, my heads dizzy trying to follow street map. on to the next? ;)
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My Waen was the one near Rhuallt as I also used J28 etc. A further search gave me the Brewery so I thought It may have been that. Well done to Steve.
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$thanx$ $good$
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A Southern Town in England but which town and what is it famous for?
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It has a Marina! WWW
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Could be Lowestoft on the Broads.
Or is it north of there ?
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I thought Cambridge at first, then saw the narrow boat pub sign. more canal than river, .....don't trust your clues followed by a WWW.....so I buried that idea and came up with a new one..../ :)
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You're both off course, but if you were on course I bet you would be first past the post! WWW WWW
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Newbury?
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Two WWW WWW now I really don't trust you.......there's a common link, or I could don my thinking cap.
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Newbury?
Well one Hollins, take a seat in the Grand Stand. You picked up the racing clue.
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What is the name of this Church and where is it in N Wales?
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That looks like a new roof?...St Ismael's..?...St. Tysilio's..?....... &shake&
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Nice try Steve but it's neither of them. Perhaps a photo from the other side of the Church may help.
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Sailing ship weather vane, on the tower, big fish hook in the grounds, but cannot find any ref. coastal churches etc
all these churches look the same....one more go. &shake&
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This well is named after the Saint, but which Saint and where is it?
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Nefyn Parish Church answer to church with ship weathervane and anchor. St Davids
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Part two
Those interested in the maritime history of the region going back to Viking times will enjoy a visit to the Lleyn Historical and Maritime Museum in St Mary's Church at Nefyn. There is also a historic water well here, known as the Ffynnon Fair.
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With Yorkies help ...St Mary's Nefyn.... :) sorry only read part one, all yours Y..
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Yorkie was first so full points to him. &well&
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Yorkie was first so full points to him. &well&
Wasn't easy, all these little churches look the same. The Anchor gave it away in the end although I had seen the weathervane.. Next please! :D
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I'm afraid that I've got no more at present and my next walk isn't until Friday and anyway I'm watching the England football match at the moment so I should be asleep soon! ;)
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Where did I see this in N Wales today? $walesflag$
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Red Kite, I think , have you been as far as Gigrin? or Bwlch Nant Yr Arian?or welsh mountain zoo?
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In or around the Llandegla Forest or the RSPB’s reserve in Conwy, are a couple of known sites in North Wales where they have relocated.
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Red Kite, I think , have you been as far as Gigrin? or Bwlch Nant Yr Arian?or welsh mountain zoo?
Not so sure about the Red Kite but the other areas are not correct.
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In or around the Llandegla Forest or the RSPB’s reserve in Conwy, are a couple of known sites in North Wales where they have relocated.
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Another good guess but not correct. Does this photo of the park help?
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Er . . . No! :D
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I am annoyed, I cannot identify the bird, poss. red Buzzard, how about Pen Y Bryn. &shake&
Has that bird set up home in a kids play area?
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I am annoyed, I cannot identify the bird, poss. red Buzzard, how about Pen Y Bryn. &shake&
Has that bird set up home in a kids play area?
i wooden know about that Steve but it's in an area of outstanding natural beauty. It wasn't there last time I visited so I can understand Yorkies's grouse about not recognising the area.
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Would this be one of Tim's ....... Hugo ? I don't recognize the location though
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You'll have to ask Tim that as I don't know. ;D Lovely sculpture though, my friend who knows his birds thought that it was a Buzzard as there are many in the area and a couple followed us around our **** ****** walk
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is it at the Adventure place on Moel Famau .. but that only has 5 letters hmmmmmmmmm
The Burgess brothers are very talented ( I prefer Tim's work to Andy's ) so it would probably be one or the others.
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What a jammy guess! &well&
It was the forest car park at Moel Famau but the walk we did was Moel Fenlli but the extra * didn't fool you, did it? $good$
Last time I saw the Grouse by the car park so that was another clue for Yorkie
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It wasn't a guess .... I was trying to find a link between the adventure park and the carvings when you posted the hint about them being wooden, so I had to get get a shift on coz you'd given the game away.
There are lots of pages displaying the work of Tim and Andy Burgess... have a Google :)
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Well you fooled me big time, I like birds, especially Raptors, great sculptures ,and by using ... chain saws.
Not the Grouse, looks like something I could do.
When I was looking to identify the bird (RED KITE) I came across this site, wonderful photos and video's
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Red_Kite (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Red_Kite)
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Here is a new one from me. Where is this vessel moored and if I have a trip where will it take me.
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Portugal!
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I think that you could be correct ME &well&
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Without using google, can anyone guess where I took this last week?
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I guess he died on the Titanic, so you were at the Titanic Museum across the Irish Sea. $walesflag$
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Now back to my own question. Where will you find this vessel moored and if I went on a trip where would it take me. Yes, it is somewhere in Portugal! Surprised?
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Sorry, Yorkie, I thought your question was answered.
Anyway, you are incorrect with the Titanic Museum.
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Well, at least I didn't use Google! :D
Can I now guess Liverpool Dock?
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Without using google, can anyone guess where I took this last week?
Canada?
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Can I now guess Liverpool Dock?
No.
Canada?
Yes, but where exactly in Canada?
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Just in case anyone should be confused by the interlacing of questions . . . . .
The Canoe shaped vessel is a pleasure boat on the Rio Arade in Portugal, moored at the quay of Portimao. It is used to take folk on a sightseeing trip up the river to the old town of Silves with its dominant Moorish castle and Chapel.
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Canada?
Yes, but where exactly in Canada?
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Don't know Bri unless you let me Google it? ;D
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Go on then.
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Born September 1888
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Death: Died April 15, 1912 in Titanic
Cause of death: Died in the sinking. Body recovered
Buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Nova Scotia
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Just in case anyone should be confused by the interlacing of questions . . . . .
The Canoe shaped vessel is a pleasure boat on the Rio Arade in Portugal, moored at the quay of Portimao. It is used to take folk on a sightseeing trip up the river to the old town of Silves with its dominant Moorish castle and Chapel.
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I was right then! $good$
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Born September 1888
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Death: Died April 15, 1912 in Titanic
Cause of death: Died in the sinking. Body recovered
Buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Nova Scotia
Correct. $good$
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Just in case anyone should be confused by the interlacing of questions . . . . .
The Canoe shaped vessel is a pleasure boat on the Rio Arade in Portugal, moored at the quay of Portimao. It is used to take folk on a sightseeing trip up the river to the old town of Silves with its dominant Moorish castle and Chapel.
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I was right then! $good$
No, you did not answer the question. Portugal was not the answer. Rio Arade and Silves were the answers! D)
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Just little details Yorkie! :laugh:
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Here's one for the weekend. What is the name of the building behind this wall in N Wales? $walesflag$
It's only easy if you know it!
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My usual stupid guess. :D
Is it either of Hafod Taid ( Grandfather's Summer dwelling) and Ty Fy Nain ( My Grandmother's House) in or near Llanferres.
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It's a good guess and I can see why you thought that but I'm afraid that it's still wrong.
If I said again that you've actually seen it, would it help much? ;D
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There is a nice brick built barn or grain store in the garden and a nesting box has been created there for the resident Barn Owl.
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Is it near Penmon Point Lighthouse?
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No, it's not on Anglesey but perhaps this photo of the barn may help?
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One of the rooms inside the house.
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Dolbelydr?
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Well done Hollins. It was an open day today at Dolbelydr Trefnant and we were shown around by members of the Landmark Trust. I've wanted to see it after seeing it from the other side of the River Elwy. &well&
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Where in North Wales was I walking yesterday?
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Colwyn Bay Mountain Zoo?
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I hope you enjoyed your visit to Penrhyn Castle, Gwynant. ;D
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Well done Dave, it was an Open day there yesterday. I was very impressed with the grounds and gardens (see pics below) and also the buildings and Railway Exhibition were very interesting. I have lived in this area for 70 years and never been there before.
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More Penrhyn Castle pics.
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Nice photos Gwynant. $good$
I've never been there before so must make a point of going to the next open day.
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The National Trust have an Open Day at Penrhyn Castle about this time every year Hugo, I was going to go last year but something came up at the last minute. We got there about 11am yesterday and had a walk round the grounds and gardens first as the Castle wasn't open till 12 noon. When we entered the Castle we were lucky to have a long and informative chat with a very knowledgeable N.T. volunteer lady who told us all about the Pennant family and their connections with the Penrhyn Quarries in Bethesda, how the title of Lord Penrhyn was handed down through the family over the years and also how the building was used by the M.O.D. during the war. The slate staircase is unbelievably ornate and took years to construct and the kitchens, sculleries, ice tower etc are a revelation of life in the past "below stairs". It wasn't very crowded yesterday so we had plenty of time to have a good look round, it's certainly well worth a visit.
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Gwynant,I'll be following in your footsteps within the next 2 weeks. Been meaning to go for a year or so.
Thanks for the timely reminder.
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Me too Gwynant. thanks for another inspiring quiz question.
Hollins was lunching in this spot yesterday. Where was I?
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Manchester, Shambles Sq.? the Wellington/Sinclairs oyster bar?
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Right area but wrong restaurant so halfway there Steve!
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Does this help?
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I go to those pubs quite a bit in winter, but from that angle you seem to be inside the shopping centre, across the road from The Mitre, where they hold part of the Xmas Market.
Fester is puzzled.
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I think Hollins was in Selfridges... ;)
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The plot thickens!
No, the first photo is the view from Selfridges but this time I was in..........(second photo)! ;D
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Ah, the other corner. Harvey Nichols?
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Yes, well done. I had a superb lunch and I was sat at the table in the curved glass window.
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Where in North Wales would you find this peaceful scene? $walesflag$
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A wild guess at Rhosgadfan?
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No Hugo, not Rhosgadfan, I'm afraid, but I can see why you went for that answer.
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Dorothea Quarry?
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Not Dorothea either M.E. Here are a couple more pics from a different point.The slate slab on the left of the original pic is a memorial to a Merchant Navy man who drowned there in 1970. It is an old flooded slate quarry which is on the descent from a hill which sounds like it could be eaten as part of the filling of a sandwich! $walesflag$
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$dins$ $dins$ $dins$ Mmmm
Mayonnaise Quarry? Bacon Quarry? Coronation Chicken Quarry..... Cheese and Onion Quarry....... I could go on, but I'm hungry now!!!
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$dins$ $dins$ $dins$ Mmmm
Mayonnaise Quarry? Bacon Quarry? Coronation Chicken Quarry..... Cheese and Onion Quarry....... I could go on, but I'm hungry now!!!
It's the hill overlooking the quarry which sounds like sandwich filling, Fester, not the quarry! (which is a couple of miles from a road which could be a sheet of paper ???).
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Penrhyn Quarry? Near the A5! :laugh:
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Penrhyn Quarry? Near the A5! :laugh:
Well done with the A5 (paper size) M.E., but it's not Penrhyn Quarry. If you were zipping along you would be able to see this quarry in the distance.
££$
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Is it where the zip wire attraction is near Bethesda?
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Is it where the zip wire attraction is near Bethesda?
No,Hollins but if you were actually on the zip wire you would be able to see it in the distance. There is a hall on the hill just above it.
$walesflag$
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Llyn Owen-y-ddol if I have spelt it correctly.
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It's not a lake (llyn) Yorkie, it's a flooded quarry, visible across the A5 if you were riding on the zip-wire, just below "a hall on a hill", on the way down from a hill "that sounds like it could be used as a sandwich filling" and as another clue, just above the "slate parish"
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I will be out all day today so if anyone has a stab at the location I won't be back till tonight to answer any guesses. ££$
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It has got to be the Bethesda quarry where the zip wire is as the A5 doesn't go past the other zip wire in Blaenau Ffestiniog
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Is it Bryn Hall Quarry above Llanllechid?
Meleri
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Just looked it up and the quarry I was thinking of is actually called Bryn Hafod Y Wern. There is a nearby hill called Moel Wnion, so is onion the sandwich filler?
Meleri
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Very well done Meleri! I thought that it was called the Bryn Hall Quarry as the warning signs called it that, but I then noticed on-line that it is also called Bryn Hafod-y-Wern quarry.
The "sandwich filler" was the nearby Moel "Wnion", the road that could be "paper" was the A5, the "hall on a hill" was Bryn Hall which is right above it, the "slate parish" was the nearby village of Llechwedd which is right below it, and they can all be seen from the zip-wire in Penrhyn Quarry on the other side of the valley. Bryn Hall quarry is over 100ft deep and regarded as very dangerous to dive in as it is full of barbed wire and various other obstacles.
I remember a man trying to commit suicide with his two children and then changing his mind once they were in the water having to be rescued there a few years ago. I walked past it on Thursday while descending from Moel Wnion and I'll post some details of the walk and some pics on the "walking" thread tomorrow.
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I win then.... for mentioning a cheese and Wnion sandwich! $good$ $good$
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You were so close Fester with the first answer but then you felt hungry and didn't specify which answer or sandwich filling you were selecting, but you certainly deserve half a point for effort!
$good$ &well&
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The "sandwich filler" was the nearby Moel "Wnion", the road that could be "paper" was the A5, the "hall on a hill" was Bryn Hall which is right above it, the "slate parish" was the nearby village of Llechwedd which is right below it, and they can all be seen from the zip-wire in Penrhyn Quarry on the other side of the valley. Bryn Hall quarry is over 100ft deep and regarded as very dangerous to dive in as it is full of barbed wire and various other obstacles.
I've just realised that I named the village in the above answer Llechwedd when of course it should have been Llanllechid.
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An easier one for this weekend. :) Where did I see this in N Wales $walesflag$
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This photo will make it so much easier.
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It's about a mile from a Norman Castle and near a new bridge. $walesflag$
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Penrhyn Castle....Neo Norman castle...??? slate museum ?
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I don't recognise it Hugo but by the last couple of clues you gave it has to be in the Bontnewydd area (about a mile from Caernarfon Castle?) but I can't see anything on Google Streetview that matches the location .......
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Not far away Steve so that's a good first guess.
Gwynant, da iawn $walesflag$ but there are many other bont newydd's about and you must have been in that area many times before
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Following the Bont Newydds theme....
Meifod or Plas Dinas country houses....or Aber Falls?
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You're hedging your bets there Steve, so which one do you think it is?
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Meifod house P L E A S E
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Nice house Steve but it's wrong.
This is a give away showing the "Norman Castle"
The mound is circular, 22-foot (6.7 m) high with a level oval top 57 feet (17 m) by 48 feet (15 m). It has been regarded as the base of a Norman castle, and on that basis was renamed "? ? ?" by the Ancient Monuments Board
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This should seal it! This area was called Holly Hill or Holly Enclosure in the Norman days. $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Last time I hope....Garth Celyn....wish me ££$
"The Welsh like to tell you that they have 427 castles scattered around their part if the UK. They probably do, but at least 200 of the castles in Wales are little more than crumbled ruins or earthworks that, to the untrained eye, look like natural features on the landscape.
Still, that does leave 200 castles in Wales worth visiting. Where do you begin?"
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Spot on Steve and well done. &well&
Garth Celyn was the name for the area when Prince Llewelyn had his Palace at the present day village of Abergwyngregin. The water wheel is at the entrance to the Forestry car park after you have crossed over Bont Newydd (Eng New Bridge)
I've parked there so many times but never noticed the wheel so I took a photo when I had a walk there on Wednesday
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$thanx$ $good$
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Where was I on Saturday last.
Getting REQUEST TIMEOUT
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My laptop won't open that picture Yorkie? Can't see owt?
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It is not loading, problems that Ian is looking at. ZXZ
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Yorkie, have you been to the White House at Rhuallt and nabbed my photo at the same time? ;D
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It is not loading, problems that Ian is looking at. ZXZ
Yep, just noticed that on the other threads.
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Try again, where was I on Saturday ?
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Llandrindod Wells, Elan Valley and Brecon Beacons. thats where I think you were, give us a clue :roll:
is it a real mine?
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Llandrindod Wells, Elan Valley and Brecon Beacons. thats where I think you were, give us a clue :roll:
is it a real mine?
It is the name of the mine I need for one to win the 5 points. Like most Welsh Gold mines it is no longer producing.
ZXZ
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Gwynfynydd ? ?
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Sorry, not that one. $walesflag$
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Dolaucothi ?
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That's the one, a NT administered attraction where we stopped for the loos, coffee and a look round.
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Too late with my posting but I wouldn't have got it though ???
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This is an old one of mine, anybody know,..... it is in NW.
The building on the right was originally a blacksmiths and made tools for the local miners.
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Would it be the old Blacksmith's Shop in Springfield? $walesflag$
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No sorry.... not well known as a smithie, nor as a mining area, and its not that far away...
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Is it Llechwedd?
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No sorry Hugo, but I suspect you might have walked passed this place on one of your local hikes.
and it is near water...were does the stream run into,the house is a private farm, but the area is well known.
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Is it Tyn-y-Groes, by the Old Mill.
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No sorry Yorkie, The stream runs into a large body of water, and the area was mined for lead a long time ago. possible not known for this, however the water and the lead are connected, not in a good way.
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I'm still looking at the Gwydr Forest area and there are a number of places affected by lead poisoning there. Llyn Gerionydd for one which was poisoned by the Pandora Mine but I can't see the cottages there so I'm still looking, ?{}?
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Well done Hugo, spot on, most photos are taken from the other end of the Llyn, but the farm is/was well known to walkers, as the footpath goes through the farmyard.
A bit of interesting trivia, I lived in the house you can just see, in the top left corner, for 15 years, and when I said the farm was "well known to walkers" I meant it, the old lady who lived there, would talk to the people passing and there was always tea on the go, Laura who never left the farm in over 80 years, apart from a weekly trip to Llanrwst , never the less received between 400/500 Xmas cards every year, from every part of the world.
Well done again... $good$
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I've been walking there a lot over the years but still didn't recognise the building although I must have gone past many times, so good question Steve $good$
About 40 years ago I was camping in the area behind the picnic tables and had a long and interesting chat with the farmer who lived in the farm at the south western tip of the lake. It was him who told me about the lake being poisoned by the lead mine but added that the water south of the picnic area was of good quality and there were many trout in that area.
He told me that he loved the quality of life he had there and how he used to catch Rabbits and Fish
Years later I spoke to a diver at the other end of the lake and he had been taking photos of the bottom of the lake and confirmed that all the vegetation in that area of the lake was dead
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Hi Hugo, I am pleased to tell you, that in the 90s, we started seeing nesting ducks,more fish and even some plant life around the edges, so there is hope..... despite the jet skis. WWW
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Yes, it looked healthier when we went past this year and we saw this old boat amongst the reeds there and it looked like it had been there for a while.
I've just checked Google earth and the Farmer we talked to, lived in the farmhouse on the left of your photo.
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That I think would have been Arthur, Laura's nephew, he taught me a lot about the countryside, dry stone walling, I did quite a bit up there, also different trees for different jobs, I had to fence in a very marshy area, and was going to buy some pre treated posts, he took me to a willow tree, and cut branches untill we had enough, I thought they were to thin, but we did the job, a few weeks later I noticed the willow poles had taken root and were growing, just needed pruned now and again, but no rot. clever man, I missed him when he died.
PS I take some of the credit for the reeds, I transplanted quite a few from a small lake upstream.
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Where in North Wales will you see this and what was it used for?
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It's in the Ice Tower in Penrhyn Castle, Hollins, and ice was poured down the grid to keep food cool in the chamber below and then the plug put back to cover it. You must have forgotten that I went there on the Open Day two weeks ago and posted how much I enjoyed it! WWW WWW
Thank you and also Hugo for your kind words about my return to walking in the mountains.
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Well done Gwynant! No, I hadn't forgotten that you had been there. In fact your post is the reason I went there myself and what a place. I cannot believe I had never been there before so thank you for the idea.
I was quite surprised that they did not mind photos being taken inside so I will post some on the Exploring the Area page as you have already shown how lovely the garden is.
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Where did I see this on a walk today?
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Ogwen Cottage Hugo, on the back road.
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Spot on Jack, well done. &well&
I'm not sure what the building was, it was either a Chapel or a school and there was a bell on the right hand side of the building
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Probably too easy-- but where is this?
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Aberdovey?
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Aberdovey?
I think you are right , but, what an amazing man....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Hugill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Hugill)
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Thanks for your answers both.
Correct.
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Where is this and what is the odd feature?
Unable to upload as usual since iOS8 upgrade. :D
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Where is this and what is the odd feature?
Unable to upload as usual since iOS8 upgrade. :D
Have you downloaded iOS 8.0.2 yet? It has some fixes in it and may solve your problem.
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Thanks SDQ, was waiting to b offered a fix automatically but suppose I'll have to ask. Cheers! :D
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Try again. Where was this shot taken and what is the odd thing about it.
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Don't know where,....Wrong side of the road/odd car at the back,chuck it in the river WWW
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Where is this and what is the odd feature?
Unable to upload as usual since iOS8 upgrade. :D
Have you downloaded iOS 8.0.2 yet? It has some fixes in it and may solve your problem.
I saw it last night and installed it, seems to be a lot better now!
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Don't know where,....Wrong side of the road/odd car at the back,chuck it in the river WWW
Wonderful answer Steve, and just the sort to get you NIL points even if you are half right! WWW WWW WWW
The answer is at the viaduct between Carreg-ddu reservoir and Caban-Coch Reservoirs near Rhayader, and the odd item is the last car which is not an Honda S2000.
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Not even half a point... :twoface: they are on the wrong side of the road of the road, are they not?.. :)
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Not even half a point... :twoface: they are on the wrong side of the road of the road, are they not?.. :)
Acutually they are not on the road, they are on a pull in area. Definitely NIL points for being pedantic!
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This building was originally part of a larger one. What was the original building and where is it?
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The old bath house in Beaumaris.
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Well done DaveR.
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A very easy one for the evening. Where do these steps in N Wales go to? $walesflag$
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A very easy one for the evening. Where do these steps in N Wales go to? $walesflag$
I know where they lead from but I didn't realise there was anything down the steps, I thought they were just ornamental.
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Where are the steps then SDQ? I did say that it was easy but you were very quick, that's if you're correct. :)
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Where are the steps then SDQ? I did say that it was easy but you were very quick, that's if you're correct. :)
I should perhaps have said "where do the steps lead up to" to make it clearer, sorry SDQ
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Do they lead up to Plas Maenan Country House?
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They do indeed Gwynant, so well done. &well& I think SDQ knew too but didn't spill the beans when he posted.
I popped in there for a coffee and had it on the verandah which overlooks the Carneddau. $cofffee$
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Where would you find this pub in the North Wales area, and what is it also known as?
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It looks familiar to me but I can't place it. I expect that it's on the bus route and you did come down from your last walk by the Bangor Rugby Club so I'll do a pub crawl in that area and see if I can find it. Z**
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You're in the wrong area, Hugo, although you were right about it being on the route of my walk this week. This pub is located where the workers "below stairs" might have had a drink after work and is situated within 30-35 miles of Llandudno. It is also in a district which has another notable mural locally -----?
$walesflag$ $good$
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The only mural I can think about is on the ship in Mostyn but I know most of the pubs there. I'll think about this again. ?{}? Z**
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Not the Mostyn area, Hugo. The workers who might would have had a drink in this pub on their way home from their work in the nearby area "below stairs" might have been tempted to put the cost of their beer "on the slate". The pub is also known by another name, "Y Tap" is a local nickname because the beer taps were always in use.
$walesflag$
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Wild guess...Cath y Dragon...Blaenau Ffestiniog
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Wild guess at the Miner's Arms Blaenau Ffestiniog
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Right area, wrong pub, Hugo. When I checked if it could be identified on Google Streetmaps the mural had not been painted on at that time. It can be seen from the the carriage window when approaching Blaenau on the railway.
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Wild guess...Cath y Dragon...Blaenau Ffestiniog
Apologies Steve, I missed your post when I was reading Hugo's guess, not the Cath-y-Dragon. The pub has a surprisingly English name for almost totally Welsh-speaking area.
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The King's Head?
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Well done SDQ, it is the King's Head (pic enclosed), we passed it walking down Glan-y-Pwll Road on the way down to Tan-y-Grisiau on Thursday. I didn't even know it was there, as it's a bit off the beaten track. I didn't discover the meaning behind the mural which, as SteveH rightly observed, is depicting a cat and a dragon.
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Tan y Grisiau! (Under the steps) 😀
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The King's Head?
Love your new Avatar picture SDQ, :laugh:
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What and where in North Wales is this building?
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Entrance to Penrhyn Castle.
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No sorry. It isn't part of a castle.
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Is it a grand entrance/gateway ? or a church? or chimneys ?
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No sorry, none of those. This should help.
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I'm totally stumped, second picture doesn't help either. C'est la Vie! ZXZ
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I wish I could think up clever clues like Hugo does but this will have to do for a start. It is very close to the Three Towns and the name of the building has a "way with words."
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Abergele Library?
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No, it isn't in a town. It is perched high above a river.
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I think it's part of Gwydir Castle but not sure what the clue means, unless it's the Library Door or something?
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No, not there. Think burial in a garden.
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We paid a visit to Bodnant yesterday and the roof of the Masoleum there looked very familiar... $good$
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The Poem Building in Bodnant Gardens!
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Sorry mate, 30 seconds too late! :laugh:
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Hooray! Well done both.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden/visitor-information/article-1356397716335/ (http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden/visitor-information/article-1356397716335/)
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Where and what is this building.
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Sony........NBF Osaki Building in Tokyo, Japan.?
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Sony........NBF Osaki Building in Tokyo, Japan.?
Gosh, that was quick and quite correct too! &well&
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Sony........NBF Osaki Building in Tokyo, Japan.?
Gosh, that was quick and quite correct too!
$thanx$ $good$
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Where would you find this set of murals?
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Is this in the UK, ...the deer look out of place! car park sign in English? 45 mins for customers, cafe?
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Is this in the UK, ...the deer look out of place! car park sign in English? 45 mins for customers, cafe?
Looking at the quality of the re-surfacing of the road around the grids I'd say it's odds on to be in the UK!
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Correct SDQ, it is in the UK as you so rightly noted by the state of the road.
SteveH, are you sure that the animals depicted in the mural are deer?
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I don't know the answer Gwynant but I am looking forward to hearing about where you have been!
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OK. still have not been to Specsavers,.... goats...Angora.....orig,Swiss...mohair, have you been to buy a new suit?
need more clues... &shake& or are you just into goats. :)
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It is on the way to a very well-known tourist destination where it doesn't matter if it's wet when you get there as there is as much to see below ground as above. The goats play a very important part in the maintenance of the area nowadays.
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Chedder Gorge and the caves....?
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I've never seen it but is it in Llanberis?
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Local School Helps Launch New Cheddar Gorge Mural
Budding young artists from Fairlands Middle School in Cheddar were guests of honour this week alongside David Bradley, CEO from Longleat Enterprises Ltd and community artist Richard Blaker at the official launch of ‘The Wonders of the Gorge’ - a new themed mural at Cox’s Mill in Cheddar
http://www.cheddargorge.co.uk/news/local-school-helps-launch-new-cheddar-gorge-mural (http://www.cheddargorge.co.uk/news/local-school-helps-launch-new-cheddar-gorge-mural)
that was some search....maybe my initials S H stand for Sherlock holmes! !
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Well done SteveH, it's in the village on the way up to the gorge. We spent a few days in Weston-super-Mare last week, and visited Cheddar,Wells and Glastonbury (where you can still see survivors of the sixties going about their business barefoot and wearing flowers as if trapped in a timewarp), and also travelled from Bishop's Lydiart to Minehead on the West Somerset Railway on another day. What struck me in Weston was the Grand Pier which was burned down a few years ago and has now been completely rebuilt, and now charges £1 per person admission. Shows what can be done when you try. I'll put a few pics on the appropiate thread tomorrow.
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$thanx$ Gwynant.... sounds like a good "trip" ...8)
"completely rebuilt, and now charges £1 per person admission. Shows what can be done when you try."
I agree, great idea ....and if everybody knew it was for the "upkeep" of the pier, like a donation, I do not think there would be to many objections.
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Yorkies first unintelligent guess. . . The last picture is Cheddar Gorge. ZXZ
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Nice pictures Gwynant, hope you had a good time there.
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This may be too easy for some forum members but I came across the building when I had a walk this week. Where is it?
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This building was nearby and was built much later.
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I don't know who lives in that medieval house now but I was told that some b******s lived there once. :o :o
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Orphanage ..... ???
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Not an orphanage and as far as I'm aware the house has always been a family home.
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This Church was near the medieval house.
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Is it B*****d Hall, Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
Meleri
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Is it the Parish Church of St Mary in Chirk?
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Is it B*****d Hall, Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
Meleri
Spot on Meleri, well done. &well&
Richard le B*****d owned the property in 1267 and it's called B*****d Hall after the family. Another unusual name in that area is the brook that run through the village and past the Church. It's aptly named S**t Brook or Shyte Brook on account of the contents that flowed in the Brook!
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I thought I was looking at a photo of Fester's house for a second. :P :laugh: _))*
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L0L L0L
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I thought I was looking at a photo of Fester's house for a second. :P :laugh: _))*
I shall inform my Mum and Dad, on their 60th wedding anniversary, of your outrageous slur! :laugh: :laugh:
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Re your visit to Much Wenlock Hugo-- did you follow the Olympic Trail? A free leaflet guides you round the town following plaques in the pavement including Dr William Penny Brookes grave, the man who founded the modern Olympics. We found it very interesting when we visited a year or two ago.
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No, we didn't Nemesis. My wife trailed around the shops while I had a quick look around the place. I did see the trail and the plaque on the house though. We're hoping to go there again so we may do it then.
It's a lovely place to go and there are plenty of old interesting buildings there.
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What was here before they landscaped the area? $walesflag$
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I think it may be the old Holywell Railway Line, with the Station somewhere nearby.
;D
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Well done Yorkie, it's the site of the old Holywell Railway Station. &well&
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Hugo, I used the old photo trick and went back to your old posts, about page 40 I think it was!
Detective at work! :D
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I'll have to be more careful next time if I'm going to beat the Yorkie. Well done though for your investigative work. $good$
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An easy one for us old folks, where is this building and what is it called? $walesflag$
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Thought that it would have gone by now as this place was so popular in it's time. $dins$ Z** $good$
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A wet pub somewhere close to the ThreeTowns. The mrs cannot remember the name. :D
I think it may be The Sportsmans Arms on Denbigh Moor.
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Your Mrs may be correct Yorkie but you're not. ;D
If only she could remember it's name though!
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It's so well known that I can't be too economical with the clues but needless to say some of the forum members must have been there sometime but not perhaps when it looked like it does in my photo
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Some more clues. It's an old building in N Wales but it's not in Anglesey or Gwynedd, hope that helps. ???
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Not in Conwy County either so that must be another big help! ???
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I can still remember going there for Chicken rough, Scampi in the basket and the Smorgasbord meals in the 1960's and 1970's $dins$
There weren't that many places doing those meals then so that must narrow the field down. I suppose it's only easy is you know it or you've been there. ZXZ
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East of the River Clwyd and in the 1970's this was the place to be. $walesflag$
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It's a typical old village with a Church nearby and the pub used to be open 365 days a year. I wonder if they had a feast there on the 26th December each year?
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I suspect that you may have been the only Forum member ever to have frequented it, Hugo! ZXZ I just can't think where it might be.
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St Stephen's Radnor....? Radnor arms
Bodfari?
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St Stephen's Radnor....? Radnor arms
Bodfari?
Well done you've got the St Stephen's clue but you've hedged your bets again Steve. What's the name of the pub and where is it? $walesflag$
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The 450-year-old Dinorben Arms in Bodfari
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Think Steve has got it!
http://closedpubs.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/dinorben-arms.html (http://closedpubs.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/dinorben-arms.html)
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Spot on Steve. It's the Dinorben Arms at Bodfari. &well&
I had a walk in that area on Wednesday and was sorry to see the state that the pub is in nowadays. It went into administration about 2004 and the last I heard about it was that planning permission had been applied for to develop the site and car park.
The terraced car park that was once immaculate is now just a mess like the pub itself. It reminded me of the Penmorfa Hotel in Llandudno and what Anwyl did to the site.
Dave, I can't believe that you've never frequented the Dinorben Arms. :o &shake&
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Dave, I can't believe that you've never frequented the Dinorben Arms. :o &shake&
Funny thing is, I was in Bodfari earlier this year and was looking at this very building...but it didn't click from your photo. :roll:
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We drove in from Tremeirchion but I didn't recognise the building when I first saw it as it has changed so much and I cropped the path on the right from the photo so it didn't make it too easy
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Very good question Hugo, we used to drop in there when we used to go and watch Wrexham FC in the "glory years" of the 70s, but now we always use the A55 if were are going that way so I never even knew it had closed.
For today's question I enclose 2 photos below of the confluences of four rivers. Where do the rivers merge in each individual photo and what are the names of the four rivers involved? $walesflag$
(Top Photo A and Bottom Photo B for identification)
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I'll have a wild pop at the top photo and say that the two rivers are the Conwy and the Lledr and they meet at the Fairy Glen, just upstream from Pont Ifanc.
Still thinking about the bottom photo and thinking it's the Glaslyn but am nottoo sure ?{}?
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The River Teme flows eastwards from its source in Mid Wales, straddling the border between Shropshire and Herefordshire, it is joined by the River Onny, River Corve and River Rea before it finally joins the Severn slightly downstream of Worcester. doggy doos Brook near Much Wenlock was culverted to flow into the Severn......? ?
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Both the photos were taken in the North Wales area. Sorry, but both answers are incorrect! Apologies for the delay in replying, just come in. The correct answers will have the location of the confluence and the two rivers concerned in each photo.
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Both the photos were taken in the North Wales area. Sorry, but both answers are incorrect! The correct answers will have the location of the confluence and the two rivers concerned in each photo.
Photo A is not far from a source of very hot water and Photo B is about the same distance from where a grave miscarriage of justice reportedly occurred.
$welsh$ $welsh$
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I might be completely wrong on this, but the top photo was the first photo you took on your walk in Tanygrisiau. I've no idea where the rivers meet but my guess is the rivers are Afon Dwyryd and the Afon Bowyda
That's a very interesting house in the other photo and what a precarious spot too. I've no idea about that one either so I'm still thinking and looking. Now if I knew where that lovely Wood Mouse in your recent photo lived I'm sure that I would know the answer, but I don't. :(
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Sorry Hugo, Photo A is not Tan-y-Grisiau but a lot closer to the Three Towns, and although you and I would have visited the nearby village many times, I only passed this spot for the first time on a recent short walk (on which I crossed 4 bridges.) Have a rethink on the last clues $welsh$ that I posted for each photo respectively........
You can only view one site on Google Streetview, but you can see the other on Google Earth (obviously!) and you are exactly right, I spotted the woodmouse 200mts from the site of photo B!
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I think photo 1 is close to a power station, Trawnfynedd? But have no idea of the answers to either, yet! :D
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Not Trawsfynydd Yorkie, in fact nowhere near and no connections to a power station, much closer to home. The clues I gave for both locations should be considered bilingually, hence the Welsh flag, but Photo A has links to a narby leisure activity, and one of the rivers in Photo B sounds as if it should be much closer to the 3 Towns area........ .
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I think B may be the confluence of the Glaslyn and the Colwyn at Beddgelert.
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Photo A is at Betws Y Coed on the golf course, at the joining of the Llugwy and Conwy.
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Well done Dave.R. and Cambrian, both correct with locations and names of rivers. Photo A is at the western end of the Golf Course in Betws-y-Coed ("links" with a leisure activity) and downstream from Pont-y-Pair, Bridge of the Cauldron ("source of hot water"), and Photo B is in Beddgelert, Gelert's grave, (where a "grave" miscarriage of justice reportedly occurred.
Please excuse my attempts at bilingual cryptic clues! &well&
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Where is this charming country house, which is a couple of miles out of one of the three towns:
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Coed Coch near Dolwen?
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Coed Coch near Dolwen?
Spot on, Mike, well done. Coed Coch is the home of Harry Featherstonehaugh, a local landowner and farmer.
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Another North Wales river passes under these two bridges in the same village. What is the name of the river and the village?
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Is it the River Elwy at Llanfair TH?
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Well done Jack. A lovely place for lunch, either a picnic or in the Black Lion pub.
However it did look a bit different in November 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yU4bzOfLoE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yU4bzOfLoE)
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Didn't you mention that you were having a roast dinner in the Black Lion in Llanfair TH and the flood water came in through the kitchen but the good news was that they had already served your dinner so you were able to carry on eating?
Was that the same flood because I know that you've had a few there over the years?
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Well remembered Hugo. Yes, that did happen to us but that was a previous occasion and that time it was the culvert at the back of the village that caused the problem and not the river.
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Where in North Wales would you find this building and what is it? $welsh$
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Bangor?
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It is in Bangor and looks like an old school built in 1868 it's opposite Aldi and near the Bangor bus stops. ;)
I'm sure I've been inside and it was getting developed into flats ( if not then it must be that the flats were next door)
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I think they may be Almshouses.
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b****r.
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b****r.
Yes a double b****r
Bangor Cathedral Almshouses, Bangor, Gwynedd
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Well done to J.Roberts and Hugo, it is Llain Deiniol in Bangor on the A5 and it comprises 24 flats built into and behind the old school facade. I asked a few people about the previous history and no body seemed to know, but the pictures seem to indicate an infant school.
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I don't know what these were for, but where would you find them in N Wales? $walesflag$
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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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Are they on The Cob, Llanfairfechan Beach?
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On a beach in Anglesey in the Menai Strait. Just my wild guess! :D
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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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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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Youth hostel?.....what ever I hope it gets restored.
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Not a Youth Hostel SteveH, but in its latter days it had a "youth" connection..........
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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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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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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 (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-46497389.html)
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This building always takes my eye as we drive past it. Where is it?
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Colwyn Bay...?
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No, sorry, not Colwyn Bay.
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County Council Offices (Shire hall?) in Mold?
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Well done Gwynant!
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An easy one for Saturday night, where in North Wales would you find this nautical-themed mural, and on what type of business premises is it situated?
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Fish and Chip Shop in Rhyl?
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No Yorkie, not a fish and chip shop and not in Rhyl, (or Denbighshire).
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I went past it yesterday. ;D
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As you very sportingly didn't give an answer DaveR, I'll assume you want to let it run on so I'll give a clue to the whereabouts of the mural. It is situated on the western side of a large geographical feature in North Wales and within a mile of one of North Wales's largest and most tragic shipwrecks.
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I'm assuming that it's the Royal Charter shipwreck in Moelfre and that it's on the main road A5025 but can't see it so I'll carry on looking.
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Wrong shipwreck Hugo, this was a more recent shipwreck of a vessel 205 ft. long but there was no loss of life or injury incurred in this one.
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Must be Llandulas?
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Must be Llandulas?
British Legion Club?
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No M.E. sorry not Llandulas. The building with the mural is situated in a town that had a frequent link with a large maritime city up to the early sixties........? The shipwreck was only tragic because of the follow-on consequencies of the event.
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A wild pop at HMS Conway which went aground by the Menai Suspension Bridge. You were in that area with a recent walk so it must be around the Brittania Bridge area although it looks like something on an industrial estate.
I've no idea what or where though ?{}?
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Went past it again today. 8) :P
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You are in the right area Hugo, but you have gone in the wrong direction from your correct answer to the H.M.S."Conway" clue. I have checked and it is visible on Google Streetview. You would have passed this way to find your onward route blocked by a 20 ton obstacle a couple of weeks ago.
DaveR, as you passed this building twice in the last two days would I be right in thinking you were re-visiting one of your past week-end locations in the near vicinity? $dins$
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I'll try and follow Dave's path to the Bulkeley Arms and see if I can see it. ;D
That landslide must have wiped it away because I still can't see it but will have a pop at Gallow's Point in Beaumaris.
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DaveR, as you passed this building twice in the last two days would I be right in thinking you were re-visiting one of your past week-end locations in the near vicinity? $dins$
You are correct, sir. $good$
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Gallows Point is a bit too far on the route Hugo. It's not on an industrial estate but the building requires an extractor for the business. There a several similar businesses in the area, but this is the only one of it's type. It all depends on your taste............
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I take it that I'm looking for a restaurant in Menai Bridge but I've been to most of them and can't recognise this one. ???
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Correct Hugo, you are looking for a restaurant in Menai Bridge and it's got a large street frontage. I've just checked online and in fact there are two of these businesses in the town. Part of the answer is in the last clue in my previous post. $good$
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Is it Jade Village? I can't see the mural but all this searching has made me hungry and I'm off for tea now.
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Taste of India... can just see a sign on the left of your photo..
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Well done SteveH, right on the button. Hugo, I hope you enjoyed your tea and I must apologise for frustrating your Sunday afternoon, after all your efforts you were so very nearly there!
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Sorry, forgot to post the photo of the front of "The Taste of India", you can see the mural on the right-hand side of the building, but only if you are approaching from the Beaumaris end of the the town.
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Well done SteveH, right on the button. Hugo, I hope you enjoyed your tea and I must apologise for frustrating your Sunday afternoon, after all your efforts you were so very nearly there!
$thanx$ G. Hugo's efforts and your clues allowed me to nip in at the end.....$thanx$
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Nice one Gwynant. $good$
I did stop there at the Indian Restaurant on Google Streetview but couldn't see the mural
I actually saw that shipwreck of HMS Conway, it must have been about 1953 and it was stranded near the Suspension Bridge on the Caernarfonshire side. I remember my Nain taking me to see it and looking down at it from the bridge.
It's a frightening thought that it was over 60 years ago!
I'm glad you didn't set one of your hard questions for Saturday!
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I actually saw that shipwreck of HMS Conway, it must have been about 1953 and it was stranded near the Suspension Bridge on the Caernarfonshire side. I remember my Nain taking me to see it and looking down at it from the bridge.
It's a frightening thought that it was over 60 years ago!
Hugo, I went to see the wreck of the "Conway" with my mother and late brother a few weeks after she went aground in 1953 but before she went on fire. My brother and I (then aged 9 and 7) scrambled down to the shore through the woods while our mother stayed on the path and said to be careful and there was a ladder propped up onto the bow for the use of the salvage workers but there was nobody about, (it was a Sunday morning) so being kids we went up the ladder and onto the deck. The tide was going out very fast through the Swellies tide-race and the deck was very steep and slippy with mud.
As we were exploring my brother lost his footing on the deck and started sliding down the deck towards the stern which was under water, and I can remember thinking "he's gone" but he managed to grasp a hatch frame as slid down the deck and I found a length of rope and pulled him back up to safety. We decided to get back off the ship very quickly after that and also not to tell my mother when we went back up, but he got a massive telling off for being covered in mud. If only she knew what had actually happened but we couldn't tell her otherwise I would have been in severe trouble as well!
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That's scary Gwynant, your brother was so lucky then. Just as well you didn't tell your Mother as you'd both have been grounded for a long while.
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It's amazing what scrapes we got into as kids, and survived.
I was chatting to the Pier Manager about some examples just the other day, it makes me shudder when I think back.
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Great story, Gwynant. $good$
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That's a relief to learn that there was a breakdown. I thought I had been banned for something I had posted when the "You are banned from entering this site" notice kept coming up on screen.
Admin, please excuse the e-mails wanting to know the reason, I must have a guilty conscience.........
:rage: :twoface: $good$
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'Twas just one of those things, Gwynant :-))
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First one for a long time, in my experience anyway! The site generally seems very stable. $thanx$
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Where is this building and what was it's original use and also what is it used for now?
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Sand, grit and salt store. One in Llandudno junction. Now used by Fire Sevice. There, of course, may be similar silos all over the country.
:D
Essentially for Winter use.
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No, sorry. nothing like that.
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Sheffield ...Cutlery factory ...old gas works....or
"This circular cutlery factory was purpose designed by Sir Michael Hopkins for David Mellor in 1990 and has become one of the iconic works of modern British architecture.
The David Mellor site was formerly the Hathersage village gasworks. The factory was built on the foundations of the old gas cylinder, hence the circular form. Built in local gritstone with spectacular lead roof, this highly functional building is set discreetly in a rural area of outstanding natural beauty"
Sorry I was very lucky with the building description..very interesting though I had not heard of them before.
http://www.davidmellordesign.com/dmCutlery.php (http://www.davidmellordesign.com/dmCutlery.php)
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Well done SteveH. That was quick!
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Where did I pass this white/cream washed church in North Wales today? $walesflag$
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As there have been no guesses at this question so far it seems that a couple of clues might help.
1) It stands only a very short distance from an very important current Welsh road and actually stands on an important Welsh road from the past........
2) It has a lychgate which was demolished in a road accident recently and has since been rebuilt.
3) It is a couple of miles from a river crossing which could be Italian and about the same distance from a geographical feature which could be Eastern European...........
4) It was moved to its present position from a previous location many years ago.
NB :- On Google Streetview it is partially obscured by trees and also it has been colourwashed since the camera van went past.
$walesflag$
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Abergele parish church?
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Not Abergele Steve, but it is in Sir Conwy.
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SAINT GWYDDELAN’S CHURCH, DOLWYDDELAN
It's only a wild guess as I've never seen the Church.
A470 plus the Roman Road Sarn Helen and the Roman Bridge isn't too far away.
Can't link the Eoropean feature so I'm not too hopeful
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As there have been no guesses at this question so far it seems that a couple of clues might help.
1) It stands only a very short distance from an very important current Welsh road and actually stands on an important Welsh road from the past........
2) It has a lychgate which was demolished in a road accident recently and has since been rebuilt.
3) It is a couple of miles from a river crossing which could be Italian and about the same distance from a geographical feature which could be Eastern European...........
4) It was moved to its present position from a previous site,
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Well done Hugo, absolutely spot on! You got the first clue right; Clue 2) a bin wagon demolished the lychgate when reversing in 2006; Clue 3) the river crossing with Italian connections is Roman Bridge and the local geographical connection with Eastern Europe is the Crimea Pass; Clue 4) Meredudd Wynne, (who lived in a nearby settlement in Cwm Penamnen called Tai Penamnen, which has been recently excavated) and was an ancestor of the Wynns of Gwydyr Castle of Llanrwst moved the church from a hill in the vicinity, (Bryn-y-Bedd) when he lived in Cwm Penamnen in the 15th century and he repositioned the church so he could sit in his pew and see the lookouts on the nearby highpoint Carreg Alltwen to warn him of attacks by marauding brigands. The church was originally named after a Celtic/Irish Saint/Missionary (St,Gwyddelen, "the litle Irishman").
We had a walk round Cwm Penamnen yesterday and I'll post the details tomorrow.
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Good question Gwynant and I'll look forward to reading about your walk tomorrow. $good$
I have actually done a walk up there and along the Roman Road but that was many years ago but I can't remember the Church at all
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This is where the naughty people would go years ago, but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
Hope it's not too easy Yorkie! $smack$
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This is where the naughty people would go years ago, but where is it in N Wales?
Hope it's not too easy Yorkie!
Give us a chance Hugo....Photo would help.... $good$
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This is where the naughty people would go years ago, but where is it in N Wales?
Hope it's not too easy Yorkie!
Give us a chance Hugo....Photo would help.... $good$
I didn't want it to be too easy Steve honest! :-[
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These parish stocks are believed to be a modern replica of the original stocks, which are now stored inside the building.
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These parish stocks are believed to be a modern replica of the original stocks, which are now stored inside the building.
They are normally moved to a church?....
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Well done Steve, now which one? $walesflag$
I'll post a photo of the Church next time.
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Here's a photo of the Church that I promised now can you say where it is?
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St Teilos? Llandeillo.
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Not correct this time Yorkie and it's much further north
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You could be forgiven for thinking that the Church is in Anglesey, but it's not. ???
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It looks like St Cwyfan's Church in Llangwyfan (not sure if I have the right spelling though)
Meleri
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Spot on Meleri, well done. &well&
It's the Church in Denbighshire not the one on the island by Aberffraw in Anglesey. Here's a photo of the Church from a different position and one of another window in it.
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What is this, where is it to be found in North Wales and what is it known as?
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Toilet training facility for sheep..........(one of them will have to stay behind after school) WWW
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Is it on Anglesey, by any chance? ;)
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It is indeed, Dave, but where and what is it known as?
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It looks like St Gwenfaen’s Well, Rhoscolyn
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I agree with Hugo. I always have a look at it when on the coastal walk from Treaddur Bay to Rhoscolyn....shortly before heading to the White Eagle for a lovely lunch. ;D
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I agree with Hugo. I always have a look at it when on the coastal walk from Treaddur Bay to Rhoscolyn....shortly before heading to the White Eagle for a lovely lunch. ;D
It's ok for some, I have to manage on sandwiches and a bottle of water when I'm there! :(
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Well done Hugo and Dave.R. We did a figure-of-eight walk from Rhoscolyn beach yesterday round to Silver Bay and then cross-country back past the White Eagle over to St.Gwenfaen's Church before going down to see the Arches (Bwa Gwyn and Bwa Ddu) and "Tyger's" grave, and then back past the well and Coastguard Station and into the bay at Rhoscolyn. As we came back over the beach we noticed the Cromlech by the car park (see Photo). It looked too perfect to be old and so I looked it up on Google and it is reportedly a Victorian Folly. An excellent walk, one of the ones to be found in "Circular walks on Anglesey's Coast", published by Anglesey County Council. (www.croesomon.co.uk (http://www.croesomon.co.uk))
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St Asaph Cathedral is my first off the cuff guess. $thanx$
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St Marcella’s (Llanfarchell) Parish Church on the outskirts of Denbigh.
Tomb of Sir John Salusbury and his wife Jane. ?
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St Marcella’s (Llanfarchell) Parish Church on the outskirts of Denbigh.
Tomb of Sir John Salusbury and his wife Jane. ?
Well done Steve $good$
That didn't last long did it? Must think of another teaser to test you.
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I first saw this property when I went for a walk a few months ago. It is thatched and looked quite cute so I took a photo. I know it could be anywhere but it is in N Wales and the house is half way up a very steep and narrow lane.
Where is it and a bonus point if you guess the name of the house.
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$thanx$ Hugo, A small point that came up during the search which I found amusing ...."The hunting knife at his left is complete with a miniature knife and fork set nestled in its scabbard a sort of Elizabethan Swiss army knife!"
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bwthyn to gwellt bwthyn ar y bryn tŷ to gwellt tŷ to gwellt ar y bryn tŷ ar y bryn
Welsh translations of the house descriptions ......?
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$thanx$ Hugo, A small point that came up during the search which I found amusing ...."The hunting knife at his left is complete with a miniature knife and fork set nestled in its scabbard a sort of Elizabethan Swiss army knife!"
They must have been more advanced than we thought Steve. :)
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bwthyn to gwellt bwthyn ar y bryn tŷ to gwellt tŷ to gwellt ar y bryn tŷ ar y bryn
Welsh translations of the house descriptions ......?
All very good guesses at the name but they are all wrong I'm afraid. One more clue:- the house name is in English! but what is it called and whereabouts is it? $walesflag$
There aren't that many thatched cottages in N Wales, I know about 5 but there must be a few more too
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Heard that you're going Steve, does this mean that Yorkie will get them all now!
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Heard that you're going Steve, does this mean that Yorkie will get them all now!
Yorkie taught me all I know, .....so it's only fair.... ;D
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He's good, very good but will he get this? ;D
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I'm thinking that the backdrop to your latest photo looks like the Clwydian Hills Hugo so perhaps on the lower approaches to Moel Famau.........
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You've got it Gwynant and in the right area. Well done for that but what about the name of the house? Have a guess at it.
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Happy Days!
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Ty Gwyn?
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It's a good guess Bri and I can see why you've said that but I'm afraid that it's not correct.
You too Yorkie
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I first saw this property when I went for a walk a few months ago. It is thatched and looked quite cute so I took a photo. I know it could be anywhere but it is in N Wales and the house is half way up a very steep and narrow lane.
Where is it and a bonus point if you guess the name of the house.
I'll put you all out of your misery now. By the way, I saw it again this Tuesday when I went from Llanfair DC to Bwlch Penbarras
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And there was I looking for a FULL House not just Half of one! Unfair! _))*
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An easy Sunday one for someone! What's behind this door in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Have you been dining out Hugo?
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I have and it was absolutely lovely, fine dining indeed? $good$
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I think DaveR might also know the answer to this one? :-X
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Yes indeed, and you both have similar good taste in fine dining. ;D
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I think DaveR might also know the answer to this one? :-X
My lips are sealed... :-X
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Hollins knew the answer quicker than the time it took me to finish my first course, but this was my first visit here so I wouldn't have recognised the door.
After the meal I was so full that I didn't retire to the dining room for coffee but had a walk around the grounds instead. :)
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Going down to the cloisters was probably quite appropriate after having my Sunday lunch.
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Down at the cloisters
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Don't really know but I'll have a pop at the Tre Ysgawen in Llangefni. 😄
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A good try Yorkie but it's not correct but at least you are in the right county.
This view from the dining room should give it away
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Always a pleasure to sit there sipping coffee and looking at the glorious view...
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Or enjoy a nice relaxing bath!
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Plas Rhianfa! Or whatever they have renamed it these days! (Chateaux?)
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That will do nicely ME well done &well&
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The owners renamed it Chateau Rhianfa, in order to make it sound a little more grand, I assume. Were you staying there, Hugo?
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No, but I wish I was. We had a Travelzoo voucher which entitled the two of us for Sunday Lunch. The voucher cost £50.00 and we had a five course meal and a glass of wine or a beer which was included in the price. It was a nice treat and we have another voucher for December so we'll be back again soon. $good$
Travelzoo also had an afternoon tea offer of £25.00 for two with a conducted tour around the property and I'd recommend it to anyone for that special treat
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It's a lovely hotel, but I've never been a fan of their Chateau Dining Experience (basically a communal evening meal) and I found their cooked breakfast a little underwhelming. Hard to recommend a stay at full price, but voucher offers are often available out of season.
The public rooms are fantastic, so opulent:
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I would have loved to go back and stay at this hotel but like DaveR I was completely put off by their pretentious "Chateau Dining Experience." The owners must have their head in the sand to go on with this arrangement when quite clearly it is unpopular with so many and I believe there is still no alternative in the evening.
Here is an example from a Tripadvisor reviewer last week.
"We had booked the evening dining experience and were rather taken aback to discover that dinner was to take place in a small room with ten people sat around one table.
We were expecting an intimate and relaxed dinner at a table for two in the banqueting hall but instead spent a rather awkward couple of hours in the company of complete strangers.
We are personable and open minded people but a few of the other guests were intent on dominating the evening with their unasked for opinions and ideas about how to save the World.
We came for a dining experience not a meet your neighbor social evening."
Hugo, I presume your lunch was served in the normal way?
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We certainly wouldn't consider returning unless they revised their evening meal arrangements. &shake&
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We had lunch in the banqueting room and as we were the first there we chose the window table for two near the open fire. A few more came in later and occupied the window seats but there weren't many people there though which may say something.
The service and quality of the food was faultless though and I'm looking forward to my next Sunday Lunch there in December.
For the offer of £25.00 per person I thought it was good value especially as the Peroni I chose was included in the price. If it was the normal price then we probably wouldn't have gone but we did enjoy the experience
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Easy one for a Sunday! Where would you find this little church in the North Wales area?
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Easy one for a Sunday! Where would you find this little church in the North Wales area?
I'm sure that almost everyone would have mentioned the name of this church at one time or another in a certain context, it's not where you expect it should be by that refererence but it has Flemish connections.........
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Anglesey, Menai Bridge, St Tysilio's Church just my first guess. ZXZ
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Well done Yorkie, spot on!
St Tysilio's Church is to be found on Church Island in the shadow of the Menai St Tysilio's Church on Church IslandSuspension Bridge. It is reached by following the path from the Menai Bridge to the Belgian Promenade, a walkway that was constructed by Flemish refugees during the first World War. The Belgian Promenade joins up with the causeway that connects the island to the mainland. A short and winding path leads under the overhanging branches of a large yew tree to the old oak church door. A plaque above the door states that the church was founded in the 7th Century by St Tysilio, but it seems to be accepted that the present church was built in the 1400's. No one knows who built the present church but it is a lovely little stone building with a grand front door.
The church is popular for weddings and services are still held here. The churchyard holds the dead of local families and of those workmen who died building the Menai Suspension Bridge. On the highest point of the island there is a magnificent monument to the local men who died in the two World Wars. It is a fantastic piece of carved granite and a worthy memorial.
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Can you name, the Horse, why he is famous, and for an extra 2 points the name of the very happy lady?
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All horses look alike to me, but..... Frankel has been in the news this week, is it him?
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Sorry F, not Frankel. Certainly in the news tho. ££$
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Although from Ireland you could take a lead from Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Z**
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A Lionel Bart character on the site of the Greenwood Tree owned the yard. >?>??
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More clues needed?
Where lots of rain comes from, is the best clue of all! _))*
Or a drop in the Xmas pudding! I*
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Many Clouds?
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&well& Hollins! I was at the Hennessy Gold Cup over the week end, at Newbury. Oliver Sherwood was the Trainer, the Handler was Lisa, who has been at the Yard for ages and she had a good bet on the Winner, which, of course was Many Clouds. Oliver's first Hennessy win for 24 years.
Couldn't fool Hollins! ZXZ
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I'm not familiar with the Sport of Kings ( or Queens) but tried getting the answer by Google but had no luck whatsoever >?>??
Back to N Wales now, where would you find this? $walesflag$
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A bit like yours, Hugo, either you know it or you don't! _))* And I don't know this one. ZXZ
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We'll have to improve our skills then Yorkie. ?{}?
I'll start going to the races D) ZXZ
and you can go to the Churches _))*
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I will have a go at St John's Church, Barmouth, on this one, just for starters. ZXZ
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A good start Yorkie but not correct I'm afraid. It's further east and much nearer the three towns
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Perhaps a look at the white marble font again may help?
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The Presbyterian Church of Wales, Peniel, Trefriw, maybe? Z**
From your walk to Ardda, area?
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Good thinking Yorkie and it was after one of the walks I did, it was in a valley, but not in the Conwy Valley. $walesflag$
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OK I'll let you out of your misery and tell you that it is in St John the Evangelist Church in Barmouth. This is a copy of a Copenhagen Font and another is in St Hiles Church in Edinburgh.
Hope I'm right or I'll feel a bit of a twit! _))*
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OK I'll let you out of your misery and tell you that it is in St John the Evangelist Church in Barmouth. This is a copy of a Copenhagen Font and another is in St Hiles Church in Edinburgh.
Hope I'm right or I'll feel a bit of a twit! _))*
You said it Yorkie, you're just not paying attention. $smack$
You've said that answer before and I said that It's further east and much nearer the three towns.
It's also east of Conwy Valley too and here's a photo of the back of the Church that should give it away. $walesflag$
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Well if there is another then there are two in wales and not the one that they say are copies of the original. Even the photograph looks the same. I now give up. If there were only one then fair play!
https://blosslynspage.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/a-copenhagen-font-in-barmouth-wales/
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Wow Yorkie, you have been busy but if you look again then they are two different angels.
You need to be back in the Vale of Clwyd to see this White marble Angel Font. $walesflag$
I've been past the Church many times as it isn't that far from the A55 but never been in it before.
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If I was a betting man Yorkie then I'd back you to get this answer. $walesflag$ $welsh$
Just seen that Gwynant is on line so I'm not too sure who to back now. ??? $walesflag$
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Is it St Mary's, Cefn Meiriadog?
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Hollins has just pipped Yorkie and Gwynant at the post. &well&
I see that seasoned travellers are not affect by jet lag ;D
St Mary's at Cefn - ( Eng back ) $walesflag$
Meiriadog
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Ha! No jet lag yet Hugo which should be a clue to the next quiz question.
What is being built under this dome?
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A rough guess at Burj Dubai, where they are trying to get the number of cranes on site into the Guinness Book of Records. ZXZ
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No, it isn't in Dubai. It has an association with Paris but it is not in France.
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I will have two guesses, either the Mid Field Terminal Development (unlikely) or Khalifa Port, both Abu Dhabi. Z**
Love all the Tower Cranes as I was in the business for 30 odd years! ZXZ
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Is this the Paris connection? Z**
Abu Dhabi Louvre Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), master developer of major tourism, cultural and residential destinations in Abu Dhabi, completed the construction of the first gallery of Louvre Abu Dhabi in March
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Yes, well done it is the construction of the Louvre Museum on Saadiyat Island close to Abu Dhabi. Unfortunately it is still under construction as you can see by all the cranes. Due for completion December 2015!
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/tourism/louvre-abu-dhabi (http://www.thenational.ae/uae/tourism/louvre-abu-dhabi)
There are big plans for this island but at the moment the hotel I am staying in stands alone.
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Where is this pretty parish church in North Wales?
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A wild guess at St Mary'd Church in Beddgelert?
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Well done Hugo, I thought you might get it! The pic below shows the mountains a bit better.
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Nice photo of the Church Gwynant. $good$
I must admit that I thought it was the Church in Cwm Pennant originally but checked the windows on a photo I took. You must have taken that on your WHR visit and walk around Beddgelert.
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Where's this property and what is it called?
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I am absolutely sure it is Clivedon House on the River Thames, home of the Astor Family, and now a NT property.
I lived in a house on the opposite side of the river, in the lovely village of Cookham.
Connection of course with Mandy Rice Savies and Christine Keeler, and Profumo, and Ward.
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A good guess Yorkie , it's not correct but it is in England.
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Nice gardens
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I don't know the answer but I hope you had a lovely time Hugo. I hope someone gets it soon because I am dying to know where you have been. Looks a gorgeous place.........a hotel maybe?
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Thanks Hollins, we did have a lovely time and it has been a while since we had a break this long. Meanwhile our dog has been on a farm for 6 days and now it's his bathtime! ;D
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Judging by the name of the first owner horse riding must be something in the genes. It's odds on that Yorkie and Hollins will know this one
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I happened to be looking for a short break myself Hugo and it looks very much like one I had short listed. Is it Holme Lacy House Hotel in the Wye Valley? The horsey connection would then be Scudamore ?
Hope you had a lovely time and would you recommend it?
Meleri
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Spot on Meleri, well done &well&
It is Holme Lacy $good$
Holme Lacy was for some centuries in the ancient family of Scudamore, one of whom attended William the Conqueror in his expedition to England;Philip Scudamore, a descendant, settled here in the 14th century,[3] and his descendant John Scudamore esq. was created a baronet in 1620, and in 1628 Baron Dromore and Viscount Scudamore, of Sligo. His successor, the second viscount, commissioned Anthony Deane in 1674 to build a new country mansion on the estate
We have now been to all the historic hotels that Warner Holidays have but this was our first visit to Holme Lacy. It's smaller that the others but is now actually our favourite one. Our room was good and the staff were excellent and they had activities going on all day, from 10.00 am to past midnight but we went to bed before 11.00pm and the old folks were still enjoying themselves long afterwards
I've just watched Escape to the country at 2.00pm today and a short clip was from the gardens in Holme Lacy but you didn't need that clue as you knew where it was. $good$
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Here is a list of a activities during the day at Holme Lacy but each day is a bit varied too. $good$
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Looks great Hugo!
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Thank you for the info & photographs Hugo, we shall certainly be looking out for a break there in the spring. Had it not been for a bad bout of flu we would probably have been there at the same time. What a coincidence. $thanx$
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Thanks Meleri, if you do go there I hope that you enjoy it as much as we did. Hope that your flu goes away soon. We went by coach and on the way back someone was coughing badly and I'm afraid that I've got a dose of "man flu" now but hope that it goes away before Christmas
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Hope you both have better luck with the flu bug thing. I have now been messing about for over 5 weeks and have had every diagnosis imaginable from a chest infection to angina. Two lots of pills made me so ill, that they have ended up being abandoned. I am now trusting in my own immune system to get rid !
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Sounds nasty Nemesis, hope that your immune system sorts itself out quickly. I've had the flu jab so it's only man flu but the nose is streaming at the moment.
I'll have a hot toddy later, it might not work but it'll taste nice, I hope. ZXZ
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Hope you both have better luck with the flu bug thing. I have now been messing about for over 5 weeks and have had every diagnosis imaginable from a chest infection to angina. Two lots of pills made me so ill, that they have ended up being abandoned. I am now trusting in my own immune system to get rid !
Personally, I would ask for a second opinion. I did in 1990 and finished up having CABG. (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts). $good$
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Thanks for that Yorkie ! I have been to Bangor once to see a cardiologist and have to go again in the New Year for a different test. The angina idea has been more or less ruled out, trouble is I have been asthmatic for 30 years or more, so any 'bug' always settles in my lungs. Time will tell !
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Yorkie's advice is sound Nemesis, you can't take chances with your health. I've got a lung condition that isn't serious but it's not treatable either. It is controllable with antibiotics so after another bad night I phoned the Doctor up and my OH will pick them up this afternoon.
Hopefully now on Christmas Day I'll be able to enjoy eating the Turkey
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Hope everyone recovers soon, my cough has been going on for weeks and coughed so much I have fractured a rib. So off for an osteoporosis test after the festivities are over.That will teach me not to have the flu jab early. :(
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Hope everyone recovers soon, my cough has been going on for weeks and coughed so much I have fractured a rib. So off for an osteoporosis test after the festivities are over.That will teach me not to have the flu jab early. :(
That sounds awful Meleri, I hope that they get it sorted out for you soon.
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Last one before Christmas- Where in North Wales would you find these multi-coloured rocks?
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Yorkies wild guess Trearddur Bay. ZXZ
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Good guess Yorkie but not quite correct, you are on the right island but in the wrong location.
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Parys Mountain?
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No sorry Jack, not Parys Mountain, though is does look similar. This location is named after a holy person and is also very close to some natural monochrome features..............
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It looks like a walk I've been on a few times before Trearddur Bay to Rhoscolyn but your photo does more justice to the lovely colour there
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You're spot on Hugo, it is Porth Saint between Rhoscolyn and Ravenspoint in Tre-arddur Bay and is near the Black and White Arches and the gravestone of "Tyger"(see pics), the dog that helped rescue the crew of a wrecked sailing ship many years ago. Well done (once again!)
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This is a picture of a Film Set. Can you....
Name the Film and Star
The Film Studio where photographed
The unusual feature of the picture.
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Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice
Pinewood Studios
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Well done Jack, you have now answered the two very easy parts of the question, how about the last, and most important? ££$
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Looks like a big model!
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It's Blofeld's Lair which is supposedly in a hollowed out volcano.
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I doubt anyone will get it so will give it to you.
You may notice in the top of the picture there is the unmistakeable jib of a Tower Crane. I worked in the business and our yard and offices were nearby at West Drayton. The Tower Crane was installed just to lift the "Rocket" in and out of the volcano - a pretty expensive exercise! I and a few others had a grand tour of the set and were able to watch a few "takes". All very interesting.
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Thanks SDQ for your input. $walesflag$
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D'oh! Yet another obscure question just so Yorkie can blow his own...
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Not really SDQ. I think there are plenty on here staying in posh hotels, visiting posh places, who talk about themselves time and time again, eating lavish food in posh restaurants, playing in their posh gardens and other such matters. I thought my question would be quite intersting. If you did find it so then just don't read my posts. You sound just like Oscar.
WWW WWW WWW
Have a look at few of Hollins' questions, re Dubai and her World tours!
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Wow! Looks like I really hit a nerve there!
I must apologise.
Sorry Hollins. For what it's worth I really enjoy reading about your travels & the many pics you post. Apart from the Man Utd ones of course! :twoface:
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Apology accepted in the spirit in which it was given.
I also apologise to Hollins as it was wrong of me too single her out. I too enjoy her traveller's tales, even though a little envious of going to some of the exotic locations.
ZXZ
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To Yorkie.........Ouch........ :'(
To SDQ........... ;D............
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To Yorkie.........Ouch........ :'(
To SDQ........... ;D............
I usually like all your photos Hollins but that one's awful. :puke2: ;D
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Sorry you didn't like that one Hugo.
How about this one?
Who is this famous footballer? ;D
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Yorkies wild guess, Stanley Matthews, the best dribbler ever! ZXZ *&( ))*
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It looks more like David Beckham without tattoos.
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That's worse Hollins, how could you do such a thing at this time of the year?
How about a New Year's resolution " I must stop being a Cougar"
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&shake& &shake&
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These designs maybe more suitable for you Hugo? :)
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That reminded me of the time when David Beckham went shopping, and saw something interesting in the
kitchen department of a large department store.
"What's that?" he asked. "A Thermos flask," replies the assistant.
"What does it do?" asked Becks. The assistant told him it keeps hot
things hot and cold things cold. Really impressed, Beckham buys one and took it along to his next training session.
"Here, boys, look at this," Beckham says proudly. "It's a Thermos
flask."
The lads are impressed.
"What does it do?" they ask.
"It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold,"says David.
"And what have you got in it?" asks Roy Keane.
"Two cups of coffee and a choc ice," replies David.
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Yes but I bet he had a lovely proud smile when he said it! :D
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I had a little walk today but couldn't go any further as I came to a dead end, where was I?
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The end of the road. ;D
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Minus one point Mull for being a smart a**e $smack$
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Looks like a slate quarry, my guess is the hospital in the slate museum at Dinorwig, Llanberis.
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Spot on ME well done &well&
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D) had a preserved, museum look to it! :D
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Is it one of the "White Ladies" on Carmel Head, Ynys Mon?
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I thought that you would be the one to get it Gwynant despite the unusual angle. Well done &well&
It was a beautiful warm day there today
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Can you name this and say where it is. A clue it is not in UK.
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Looks like a new Happy Valley.
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OMG In your dreams !
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A few Westerns been filmed in the vicinity, and a failed UK soap. ZXZ
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Portugal!
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Portugal!
Not this time, but still a part of the Iberian Peninsula. ZXZ
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Cadiz?
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El Dorado is the soap and was filmed in Coin near Malaga in Spain but I can't find this place. ???
Must have more Google lessons and try harder.
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It is in a popular Pueblos Blancos, in the hills a couple of miles from the Coast and the resort of Fuengirola and Benelmadena.
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It doesn't seem to have a proper name. Some call it the Municipal Auditotiom, some The Mijas Auditorium or just the open air theatre. Anyway, it's in Mijas Pueblo, Andalucia, Spain.
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&well& , exactly right. Correct title is
Auditorio Municipal de Mijas, Miguel González Berral
They seem to name everything after people over there! They put on some great shows. ZXZ
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I saw these in an old cottage that I went to on Wednesday but where was the cottage in N Wales? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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It's near an old chapel. $walesflag$ popeth Cymraeg $welsh$
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Here's another photo of the Chapel which is in a village that was once a port?
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Nant Gwrtheyrn, Hugo. The Popeth Cymraeg clue gave it away and when I Googled it there was a picture of it on the Home Page. I visited it 10 years ago when they were doing up the village and it looks very different now, time for another visit!
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I knew that you would get it Gwynant although I did crop the first photo of the Chapel as it showed Port Dinllaen and that would have given the game away. &well&
Clues Cymraeg do help sometimes! $walesflag$
It's over 40 years since I walked down and back up there and the village was just in ruins. They have really done an excellent job and there is still a lot of work going on there at the moment.
The place was called Port Nant at one time and boats from Liverpool and other ports used to call there for the granite.
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Where in North Wales is this quarry, what is it known as and what are the buildings in the foreground used for? I am going out to watch the Wales-England game tonight so I won't be able to reply to any guesses between about 1930 and 2230.
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I knew that you would get it Gwynant although I did crop the first photo of the Chapel as it showed Port Dinllaen and that would have given the game away. &well&
Clues Cymraeg do help sometimes! $walesflag$
It's over 40 years since I walked down and back up there and the village was just in ruins. They have really done an excellent job and there is still a lot of work going on there at the moment.
The place was called Port Nant at one time and boats from Liverpool and other ports used to call there for the granite.
We too walked down and back probably about the same time, found it in a book called Hidden Haunts which I still have, be it very dog eared. Our daughter thought we were trying to kill her, the hill is very steep !
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No guesses at the location of the quarry so here's a few clues:-
1) The English translation of the nearby area has a bleak-sounding ring to it, as does the sound you can regularly hear from an essential building half a mile away.
2) It is a few hundred metres from a park where some expensive-sounding animals were kept in days gone by.
3) It is within 10 miles of the three towns area.
4) Hugo, Jack, Dave.R. and maybe Mr.& Mrs Hollins must have walked past it, but maybe didn't see it.
5) The business in the buildings has changed hands recently and is doing very well now with new contracts to provide locally sourced produce.
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Llanddulas?
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Not Llandulas Bri, although it is on the coast but here's another picture clue. This is half a mile away from the site.
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Is it Penmon limestone quarry?
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You are in the right area Hollins, but it is not the old limestone quarry with the old kilns and the loading quay that is on the Menai Straits side of Penmon Point. What is the name of the this quarry and what is being produced in the buildings? The attached photos give you a bigger view of the site.
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Is it Dinmor Quarry ? There is a Sea Bass fish farm there.
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No guesses at the location of the quarry so here's a few clues:-
1) The English translation of the nearby area has a bleak-sounding ring to it, as does the sound you can regularly hear from an essential building half a mile away.
2) It is a few hundred metres from a park where some expensive-sounding animals were kept in days gone by.
3) It is within 10 miles of the three towns area.
4) Hugo, Jack, Dave.R. and maybe Mr.& Mrs Hollins must have walked past it, but maybe didn't see it.
5) The business in the buildings has changed hands recently and is doing very well now with new contracts to provide locally sourced produce.
Well done Meleri, it is Dinmor Quarry. It is slightly west of Trwyn Du (Black Point, the bleak-sounding area and the ringing sound is the bell which chimes regularly on the lighthouse), and next to the Deer Park (expensive sounding animals), 8 miles from Llandudno (as the crow flies), and the Sea Bass Fish Farm has new owners and is now known as Anglesey Aquaculture and has won a big contract with Waitrose to supply them. You don't see it until you walk right to the edge of the quarry.
Last Wednesday we walked from Llangoed down past Aberlleiniog Castle to the Straits and then round on the coastal path to Penmon and then on up to Mariandyrys and Bwrdd Arthur before returning to the car in Llangoed. It was a beautiful day with great views of the Carneddau and Glyders and it looked like it was nice back home in Llandudno across Conway Bay from there too. (See attached photo and also one of a robin which came to watch us eating our butties!}
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Thanks for that information Gwynant, I shall add it to our list of intended walks for when the weather warms up. We have a couple of Hugo's as well.
Love the picture of the well fed Robin, hope you gave him something. $good$
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I knew that you would get it Gwynant although I did crop the first photo of the Chapel as it showed Port Dinllaen and that would have given the game away. &well&
Clues Cymraeg do help sometimes! $walesflag$
It's over 40 years since I walked down and back up there and the village was just in ruins. They have really done an excellent job and there is still a lot of work going on there at the moment.
The place was called Port Nant at one time and boats from Liverpool and other ports used to call there for the granite.
I had that book also but lost it a long time ago. I think that it was a booklet called The Captain's Guide to hidden haunts and I tried to visit as many as I could and did most of them.
We too walked down and back probably about the same time, found it in a book called Hidden Haunts which I still have, be it very dog eared. Our daughter thought we were trying to kill her, the hill is very steep !
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Here are the two which I have left, I also had one called The Captain's Guide, but it seems to have gone missing ! The oldest copy of these two was 1972.
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Where in North Wales would you find this piece of mechanical history and what was it used for?
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Me thinks I've seen that before! ZXZ
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Me thinks I've seen that before! ZXZ
It's on a route which I know that Jack, Hugo and I think Pendragon have walked in the last couple of years but I I did a check and I haven't seen a photo of it on the Forum previously. The name of the area is very nearly identical (only one letter different) from the fictional location of a recent popular TV series.
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It is an old incline drum and I'll take a guess at Moelwyn Bach. Make a start even if I'm wrong! ;D
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Is it above Porth Wen brickworks, Anglesey?
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Spot on Jack, sorry Yorkie. We walked from Bull Bay out to Porth Wen and back last Wednesday. I'll stick a few pics on the Walking Thread over the weekend. We were going to go on to Cemaes but my mate forgot his Bus Pass!
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Where will you see this display of horses and what is their claim to fame?
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Kentucky Derby Winners with Owners Colours. At the Churchill Downs Racecourse.
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No, sorry but they are all winners of a famous race.
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Meydan Racecourse Dubai, winners of the Dubai World Cup?
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Yes, well done Yorkie.
I was there on Thursday night for the Carnival meeting but I have very fond memories of seeing Dubai Millennium win in 2000. I have found my race card which I kept from then and here is a photo of it. Such a beautiful horse and so sad that he died a year later from colic
I will put some photos of Thursday's meeting in the horse racing thread if there are any interested racegoers out there.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/3004491/Wonder-horse-Dubai-Millennium-dies.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/3004491/Wonder-horse-Dubai-Millennium-dies.html)
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That took me two attempts because a horse with the same name won the Kentucky! Chose the wrong one first, but then I should have realised. ZXZ
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Where in North Wales was I at the weekend? $walesflag$
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Belan Fort at Bottom of Menai Straits, just for a first stab at the answer. 🎏
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Spot on Yorkie $good$ Well done $walesflag$
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Sailed past it a few times when I took my Day Skipper at Plas Menai. 💻🏇
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Where was in the North Wales area today?
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No replies to this one one as yet so here is a photo showing slightly more detail and a clue. This spot is at the conjunction of two long gradients, one is natural and the the other is not...........
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Conwy?
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Yorkie's wild guess is;
Blaenau Ffestiniog maybe at the Zip Wire ride. ZXZ
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Yorkie you are spot on. I went there yesterday to have a look at the set-up and it's got 4 separate stages culminating at this point. It was very busy (half-term) and the "Bounce Below" underground trampoline feature attraction was doing well also. Apparently there will be a new underground "adventure ride" opened later this year in the adjacent cavern, and there is also a mountain bike trail higher up the pass as well. You travel to the top of the zip-wire in a red bus like the Bethesda version. There are a few photos attached to show the layout.
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Did you have a go on the zip wire then Gwynant? ;D
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No I didn't Hugo, but I think if I do I might go in the winter when it's cheaper, (£35 as opposed to £50 in summer), and cheaper still if you book in a minimum party of four. I know it's winter now but I wasn't mentally prepared, yesterday was a fact-finding trip! There are allegedly great views on the higher sections of the run, right over to Eryri. My mate has been on the longer, higher Bethesda one and he said it was great but all over very quickly (like so many other things nowadays!).
On the way back we went up on the road behind Llan Ffestiniog and had break in a viewpoint with great views of the Moelwyns and Stwlan dam, over to the Rhinogs and right down to Portmadog, and there was a memorial to Rees Jeffreys in the car park, (see pics). I looked him up on Google and was a transport expert but I couldn't find a local connection.
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Anybody notice anything wrong on this magazine cover?
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Well, it's not March or April 2015 yet?
But... I assume that you mean that the building is in Wales?
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No, nothing to do with the date or where the building is.
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Tom Parker-Bowles is the stepson of HRH The Prince of Wales not his son-in-law :roll:
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TPB is not Prince Charles Son in Law..... it's Camilla's son, therefore his step-son.
How embarrassing!
Edit.... Meleri, well done, I now see you beat me to it!
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Yes, someone made a boo boo!
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Where in North Wales will you see this?
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Raynes Quarry, Llanddulas?
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Well done Jack! I'm going to have to ban you from these quizzes. No, seriously, well done!
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Question for a quiet day on the forum, (sorry Yorkie, it's another church!). Where in North Wales would you find this pretty village church? It has connections with an old-established association and has a display inside to commemorate the link.
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It's the Church of St John the Baptist, Yspyty Ifan. In the 12th century, the Knights of St John established a place of worship and hospice more or less on the site of the present church.
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Well done Cambrian. There is a display inside depicting the Knights of St.John who were the forefathers of the St.John's Ambulance Association (see attached pics) and they provided shelter and help to anyone who was attacked by the "brigands and bandits" who frequented the area in olden days. Yspyty Ifan translates as "Hospice of John".
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St Johns Church,, Ysbyty Ifan, found it just before the extra clues. ZXZ but not in time to be first.
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Good one Gwynant $good$
Those brigands and bandits also sought sanctuary there, as once they were there the law couldn't touch them.
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takes me back to 1959/60 when i was a member of the St Johns in Wrexham and spent a week watching the film Psyco in the Odeon, saw the film 13 times in the one week.was on duty up stairs all week up untill the last showing on the saturday night when i was down stairs. The only night when we had one fainting and sure enough it was up stairs.
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One for the Gormets. Where will you find this All Day Menu? The venue is well known for one particulkar reason, what?
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Portugal?
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Nah! Good old UK but not Wales.
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The Duck & Waffle on the 40th floor of Heron Tower, Bishopsgate, London Perhaps ?
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&well& absolutely correct! Thought this would last a bit longer than it did! Have you been there? Reputed to be the highest Restauant in the UK.
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I'm afraid not Yorkie, sorry about that as you did say it was for the gourmets. I hate heights and am a bit of a philistine when it comes to gourmet food. I Googled 'Restaurant, hand-churned butter and puglian olive oil' and up it popped. I wonder if they really churn the butter by hand? ;)
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I took this photo today but where was I?
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Bodnant?
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Nice try ME but it's not correct.
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Yorkies wild guess.
Dolwyddelan Castle
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Yorkie's wild guess is spot on. Well done &well&
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$thanx$ It was not easy, but I thought I had it right in the end. ZXZ
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Where would you be if you saw this?
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This wouldn't get you to the place, you'd have to walk there instead. So where did I walk to?
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The wagon is at Beddgelert, so did you walk to the Sygun Copper mine?
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This wagon isn't the one in Beddgelert ME but if you walk up the road behind it then you will have deserved a well earned drink when you come to this place. $cofffee$
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Well worth it when you get here, the food, company and the views are worth the effort of getting there.
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It's a place at the top of the gorge where you can enjoy a good drink and good views at the same time. $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Hugo, I have been scratching my head about this one and I think it could be Pen-y-Ceunant Isaf Cafe, but only because of the "Clues Cymraeg"! I googled it and found that is on the Snowdon Path in Llanberis. I have never heard of it before as I usually go to Pete's Eats when I am in that area.
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Clues Cymraeg has done it again Gwynant. &well& We went up to Pen Ceunant Isaf Tearooms yesterday and then had a walk to see the Penceunant Waterfall. We hadn't seen it before but it's is probably one of the most impressive waterfalls in Wales and plunges over a hundred feet in two stages into a gorge.
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Waiting in a lay-by ready to catch speeding drivers, a police officer sees a car puttering along the A22 at well under the 30 mile per hour limit.
Says he to himself: "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his siren and flashing lights and pulls the driver over.
Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies, two in the front and three in the back...wide eyed and white as ghosts.
The driver, obviously confused, says to him "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?"
"Madam," the policeman replies, "you weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers."
"Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly, twenty-two miles an hour!" ......the old woman says, a bit proudly.
The policeman, trying to contain a chuckle, explains to her that A22 is the road number, not the speed limit.
A bit embarrassed, the woman grins and thanks the policeman for pointing out her error.
"But before I let you go, madam, I have to ask, is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken, and they haven't made a sound this whole time," the officer asks.
"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute, officer. We've just come off the A120.
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Where was I yesterday and who's were these horses.?
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Is it the Horses of Helios statue at Piccadilly Circus in London?
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Golly ...........that didn't last long ! I thought that I might throw people off the scent by only including two of the horses ! Well done Hollins.
We had a very long 'day trip' yesterday organised by my OH, as a surprise, to celebrate out golden wedding next week. We caught the 7.40 am train and went to see Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre ( for the 10th time) then arrived home at 10.30 pm. We did this for our Silver Wedding, so he had re-created the trip. Enough to say that we are both shattered this morning !
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Wow, Nemesis. Congratulations for next week!
Sorry to spoil the quiz quickly but it is ages since I have got one right.
A lovely day for catching up today anyway and you will always have the nice memories of a great day out.
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Where in North Wales will you find this?
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This is a fairly recently installed relief sculpture which has been put in this position to entice you to go and visit something further up the hill.
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A wild guess but with all the flowers depicted on the sculpture is it in Bodnant Gardens?
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Good guess Hugo but it isn't at Bodnant. There are nine types of flowers depicted in it and they can give a clue to the story behind it.
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Is this the story behind the sculpture in Denbigh?
Finally sculptor, Joss Smith, from London, has produced an eye catching sculpture placed at the turn in the lane at Temple Bar Gardens which can be seen from the High Street. He has also produced two smaller sculptures that ‘fly’ out of the wall part way up the lane. Joss’ designs are based on the Welsh mythological Mabinogion’s character, Blodeuwedd and the nine flowers of power. One of the flowers is a broom flower
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Photo
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Yes, well done.
Here is a link to why they commissioned it in that position.
http://www.celfwaith.co.uk/projects/denbigh-town-castle-link-scheme-broomhill-lane-part-2 (http://www.celfwaith.co.uk/projects/denbigh-town-castle-link-scheme-broomhill-lane-part-2)
I must say that it has partly worked in my case because as I was walking along the main street yesterday I first of all noticed the castle signpost and then looked up the alley to see the sculpture at the end of it. By the time I was there I thought I would walk up to the castle as it was such a nice day.
Mind you, how disappointing that someone had placed a pile of black bin bags next to it. I also thought it strange that there was only a plaque there to say it had been financed by the EU and not anything about the sculpture itself or the artist.
I had to find this out by myself on google and even that was not easy which is why I think you have done really well to find the answer to this one Hugo.
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Done better with the view this time but where am I?
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Pure guess, Manchester?
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Good guess ME, correct!
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Amazing, a pure random guess! ;D
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Where would you find this unusual flower bed?
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No guesses on this motorised flowerbed so far. It stands outside a building which commemorates this town's links with the military, which stretch back many centuries.
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I have a sneaking feeling that I've seen that in Chester?
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I have a sneaking feeling that I've seen that in Chester?
Are you sure it wasn't in Bury?
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Well done SDQ, it is Bury. Apologies for the delay in replying, I've only just come back in. We had a day there yesterday with Voel Coaches. Apart from the great market, there is also a Transport Museum, the restored East Lancs Railway, the Art Museum,the Fusiliers Museum and they have spent a great deal on regeneration of the town centre since the last time I was there. We also had a look inside the Parish Church, which was well worth a visit. (see attached pics)
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Nice pics, Gwynant.
That is a very popular trip and very reasonably priced at £8.50 each.
Mrs R is going again with Voel next Wednesday.
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Where will you find this and who does it commemorate?
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Richard III at Leicester. Very topical Yorkie and the White Roses help too.
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Richard III at Leicester. Very topical Yorkie and the White Roses help too.
Wmell done again. Actually recently replaced into the Cathedral Gardens.
No more sorry to say for the forseable future.
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Where did I pass this old loco while out and about in North Wales today?
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Were you walking in Dolgarrog today then Gwynant?
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Indeed I was, well spotted Hugo! We took the bus from Llandudno and alighted at Dolgarrog Halt by Plas Maenan, crossed the Valley line and then walked over the footbridge over the Afon Conwy and then followed the lane across the valley floor up to the outskirts of Dolgarrog. Right next to the old Dolgarrog Football pitch ( where I had played in the old Vale of Conwy League days many years ago!).
We came across the old loco and some rolling stock which have been marooned on about 150 metres of track. The football pitch is now part of the the new Surfing Pool complex on the site of the old Aluminium Works, and after having a very informative chat with a local as we enjoyed a coffee outside the village shop I learned that it is expected to be up and running by this July. We took the bus back to Conwy, walked across the cob and caught the local service back home.
I had never been over the bridge from Dolgarrog Halt before and noticed that there are some signed footpaths along the river bank there in either direction for the future. I include a few pics of the old railway and the surfing pool site.
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Well I never.
In all the years I have known you I did not know you once played football.
Who did you play for and during which years?
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I played for Eglwsbach, and Quinton Hazell in the Vale of Conwy League for a couple of years in the 60s Bri, and later in the Sunday League for the King's Head, Cross Keys, and finally the Albert Hotel until I broke my leg in 1976. I'm sure I played against you at some time, didn't you play for Maggie Murphy's when Col. Hare was the licencee in the late 60's early 70s?
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Years ago I remember when a Cwm Place team played Dolgarrog in a friendly game at the field in Maesdu road. I must have been about 12 years old and the youngest on the field by far. Cwm Place must have been short of a player and were desperate so they put me in the team at Centre Forward, a position I've never played in before or since and their Centre Half was Dave Powell. :o
I was probably under 5 feet tall and Dave must have been 6 feet plus and they kept playing the high ball to me so I had no chance anyway.
We lost 12- 1 which wasn't surprising as Dave Powell was a brilliant player and a future international too when he moved to Sheffield Utd
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When I played for Quints in the early 70s the left wing was a 15 year old Mickey Thomas who lived down the road in Mochdre, and who moved on to Wrexham at the end of that season after the scouts had watched him. The club received a new football strip as a gift from Wrexham, they should have asked for a percentage of his next move, which was to Man Utd for £350.000! I bumped into him in ASDA recently and he is still the same football-mad guy he was all those years ago.
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Dave Powell from Dolgarrog is a name I do not recognise, Hugo, but he was certainly an outstanding player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Powell_(footballer) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Powell_(footballer))
I played for Eglwsbach, and Quinton Hazell in the Vale of Conwy League for a couple of years in the 60s Bri, and later in the Sunday League for the King's Head, Cross Keys, and finally the Albert Hotel until I broke my leg in 1976. I'm sure I played against you at some time, didn't you play for Maggie Murphy's when Col. Hare was the licencee in the late 60's early 70s?
Yes, I played regularly for Maggies during the early seventies when I had a lot more hair than I have now !!
http://www.soccerscrapbook.co.uk/north%20wales/page126.html (http://www.soccerscrapbook.co.uk/north%20wales/page126.html)
My CV in the Vale of Conwy from 1967-75 was with Borough Amateurs, Conwy Borough, Conwy RBL and Llandudno Reserves on the old Council Field.
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A bridge over a stream and a scenic waterfall, where will you find it?
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Bodnant Garden?
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Bodnant Garden?
Quite right! $good$ I was hoping that a different angle (taken from the newly opened bit) might confuse people slightly!
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Where in North Wales was I when I took this photo?
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Portmadoc?
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Portmadoc?
It's good but it's not right, as Roy Walker used to say.
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Beaumaris?
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Beaumaris?
Im afraid that's not it.
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Is it Cemaes Bay on Anglesey?
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Pwllheli?
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Hugo takes the prize, it is the small former fishing village of Cemaes Bay on Anglesey. The walks along the Coastal Path are great around there.
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Did you get to the Vineyard by St Badrigs Church? We had a few free tasters when we went there once. $good$
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Where did I go exactly on my N Wales walk today?
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Wild guess (as Yorkie used to say), Sygun Mine, Beddgelert.
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No not today, sorry Gwynant
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We didn't go in the mine because we were barred from doing so.
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The lead mines on the way up to Crafnant/ Geirionedd above Trefriw.
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Another good try Gwynant but still not correct. Does this help?
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Here is another photo of the mine entrance to make it easier.
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Somewhere up by Llanberis, Dinorwig?
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It's a good guess Dave but it's not correct. It's over there!
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Another view to the mine.
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Further up the valley $walesflag$
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Looks like Cwmorthin slate mine to me.
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I agree with M.E. I haven't seen the latest photos posted today because I have just come in from a day's walking...........in Cwm Cwmorhin! I passed the slate mine as we were going up to to the head of Cwm Cwmorthin and Cwm Croesor and carried on above up on to Moel Druman and back. It was beautiful up there today and I'll put a few pics on tomorrow to go with the ones that you will surely post now the question is solved!
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Well done ME and Gwynant &well&
We did the walk up to Cwmorthin and to Rhosydd quarry then had a peek into Cwm Croesor before returning back to the start. Hope your weather was good like ours was Gwynant. $good$
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I have been inside both of these mines many moons ago, both very interesting and dangerous! :o
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Where in North Wales would you find this building?
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I'll have a Yorkie wild guess at Theatre Clwyd, Mold.
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I'll have a wild guess at the new theatre in Deiniol Road Bangor. ???
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I think SDQ has the right town, but is it Mold Library/Museum ?
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I think SDQ has the right town, but is it Mold Library/Museum ?
Correct, well done! $good$
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Where is this and what is it for?
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Another photo which may help
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Does this help?
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Does this help?
Aye!
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Where's Gwynant when our Forum needs him?
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I've looked at the three pics Hugo has posted so far and have no idea whatsoever. It looks like some sort of old walk-way with a blue safety rope above it, maybe in a quarry, it doesn't look like a coastal area. I'm just getting ready off on a walk this morning so I trust someone (maybe SDQ?) will have found the answer by the time I get home again!
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Well Gwynant, you may have walked on them but you have definitely been near them but what are they and where are they in N Wales? $walesflag$
I'm off soon myself as the car is going in for its MOT so I'll be back this afternoon unless I'm drowning my sorrows!
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This is a tough one, Hugo, the forum's finest minds are stumped! $walesflag$
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Aberglaslyn Pass? Fisherman's path?
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This is a tough one, Hugo, the forum's finest minds are stumped! $walesflag$
They have all been past it or near it, even you Dave but to be fair, I've also been past it and never noticed it and yet it has been there for years.
What is it and where is it though? ???
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Aberglaslyn Pass? Fisherman's path?
That's a very good guess ME, you're so close but nowhere near either, if that makes any sense. ???
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Another photo of the walkway
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I'll take a Yorkie Wild Guess at the gorge at Dolgarrog?
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I'll take a Yorkie Wild Guess at the gorge at Dolgarrog?
That is a wild guess Dave but still not correct. I'll milk this a bit more before I give another clue as we only found it when we went off the regular path thanks to a walking book from 1887
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))* I meant 1987 not 1887 if that helps?
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Not too far away but where is it and what was it used for?
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Just got back from a good day's walking and this one is still not solved! After seeing the today's pics I'll hazard a guess at the Afon Conwy near the Fairy Glen, or somewhere on the Afon Llugwy near the Miner's Bridge.
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That's two good guesses Gwynant and they are both wrong.
I would have thought that you would have got it because you must have been there or thereabouts. I know that you were less than 50 yards away on one of your outings.
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It took us a bit to find it too.
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Is it on the Afon Llugwy downstream from Pont-y-Pant?
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It's downstream from Pont Y Pant but it's the Afon Lledr and the location is the Lledr Gorge so well done Gwynant, &well&
That's the easy bit, so for the second part of the question, what is the walkway for exactly? ;D
The walkway is a series of boards and at the end of them is a rusty metal ladder that is bolted to the rock face and goes vertically up the face, hope that helps you to find the 2nd answer.
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Here's a reminder photo that may help you to work it out
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A wild guess Hugo. Could it be a sort of fish pass for salmon ?
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I have never been down to the gorge, in fact I never knew it existed so I assume that when you said I was "50 yds away on one of my jaunts" I assume you meant driving past on the A470! Cracking clue! I actually found the spot on Google maps by pinpointing the wooden chalet in the meadow on the riverbank. As to the use of the walkway was it to provide access to the river for salmon fishermen/poachers when the gorge was in spate?
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Well done again Gwynant. $good$ The walkway was for the Salmon fishermen, they climbed down the metal ladder and fished from that platform above the river.
The walkway only goes along that rock face but there is a deep pool all along underneath that walkway and apparently it was a good spot to catch the Salmon.
I don't know if they sat down on it or stood up while they were fishing but the platform isn't that wide.
I know that you went to Blaenau for a walk so if you didn't go along this walk, then the train and A470 are both about 50 yards away! ;D
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That was a very hard one Hugo, you obviously couldn't see it from the road and I've never noticed it from the train either. I was beginning to doubt my powers of observation! This one is much more "in the open" but the same two questions apply.
Where is this and what was it used for?
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A lovely building Gwynant and here's a wild guess at the magazine hut on Holyhead Mountain.
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Well done Hugo, spot on, location and what it was used for absolutely correct. We had a good walk there yesterday, pics to follow tomorrow.
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It had me fooled for a bit as I normally see it from the front view. We used to go to North Stack nearby in October every year to see the Seals giving birth in the cave below.
Looking forward to seeing your pics as that is always a good walk
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Tellytubby's weekend teaser, Where would you see this? $walesflag$
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Perhaps this photo will help?
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Is it on the River Elwy?
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It is Jack, it's in St Asaph. &well&
Tellytubby was there yesterday and was lucky enough to see a Kingfisher and he said that he saw over 100 Sand Martins too.
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Kingfishers!
Where were these made?
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Torquay?
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Yes, well done Jack.
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We went for a walk recently along this stormy coastline in North Wales - where were we? Nearest town will suffice as an answer!
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Is it Llanddwyn Island Newborough?
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Is it Llanddwyn Island Newborough?
Not quite the place, Hugo, but not more than 20 miles away I'd say... ;)
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For my next guess, I'd say west coast of Anglesey and Rhoscolyn and a wild guess, that you visited the White Eagle too. ;D
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For my next guess, I'd say west coast of Anglesey and Rhoscolyn and a wild guess, that you visited the White Eagle too. ;D
Correct on all counts, Hugo. ;D
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Where would you find this odd looking bar?
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Oh, thats BRILLIANT... I have no idea where it is, but it's like a Spanish Galleon, and I wanna go there!!
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Perhaps a day out in Blackpool to The Winter Gardens would do it Fester. I'd come with you if Captain Sparrow & Will Turner were the bar tenders ;D
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The Winter Gardens
Correct! The Galleon Bar in the Winter Gardens complex:
http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/BlackpoolTheatres/GalleonRenaissance.htm (http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/BlackpoolTheatres/GalleonRenaissance.htm)
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Where did I spot this yellow floral circle in a field today? I wasn't close enough to see what they are but I think they could be daffodils.
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To me it looks very,very similar to the approach to the first green on my golf course. But its not. Unless I have become yellow blind
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You're right Mike, it's not the approach to your first green, but is is in North Wales and obviously only visible in the spring months. To quote Hugo in a clue for a recent quiz question, many forum readers will have passed within 100 mts of it, using one of two available modes of mechanised transport, and it is also within 500 mts of a famous site of Welsh legend.
I only noticed it today as I was looking from some way off, back towards a follically-challenged bird of prey.........
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I might be a long way off the mark but it's obviously near a railway and main road but judging from the new track I think it's the Welsh Highland Railway and the follically-challenged bird of prey may be the young Osprey chicks just south of the Aberglaslyn Pass.
But 500 metres from a site of Welsh Legend? ???
Maybe Portmeirion, maybe not, I need to have another think on this as I haven't really got a clue. ?{}?
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A very wild guess at Beddgelert on the western side of the A498, just before the fisherman's path and the site is Gelerts Grave with you looking in the direction of the Osprey's nest.
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Very good first guess M.E., but Hugo is more or less there. It is looking across the Afon Glaslyn from the footpath on the eastern side of the river. I've never seen it before, but of course you have to be there in the spring and it doesn't show up on Google Earth! A very good guess at the osprey chicks at Pont Croesor by both, but the "follically-challenged bird of prey" I was referring to was Moel Hebog, (literal Cymraeg translation = "Bald or bare hawk or kestrel!), on the lower slopes of which the floral ring is situated. (See pics).
Mrs Gwynant and I had a trip out to Beddgelert on the WHR, walked the Fisherman's Path and returned on the bus to Caernarfon, the visibility was superb and Snowdon and the Nantlle Ridge were crystal clear.
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Where would you be if you were sitting on this bench? $walesflag$
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Perhaps this photo will help to find where you will be if you sit on the bench?
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It's near to a large Church but where will that Church be? $walesflag$
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You would be lucky to get a seat here at the weekend as the place should be buzzing! $walesflag$
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With all the clues about bees and the model hives situated on the wall behind the seat I looked up beekeeping centres in North Wales and came up with Furnace Farm, Bodnant, which is near Eglwsbach ("small church" which doesn't exactly fit in with your "large church" clue!) and also Llysfasi College near Ruthin, but I am not confident about either.
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You seem to be specialising in tough questions lately, Hugo! $good$
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You're so near Gwynant and getting warmer with the Furnace but it's not there. Next time I sit on the bench I'll have a glass of Mead and look across the road at the large Church but where will I be?
It's only easy if you know it Dave, but there have been loads of clues. ;D
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I must admit that I've thrown in a red herring but I've also given the location and name of the place so it should be easy now. ???
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With all the clues about bees and the model hives situated on the wall behind the seat I looked up beekeeping centres in North Wales and came up with Furnace Farm, Bodnant, which is near Eglwsbach ("small church" which doesn't exactly fit in with your "large church" clue!)
I've driven through Eglwysbach many times and always wondered where the little church that gave it's name to the village was as I've never seen it. The earliest written record of St Martin’s Church dates from 1254, but the church was rebuilt in c.1782, after the previous one became dilapidated so perhaps that's why there's no longer a small church there
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It's "The Bee" in Eglwsbach Hugo. I've just checked on Google Maps and the area with the steps hadn't been cleaned up and the new seat fitted yet when the camera van went through, but there is a large church across the road and the house with a load of greenery on the porch in your photo in the background. I don't think I have been up there since the seventies. Good one!
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I knew that you would get it in the end so well done. You were so near with your first guess and I'm sure that you would have got it then except for my mischief making with the size of the Church $walesflag$ &well&
Can't make it too easy but there were a few be's in the clues
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Three men in a boat, where are they?
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It looks a bit like Porth Dinllaen and the Ty Coch Pub seems to be where thet are heading to. Z**
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Well done Hugo. I didn't think that one would last long and I was right!
Action man is now safely back from his latest adventure!
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Well done Hugo. I didn't think that one would last long and I was right!
Action man is now safely back from his latest adventure!
Three minutes is pretty quick, almost as long as my first drink at the Ty Coch. Z**
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Mr Hollins says cheers Hugo. They also enjoyed a couple of beers there and this lovely sunset.
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What a lovely place to have a pint. I'll drink to that. Z** Z**
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Where will you find these cubic trees?
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Clue needed?
It is a place of learning.
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It's a toughie Hollins and my first thoughts were that it was a business park so I'll have to think again. ?{}?
Is it in N Wales?
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There could be some learning done on a business park and yes it is in North Wales.
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First wild guess of the day - North Wales Police Driving School at St Asaph Business Park
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A second wild guess at the Op TIC Center which is in Ffordd William Morgan opposite my first guess.
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Well done Hugo with your second guess. It is part of Glyndwr University at St Asaph.
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Location wise, my first wild guess wasn't far away but when I checked to see where it was I saw that Op TIC building. It's unusual but impressive in a certain way.
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The Optic building was one of the 10 Technium Centres built by the Welsh Government a few years back at massive expense. Collectively, they cost over £100,000,000 to build and run, yet were a unmitigated disaster.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11790468 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11790468)
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An easy question for the weekend. What is it and where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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It's not part of a castle but it is very near one somewhere in N Wales $walesflag$
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If the clue about the Norman Castle hasn't led you to this building perhaps the photo will lead you there? $walesflag$
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Does this help? What is it and where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Is it the old winding house just off the Prestatyn - Rhuddlan road ?
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Well done Cambrian, it is the Clive engine house, Dyserth &well&
The towering empty stone building adjacent to the Dyserth Falls Resort was built c.1860 to house a large Cornish pumping engine for the Talargoch mine. The mine produced lead, zinc and other metals.
About 1245 a new castle was begun by Henry III at Dyserth at the northern end of the Clwyd range, in a position of considerable natural strength. Dyserth was intended to supplement or replace the first castle at Rhuddlan (Twthill), long in dispute between the Earl of Chester and the princes of Gwynedd. Both Dyserth and Deganwy were however, destroyed by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1263 and appear never to have been reoccupied
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dyserth.com%2Fclive-engine-house.html&ei=0qpYVeOoDInwUPe2gYAB&usg=AFQjCNFnms80OmGMeTsCm5NktuT1XZw3iQ&bvm=bv.93564037,d.d24 (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dyserth.com%2Fclive-engine-house.html&ei=0qpYVeOoDInwUPe2gYAB&usg=AFQjCNFnms80OmGMeTsCm5NktuT1XZw3iQ&bvm=bv.93564037,d.d24)
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We are away on holiday at the moment, can anyone guess where we are?
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First wild guess of the day- model village at Bourton on the water.
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I thought Cotswolds but didn't know where. Hope you are having a wonderful time.
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Well done Hugo, I thought that would last for ages! $good$ we are in Oxfordshire for a week, where we lived for many years! ☺
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Thanks Hollins, we are having a wonderful time! :D
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Where is this?
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It looks like the view from Tryfan looking down on to the A5 and Llyn Ogwen. Is that Mr H scrambling up it?
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Well done Hugo. It was Mr H taking the photo and that is his friend down below.
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Where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Looks like a slate quarry, Dinorwic?
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A very good good guess ME. &well&
We saw it on the lower Australian level at the Dinorwic Quarry today when we had a walk up there.
I'll post some photos of the walk on here as soon as I can. It was a very interesting one today.
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Thanks Hugo, just a lucky guess, I could see it was slate, lucky guess! D)
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I was hoping that it would have lasted a bit longer but that was a good educated guess. $good$
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ME, you can just about make out where this white painting is in the quarry. It's on the left on the third terrace
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I can just see it! An amazing place!
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Where is this and who made it?
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It's in Bilbao and made up of various flowers.
The Puppy is a 43 ft (13 m) tall topiary sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier puppy, executed in a variety of flowers (including Marigolds, Begonias, Impatiens, Petunias, and Lobelias)[40] on a transparent color-coated chrome stainless steel substructure.
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Well done Hugo.
Work by Jeff Koons.
http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/works/puppy-3/ (http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/works/puppy-3/)
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Where in North Wales will you find these steps?
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First wild guess is St Dwynwen's on Llanddwyn Island but am not confident as I was there recently and didn't see the steps.
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AMAZING! :o
Well done Hugo. I thought that was a really hard one.
Mr Hollins says you are banned from future questions. He said you would get it.
We have to thank you Hugo for inspiring us to go on our walk there today after seeing your pics last week.
Will put some of ours on the walking thread.
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That was a good photo Hollins and I wasn't certain about it at all. What made me think of St Dwynwen's was because of the long low wall in the background and the undulating land behind the wall. $good$
I'll look forward to seeing your photos on the walking thread as it is such a lovely place to visit, especially on a nice day.
Demi Moore stared in a film called Half Light and it was filmed in Anglesey with a lot of shots taken around the lighthouse
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I came across this today but where will you see it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Another angle
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If you climb theses steps you may see the figure? $walesflag$
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Conwy castle ?....Nice to see you out and about H.
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Thanks Steve, a good try but it's not Conwy Castle.
It's a bit spooky so don't go there in the dark!
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Poor Vic and Elizabeth, no wonder this place is said to be haunted
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Perhaps these shots of the Welsh castle may help? $walesflag$
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The castle was built by Llewelyn the Great and the ruins are in 160 acres of parkland. There are tales of a religious ghost and other spectres haunting the area and you can see this sculpture in the grounds too.
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Wepre Park?
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Ewloe Castle ?
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Spot on SDQ, well done &well&
Wepre Park is an ancient woodland rich in
wildlife and history. It is a greatly valued
green space for the residents of Connah's
Quay, and used by over 200,000 visitors from
across the region annually. It's 160 acres are
cared for on a daily basis by Flintshire
Countryside Service so that everyone can
enjoy its beautiful open spaces and facilities.
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It is Ewloe Castle Meleri so well done. &well&
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An ideal place to take the Grandchildren this summer hols, with spooky Nora the nun who met her unfortunate end, those wonderful pet headstones and acres to run. Thanks Hugo, hope you are feeling better. $thanx$
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Good question Hugo, good to see you are getting out and about again. Now where would you find this piece of modern sculpture in North Wales and what does it represent?
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No guesses at this one yet so here is another view of the sculpture with a clue in the distance. I know Hugo was very close to here in the last couple of years and I think DaveR has passed here as well. The demise of a regal covenant occurred very close to here in the past and an antipodean bird has recently taken up residence about half a mile away.........
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There's some clever cropping there Gwynant and it hasn't given much away. That white building on the right may be a lighthouse but doesn't help me much. I'm thinking Anglesey and the Royal Palace in Aberffraw but I'm not confident.
The clue about Dave doesn't help either as he's been to so many eateries in N Wales that it could be anywhere! ;D
I'm still thinking on this one. ?{}?
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Not Aberfraw Hugo but you are right about the lighthouse! I'll remove the cropping a bit and it might help. This sculpture has been here a couple of years but I have walked past it at least twice recently on a well-trodden path and didn't even know it was there. There are also at least two memorials and a commemorative plaque in the vicinity. DaveR has mentioned that it was one of his favourite walks in the past and I'm sure Hollins has been in the area too as she she has submitted a Quiz question from there.
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It looks a bit like the Moelfre coastal walk and looking in the direction of Point Lynas. Is the sculpture near the car park in Llugwy Bay?
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You are on the right side of the island Hugo but the sculpture is not in the Llugwy area. This view from another angle might help with the location, (once again clue in the background but slightly cropped, sorry!).
As I said it is yards from the Coastal Path but unless you look inland away from the sea you will walk past it and miss it, although it is on open land and plainly visible. By the way that walk in Connah's Quay looks very interesting, like you I didn't even know of the existence of Wepre Park, definitely one to do in the near future.
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Just seen it on Google with Ynys Moelfre ( I think) in the background. I'll have to remember that when I go to Moefre next
Moelfre Partnership’s Art and Environmental project was officially opened by Albert Owen Anglesey Member for Parliament on Friday 12th July 2013 at Swnt, Moelfre.
Albert Owen MP noted that it was another notable point of interest along the Moelfre to Lligwy coastal path – adding to the Dic Evans statue, Royal Charter panels, Hindlea seat, and the Royal Charter monument – it is one of the most popular walked paths on the island, over 13,000 having walked the path during April, May and June 2013.
Keith Shone and Sam Holland said that ‘Abstract Art is art in which objects, people and places are depicted in simplified arrangements of shapes, lines, textures, and colours’ and that the design was open to people’s own interpretation’.
http://www.moelfre.org/images/2013/moelfre_1.jpg (http://www.moelfre.org/images/2013/moelfre_1.jpg)
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Well done Hugo, it is "Bryn Wylfa" which is situated on the Moelfre headland very close to where the M.V."Hindlea" was wrecked in 1959, but you can easily miss it. We saw it when we walked on the headland after we had visited the new RNLI station on Wednesday. Apologies for my cryptic clues, the "antipodean bird which has taken up residence nearby" was of course the new Moelfre lifeboat "Kiwi", and the "demise of a regal covenant" was the wreck of the "Royal Charter" in 1859, almost 100 years to the day before the "Hindlea". It was a beautiful day as you can see in the view over towards Llandudno and the Great Orme.
The materials used in the making of the sculpture, were slate, bronze and stone, which were intended to represent elements featured in the past history of Ynys Mon and described in the plaque nearby.
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This guy may look like a rogue but I can say honestly that he isn't. He can be seen above the door of a property in one of North Wales' main roads.
But what door will you see him above? $walesflag$
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1699...... :roll:
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1699, What & where is that Steve?
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1699, What & where is that Steve?
Sorry I did it the easy way not really fair, so just put the date.... :( But as you asked........
The Letty Hotel, Mostyn
This inn was previously known as Y Letty Gonest (“the honest inn”). Its current name, The Letty Hotel, is a tautology, since Letty and Hotel mean the same thing.
photo_of_carved_headThe building dates back centuries. Written above the front door is the date 1699. Above it is a relief, carved from stone, of the head of a man who appears to be showing pain or alarm (picture right). Beside the head is a lamb. The origin and meaning of this carving are unknown.
Also written here is “The Honest Man”. Legend has it that the hotel was built by an Englishman, possibly called Smith and from Worcester, who left the pub without debts. One version of the story says that he suddenly had to return to England before the pub was completed, but he left bags of money on a table inside to ensure none of the tradesmen were out of pocket.
One night in the early 18th century, customs stayed at the officers after confiscating smuggled wine. During the night they were overpowered by colliers, who disappeared with the loot, but it was noticed that some of these men were wearing rings and good quality linen. The customs men suspected that local gentry, who were part of the smuggling operation, had mingled in disguis among the colliers, but the attackers were never found.
It is thought that two tunnels for smuggling led from the inn, one leading to the Mostyn estate behind, the other to the shore. The entrance to the latter is behind a small door in the north-west corner and was discovered by chance one evening. Wood panelling and benches along the walls then obscured the doorway. A dog belonging to one of the drinkers disappeared beneath the bench and could not be found. Its owner crawled through and found the dog in the mouth of the tunnel.
There are tales of the pub being haunted. Landlady Rebecca Talbot has felt fingers being pressed into her back, while nobody was behind her.
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I thought that it would have lasted a bit longer than that but well done Steve. &well&
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$thanx$ Hugo, I am afraid it is a well documented site. especially for armchair tourists.
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I saw it on my way to Wepre Park so I thought that I'd try it on here, but it's only easy if you know it. I'll have a look for some more when I'm next out and about.
I do check the web sites first to see if it can be found there and that's why I cropped the words below the figure but you still found it. $good$
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Hollins has been dragged to the opera again......where to this time?
By the way, you lads are getting very clever with your clues! Good job my attempts usually get answered before I have to think of any.
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I bet you didn't go short of a drink there. Plenty of water.
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Thanks SDQ! Glad you are doing the clever clues for me!
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Hi H. It's not a clue but a coincidence, I posted a photo of my Grandfather recently, in the 1928 Operatic Societies production of a show on page 13 of "Times Past Rhos on Sea" he was from the same town.
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I checked this out on Google before posting because I always check what's on there, as they have some great shows featuring "older" bands on there sometimes! (But I've never been there!). So it's Buxton Opera house.
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Well, I didn't need to worry about thinking up clues for that one!
Well done everyone.
I don't like the opera but I am pleased that the Opera House was restored to its former glory. When we first lived there in the seventies it was a rather run down cinema so well done them for the success of the restoration project.
I wish they would get on more quickly with the Crescent project, still waiting for that.
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Now here's another one that's on a well documented site, but I hope it's not too easy this time! $walesflag$ $welsh$
There are two photos of an old ruined building that has a nice rags to riches tale linked to it.
What was the name of this cottage?
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It looks similar to a ruin up above Rowen so on that basis I'm going to say Pen y Ffridd, the childhood home of Huw Tom!
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It does indeed Jack but it's not Huw Tom's house and is in fact on the eastern side of the River Conwy
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Well it's lasted longer than the 11 minutes it took for Steve to find my last question so it's time for another clue.
She was the 7th daughter to Mr & Mrs Jones but I'm still looking for the name of this isolated smallholding. $walesflag$
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From living in dire poverty she ended up as a generous benefactor, but what was her old address called. $walesflag$
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I've checked on Google and found the answer but these directions may help you to find the answer.
It's on a main B road and is also between two roads and not far outside of the Three Towns area but what was the smallholding called? $walesflag$
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It was just a small cottage but there isn't much left of it now and every time I drive past the ruins seem to get smaller and smaller $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Hugo,
I know exactly where it is and I too have passed it on numerous occasions. However, I am unsure of its name but would guess "Caeau" and I have no idea of the story you mention.
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A good try Cambrian but it's not Caeau. If I give too many clues it would make it too easy but she was a generous benefactor to that area and had a number of buildings built in that particular village
I'm still waiting for Steve to come up with this local one or Gwynant to spot any clues Cymraeg. $walesflag$
It's mentioned in one of Chris Draper's walking books but I haven't done that walk even though it's near where I live.
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Ah well, if its not Caeau, it will be Tyn Terfyn I guess. The clue is "terfyn" as its on the boundary between two old parishes.
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A good try Cambrian but it's not correct. If you are in the right village the clues to Eleanor's old home are in the properties there.
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Just to identify where this little cottage is, it's on the B5113 and is located between the two roads. $walesflag$ $welsh$
Eleanor who came from a very poor family said that if she ever became rich she would build something special for her village. Then as a young girl she went to work for a rich family in the area and later married one of the sons and returned to the village and kept the promise that she had made to herself.
Does that help to find the name of the little cottage that she lived in as a child? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Its a bit late for this but here are some details I have found....
I guessed Bryn-y-Maen from your clues and got lucky
Christ Church was built between 1879 and 1899 at the expense of Mrs Eleanor Frost in memory of her late husband Charles Frost. The architects were Douglas and Fordham of Chester in Neo-Perpendicular style. Mrs Frost's commission also included the vicarage and a house for herself.
And with her full name.................
Rhwng-y-Ddwyffordd, a cottage situated between Colwyn Bay and Llanrwst.
When Eleanor was 12 years old she went into service in London (possibly with the Frost family). James John Frost of Shadwell, London, was associated with a rope and cable manufacturing company, and was of considerable means. In 1863 Eleanor married Frost’s son Charles. She was 36 and he 32. They were married in Llanddulas, but by 1874 they were living in a fine house in Min-y-don, Old Colwyn.
Charles inherited a large fortune on the death of his father. He and Eleanor travelled extensively in Europe and the Holy Land. They had no children of their own, but adopted a son and 2 daughters.
Charles Frost purchased a large plot of land at Bryn-y-Maen and in 1895 a mission room was erected on it. Charles died the following year and was buried at this site.
In 1897, Eleanor Frost laid the foundation stone of Christ Church, which was being built in her husband’s memory. The Architects were Douglas & Fordham of Chester, and the builder Thomas Jones of Caernarfon. Eleanor also had built two properties facing the church – a home for herself called Bryn Eglwys, and the Vicarage.
The church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Wales in September 1899, and described by him as ‘The Cathedral of the Hills’.
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Congratulations Steve, you must have gone to a lot of trouble unearthing that one. Well done &well&
I couldn't give out her married name as it would then have been too easy to Google and secondly I have used this picture before for a different question and DaveR got it then.
Thirdly I had already given out her address, albeit in English and thought that Gwynant would have twigged.
Between the two roads = Rhwng y Ddwyffordd $walesflag$ $welsh$
Eleanor had the Church built in Bryn Y Maen, along with other properties in the village. Both she and her husband are buried in the graveyard in the village
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$thanx$ Hugo, A good question, lots of detective work............
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I've no idea what this is but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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There are some weird stone sculptures beside the cycle path just outside Y Felinheli on the route to Caernarfon, and also there are some more in the little park below the suspension bridge in Porthaethwy but I'm not sure if this is one of them.
By the way Hugo, I must thank you for making me aware of Wepre Park in Connah's Quay on one of your recent walks, Mrs. Gwynant and I had a very enjoyable couple of hours exploring it today.
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Thanks Gwynant, I'm so pleased that you and Mrs G enjoyed your time there. I loved the place and will go again some time but may do the longer walk next time. It's also an ideal place for young children with all the things there for them
Did you see the lake and find the pet cemetery?
I think that you have seen this object but it's not where you have mentioned. ???
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Is there a mill nearby...........
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We did a figure-eight walk Hugo, up the main track to the castle then up round the back of the castle and left down over the stream and back to the path intersection by the stone bridge, then back along the main path and then left up the aptly-named "Angina Hill"! We then crossed the old golf course and turned right down through the woods and around the lake then back down the hill and across the stream again below the waterfall and then back to the car park via the ford. It took a couple of hours but we didn't notice the pet cemetery.
You are right about the facilities for the kids, there were loads of them having a great time in the skate-board park by the car park.
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The Pet Cemetery is on land fenced off and behind the cafe but we went past the giant Redwoods and found a way in at the back of the fenced off bit. :-[
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Is there a mill nearby...........
I don't honestly know that Steve but there is a brook nearby.
I wonder where you had in mind, a penny for your thoughts.
I've just checked with Google and there was a mill there.
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Is there a mill nearby...........
I don't honestly know that Steve but there is a brook nearby.
I wonder where you had in mind, a penny for your thoughts.
I have no idea where, trying to get clues from the photo.....I thought a mill stone......look's like a metal bolt or tube in the middle,........ the outer circle seem's to have a square drain hole in it, a form of fountain or cattle trough.............. &shake&
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It's in the middle of a nice picnic area that has a nice waterfall nearby
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Best guess.....Dyserth waterfalls
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It's nowhere near as big as Dyserth Waterfalls Steve but the waterfall is in a little valley and you can see the blues , greens and copper coloured stones on the bottom of the brook
The picnic area is behind this property $walesflag$
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That brook flows down the little valley and over the waterfall and past the picnic site before it reappears in front of that ivy covered house. But did it flow into the sea at one time? $walesflag$ $welsh$
Where is that object?
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.... or did it drain into the river Conwy? ?{}?
I've been to that spot, I have a picture there (dated 2006), but I can't remember where we were!
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Not the River Conwy Fester so keep thinking. Gwynant has walked past it and Jack may have done, so it should be very easy for them.
It must have flowed into the sea one time but that could have been a long time ago. $walesflag$
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Is this fly tipping or industrial waste?
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Beddgelert?
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I have been looking at old copper mine sites, not many but Sygun came up.....any good
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I'll say this for you Steve, you never give up. You're close, very close but not close enough for me to give you it. &shake&
Final picture and clue:-
This is Cwm Bychan ( little valley ) but the picnic area is not there, so where is the village or area where it is located? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Beddgelert?
Not quite and you've walked past it Gwynant. :o
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Cwm Bychan Aerial Ropeway nr Beddgelert N. Wales.............This is the old aeriel ropeway built in 1927 to transport copper ore from a point near Four Lodes, at the upper end of Cwm Bychan to a processing plant at the lower end of the mountain, near Nantmor, about a mile or so away.
If this is correct, you might like the site, some very good photos.....http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/industrial-sites/31134-cwm-bychan-aerial-ropeway-nr-beddgelert-wales.html#.Vbuh0vNViko (http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/industrial-sites/31134-cwm-bychan-aerial-ropeway-nr-beddgelert-wales.html#.Vbuh0vNViko)
I would still like to know what that stone is in your first photo, good excuse to go back.. ;)
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Well done Steve, you've got the answer Nantmor Nant = brook $walesflag$
Mor = sea $walesflag$
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Gwynant, after you've done the Fisherman'r path, walk towards Cwm Bychan and go under the Welsh Highland Railway Bridge and there's the picnic area in front of you.
Nantmor with a young Uncle Albert before his beard turned white
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$thanx$ Hugo needed a lot of clues for that one............. found this during the search..........
A buddle pit or buddle pond is a pit, often circular when specifically constructed, the purpose of which was to separate by sedimentation minerals from lighter rock dust in crushed ore,[1] and used in the mineral mining industry (such as in extracting tin, lead and zinc). Many of the relics seen today date from Victorian times.
Early examples of buddle pits were often natural hollows in the ground, adapted by lining them with stone or clay to make them waterproof.
A purpose-built pit, constructed from stone or brick, cement and mortar, contained water, and a set of brushes, often powered by a water wheel, which rotated in the water in order to agitate the mixture, the result of which was that the heavier and denser material - i.e. the ore - tended to collect at the centre of the pit, from where it could be retrieved. The worthless gangue was then disposed of, often by draining.
Usually a set of buddle pits was utilised, with the richer central deposits in the pit being carried to another buddle, where they were treated in the same manner, and so on.
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There was a pit behind that stone but we didn't know what it was for but guessed that it was to do with the copper or lead industry
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You are absolutely right Hugo, I have walked through Nantmor recently and we actually had our "butties" on a picnic bench just near the railway bridge recently but I never saw the stone there. I was out when the pylon clue came on and I would have got it from that! We had a good walk from Moelfre to Red Wharf Bay today on the Coastal Path somewhat spoiled by the non-appearance of the Arriva bus to take us back to Moelfre, but we caught a later one from the main road. The driver said that there were some "problems" at the moment!
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That's a nice walk that you did today, hope the weather was good over there on the island. $good$
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I came across this unusual property on a walk I did today in N Wales. $walesflag$
It might be easy for some but where is it? $walesflag$
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It's built on an island, or is it? ??? $walesflag$
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A Saint lived on this island many years ago but in more recent history some boats used to stop at this building and unload part of its cargo before continuing on the rest of the voyage. $walesflag$
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The North Wales Coastal Path is just above this unusual property.
What I'm looking for is the name of the property and its location. $walesflag$
The house gets its name from the cargo that it transported.
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Best guess from your clues....
St. Dwynwen.....Llanddwyn Island.....I think slate was the cargo so "tŷ llechi" Slate house?
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A good guess Steve but it's not Llanddwyn Island, in fact it isn't on Anglesey and it's not Slate House either. It's not far from a Golf Course if that helps? :golf:
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Balast island Portmadoc
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You're getting very close spotty dog but you're not quite there. I thought ME would have got it straight away
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One of the nice little golden sandy beaches along this coastline $walesflag$
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I can see it on Google maps at Morfa Bychan, Black Rock sands, but I have no idea of the name of the house? I have never walked past it..
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Nearest name I can see on an OS map is Ynys Cyngar.
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I'm going to give you that one as you have seen the property on the O/S map. It's called the Powder House and it is on Ynys Cyngar in Morfa Bychan,
But what is the history of ‘The Powder House’? The clue is in its name: The ‘Powder’ is Gunpowder.
Gunpowder was regularly used in the Slate Industry. Porthmadog developed rapidly as an important seaport for the export of Slate but for obvious reasons the inhabitants were not keen on the idea of a boat loaded with gunpowder docking close to the centre of their town.
The Powder House
So gunpowder was unloaded at Ynys Cyngar – an isolated spot 2 miles seawards – and then transported to Porthmadog or elsewhere, originally by horse and cart. And that is why this cottage came to be known as ‘The Powder House’
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Where would you find this odd looking vehicle and what is it used for?
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It is similar to an old DUKW landing craft from WWII
Don't know where it is though...
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Is it the vehicle that takes you out to Elizabeth Castle on Jersey?
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Is it the vehicle that takes you out to Elizabeth Castle on Jersey?
Spot on, H! It's an amphibious bus that makes the crossing over from St Helier to Elizabeth Castle, regardless of whether the tide is in or out. We walked across the Causeway instead, a journey that requires a close check of the Tide Times first, as the Tidal Ranges are amongst the highest in the world here.
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Lovely place. Hope you enjoyed yourselves. It would be good to see some of your photos.
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I came across this building on a walk today and was quite impressed with it.
Where would you see it in N Wales? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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You'll see some pel droed at this place. $walesflag$
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It's in a nice Welsh village in a rural location with good views out to sea
Another big clue is that it's name starts with the letter LL :)
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Another clue:- The village is less than 10 miles from Moelfre and on our walk we saw hundreds of Sparrows on a hedge, the Hawk in it's usual spot and Swans and Coots on the lake
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Is it LLannefydd Hugo, it's within 10 miles of Moelfre and has a pub called the "Hawk and Buckle"?
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Spot on Gwynant &well&
You remembered that from a previous time. $good$
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Where will you find this building?
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Waitrose Chester, with Shot Tower in background.
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Well done Neil. $good$
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Where did I see this today?
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South Stack lighthouse?
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Well done Hollins, South Stack Lighthouse it is. &well&
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Here's another photo which should be even easier. Where is it? $walesflag$
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Somewhere by Rhoscolyn on Anglesey?
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Is it Bwa Ddu (Black Arch), situated between Tre-Arddur Bay and Rhoscolyn?
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Good try Gwynant but it's neither of the two sea arches in Rhoscolyn, so where is it?
Last of the Summer Wine trio L to R Tellytubby, Hugo and Uncle Albert
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Going on the assumption that you took the photo yesterday along with the South Stack one Hugo, did you follow the Coastal Path around towards Tre-arddur Bay as I think there is a sea arch on the southern corner of the headland just before you head north into Porth Dafarch but I don't know it's name. I think the headland area is known as Penrhos Feilw.
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Good logic Gwynant and spot on. &well&
I hadn't seen the sea arch until yesterday but my friends who had took me to it had. It's a stack and on the O/S map it's listed as a fort but in my walking book it's listed as Dinas which means the same in Welsh.
What a beautiful hot day for doing that walk, shorts, T shirt and no rucksack $good$
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It may be easy for some but where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Rug Chapel near Corwen, we were near there yesterday on the Llangollen Railway.
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Well done ME, it's Rhug Chapel and Rhuddlan sent me the photos. I haven't been there yet but must go there soon. $good$
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Thanks Hugo, amazing that I got it as I have never been there or ever heard of it before! :D
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That must have been an educated guess or a very jammy one ME but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. $good$
Hope that you enjoyed the railway on Saturday.
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I Googled IHS and 1637 in Google images, lucky really! $walesflag$
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An easy one for some people but where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Perhaps this will help. $walesflag$
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Another clue $welsh$
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Dragon Theatre Barmouth !
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Well done Nemesis, it was the Dragon Theatre in Barmouth. &well&
I thought that it would be either you or ME that got it as I seem to remember you posting something about Barmouth on here.
The weather was beautiful there yesterday and the place was busy with tourists all making the most of the fine weather.
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We were there a fortnight ago for 5 nights escaping from the phone at Dyffryn. The weather was good then as well. Have you ever been into the building Hugo? I once went in to a craft fair.
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I didn't go into the place, but while I was taking photos my friends went into it to see the car boot sale. They weren't impressed so I didn't go in it.
It's many years since I last came to Barmouth and I was pleased to see how busy it was. On a good day like we had, there are lots of thing to do and walks to go on and I'm sure we'll go back there again before too long
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Have a read up about 'Hen Bermo' Hugo, then walk up through the houses to Ruskin's Cottages which are built almost on top of each other. Fascinating history and marvellous views.
The walk will be nothing to you fit fellows, but just about kills me it is so steep !
If you can obtain a book called " Discover Barmouth today and yesterday" by Owena Wyn - Jones and John Jones, it makes a good and informative read. Only one shop in the town stocks it and that is on the main street opposite one with Strawberries in it's name.......unless you can pick one up on the internet. The big church was 1/2 built and the tower collapsed in 1891, the bridge almost collapsed after being infested with shipworm, the museum to do with the Bronze Bell is interesting. Sorry, but I can bore for Britain on various subjects !
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I passed these steps on a walk not too far from the Three Towns area earlier this week. Where are they to be found and who in particular would have used them in times gone by?
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Caerhun Churchyard/Romans? $walesflag$
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&well& Apologies for the delay in replying Jack but I've been out enjoying the sunshine! Absolutely correct on both counts but the answer I was looking for was:-
"Before you enter the churchyard, notice the steps to the right of the lychgate. Those leading up to the small stone platform were to help people mount their horses after services.The slate steps which jut out from the churchyard wall are said to be a facility for people to use whenever a coffin was blocking the lychgate. Pall bearers would rest the coffin in lychgates to await the arrival of the priest, who would perform some preliminary rites there. However, a Victorian painting shows parishioners using the slate steps when leaving the church after an ordinary service. If that was a faithful recording (rather than the fruit of artistic imagination), it suggests that the lychgate may have been the entrance for the well-heeled and the steps were for commoners," which is described on an information board situated inside the lychgate. (Pics below)
I was surprised that the church was open and there was nobody about, as there have been thefts from churches/chapels situated in out-of-the-way locations. We were on a short circular walk from the site of the old Ferry Hotel out towards Caerhun and then across the fields following the Afon Wen to Pontwgan, and then cross-country back to Tyn-y-Groes, very enjoyable.
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Dave R knows where I was on Monday when I snapped this...
But for everyone else, where is this huge rusting anchor?
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I'm sure I remember seeing this anchor a few months ago on the coastal road from Tre-arddur Bay out to Ravenspoint on a walk from Tre-arddur to Rhosneigr.
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Spot on Gwynant!
That's exactly where I was.
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Treaddur Bay is a great place for a walk, winter or summer. $good$
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Where was I when I saw this earlier today?
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Where was I when I spotted this earlier today?
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No attempts on this owl, so a couple of clues. It is situated close to another couple of links to a famous Welsh legend 50 metres from the main street of a former North Wales county town. Apologies for not including the photo on the first post, perhaps these two might help.
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Denbigh?
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Correct Hollins, it's on the walk down from Denbigh Castle and has a connection with the Mabinogion in that Blodeuwedd who was transformed into an owl. There is also a sculpture in the wall slightly further up the lane. (See attached pic). The passage below is from Google on the sculptures.
"Joss Smith, from London, has produced an eye catching sculpture placed at the turn in the lane at Temple Bar Gardens which can be seen from the High Street. He has also produced two smaller sculptures that ‘fly’ out of the wall part way up the lane. Joss’s designs are based on the Welsh mythological Mabinogion’s character, Blodeuwedd and the nine flowers of power. One of the flowers is a broom flower."
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Have a read up about 'Hen Bermo' Hugo, then walk up through the houses to Ruskin's Cottages which are built almost on top of each other. Fascinating history and marvellous views.
The walk will be nothing to you fit fellows, but just about kills me it is so steep !!
I've only just read up about Hen Berno and wish that I'd have known about it when we did our railway walk to Barmouth, although I know that Rhuddlan wouldn't have been impressed with those steps!. Still it's one to add to our list, possibly for next year.
The views from up there are simply stunning and I can understand why you love the place so much
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This is my favourite photo of the old Barmouth railway bridge and I hope that the pedestrian and cycling section of it will continue to remain open.
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Where will you find this unusually lit bridge and what is the name of the river?
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River Irwell, Manchester
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Yes, well done.
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Any ideas where I have been today?
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A brewery?
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Yes, well done ME but which one?
Here are a couple of picture clues.
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I think Old Tom is a Robinson's beer from Stockport.
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Yes, well done.
We were invited to a birthday party in the visitors centre and we were taken on a tour of the brewery as part of the day. We also had a delicious lunch. It is really worth a visit if you are in the area and you even get to see the stables with the shire horses.
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Where r u all? Am I the only poster left? Things must be bad---I am plucking up courage to step into a thread where, as far as I am concerned, angels fear to tread. And, no I am not going to show a mysterious photo.
In this terrible age with suicide bombers everywhere, may I go back to an earlier age. Who remembers or has even heard of FUMF or maybe spelt FUMPH. Who was he, what was he up to, and what was the radio programme and/or comics he featured in.
And don't bother posting "before my time."
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Do you mean Funf? If so that will have been on ITMA :-)
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I hope you don't mean the FUMF on Google Mike $smack$ :o :o
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I came across this on a walk last Friday. Whereabouts is it and what purpose does it serve?
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Is it the Salmon Ladder by Conwy Falls that helps the Salmon to swim further upstream?
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Sorry Hugo, it's not the Conwy Falls and it's not a salmon ladder.
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Sorry Hugo, it's not the Conwy Falls and it's not a salmon ladder.
Hugo, you are very much on the right track but the structure is primarily used for a specific purpose. In the official description there is no mention of a salmon ladder being incorporated in it's construction but it would be beneficial if there was one, but I could see no evidence of one, but apparently the one on the Conwy Falls is hidden and not visible to the public. I took the pic below in the same area which might help.
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Looks like Trefriw to me, water pipes in the box?
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Good guess but not Trefriw either M.E. but I did remark on the striking similiarity of the area to the old Woollen Mill in Trefriw to my companion as I took the photo. I then turned round through 180 degrees to take the pic below from the same spot which is not too far from the structure in question.........
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Penmachno?
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$good$ Well done Rhuddlan, it is in fact the the hydro-electric scheme at Machno Falls which are on the Afon Machno just 400m or so up from the confluence with the Afon Conwy by the Conwy Falls Cafe on the A5
The metal tunnel houses an "Archimedes Screw" system to generate sustainable electricity. This system is normally used to raise water from one level to another but in this case the river has been dammed at the top of the falls (see pic. below) and the flow is diverted to drive the screw in reverse to generate power. The structure can clearly be seen on Google Earth opposite Pandy Mill on the Afon Machno just off the Penmachno-Conwy Falls road. The building in the previous photo is the old Machno Woollen Mill which, like the one in Trefriw, was also powered by water, and the bridge is an old pack-horse bridge which was used before Telford built the A5 which in turn replaced the old drover's road above the Fairy Glen down to the Beaver Pool.
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Gwynant, that photo looks remarkably like the photo of the Salmon Ladder that I took when on the Machno Falls walk with Rhuddlan and Tellytubby
It's located between Conwy Falls and Fairy Glen on the River Conwy and it's on the right hand side as you take the lane from the old Woolen Mill through the forest in the direction of Betws Y Coed
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When I was on the walk I took the photo from a spot where there was a sign saying Salmon Ladder so I assumed that's what it was but I've just gone on the internet and seen what the real Salmon Ladder looks like.
What a remarkable piece of engineering but then at a cost of about £1 M you would expect that
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Is it the Salmon Ladder by Conwy Falls that helps the Salmon to swim further upstream?
Sorry Hugo, it's not the Conwy Falls and it's not a salmon ladder.
Hugo I did feel a bit guilty when I said it wasn't the salmon ladder on the Conwy Falls as it was on the Machno Falls but I did ask some lads who were working in Pandy Mill nearby and they said it was a hydro-electric generating system. I also went on the internet to read up on it before I replied to your first guess and the only mention of a salmon ladder was in the Conwy Falls just downstream and that consisted of a series of small lagoons specially constructed for that purpose which are invisible to the public.
If the Machno Falls system does incorporate a salmon ladder I owe you an apology but I did ask locally and I didn't see a sign on the path down to it denoting it's existence, but anyway it definitely wasn't the Conwy Falls!
We walked up from the Beaver Pool on the old drover's road above the Fairy Glen to the A5 then turned down onto the Penmachno road before visiting the Machno Falls then retraced our steps about 400 yds tuned off right and walked up the forestry track and over the tops past the gravel pit and then down into the Lledr Valley via Fedw Deg and then back to the car crossing the Afon Lledr and along the A470, turning off to follow the fisherman's path which I didn't know existed down to the confluence of the Conwy and the Lledr just above the Beaver Pool . The colours on the trees were beautiful and it's a very peaceful spot. (Pics below)
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They are great photos Gwynant and that is always a nice walk to do. We start it from Fairy Glen which we have found ok providing you don't mind the grumpy farmer and a small fee for parking.
In our ignorance after seeing the sign for the Salmon Ladder right next to that metal chute system we thought that the Salmon swam up there but today I saw the actual ladder on the internet :-[
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Another walk, but where would you be if you saw this property in N Wales? $walesflag$
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It's a 19th Century upland farmhouse set in a small valley. $walesflag$
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There's a much older building nearby. $walesflag$
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Inside the older building was a large fireplace
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The farm must have been in a wide valley $walesflag$
This sign is quite near to the building
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Here is a better look at that fireplace in the old building near the farm house
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It's nice to see that they are looking after our heritage so well
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Were you at Basingwerk Abbey ( Greenfield Valley ) Hugo?
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Yes I was Nemesis, well done &well&
I was there yesterday and had a quick look around the Greenfield Valley Heritage Centre. The farm is Cwm Lydan (wide valley) and I thought that Gwynant would have got that.
It's a very interesting place to visit and not too strenuous either.
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We went there a few years back, and also found it interesting. Up the hill, where we parked, were the remains of the works for drawing copper for the bottoms of boats. There were also many different water birds on the lakes.
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It is a fascinating place to visit and the walk is under 3 miles in total, but there is so much to see once you are there. I would recommend it to any one who has never been there before and the old railway track is an easy walk up to Holywell.
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Where is this and what was built here in N Wales?
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Probably miles off but is it the Watchtower near the brickworks and Cemaes Bay on Anglesey ?
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A good guess but it's not a watchtower and it isn't on Anglesey either.
Just slightly more of it.
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This must be a better clue.
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That looks like the bridge on the B5103 over the Dee and the Llangollen Canal overlooking the Chain Bridge Hotel and the newly refurbished suspension bridge, so is the stone set in the railway viaduct or some similar structure nearby?
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Well done Gwynant, that is spot on. You did very well to get it from those few pictures. &well&
Now if I had posted this one then ME would be bound to get it.
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A couple more photos of the bridge, one on the bridge looking in the opposite direction and the other taken from the Chain Bridge
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Not been there for years ,last time I was there the chain bridge was closed to the public. I used to deliver wines spirits and keg beer to the chain bridge hotel back in 1963, driving a three ton lorry over the bridge crossing the canal was a task on its own and fun and games to turn around and go back over it again after delivery, good old days you,v brought back some good memories Hugo, thanks.
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You are very welcome Snowcap. We were going along the A5 when we saw the bridge and couldn't resist driving along it and later walking over it too.
It's very impressive but quite narrow with sharp bends at either end. It was hard enough in the car but in a three ton lorry it must have tested your driving skills to the limit.
It's nice to have good memories like that. $good$
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Good to hear that the little suspension bridge has been refurbished, it was closed off and looking very unsafe when i was there a couple of years ago.
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Where did I see these beautiful clouds today and in the sky isn't enough of an answer!
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Nice photos Hollins and I'll have a wild guess at the St Asaph Business Park
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Sorry Hugo, not St Asaph.
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Is it somewhere shopping related? :twoface:
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Yes, and the interior of this building has been on here before.
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Another wild guess at the Ruthin Craft Centre?
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No sorry Hugo, not Ruthin.
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Is it in Wales Hollins? $walesflag$
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Not quite, just over the border. This is the underside of the fab roof.
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Here is a clue about the roof. It is a very "green" building.
1st retail store to have a 100% FSC-certified glulam roof. Glulam is a type of engineered softwood timber, it’s as strong as steel or concrete but requires only a fraction of the carbon to produce!
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I was looking at Cheshire Oaks on Google last night but couldn't recognise anywhere but with your latest clue. is it Marks and Spencers superstore that has been built there in recent years?
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Yes, well done. Completed August 2015.
http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/blog/stories/mands-cheshire-oaks-store (http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/blog/stories/mands-cheshire-oaks-store)
Well worth a visit for the roof alone!
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Where exactly would you be if you saw this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Fort Belam near
Caenarvon
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A good guess but it's not Fort Belam.
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Same place but from different angles. $walesflag$
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This should make it easy as this is the view from the building. $walesflag$
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Pwll Fanogl on the Menai Straits ?
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Spot on Cambrian, well done. $good$
Last time we walked along the Straits there was a nice motor cruiser moored alongside the mill
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What an interesting looking building. Can you or Cambrian tell us the history about it?
There must have been a nice cosy fire in there to have such a big chimney.
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I can't tell you the purpose of the small building on the stone pier but have copied something from the internet about the place
"Pwllfanogl was once a busy little village on the outskirts of the large village of Llanfair PG with its own little shipbuilding industry. It was one of a number of little ports along the Menai Straits and served a commercial purpose.
During the 19th century you would have found a little pub here called ‘The Boat Inn’ and also a creamery and a working water mill, which is now a private abode and a storied level taller. A fabulous looking house as well.
Pwllfanogl played its role in Anglesey’s commerce, not only as a small port exporting and importing livestock and agricultural products. Intriguingly, there was a creamery that produced margarine in addition the mill that processed barley"
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Thanks Hugo. It looks as if it was a shelter for whoever looked after the small dock. Possibly also used by Pilots.
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Thanks Cambrian, I've been looking at info about this picturesque little place and found this out.
One of Wales’ greatest artist who was born in Anglesey’s county town of Llangefni on May 9 1918 and passed his later years at Min y Môr before his death on September 1st 2006 at the age of 88 years
He moved to live at Pwllfanogl in 1974 at Min y Môr. Sir Kyffin Williams came to live here because of the problems he was experiencing finding a studio with good light for his painting. The house was adapted to suit his artistic needs by the Marquess of Anglesey, his friend and admirer
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An easy peasy one for Sunday. Where would you see this? $walesflag$
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Location is Blaenau Ffestiniog, although the loco may not have actually worked in the quarries there as it went to the Trevor Granite quarry in 1941but left there for private ownership in 1965 and eventually ended up as an exhibit at Gloddfa Ganol.
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Spot on Cambrian. well done $good$
It's in the car park in the centre of the town
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I thought it was the engine in the new Station Square in Blaenau Hugo, but when I went to check it on Google maps it showed it on a raised stone plinth and a different colour. This leads me to one of two conclusions, a) since the Google camera was there they have redesigned the square and station area and repainted the loco (which I know to be a fact as I've been it there since and one of the new slate pillars is visible in one of the pics), or b) I have an older version of Google Maps which needs updating!
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Station Square was refurbished a year or so back. $good$
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You need to get out more often, Gwynant. &shake&
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Thanks for that Bri, I'm generally out and about more than most but it's obviously not enough! Perhaps when the weather finally improves..........
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I know that, Gwynant.
I was only joking. ;)
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So was I Bri! Sorry I didn't reply earlier I had to go out.........
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Another place in N Wales where I think Gwynant has been, but where is it? $walesflag$
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You may have passed the Chapel on your way up to this peak. Does the peak seem familiar? $walesflag$
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There's not many peaks in North Wales with that shape Hugo, instantly recognisable even in those conditions as Cnicht (The Welsh Matterhorn), and I think the Chapel is at the start of the ascent in Croesor. I haven't been up that route for many years, but I have been up to the head of of Cwm Croesor from Cwmorthyn on the other side of the Moelwyns recently. (That was when I used to get out more Bri. WWW ) $walesflag$
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You're too good Gwynant. I was trying to catch you out as it looks like Tryfan. A nice walk on a good day but a bit hazardous on a wet and windy one so we didn't stay at the summit too long on that day.
I'm going to have to get out a bit more if I want to find a question to beat you. ;D
Well done &well&
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If you saw these little figure where would you be walking? $walesflag$
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The two are facing each other.
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Is it in Dolwen?
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Good try Hollins but it's not in Dolwen. Perhaps these photos may help?
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The long drive alongside the river in this pleasant meadow leads to this place. $walesflag$
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I would imagine that in February or March this pleasant meadow would be covered in flowers such as Crocuses. $walesflag$ $welsh$
There is a nice walled garden nearby with plants, shrubs and there may be some apple trees there too
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I would imagine that in February or March this pleasant meadow would be covered in flowers such as Crocuses. $walesflag$ $welsh$
There is a nice walled garden nearby with plants, shrubs and there may be some apple trees there too
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
but he won't have gone far away
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If you walk along the drive through that pleasant meadow you come to this property.
But where is it and what is it called? $walesflag$
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Hugo, I have absolutely no idea where this property is but going solely on your "clues cymraeg" can I hazard a guess at a house named "Maes Hyfryd", although that doesn't bear any reference to the "apple" clues!
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Gwynant, you are on the right lines with your clues Cymraeg except for the fact that maes means field in English.
The doctor is relevant to the walk as are the Crocuses and I've already told you the name of the house so where is it?
It's easy if you know it, but someone on the forum has already done the walk and posted photos
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If you go through the grounds of Dol Hyfryd ( Dol= meadow Hyfryd = Pleasant) the route along the river takes you to the doctor's cottage where this famous author spent some time during his stay at a nearby Hall.
So what's the name of the town?
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Another photo taken near the cottage
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Hugo, this one has got me stumped but I am going to have a guess at a property with a walled garden on the Afon Ystraf just outside Denbigh on the B4501 just by the "Fifties Museum" near the old Denbigh Hospital, as the countryside strongly resembles the Vale of Clwyd. Was the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
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Gwynant, you're so very near, so I'll give you that one, well done
It's the Dr Johnson walk in Denbigh and you follow the Afon Ystad to Lawnt in Denbigh and then go through the grounds of Dol Hyfryd Hall where I saw the dog statues and then on to Gwaenynog Estate where Dr Samuel Johnson and Beatrix Potter used to stay.
The Crocuses are best seen at the end of Feb & early March at Dolhyfryd, Lawnt, near Denbigh. You can then see the result of 1,000 corms scattered in 1840. This is most spectacular in sunshine around mid-day
I expected DaveR to get it as he has done the walk before and posted photos of it but I suppose Dave is enjoying La Dolce Vita somewhere and Hollins who is a garden enthusiast may have known this place but is too busy shopping or enjoying the warmth in Dubai
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Abu Dhabi now but as soon as I get back I am going to try and do that walk. I think I went to the gardens once on an open day but I'm not sure if yours is the same place. I do seem to remember a Beatrix Potter connection there.
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Yes, it is the same place. Suepp mentioned it and I visited after that. I found it on posts 86'ish in Exploring the Area.
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Abu Dhabi now but as soon as I get back I am going to try and do that walk. I think I went to the gardens once on an open day but I'm not sure if yours is the same place. I do seem to remember a Beatrix Potter connection there.
Don't do the walk now Hollins, the ground was boggy and we had to walk over a large smelly midden to avoid a deep swampy bit!
Wait until the crocuses are out and the ground has dried up a bit and then you can appreciate the beauty of the place.
Enjoy the rest of the sunshine because it's damp and cold here now and red rain is forecast in the future.
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A very easy one for a change. Where will you see these picnic tables in N Wales? $walesflag$
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A very wild guess Hugo, Loggerheads Country Park?
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Good guess Gwynant but I'm afraid that it's wrong.
Here another photo from a different angle and as they say on Catchphrase "say what you see" So where will you be?
One clue;- It's not Y Bedol in Talybont Z**
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On the basis of the "Y Bedol" clue and the shape of the picnic tables it has to be in the Horseshoe pass area but I cannot find the location where. The tables look quite recent so they maybe might not show up on Google maps.
On the subject of Xmas lunches Mrs.Gwynant and I had an excellent festive meal in the Queen's Hotel in Llandudno last Friday lunchtime, very nice and exceptionally good value. MBI Inc.are taking over the hotel next month but the staff have been assured that there will be no major changes. I hope that will indeed be the case but we shall see.......
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It's not in the Horseshoe Pass but the benches do seem new as they weren't there last time I went there. There is a pub/hotel near by but you'd have to be very careful not to have too much to drink and fall in the water.
I'm pleased that you enjoyed your meal at the Queens Head, it's a place that I've always liked. Let's hope that everything will be ok under new ownership
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I'm pleased that you enjoyed your meal at the Queens Head, it's a place that I've always liked. Let's hope that everything will be ok under new ownership
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Hugo, the meal we had was in the Queen's Hotel on Llandudno promenade not the Queen's Head in case people think that the Glanwydden pub is yet another hotel that has been taken over by MBI!
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Sorry Gwynant for misreading your posting but pleased that you enjoyed your meal anyway. Our retirement group has it's coffee morning at the Queens Hotel in Llandudno once a month and also had our Christmas dinner there earlier in December. Very nice it was too. $good$
I had heard that the Queens Hotel in Llandudno had changed hands and hope that the changeover will be a success.
Meanwhile what about the question as you are half way there with your previous answer
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I still think that there's a "horseshoe" connection so how about the Horseshoe Falls near the Chain Bridge Hotel by Berwyn Station?
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Spot on Gwynant well done $good$
The picnic table is in the car park above the falls and is new. as is the path to the Church. The path allows walkers to avoid the main road above it so that means it is safer for walkers to get to the Church and to Horseshoe falls
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Now who would live in a place like this? Hope it's not too easy for some! $walesflag$
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Hugo?
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I wish Bri ;D only royalty could have afforded to live in a pad like that? $walesflag$ $uk
Perhaps it's the boyhood home of a family with royal connections?
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Solely based on the "royalty clue" is it where Prince William and Kate lived on the Bodorgan Estate when he was flying helicopters from RAF Valley?
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Gwynant, you're good and have got the connection but it's not the Bodorgan Estate unfortunately
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I read somewhere that his rented house was on the Bodorgan Estate but when I have just Googled it the location was Bodowen, just north of Rhosmeirch on the outskirts of Llangefni?
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It's not on Anglesey but you have seen the building?
Without a doubt one of the brothers was the Boris Johnson of his day. *cycle*
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I don't recognise it Hugo, but it does seem vaguely familiar.......
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Does this help then?
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That's a pic from your recent Dr.Johnson walk with Denbigh Castle in the background but the Prince William/Boris connection?
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Well spotted Gwynant but we're looking for the names of the people.
There's no doubting that this brother was more successful than Boris *cycle* as he bought a castle less than 60 miles away from his boyhood home. $welsh$
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Let's review the clues:-
the Prince Charles/Kate connection
Boris Johnson's job
No doubting of one of the brothers
The castle within 60 miles of Denbigh
So what name are we looking for?
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Sir Anthony Meyer?
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Good try Bri, but it's not correct, much much earlier.
This should help
Kate connection
The brother wasn't doubting
Boris' job
Castle less than 60 miles from boyhood home
Castle only cost £5000.00 but it was a long time ago
Does this help to name one of the brothers?
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Lord Langford?
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Thomas Myddelton/ Chirk Castle?
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Spot on Gwynant. Well done $good$
Kate connection = Myddelton
The brother wasn't doubting = Thomas
Boris' job = Mayor of London in 1613
Castle less than 60 miles from boyhood home = Chirk Castle
Castle only cost £5000.00 but it was a long time ago = bought by Thomas in 1595
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It's an impressive looking building but where is it? $walesflag$
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A view from the rear of the building
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Looking towards the building
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A closer look at the star on the building
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The tower is on the front at Beaumaris ?
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Beaumaris Cemetery?
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It is the Cemetery in Beaumaris, so well done Jack and well spotted spotty dog. $good$
I've been past it many times before but never knew it was there. It was Tuesday when I first saw it as the road to Beaumaris was blocked and I had to drive down the lane from Llandegfan which goes past the entrance to the Cemetery.
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Christmas and New Year celebrations in Llandudno leave a lot to be desired, in fact they are pretty terrible I have found over the years.
One can slum it around the pubs and clubs, or one can shell-out a small fortune for a meal in a hotel such as Osbourne House. But there's nothing in between, so most years we go away for a few days.
So, getting to the point, where was I seeing in the New Year when I looked up and snapped this pic of a glass ceiling? (Because that's what it is)
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I think you told me once you liked to go to Port Aventura. Is it there?
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Sun Centre in Rhyl?
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Hollins.... much closer to home
Bri.... much further from home!
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If it's where I think it is I'm surprised Hollins hasn't worked it out!
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SDQ, where do YOU think it is?
Although you do know where I spent New Year.
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I think it's a building that Hollins has featured in a previous quiz question.
I'm basing this on the 'shape' of the ceiling.
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You are a tease SDQ and I am none the wiser!
I bet Fester has gone on a night out now and left us puzzling.
Were you in Manchester for New Year Fester?
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You are a tease SDQ and I am none the wiser!
I bet Fester has gone on a night out now and left us puzzling.
Were you in Manchester for New Year Fester?
I'm aMAIZEd you didn't get it when I mentioned the SHAPE of the ceiling.
Does Caffè Nero help?
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Oh yes, I think she's got it now!
I'm hopeless on these cryptic clues but the Cafe Nero gave it away to me!
Good memory SDQ.
I'm sure it didn't used to be red though. I must have a look back at my triangular photos!
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Oh yes, I think she's got it now!
I'm hopeless on these cryptic clues but the Cafe Nero gave it away to me!
Good memory SDQ.
I'm sure it didn't used to be red though. I must have a look back at my triangular photos!
I was guessing the red was from some festive lights.
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Oh no, we might both be wrong!
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Eventually found the original question May 8th 2012! Looks very similar but cream not red.
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Manchester it was... and the red comes from some festive neon lights, turning the cram paintwork to an orangey-red.
SDQ, you are about to be awarded the prize.
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The official answer is the old Triangle Shopping Centre at the Corn Exchange in Manchester.
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You are a wise man.... and The Corn Exchange is now a fantastic area of bars and restaurants, Indian, Thai, Brazilian, Italian, Vietnamese.... and many more.
Here is a picture from the balcony in the Brazilian Bar, with a glimpse of that glass ceiling, a bit hazy due to inebriation. ZXZ Z**
Plus another, in better focus.
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Interesting to see what they have done to the inside. I haven't been in since the shops closed.
Here is an article which tells the history of the building with some great old photos.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/manchester-nostalgia-looking-back-corn-10385231 (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/manchester-nostalgia-looking-back-corn-10385231)
Well done SDQ!
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Where and what is this?
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No guesses?
You would go here to be entertained.
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Has no one from the Three Towns been here for a night out then?
It's not really that far from the area.
Here's another clue.
It is only yards away from this structure.
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It's the Lowry theatre in Salford, I went numerous times when I lived in the area.
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Well done Neil.
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An easy one for Saturday night. Where would you see this wreck in N Wales $walesflag$
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Easy? &shake&
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You must have gone past it Bri, or very near anyway. ;D
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A shot in the dark - Cae Gwyn Quay near Tal y Cafn ??
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A good try Cambrian but it's not correct.
It may have been in a sale last year. $walesflag$
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There is a boathouse very near this wreck if you wanted to attempt to repair it. ;D $walesflag$
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Is it in the little harbour formed by the breakwaters and the island just north of the pier in Menai Bridge?
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You are spot on again Gwynant, $good$
it's near the boathouse on Ynys Faelog and the island I believe was up for sale last year. The boathouse was in need of a lot of TLC but the boat was well past that.
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Ynys Faelog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22901598 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22901598)
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Where would you see this clock in N Wales? $walesflag$
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National Slate Museum in Llanberis?
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It's not at Llanberis Bri
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This may or may not help.
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Blaenau Ffestiniog?
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It is the Cornish beam engine house at the Dorothea slate quarry, been there many times. 😊
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A couple of pics.
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You're spot on ME, $good$
it is the engine house at the Dorothea Quarry. On the one occasion we have been there we were able to get the key to the engine house and have a look inside it.
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I have been visiting since the mid Seventies, never seen inside it, you were very lucky indeed! :)
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A sturdy bench to rest your legs and enjoy the views, but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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I remember some beautiful wooden gates on Llanddwyn Island. Is this bench there?
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A very good try Hollins but it isn't there. You may have seen these stones if you have done this walk. $walesflag$
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Portmadoc?
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Sorry Bri, Porthmadog is too far south. If you've done the walk you may have seen this wreck. $walesflag$
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That looks like the remains of the M.V. Hindlea just on the headland off Moelfre.
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That's a very good guess Gwynant but it's not the Hindlea, although it is on Anglesey. $walesflag$
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Hugo, were they gorsedd stones in an earlier photo?
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No Bri, I had never seen them before. When I parked my car for the start of the walk I had a look over the wall and saw them.
It's very peaceful and quiet where the bench is but it can get noisy tuu! ???
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The area near the wreck
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This winch was just above the wreck
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This building is facing the bench but you won't spot this window. ??? $walesflag$
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Is overlooking the bay where St.Cwyfran's Church is on the little island near Aberfraw? That would explain the occasional noise as Trac Mon is right above it on the headland!
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Gwynant, you've done it again. Well done. &well&
The bench is at the end of the lane from Aberffraw to St Cwyfan's Bay. It's on the right hand side just before you go down to the beach. It wasn't there last time I went so I thought that I'd take a photo of it
The window is on the opposite side of the Church so that'a why you wouldn't see it from the bench.
That track at Ty Groes was quite noisy yesterday and I think that only one car was doing the circuit
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I came across this on a walk in N Wales today, where is it? $walesflag$
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The grave of David Lloyd George, Llanystumdwy
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Spot on BrianP, well done. $good$
It's set in a beautiful spot overlooking the Afon Dwyfor
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I came across this unusual building today when I had a walk in N Wales, but what is it and where is it? $walesflag$
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Is it a WC, Hugo?
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It's not Bri but I bet it's been used as one in the past.
Another photo of the building in the street.
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Is it an old village lock up, prison cell? No idea where it is?
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House of Correction, Hawarden?
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Yes Jack, just beat me too it after a Google image search! $good$
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House of Correction, Hawarden?
Well done Jack, I didn't think that it would have been guessed so quickly &well&
Up to 1834
Hawarden had an old "House of Correction", a term that covered a variety of institutions, situated on Glynne Way . This one was a small town "lock-up" where one person could be held for a short period.
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Where in North Wales will you see this building?
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I'm not too confident but could it be a side view of that flat roofed building in Station Road Denbigh? It looks like the Clwydian Hills in the background.
Theatr Twm o'r Nant perhaps? $walesflag$
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Well done Hugo, you are correct!
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I came across this bench on a walk I did today in N Wales, but where will you see it? $walesflag$
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On my laptop !
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You are correct Mull but minus one point for being cheeky $smack$
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Hopefully this photo will make it much easier to guess the location of the bench
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Who would want to sit on a bench with a view like that? So where is the bench? $walesflag$
Another clue ------- it's not Arch Motors in the photo!
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No guesses? This quiz of mine must be hard so here is another photo which I hope will help.
For the older forum members it's not Billy Simpson's either. ;D
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It looks like the site of the former Dee Bank Colliery at Bagillt. Now a scrap yard, the large building was formerly the winding house - I think. Usually this is only seen as you whizz by in a train!
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Well done Cambrian, you are spot on. $good$
It's what is left of the Bettisfield Colliery at Bagillt. I had a coastal walk from Greenfield to Flint Castle and passed this place, certainly not one of the most picturesque walks I've done.
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This should be a very easy one, where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Dolgarrog ???
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Well that didn't last long did it? Well done Nemesis. $good$
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Hopefully this will last a little longer. Where is this and what is the name of the building? $walesflag$
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The question on this Holy place has lasted a bit longer than I thought, but where is it and what is it called? $walesflag$
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It looks somewhat unused, never been in but will guess at Gwydir Uchaf Chapel?
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That's a good guess Nemesis and we were there yesterday and it is a Chapel we are looking for, but it's not Gwydir Chapel.
By the way Gwydir Chapel is closed but the key is held in Gwydir Castle if anyone wanted to see inside the place
The Chapel we are looking for is Holier in more ways than one!
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If you do go inside of the building you may even be able to wash your sins away! ???
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Another shot in the dark. Is it the old chapel, heavily overgrown, situated on the A470 near Dolgarrog railway station ?
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Cambrian, you did really well to guess that $good$ Now for another point what is the name of the Chapel? $walesflag$
You could wash away your sins in this place and possibly your smalls too! ;D
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This Chapel is really badly neglected and over grown with brambles and trees. Behind the Chapel is a sheer rock face which seemed to have running water coming down it in front of the main door and above the rock face are Holly trees. $walesflag$ $welsh$
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The Chapel is hard to see as you are driving down the A470 as it's so overgrown but it's situated below the Holly Trees. Any idea of the name of the Chapel though? $walesflag$
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I've come in late on this one Hugo, (ongoing computer problems.......),and I've never noticed it when driving that route, but going solely on your "Clues Cymraeg" I'll have shot at Capel Coed Celyn, but I can't seem to get any info on it!
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It's such a sad mess now. I can recall it use 30 years or so ago and the grounds were very neat and tidy. There was a board on the front with the name and denomination. Gwynant is probably on the right lines but I think it may have been Ty'n y Celyn.
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I've come in late on this one Hugo, (ongoing computer problems.......),and I've never noticed it when driving that route, but going solely on your "Clues Cymraeg" I'll have shot at Capel Coed Celyn, but I can't seem to get any info on it!
You are on the right lines Gwynant with the clues Cymraeg. Welsh property names often reflected where they were and this is the same with the Chapel. It's called Capel Tan Y Celyn (Chapel below the Holly )
Tellytubby and I had a drive around the area yesterday and found a parking space nearby and walked along the A470 to it. The door was open so we went in and took some photos.
I couldn't find much about it on the internet other than a planning application was made in 2007 to convert it to a private house but the application was later withdrawn. It's a dangerous road and location and I wouldn't like to live there because of that.
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If you go on this walk you will pass this structure, but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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You can get to the structure this way. $walesflag$
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Or this way. $walesflag$
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Wild guess, is it in the Malltraeth Estuary?
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That's a very good guess Gwynant and I can see why you thought it was the Malltraeth estuary but it isn't. It is by an estuary but where is it? $walesflag$
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Here's a photo of the river, perhaps this may help?
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R Cefni near Malltraeth ??
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Good try Cambrian but it's not on Anglesey.
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Another photo of the river
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Time for another photo of the river.
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Yet another shot of the river, this should help.
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The recent photos of the river make me think that it could be the Afon Glaslyn as it looks like the Rhinogs in the distance, or failing that the next one down the coast, the Afon Dwyryd. Incidentally I have just come back from a walk on the Orme and it was snowing heavily at the summit at about 11am, but once it blew through the visibility was so clear that you could see the big cranes on the container terminal in Liverpool with the naked eye!
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You are spot on with the Rhinogs but not with the river, you'll pass this building on the way, so where is it? $walesflag$
Hope that you enjoyed your walk on the Orme despite the snow and as you say the visibility afterwards is excellent. With the naked eye I can see Ireland, the Isle of Man, Cumbria and the Wirral as I'm posting this
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Very ultra modern it is too, but where is it? $walesflag$
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You don't have to be a walker to know where the building is? $walesflag$
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Another shot in the dark, is it the Afon Dwyfor near Llanystumdwy? I'm sure I've seen that house featured on a TV programme about building luxury houses, something like "Grand Designs" or similar in the last year or so.
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Gwynant, you're spot on. That building is called Cefn Castell and was on Grand Designs. &well&
A bit further along the beach by the Dwyfor Estuary was where we saw that tent like structure. It's a great walk from Criccieth to Llanystumdwy and is just under 5 miles in length.
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Where in North Wales would you see this structure? (The photo has been cropped to avoid making it too easy to recognise the location.)
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No guesses yet, so a couple of clues along with a slightly de-cropped pic. This structure is situated within a radius of 200 metres of 3 methods of transport and/or distribution, and although it is pictured from above in this photo is much more noticeable seen from below. I would imagine that most forum members pass within 100 metres of it on a fairly regularly basis, but although it is very visible it's much easier to see if you are travelling one way rather than the other ......
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Raynes Quarry, Llanddulas?
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Well done Bri. We walked from Rhos along the cycle path, crossed the Rainbow bridge, climbed the steps up to Penmaen Head and then walked down to Llanddulas and then back along the cycle path again, and we looked over the ballustraded arch down onto the quarries which I had never seen from above. I had no idea they were so extensive (see attached pics)
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I came across this rusty old winch on a walk today, where did I see it? $walesflag$
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If you walk along this board walk you'll see it, hope the photo helps $walesflag$
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The rusty old winch is very close to the water
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The board walk is on a coastal path
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Is it at Newborough Hugo?
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That's a good guess Hollins but it's not Newborough but it is on Anglesey.
It's near a weir but although you can see it you can't walk to it
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Is it by a red weir or am I colour blind? $walesflag$
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Going by your "Clues Cymraeg" once again (and the help of Google Earth), I'll hazard a guess at a spot just on the northern side of the Brittannia Bridge on the Ynys Mon shoreline. I thought the water in the background on one of the photos looked a bit like the swirling waters of the Swellies between the two bridges.
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Clues Cymraeg have done it again, da iawn Gwynant. $good$
Ynys Gored Goch ( Red Weir Island) is the island between the two bridges and the winch is on the Anglesey side. I never saw it the last time I walked there.
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Taking advantage of the good weather on a recent walk we came across this bench/seat but where is it in North Wales?
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I'm sure that I've seen it or even sat on it but can't remember where! You've done a good job at cropping the picture but there are some clues there. $good$
I'm off for lunch now but will have a think after. ?{}?
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I'm sure you have seen it Hugo, but it's not immediately obvious to a passer-by although it's only a couple of metres from a road, but not an "A" road...... Here is another view, this time from behind the seat, also cropped but with a couple more clues in it.
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I must admit to being stumped as it's not the one I thought. I'm going to have a very wild guess at this as I know you've walked in that area recently and the tops of the wall look like limestone.
Is it in the parkland in Beach Road Old Colwyn?
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Good try Hugo but not correct, it's not in The Three Towns area, although you are on the right track. As you approach it from the west you pass the animal in the attached picture about a kilometer before you reach the actual bench, which is also very close to a really crabby piece of mosaic sculpture. The nearby road was a real boon in the days before the A55 Expressway was built, I would imagine you used it many times, I know I did, but remember it isn't an "A" road........
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Between Pensarn and Llanddulas on the coastal path?
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Well done Jack, you have got the approximate location (i.e. in between two places about two miles apart), but the bench is in a very prominent position and can be seen from a few hundred meters away so where, going by the clues, exactly is it, ? Once again, remember the nearby road as seen in the attached pic isn't known as an "A" road!
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It's on the slip road on Pensarn Beach on the right before you go over the bridge into Sea Road Abergele.
I didn't even know that they had traffic lights there so it must have been a while since I went over the bridge, from memory though those speed bumps in Sea Road won't do cars any good, they are the worst I've come across.
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$good$ Absolutely correct Hugo, it is on the seaward side of the bridge over the railway and A55 Expressway on Sea Road ("C" Road- not known as an "A" road!), and it was always used as a bypass for Abergele to get to and from Rhyl in the pre-A55 days. You are also quite correct about the speed bumps, they certainly make you slow down. I had never noticed the bench before, but Mrs. Gwynant (who was born and lived in Abergele) remembers it from many years ago. The donkey/mule sign is at Ty Crwn farm, which is currently up for auction and is on the cycle path just by the caravan site in Pensarn.
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It looked a nice pleasant day for that walk Gwynant and that cafe on the beach by Rhyd Y Foel is always worth a stop off at. Many years ago when I lived in Towyn my wife and I walked along the shoreline from Towyn to Penrhyn Bay and then caught the bus to my parent's home in Llandudno.
The stretch from Abergele to Old Colwyn was nowhere near as good as it is today and if my memory is correct part of it was a rubbish tip. Reminded me a bit of the days when we used to walk on the dump by Maesdu Road
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You're correct Hugo, there was a tip which ran from the Cafe you mentioned nearly to Ty Crwn but it has been landscaped and you wouldn't know it was there now. The Cafe is the Pirate's Locker attached to the caravan site oppsite the Rhyd-y-Foel turnoff and is excellent as is the Pantri Bach in Pensarn. The flowers and gardens around the Pirates Locker are always immaculate. We called in there last Friday after we had walked from there towards Rhyd-y-Foel and then turned up across the valley crossing the North Wales path and on up onto Craig-y-Forwyn looking down onto the village and enjoying fantastic views over to the Carneddau, Glyders,Tryfan, Lliweddd and even Moel Siabod poking up in the distance, I'm afraid my "point and press" camera doesn't do it justice. When you turn and face the sea from there you can see where the landfill goes now in the quarry which can only be seen from there and the road connecting Llysfaen and Llandulas (Pentregwyddel Road) and also on Google Earth.
It was only when I saw bin-wagons driving up a road in the old landfill quarry oppositite the Dulas Arms and disappearing into a tunnel in the quarry-face that I realised it was there and I'll attach some pics. of the quarries in a fresh post.
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Llysfaen Quarry Pics. (From previous post) The wagons go over what I think is a weighbridge on the way in after a traffic-light system through the tunnel and then go through a wash/disinfect bath on the way out. They are landscaping the quarry as they fill it but it it is a huge area.
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Thanks for posting those photos Gwynant, the views are stunning as you say and there are a number of very pleasant walks in that area. The last time I.was there we passed a farm that had Alpacas and they were lovely looking animals.
When I was working I had to visit the quarry and immediately after the first hopper there was a tunnel that I had to go through but I could see the other end of it and made sure that nothing was coming towards me before entering the tunnel.
One member of my group had to visit the same person so I made sure that he knew exactly how to get to the person I had visited. Anyway he didn't follow my instructions and went through the long tunnel towards Llysfaen and met a big truck coming the other way. It must have been a wide tunnel for the two vehicles to pass each other.
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That was a really interesting quiz question Gwynant, thanks.
I thought I started to recognize it at the traffic light stage but then you and Hugo both lost me with all the other place names and I have never seen the seat despite walking and driving over the bridge many times.
I thought I had better do some studying of the area and started to look at our pre A55 map we have on our wall.
I have tried to take a couple of photos of it which maybe of interest.
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Thanks Hollins, I had never noticed it there before either but in fairness when we were using Sea Road as a "rat-run" to get to Flintshire which was a "wet" county on a Sunday night all those years ago we probably had more pressing things on our minds! Mrs. Gwynant told me that she had heard a very sad story about it years ago but I think it was probably a piece of Abergele folklore so I won't print it. Glad to see Mr.H. had a good climbing break and the photos were amazing.
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... but Gwynant, the story might be very interesting and there are luminaries on here who may be able to shed some light on its authenticity!
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... but Gwynant, the story might be very interesting and there are luminaries on here who may be able to shed some light on its authenticity!
Sorry Fester, my lips are sealed, (by Mrs.Gwynant!), as it might cause some pain to Abergele residents old enough to remember the story, if in fact it is true.
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This might be too easy, but where would you see this well used gate? $walesflag$
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Although this is a popular path it can lead to a dead end.
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A cemetery then... But where?
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Half a point to Fester but where is this popular place? $walesflag$
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I bet Gwynant is out today because he would have known it. He has probably opened that gate more often than I've had a piece of cake in his cafe. $dins$
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Gwynant has a cafe? :cyclist40:
Is it in Beddgelert, Hugo?
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Ahhhh ! But I won't pinch your glory Bri !! ;D
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Is that a clue, Nem?
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I didn't recognise it Hugo at first but once you mentioned Caffi Gwynant it clicked! But in fairness Brian deserves the commendation for getting Beddgelert. I've just spotted it on Google Streetview at the end of Stryd Smith before the footbridge at the start of the path to Gelert's grave. Thinking back I actually posted a question last year about the confluence of the Afon Glaslyn and the Afon Colwyn on this thread at this very spot!
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Congratulations, you are all winners. We were in Beddgelert yesterday and the gate is by the confluence of the two rivers. I couldn't post any more photos as it would be too obvious and in the background of one of the photos I think Gwynant posted a quiz question about the circle of Daffodils in the field.
After the walk we stopped at Caffi Gwynant and had a coffee and cake, nice cafe and nice cake too!
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Is that a clue, Nem?
No Bri. I had sussed the answer from what you had posted, but thought it not right to pinch it !!! :-*
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Where is she now! :o
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Bath?
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Joan of Arc.....Paris ?
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I think that it may be in Paris judging by the photo no. ??? but don't think that it is Joan of Arc who is usually depicted with a weapon or flag ?{}?
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Outside the Lowry?
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Used to live very near to here.... The Trafford Centre.
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I was way off the mark thinking that Hollins was in Paris when the PSG team were staying at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester :-[
Good win for the boys in blue that night.
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Well done Meg!
I was trying to be a bit tricky with that one but no fooling you!
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Hollins has been visiting new ground and has lots of new quiz questions. Trouble is which one to chose first because once you have cracked the first one it will give the game away!
Where will you find this unusual building?
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Not doing well on this........flat country...slate finish.....quiet......airport, more clues please
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Ok, it isn't slate but if you know what it is made from it would help. It isn't an airport.
It is in the UK in a coastal location.
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The building is meant to represent these towers.
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It's a toughie Hollins but a very wild guess at Staffa Island Scotland
2nd guess it's the Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre and the material Basalt would have given it away.
How did you find time to go to Northern Ireland Hollins with all your other hols? ;D
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Well done for one of your guesses Hugo!
2nd guess is the correct one.
We went to Giant's Causeway about 7.30 one evening. Only a very few people there then although i believe that is gets very crowded.
We were watching the sun go down when a sudden squall of rain came across and we got soaked. It was freezing cold and windy and the steps were incredibly slippery.
The visitor centre was closed when we were there in the evening so we warmed up in the Causeway Hotel next to it which despite looking uninviting from the outside was very warm and cosy inside and is also run by the National Trust as is the visitor centre.
I think the building has been very controversial with the locals especially, a bit like the skip but I thought it was well done apart from the fence at the top.
However I think that the National Trust have got themselves in trouble with this one because unless you are members as we are you have to pay £9 per adult to park the car whilst the access to the Causeway itself is free. There are a lot of complaints about the fee on TripAdvisor.
The trip was a Christmas present from Mr H. I knew we were going to Northern Ireland but didn't know where. He is a brave man booking hotels for me but we enjoyed it all apart from maybe the freezing cold, windy weather. It is great going to places you have never been before and exploring lots of new things.
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That brought back memories ! I went there in 1963 !
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We saw many interesting buildings on our Ireland trip. Any ideas where and what this one is?
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Is it the Titanic Exhibition in Belfast?
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Yes, well done SDQ.
We thought it had been very well done and well worth a visit. Lots of people there so it is good for the regeneration of Belfast.
The last photo is where the Titanic was launched in 1911. It was fitted out after this and sailed around to Southampton a year later for the fateful voyage.
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SDQ knows EVERYTHING!!
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Anybody know where this unusual building is? I checked and there are a few Working Men's Conservative clubs in the UK, but I had never seen one before.
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Working-Men's Conservative Club, Caernarfon ??
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Yes that's right Steve. Here's a pic of more of the building for anyone who's interested.
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Where will you find this fish shop?
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I've never seen anything like that in N Wales so I'll have a wild guess at the Fish shack Aldeburgh
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Well done Hugo, that was quick!
This is a pic of the lovely Moot Hall that you can see in the distance on the original photo. I have brought my mum for her birthday treat and this is the view from her room.
I should have added that it is pouring down with rain this morning so hoping it will improve.
My sister is staying in Llandudno for a couple of days so I hope it is better in 3 Towns Land!
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I must admit that I didn't have a clue where it was but put the details from the sign in Google and that Fish shack at Aldeburgh came out. Hope that you and your Mum enjoy the treat. It's rained here this afternoon and heavier rain is forecast for tomorrow.
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Where exactly am I?
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I thought that you were looking in a shop window but the shadows could be from something like the London Eye so that's my wild guess.
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Burj Khalifa?
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No wonder you knew that Hollins, I bet that you've seen that view before. Really impressive on Google $good$
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Bri Roberts, you better not be staying in the Burj Khalifa!!!
Not at £7,000 per night, when The Grand in Llandudno is offering 4 nights full board for £109 !!
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No way, Fester.
We walked up to the reception desk a fortnight ago at around 9am when it was quiet and enquired upon the individual price to go up to floor 124. When I refused and walked away, I was suddenly offered a much-reduced price for two with complimentary coffee and croissants in the cafe.
Well done, Hollins. I knew you would get the answer,
Of course, that is the famous Dubai Mall down below and that block covered up over on the right is the block that went on fire last New Years Eve.
Here are a few more pics from up there.
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Fantastic pics.
Sorry, I should have left it longer for someone else to guess but I was too excited about getting one right!
Were you on a cruise or staying in Dubai? Did you enjoy it?
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Yes, hollins, we did enjoy it. Thank you.
You were correct with your first guess.
We flew out to join QM2 for the last sector of her 2016 World Voyage.
Fortunately for us, the liner stayed overnight in Port Rashid.
However, it was such a shame to see the famous QE2 rotting away in an adjacent terminal.
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Yes, hollins, we did enjoy it. Thank you.
However, it was such a shame to see the famous QE2 rotting away in an adjacent terminal.
Glad you enjoyed your trip, and great photos, your QE2 photo reminded me of something which may be of interest,
rather than see her "rotting away"....... the two photos below show her coming to life approx 1967/8 on the Clyde taken by my father from the deck of the St Mungo Fire Boat.
And a piece from the QE2 Wikipedia link
QE2 retired from active Cunard service on 27 November 2008. She was acquired by Istithmar, the private equity arm of Dubai World, which planned to begin conversion of the vessel to a 500-room floating hotel moored at the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.[3][4] The 2008 financial crisis however intervened and the ship remained idle. Subsequent conversion plans were announced by Istithmar in 2012[5] and by the Oceanic Group in 2013[6] but these both stalled. As of January 2016 the ship remains laid up in Dubai while the port operator claimed that there were future plans for the ship and no intent to scrap her.[7]
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Very interesting.
However, while QE2 maybe rotting away I did not suggest she will be scrapped.
Here are a couple of evening pics of her lit up so I cannot see anyone going to that trouble unless there are plans in the pipeline.
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Very interesting.
However, while QE2 maybe rotting away I did not suggest she will be scrapped.
Sorry Bri, My "capital letters" were only meant to show there was still hope for her, and no reflection on your post.
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No problem, SteveH.
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Where in N Wales would you see this place? $walesflag$
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Here are a few more photos taken in the grounds of this property when we had a walk today $walesflag$
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This photo of the building may help to identify it.
The building was built not too far away from a well and the water there was clear unlike the water in the photo which shows water coming out from a disused lead mine. $walesflag$
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No guesses? It must be hard then, although I have said where the property is. $walesflag$
But what is the name of the property which is at the start of a walk in N Wales?
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This is the view you get of the property at the start of the walk,but where is it and what is the property called? $walesflag$
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Still no guesses? I've been in the garden all day and it's thirsty work so I'm off for a drink now. Z** $walesflag$
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Sorry Hugo, gave it a good try, I felt I should know it and even checked out your latest walk but no luck.
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It must be a Mill site Hugo, but like Steve H, I don't know where.
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Sorry Hugo, gave it a good try, I felt I should know it and even checked out your latest walk but no luck.
I'm sure that you did give it a good try Steve but I was waiting for someone to get it before posting my latest walk tonight because it's on there.
Blongb, you are correct with your comments. The Mill was built in 1743 and was in regular use for grinding grain for flour and cattle feed until the 1950’s. It also produced feed for the pit ponies that worked underground at the Point of Ayr Colliery. The Mill has since been renovated and is now a welcoming inn. It wasn't welcoming when we went on our walk though as the place was closed. :'(
I thought that if Gwynant had seen the question he may have guessed the "clues Cymraeg" and the pub is in that place.
I'm going to take my dog for a walk now and will give the answer when I come back, that's if nobody has guessed it before I come back
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Garth Mill, Ffynnongroyw?
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Well done SDQ spot on. $good$
It's located at the end of Garth Lane in Ffynnongroyw. Ffynnon = well
Groyw = clear $walesflag$
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And now for a nice easy peasy one for a change on this Sunday evening, ???
Where exactly is this sculpture?
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I should have added that it is somewhere in N Wales, so that must help now.
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Photographed from another angle
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Another angle may help
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You'll find this at the start of a walk in Denbighshire.
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Overlooking Prestatyn, at the start/finish of the Offa's Dyke trail?
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Spot on Fester, well done $good$
Congratulations on your darts victory, that's quite an achievement. &well&
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Just in case anyone is interested, the photos were of a giant sculpture of a Roman Helmet which can be found in Prestatyn near the start of the Offa's Dyke Footpath.
It's a nice piece of art work and I was comparing it to the Arty Farty metal sculpture on Llandudno's West Shore. It's a shame that the West Shore sculpture wasn't about 300 yards nearer Deganwy and then it could have gone the same way as the cycle track.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjni7zw_t3MAhWHWRoKHZisAI0QFghWMAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocaching.com%2Fseek%2Fcache_details.aspx%3Fguid%3Dbd64e0b9-87cd-458f-be2e-30736d90969a&usg=AFQjCNHRdOh-hrBWt6UIoSONgkV-5TmlyA (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjni7zw_t3MAhWHWRoKHZisAI0QFghWMAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocaching.com%2Fseek%2Fcache_details.aspx%3Fguid%3Dbd64e0b9-87cd-458f-be2e-30736d90969a&usg=AFQjCNHRdOh-hrBWt6UIoSONgkV-5TmlyA)
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Couldn't agree more Hugo. It is awful !
Talking of sculptures, have you seen the huge foot, visible from the train, at, I think, Flint station?
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No I haven't seen that one before Nemesis, but then I haven't travelled that way on the train for many years. I've looked it up since you mentioned it and at least you can tell straight away what it looks like unlike that metal thing on the West Shore
Long Description:
This is a large steel sculpture of a foot standing on tiptoe. There are cogwheels and chains protruding from the top of the sculpture.
It was commissioned by Flintshire Borough Council as part of it's plan to regeneration the area around the railway station. The brief of the artist was to mirror the different transportion methods available in Flint. The sculpture was placed in an area clearly visible from the trains, station platform and car park, and by scores of cyclists using the National Cycle Network.
Name: Footplate.
Figure Type: Human
Artist Name: Brian Fell.
Date created or placed: 1999.
Materials used: Steel.
Location: At western end of station.
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Where in North Wales will you find this?
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Thanks for that Hugo, you can tell how big it is by the size of the parking space below !
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Where in North Wales will you find this?
No guesses?
Here is a picture clue which is also in the same area.
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This place has been talked about on this forum several times before. Here is another picture clue.
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I haven't a clue about this one, thought that it might be the old Railway Station in Denbigh but it looks like the shadow of a large Fir tree in the 2nd photo so I've ruled that out.
I'll have a wild guess at Gwrych Castle Abergele instead.
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No, think more industrial.
It is a place where you have been Hugo as well as Gwynant, Jack and DaveR.
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Another pop at this one but I'm not very confident and must remember to pay more attention when I go on a walk.
Is it the brickworks at Porth Wen on the walk from Bull Bay to Cemaes Bay in Anglesey?
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I haven't a clue about this one, thought that it might be the old Railway Station in Denbigh but it looks like the shadow of a large Fir tree in the 2nd photo so I've ruled that out.
I'll have a wild guess at Gwrych Castle Abergele instead.
Thought the 'fir tree' was the photographer !
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Another pop at this one but I'm not very confident and must remember to pay more attention when I go on a walk.
Is it the brickworks at Porth Wen on the walk from Bull Bay to Cemaes Bay in Anglesey?
Well done Hugo. You are correct. I did the walk yesterday from Bull Bay to Porth Wen and back yesterday. I will put some photos on the walking thread.
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It's a lovely walk Hollins and I hope that you enjoyed it. The first time I ever did that walk from Bull Bay, we saw two pods of Dolphins immediatly and then saw a Raven nesting on the cliff edge.
If you got as far as Llanbadrig there is a vineyard there and we were given free samples of the wine to try, the Draig Goch was a red wine and very nice it was too. ZXZ
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I turned around and came back at the brickworks Hugo but I will remember the vineyard for another time, thanks.
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It's only easy if you know it, but this should be easy for some. Where is this? $walesflag$
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On top of a viaduct is it? A disused railway line maybe?
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Well done Fester, but where is it? $walesflag$
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Could it be the viaduct near Glasinfryn on the old Bangor - Bethesda branch line ?
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No it's not that one Cambrian.
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This may help
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Or this
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Parts of the route
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Cwm Prysor viaduct on the old Bala - Blaenau line ?
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Well done Cambrian, that wasn't an easy one. $good$
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I hope this one hasn't been on before but apologies in advance if it has.
Where in North wales will you find this?
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Oh heck, no guesses!
Now I am in a pickle as I thought that one of you was going to tell me all about this as I have no idea!
Luckily I do know where it is so I can offer this clue.....
It is in a place with a connection to Liverpool.
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Nearest guess is a display showing different geological periods, is this part of your NI trip ? I shall keep trying. &shake&
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No, not the Irish trip, a more recent one. You are right on the geological periods but where is it, part one and part two (which by the way I can't answer) why is it there? ;D
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This should give the location away.
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I'm stumped on this one Hollins and have no idea what that object was, but on the photo I'm not too sure if it's at Holyhead or not so I'll have a pop at the Holyhead Country Park
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No sorry, it isn't Holyhead but you are on the right island.
The roundel is next to a building which tells the story of the industrial heritage of this port.
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Amlwch?
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Copper kingdom at Porth Amlwch best guess ( just seen Jacks)
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Yes, well done both.
There is a seating area outside the Copper Kingdom building with wooden benches arranged around this roundel but not sure of the significance to the area.
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That fooled me completely, well done Hollins. $good$
I enjoyed a nice coffee and a good chat with a guide last time I was there and my Nain also lived by the port but I still didn't recognise it.
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While I was in Anglesey action man was further afield.
Any guesses where he was from this photo?
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Loch Sunart ,Morven ?
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You are in the right country Mull but not there. Here is a clue from Mr H.......
The god of the seas is rising down there.
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From your clue I think it is........
Neptune's Staircase and the Canal, Banavie Caledonian Canal Loch Linnhe
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Well done SteveH, you are correct.
Action man was up Ben Nevis at the time.
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An easy one for the Sunday afternoon. Where will you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Is that an old railway line and station ?
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It is, now where is it?
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It is, now where is it?
The old railway station, now a home, in Steshon village near Trawsfynydd, Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd North Wales ...............Lucky search.
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That's the one Steve, well done. It's the old railway station in Trawsfynydd.
When I read your answer I looked it up on Google and saw where you had found it. I had never heard of Steshon Village but when it clicked I had a good laugh to myself.
It's near the end of the Cwm Prysor disused railway line and is in Station Road Trawsfynydd. Sounds like Steshon Village is a made up Pigeon Welsh/ English name. ;D
Here's a short video with some old photos of the railway on it
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwje_bOC6qLNAhXCKcAKHe70DiEQtwIIHjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9jJtnZWCoLk&usg=AFQjCNHf8_Zu7s2CW44y7QXX8_DGAvLVfA&bvm=bv.124272578,d.ZGg (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwje_bOC6qLNAhXCKcAKHe70DiEQtwIIHjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9jJtnZWCoLk&usg=AFQjCNHf8_Zu7s2CW44y7QXX8_DGAvLVfA&bvm=bv.124272578,d.ZGg)
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There's a nice little feature on You Tube called "Railway Reminiscences" which shows more shots of then and now plus an interview with John Roberts who worked as a guard on the Bala - Blaenau line.
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Anyone know where I am in the UK?
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Belfast?
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Titanic Museum?
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Wasn't this one on just a couple of weeks ago?
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Yes it has, I must have missed it. It's very comprehensive, I won't need to go to any more Titanic exhibitions.
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Here's an easy one for Saturday afternoon. Where and what is this? $walesflag$
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Is it Coed y Garreg Watchtower near Whitford?
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Well done Meleri, it is the watchtower called the Pharos in Coed Y Garreg. &well&
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Where would you see this lady hanging about in N Wales
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Here she is again, but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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She seemed to be everywhere today but where would you go to see her? $walesflag$
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They were all out in the open celebrating HM's birthday, some were in their gardens some on the farm too.
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I hope I am wrong really because these pics are great but is it Llanasa?
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You are spot on Hollins, well done $good$
It was the annual open garden ans scarecrow day yesterday.
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What is this reported to be and where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Walk along this path and you will see the object.
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A building nearby
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Time for another picture clue. So where is it and what is the object reported to be? $walesflag$
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Is it at Bod Petryal? No idea what the stone is though!
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Good try Jack but it's not correct
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I've had a look at some photos of Bod Petryal and it does look very similar to this lake so I've posted some more photos of the lake which may help you to name the lake.
Don't forget that object though.
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Llyn Syberi?
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That's another good try Jack and very similar too but it's not the one.
The lake is not in Conwy County and is used for fishing. I saw some Carp pushing their way through the water lilies but couldn't catch them on the photos.
As I was walking along the permissible pathway there were two connections with the lake that made me think of Llandudno, guess one and you have the name of the lake. ???
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This is a wild guess, but.....Llandegla? There is also some reference to an evil spirit being buried under a stone ???
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Good try Nemesis but it's not Llandegla.
Another clue:- it's in Flintshire
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Llyn Helyg?
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Well done Jack, you deserved to get that, $good$ &well&
The Llandudno connection being that Mostyn Estates are the landowners and the other being Llys Helyg Drive
Now that you've got the easy bit out of the way. ;D Can you tell me anything about the stone?
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Looks a stunning location Hugo - I had never heard of it before, although I don't know Flintshire very well $walesflag$
Have tried Googling the stone (sounds like a sporting event :)) but haven't got a clue.
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It's only easy if you know it but you've tried very hard with this one Jack.
One last clue and if no one gets it soon then I'll tell everyone the answer:-
Aye, Aye ******* I bet they had a grog or two in their time! ???
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Anything to do with Captain Morgan........."Henblas, an imposing sandstone home in an acre of grounds in the village of Llanasa, is a rare Grade I-listed building which even has its own resident ghost"
And you have been in Llanasa recently !
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Well done for getting the name correct it is Captain Morgan, Captain Edward Morgan to be precise. He was reportedly killed in the English Civil War near to Llys Helyg and the stone marks his grave.
There is a building nearby called Plas Captain and I'm not certain if he had any connection with that building.
I've copied something about him in case anyone is interested.
“On the east-side of Mostyn pool, in Tegin mountain, is a grave bounded on
> each end by a rude stone, above four feet high. It contains the remains of
> captain Edward Morgan, of the adjacent house of Plas Captain, and of the
> respectable family of the Morgans, of Gwlgray, in the adjoining parish of
> Llan Asaph. Some years ago a person of strange curiosity open the grave,
> and found a skeleton. On the head was a red cap, I think of velvet, and
> round his neck a silk handkerchief. By him lay his sword, and his helmet;
> and beneath the skeleton two bullets, which had fallen out of the body on
> its dissolution; all which verify the report of his having been slain in
> battle, or in some skirmish during the civil wars, and that he was
> interred, according to his wish, under the spot on which he fell
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Jack, I have known about the lake for years but have never seen it before Saturday. You wouldn't even know it's there because it's surrounded by high trees. The reason I hadn't been there before is because it's on private land owned by Mostyn Estates. I believe that people have been allowed to fish there for many years but the area was not open to ramblers. I am informed that the Estate had applied for some EU funding but a condition of granting the money was that the estate had to open permissive paths to ramblers. Anyway Tellytubby and I, both dressed in shorts and short sleeved shirts, went into the woods and followed a rough wide track to the lake and it was a beautiful sight indeed. After taking many photos and enjoying the scenery we set off around the lake.
I haven't put this on the walking thread as I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's fine up to the boathouse and fishing spots but a nightmare afterwards. Mostyn Estates are not known for spending money and they have certainly not spent any on these"permissive paths" I've got cuts and scratches on my arms and my legs had been stung numerous times by nettles so if I do go there again it's as far as the boathouse and that is it.
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Thanks Hugo - somewhere I would like to visit. I noticed, on-line, that the lake was used during WW2 to test amphibious vehicles which is quite interesting.
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You are welcome Jack, Tellytubby who knows a lot about the area was telling me that the lake was shallow and in the winter many years ago the ice would be collected and put into an "ice house" where it would be stored for the landowner's main house.
We didn't know where the ice house was though. That boathouse looked old but I wouldn't like to speculate on whether that could have been the ice house
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I think you will find the ice house was and possibly still is at Mostyn Hall. The lake was used for testing duk w vehicles in WW2 I think.
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Thanks Rhuddlan, the ice house is a listed building and is at Mostyn Hall. I couldn't see any photo but copied this instead:-
Exterior
Circular red brick ice-house approx 6m diameter, with domed roof which is slightly truncated and rendered. Round-arched entrance facing SE and leading to a short passage. The entrance may have been gabled originally, but some of the brickwork is missing.
PS Shouldn't you be lapping up the Sun and just relaxing instead of looking at your computer?
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Where would you see this and what is the name of this building? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Is it Denbigh castle?
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That's a goot try Hollins and it is a castle, but it isn't Denbigh Castle. $walesflag$
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))* I meant to say that it was a good try not goot, so no hidden clue there. But where is it? $walesflag$
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Could it be Gwrych Castle landscape looks similar.
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Perhaps another photo may help to identify the castle? $walesflag$ $welsh$
Nice try Steve but it's not Gwrych Castle
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Dolwydden?
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Nice try Fester but it's not Dolwyddelen
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Another photo of a tower in this castle which may help.
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Castell-y-Bare?
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Well done Gwynant, $good$
I thought that you might get it. I didn't crop the photo to take out bird rock or to give it it's proper name Craig Yr Aderyn.
Apparently that rock is 12 miles inland and Cormorants nest there.
We followed part of the route seen on Weatherman Walking and it was a rather special walk.
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Nice try Fester but it's not Dolwyddelen
I didn't even get the name right anyway!
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An easy one for someone, where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Another similar photo but where is it? $walesflag$
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Time for another photo. $walesflag$
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There must be an old mill by the stream. $walesflag$ $welsh$
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It must be time for another photo clue?
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Some more photos to jog the memory.
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No guesses? it must be harder than I thought although I have said what it is called. ??? $walesflag$
There are fish in the river including Brown Trout but we didn't see any members of this poaching family there?
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Perhaps these may help?
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In the Holywell area ?
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A good try Mull but it's not in the Holywell area. I'm sure that someone from the forum has done this walk and has been looking at the Quiz but hasn't guessed it yet.
One more photo to give the game away
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Llangefni?
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Well done Gwynant, Llangefni it is &well&
Did you mention this walk on here some time ago?
The walk started at the old railway station in Llangefni and we walked through the Dingle to Nant Y Pandy ( Eng Brook of the Fulling Mill ) and carried on to Cefni Reservoir and walked along the disused railway line to the other side of the lake and then returned back to the old railway station
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Well done Gwynant, Llangefni it is &well&
Did you mention this walk on here some time ago?
The walk started at the old railway station in Llangefni and we walked through the Dingle to Nant Y Pandy ( Eng Brook of the Fulling Mill ) and carried on to Cefni Reservoir and walked along the disused railway line to the other side of the lake and then returned back to the old railway station
Apologies for not replying to your question earlier Hugo, but we were on a coach returning from the Italian Dolomites and I just checked the Forum website in an autostrada free wi-fi area on the top of the Brenner Pass at the border of Austria and Italy, recognised the Dingle Walk question and I haven't had time to get back to you since! In answer to your question I have done the Dingle walk a few times but we take a bus out from Llangefni and get off at the Forestry car park just beyond Rhosmeirch and then walk back to Llangefni through the forest, passing the dam on the way, and ending up at the Church.
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That's a beautiful part of Europe to be having a holiday at Gwynant, hope that you enjoyed your holiday over there. It's over 40 years since I went on the Brenner Pass when we were staying at Seefeld but I remember the scenery very well. We've also enjoyed the Dolomites when we stayed at Riva Del Garda at the northern end of Lake Garda.
Back to reality now and Llangefni, did you go on that boardwalk? I was very impressed with it and the area in general, the boardwalk must have cost a packet to erect but lots of families were enjoying walking on it.
There has been talk of reopening the railway line from Llangefni to Amlwch but that will be expensive and I'm not sure if it would be viable either,
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Hi Gwynant, Any pics to show us from your scenic trip?
I like your dedication to the forum......" but we were on a coach returning from the Italian Dolomites and I just checked the Forum website in an autostrada free wi-fi area on the top of the Brenner Pass at the border of Austria and Italy......."
....and I thought I was bad! ;D
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Hi Gwynant, Any pics to show us from your scenic trip?
I like your dedication to the forum......" but we were on a coach returning from the Italian Dolomites and I just checked the Forum website in an autostrada free wi-fi area on the top of the Brenner Pass at the border of Austria and Italy......."
....and I thought I was bad! ;D
Hi Hollins, all the passengers on the coach were from North Wales and we were trying to find the answer to a question on line when I thought I would check on what was going on here at home and I recognised the location of Hugo's question. I have obviously got lots of pics of the Dolomites and Lake Garda but whether I can get them off my camera on to my computer after Windows wrecked my files trying to install Windows 10 against my wishes is another thing!
I haven't even started to sort them out yet but on one excursion we drove up to the top of the Sella Pass (7362 ft) and Mrs Gwynant and I were lucky enough to have been allocated the two seats immediately behind the driver for the trip and the coach was one of those observation types with a huge windscreen. We did over 2,800 miles in total and I felt like Ihad driven it myself when we got home last night! We stayed in a little family-run hotel (with a free bar at night!) in a little village 3000 ft above sea level and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Hugo, the Dingle boardwalk is very impressive and especially where it goes through the little gorge but I felt that some of the woodwork required some attention and had been patched here and there around the lake and the wooden statues are very good as well. I believe lottery funds were used to construct it and it is also used as a cycle path following the Afon Cefni which finishes at Maltraeth. Llyn Cefni Reservoir is relatively new, having been completed in 1951.
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You've got my sympathy with having been upgraded to Windows 10 against your wishes as I've still got some problems with the system when the upgrade was forced on me.
I think Nemesis was on Windows 7 and was receiving the offers of upgrades but turning then down, hope that she's luckier than the two of us.
When we went over the Brenner Pass and down the zig zags to the Dolomites we were in the front seats level with the driver and those front seats were quite a bit ahead of the front wheels with the result that on the corners we were over the edge of the road and looking down on the drop below us.
As soon as we stopped at a monastery we headed for the bar but were beaten to it by the driver who ordered and drank a bottle of wine. ZXZ
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The B. thing actually installed it, but I immediately saw what had happened and uninstalled it ! So I am still on the old system. I am now having a lot of trouble with the whole thing freezing up on me.
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I think that the Gremlins are getting their own back on you Nemesis for doing such a thing.
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Hi Hollins, all the passengers on the coach were from North Wales and we were trying to find the answer to a question on line when I thought I would check on what was going on here at home and I recognised the location of Hugo's question. I have obviously got lots of pics of the Dolomites and Lake Garda but whether I can get them off my camera on to my computer after Windows wrecked my files trying to install Windows 10 against my wishes is another thing!
I haven't even started to sort them out yet but on one excursion we drove up to the top of the Sella Pass (7362 ft) and Mrs Gwynant and I were lucky enough to have been allocated the two seats immediately behind the driver for the trip and the coach was one of those observation types with a huge windscreen. We did over 2,800 miles in total and I felt like Ihad driven it myself when we got home last night! We stayed in a little family-run hotel (with a free bar at night!) in a little village 3000 ft above sea level and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Gwynant, you definitely get the prize for forum loyalty by getting a whole coach doing the quiz!
&well&
Don't worry about posting the photos if it is a pain. Sorry about your computer problems. My poor old mum had a near miss with Windows 10 too.
Glad to hear about your trip and the family run hotel sounds wonderful.
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Where in North Wales will you find this building?
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I'm still working on this one Hollins, my guess is that you took it on the way home after you had that delicious looking meal and then after taking the photos of that car.
But where is it? ?{}?
I'll have a good look tomorrow as the old bonce is still slightly fuzzy
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I thought you might be working something out from the picture numbers!
Here is another photo clue to help those tired brain cells. ;D
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I'm going to have a very wild guess on this and only because the concrete steps appear wet. Is it Lake Vyrnwy by any chance?
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It isn't Vyrnwy but you are on the right track.
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It's Llyn Brenig.
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Close, but no it isn't Brenig.
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Llyn Alwen?
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Yes, well done Jack.
It is the building on the dam at the Alwen reservoir. It was a pity the heavens opened when we got there but we plan to go back and do the 7 mile walk around it in better weather. I will post photos of the walk if we do it.
Here is some info courtesy of Wikipedia.
"The Alwen Reservoir or Cronfa Alwen is a 5 km long reservoir near Pentre-Llyn-Cymmer in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The bulk of the reservoir lies in Cerrigydrudion community, while the northern arm forms the boundary between Pentrefoelas, to the west, and Llansannan and Nantglyn, to the north and east. It is held back by the 27 metre high Alwen Dam, which impounds the Afon Alwen, and is 8 km downstream from Llyn Alwen. It was built between 1909 and 1921, originally to supply water to the town of Birkenhead, near Liverpool in England. Today it is part of the River Dee regulation system and is operated by Welsh Water.
The dam is a gravity-arch masonry dam. The "first stone" of the dam records that the engineers were Sir Alex. Binnie, Son and [George] Deacon and the contractors were Sir Robert McAlpine.[1] A large water treatment facility was built below the dam, and a cast iron underground aqueduct laid to Birkenhead. The original water treatment buildings are still standing, but the equipment inside has long gone, replaced by modern plant in a new building.
The operators, Welsh Water have a scheme to teach children about the importance of water, linked to the National Curriculum Key Stage 2 and offer an on-site classroom and guided tours of the water treatment works to schools. The nearby Outdoor Education Centre at Pentre-Llyn-Cymmer accommodates children during school trips.
The reservoir is very close to Llyn Brenig. It is at the end of a valley, and has no through routes around it for vehicles. However the reservoir has an extensive network of trails (public foot paths as well as forest roads suitable for horse riding, mountain biking and walking).
Footpaths around the reservoir were upgraded in 2005 and 2006, providing better access to the general public and allowing greater exploration of the North and South Alwen forests."
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Sort of a quiz........
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Sounds like words of a well known song.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am – stuck in the middle with Ewe
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Is it something to do with Gerry Rafferty/Joe Egan/ Stealers Wheel, Stuck in the middle with you and Right or wrong?
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Well done H. and M. Spot on, it took me a while to work it out, got there in the end ....... $good$
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What is this rock feature called and where is it?
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I don't know what it's called Hollins but from the pic it looks like it's up on the Glyders somewhere near Castell-y-Gwynt with the Nant Francon in the background.
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You are in the right area Gwynant but it is lower than Castell-y-Gwynt.
A clue to getting the name of the rock is to turn the photo to one side.
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It does look very much like Nant Francon but as the path is coming up the hill is it the path going up to Tryfan/ Glyder Fach?
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Yes, it is on Glyder Fach.
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Is it the Shark Buttress then?
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I'll give you that Hugo, well done.
It is in fact the Shark Pinnacle on the Hawk's Nest Buttress.
Action man was up there yesterday with his friend doing a climb/scramble.
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Where in N Wales would you see these three buildings next door to each other? $walesflag$
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Another photo may help? $walesflag$
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These properties are very close to a large Church and the village has taken its name from one of the Saints that the Church is dedicated to. $walesflag$
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Time for another photo which shows the street and another building across the road. Z**
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It's an historic village and to give you a big clue the name of this Welsh village starts with the letter LL ;D
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I think it's Llaneurgain/Northop.
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I think it's Llaneurgain/Northop.
And you're spot on Cambrian. We went to a friend's wedding at the Church yesterday and I noticed those signs on the houses so I thought I take some photos for the forum. &well&
It's a pretty little village and not far off the A55
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Hugo, a bit of trivia.... during the search for your quiz, I was surprised to learn that Tu Hwnt I'r Bont Tearoom, Llanrwst (Bridge Cafe) was originally the Llanrwst Courthouse.......
"Built as a residential dwelling in 1480, Tu Hwnt i’r Bont (Beyond the Bridge) is actually considerably older than the Inigo Jones bridge it stands beside. Some years later the building was used as the Courthouse for the surrounding area. From here the most serious offenders could have been taken to Tan y Craig in Llanrwst where they could be hanged outside the old gaol!"
Old photo.....looking very bleak, compared to today.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Postcard-RP-The-Old-Courthouse-Llanrwst-Used-1946-Ref-67419-/172287377055 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Postcard-RP-The-Old-Courthouse-Llanrwst-Used-1946-Ref-67419-/172287377055)
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That's interesting Steve, thanks for posting that info as I never knew that. I wonder where they held the Court cases when the place flooded.
I could tell that you were searching for info to locate the place and that's why I thought that I'd help by giving you a big clue about the village name starting with the letter LL. Hope that it helped ;D
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A bit too easy I think but interesting anyway maybe?
Where did I see this rabbit?
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It's Peter Rabbit at Snugbury Farm near Nantwich, lovely ice creams they have there. ;D
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Well done Hugo.
They are very creative each year with their straw sculptures. I think I put the meerkat one on here before.
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I think they've chosen Peter Rabbit as last month was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter.
When I worked for a living I travelled to Stoke-on-Trent area fairly regularly and, if the timing was right, would return via Snugburys just to get one of their many flavoured ice creams!
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Well worth a detour to get one of their delicious ice creams. $good$
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A very easy one for someone on a Wednesday evening. Where would you see this in N Wales exactly? $walesflag$
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There is a shop in the small town of Portmadog in North Wales called Kerfoots. It's an old-fashioned type shop with a bit of everything in it. For the millennium they commissioned this stunning stained glass dome in the center of the shop.
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Well done Steve, &well&
it was constructed in 1999 to celebrate the store's 125th anniversary, the stain glass depicts how Porthmadog looked in 1874.
The store also has an unusual spiral staircase below the glass dome
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Where are you likely to see this on your travels in N Wales $walesflag$
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Another photo
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Anything to do with Trecastel mine ?
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It's a good guess Steve but not correct but this abandoned water mill is not too far from your old stomping grounds. It's also quite near to the track as well. but which track?
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There's enough water near this old water mill to keep it going. $walesflag$
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Here's another photo which may help, I'm out all day today, so I'll give the answer when I return home
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Think it is on the track to Melynllyn and Dulyn from Eigiau?
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And you are spot on Jack. It's on the left of the track just before you get to Melynllyn. &well&
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Track looks a bit wet Hugo, was the photo taken recently?
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I took the photo yesterday when we visited the two lakes, the track wasn't too bad, nothing compared to the tracks in Cwm Eigiau. We returned on the track above the Dulyn Bothy and that was very wet.
As we were walking through the boggy marshy ground on the hillside I remembered Mull's wise words of not wearing shorts on those types of walks and thought that I could be in trouble with those ticks but all's well that ends well, I hope anyway.
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Rhuddlan went on a walk today in N Wales and sent me this photo. Where is it and what is it a photo of? $walesflag$
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It's a popular place for walking and I believe a photo has been posted on here before. Some forum members have also been there too. $walesflag$
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I have posted a photo from this same location before and remember a forum member making a comment on it, but where is it and what is it?
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No guesses, even though I've posted a photo of the location before! Perhaps this clue will be a big help?
Now you see it, now you don't so it must be a phenomenon ??? ???
So what and where is it?
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The people living in this location may be in strong disagreement but it must be a phenomenon. I've seen it but now I haven't ???
What and where is this thing? $walesflag$
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I have no idea where it is, but is it The River Dee Afon Dyfrdwy, I think that is a dry river bed, and apparently this can happen to the Afon.
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You're so close on many things Steve but I'm going to be mean and not give it to you. ;D
It is a dry river bed and it does feed the River Dee but you need the name of the river and the location should become obvious
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A couple of photos that should help.
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Capel Celyn.....? The village that disappeared under water.
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A good try Steve but it's not near there.
The people living in this location may be in strong disagreement over the boundary too.
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Another big clue to the disputed boundary. When people just can't agree then they could be at this place. ???
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I must owe Wikipedia a few bob today, but I think this is right.
Loggerheads is a village in Denbighshire, Wales on the River Alyn, a tributary of the River Dee.
It has a country park which follows the course of the River Alyn through karstic limestone countryside including the sites of old lead mines and mills. there is a working flour mill on site.
A leat or leete, built around 1824 follows the side of the valley nearby and was used to carry water to the lead mines of Mold Mines, on land owned by the Grosvenor family. It is now the popular Leete Walk. The name Loggerheads may come from the dispute over estate boundaries between the lordships of Mold and Llanferres.
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Well done Steve, you deserved that one after all your hard work $good$
It's a great walk and when I posted details of the walk some time ago DaveR mentioned about the water disappearing from the river in the drier Summer months. I've just copied something to explain about this unusual occurrence
Between Loggerheads and Rhydymwyn it runs through the Alyn Gorge, which is the site of the caves Ogof Hesp Alyn, Ogof Hen Ffynhonnau and Ogof Nadolig. The river mainly runs across a limestone surface, creating potholes and underwater caves, into which the river flows through some of the summer, when water levels have decreased significantly. For parts of this stretch the river bed is dry for most of the year.
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We saw this building on a walk today in N Wales. Where was it? $walesflag$
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Time for another clue
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Old Llangelynin Churgh above Henryd.
Brought back many scouting memories.
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Old Llangelynin Churgh above Henryd.
Brought back many scouting memories.
That's a good try PhilMick and I can see why you have said that, but it is not Llangelynin Church.
Where is it though? $walesflag$
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Anglesey, Llantrisant, Old Church?
Changed my mind .....The church in Llanfaglan.
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A bit posh inside for Llangelynin
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Anglesey, Llantrisant, Old Church?
Changed my mind .....The church in Llanfaglan.
Sorry Steve, but you were nearer with your first guess. But not near enough ;D
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Llancelenyn Church......?
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Llancelenyn Church......?
Steve, I don't know where that Church is, but I do know that it's the wrong one!
This poor chap was a long way from home when he died
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Some more photos from inside the Church which may help?
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More visual clues from nearby that may help
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St Rhywdrys on The Anglesey Coastal path....got it from the tombstone clue.
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Well done Steve, you could also have got it from the engraving as there was a clue there. I didn't want to post a photo of the front of the Church as it is so distinctive you could have got that from Google. $good$
It's a beautiful little Church which has been well looked after and is worth the effort to visit when you are in that area.
.It is situated on the north-western coast of Anglesey, North Wales, in the vicinity of Cemlyn Bay and Hen Borth. The Church was founded in the 6th century by St Rhwydrys and the present Church dates from the 12th century. St Rhwydrys church is one of the most isolated of Anglesey's churches but its proximity to the Anglesey Coastal Path has probably made it accessible to more visitors than ever in its long history. It is well worth the small diversion from the path and a visit to the churchyard may surprise the traveller with the size of the slate chest (or table)
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Two unusual views of somewhere I have visited this last week. Any ideas?
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A wild guess to start with --- Beaumaris Castle.
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Sorry Hugo, not Beaumaris !
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Is it the watch tower ?
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Conwy Castle?
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No.....further away than Conwy....and not a castle.
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Have you been to Barmouth again Nemesis? It could be Cymer Abbey by Dolgellau
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you know me too well Hugo !
Correct ! The contractors were in the middle of dismantling a huge marquee, which had been set up for a wedding at the weekend. It must have been a lovely setting. ;D
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Here is the actual Abbey....but where is the other picture?
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Nemesis, I haven't got a clue so I'm going to have another wild guess. The picture looks like a man made water fall like they used to have for water mills so I'll have a wild guess that it is on the Torrent Walk. ???
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I wish !! Don't think either of us could manage the Torrent Walk these days.
I'll give this a bit longer, but you are roughly on the right track.
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Somewhere in the Dolgellau/ Barmouth area so I'll have a think about that. ?{}?
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Not Valle Crucis Abbey then?
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Somewhere in the Dolgellau/ Barmouth area so I'll have a think about that. ?{}?
Try a little further south.
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Not Valle Crucis Abbey then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymer_Abbey
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Somewhere in the Dolgellau/ Barmouth area so I'll have a think about that. ?{}?
Try a little further south.
I can't tell if it's a natural waterfall or a mill one but I'll have a pop at Dolgoch
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Any help Hugo ?
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I think it is on the A487 at a place called Furnace, a little way past Ynyshir?
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Spot on Hollins. Dyfi Furnace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyfi_Furnace
The river Einion is the source of the waterfall, which was used to power the mill.
It is rather a dank and gloomy place, but has an interesting history.
It is also home to a colony of lesser horseshoe bats.
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Where in Wales would you see this and what is it?
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Could it be St Seriol's Well at Penmon on Anglesey?
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No, further away than that Nemesis. In fact the reason I guessed your quiz was because we had driven past it on our way to this area a few days ago.
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Looks a bit like Non's Well near St Davids.
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Blimey Hugo, well done!
I thought that was an obscure one.
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You gave another clue when you said that you had driven past that watermill and I thought to myself that Hollins is off again to the Tenby Area. ;D
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A massive job underway here.
Where is it?
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I think that it is Buxton.
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Yes, well done Neil. Massive work has finally started on the Crescent after all these years. So good to see. It was crawling with workmen. It is going to be an 80 bedroom hotel.
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I must admit that I thought it was Bath, until Mrs Neil persuaded me it was Buxton. We had lot of drives up to Buxton for lunch when we lived in Manchester, a lovely town.
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I stayed in the hotel on a weeks training course and enjoyed it so much that we were all hoping that we would be snowed in for a bit longer.
It was also the first time that I had seen snow ploughs on the front of a train but they would need them up there in the Winter.
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We came across this on a walk today. What is it and where is it? $walesflag$
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Time for another photo $walesflag$
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I think it is a spring well, but no idea where......there were a few similar around our house by the lake.
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It is a Holy Well, and it's behind a Chapel but takes its name from the nearby Church. ???
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Many forum members must have gone by here and it's only about 50 yards from the road and near the Gwydr.
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I will try Ffynnon Elen?
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And you're spot on Jack, well done. $good$
It's just a few yards from Y Gwydr ( the pub in Dolwyddelan) and right behind the former Methodist Chapel
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Have to be honest and admit I cheated by looking through hundreds of wells on this website:
https://wellhopper.wordpress.com/
Who would have known there were so many in North Wales? $walesflag$
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Jack............ &well& ;)
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Have to be honest and admit I cheated by looking through hundreds of wells on this website:
https://wellhopper.wordpress.com/
Who would have known there were so many in North Wales? $walesflag$
If you can excuse the pun, you still did well finding that answer. I'm lucky as I go walking with Tellytubby and Rhuddlan and they both know a lot about places of historical interest and we've seen some great wells and especially those in the Vale of Clwyd.
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Have to be honest and admit I cheated by looking through hundreds of wells on this website:
https://wellhopper.wordpress.com/
Who would have known there were so many in North Wales? $walesflag$
If you can excuse the pun, you still did well finding that answer. I'm lucky as I go walking with Tellytubby and Rhuddlan and they both know a lot about places of historical interest and we've seen some great wells and especially those in the Vale of Clwyd.
well I never did ! ;)
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Never mind Nemesis, all's well that ends well.
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Welsh pun ... you seem to have a lot of FUN ON your walks!
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I have visited a factory this morning that is now a museum.
What was made here and where is it?
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No guesses so here is a photo of another machine which was used to help make this edible product.
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More clues.....
The previous photo is of the crushing mill and the next one is the old cutting machine.
What was made here?
Production ceased in 1986.
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I must admit that I haven't got a clue and don't even know what country you were in. ???
I'll have a wild guess and say that you went over the border to the Lion Salt Works in Marston, near Northwich, Cheshire, England. It closed as a works in 1986 and is now preserved as a museum.
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Spot on Hugo, well done!
Did you get in from the 1986 bit?
I went to pick my mum up who lives nearby. Her father and grandfather worked there and she last visited as a child when they were still making salt.
They have done a great job of the restoration with lottery funding.
It was featured in the BBC Restoration programme and opened last year.
The first photo was the brine pump.
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It was a pure fluke on my part but the 1986 bit did give it away.
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Where will you find this floor?
No clues yet - it is within Conwy County.
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Where will you find this floor?
No clues yet - it is within Conwy County.
Bodnant House, I can see the gardeners muddy boot print on the floor. ;)
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Well spotted - but it was not a gardener's boot, and it's not Bodnant Hall!
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It looks like kerbs in the background and a tyre print but I've no idea where, still thinking about this one. ?{}?
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Just to help (or confuse) you ... the room is approximately 15' square and about 15' high as well.
I'd be very surprised if anyone on here has been in the room, although I'm sure many of you will have been close! Another clue tomorrow if needed!
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Is it in one of the buildings of the Pin Mill at Bodnant?
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Quite correct Hollins! It is the (only) room in the Pin Mill (SteveH was in the right area!). The walls are all wood panelling, and the room is being restored - the footprints are those of the contractor (not a gardener!) who was making some minor repairs prior it all being cleaned and polished. The plan is to open, on a limited basis, for visitors to view next year - narrow stairs and low headroom in the doorway will make it restricted viewing.
Here is a photo of the inside of the room itself, the window looks out over the Canal Terrace.
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Don't know what happened there - there should have been two pictures attached - here's the inside of the room (hopefully loads this time).
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How interesting!
Lucky you and us getting a preview, thanks.
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I should imagine that room will look stunning after it is restored, looking forward to your photos. Well done Hollins.
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I was pottering around N Wales when I stumbled upon this fabulous but derelict building.
Where was I? What was it?
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'Denbigh Mental' - North Wales Hospital, Denbigh?
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I remember going there to play football against a staff team and it was a bit grim inside the place
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Yeah Jack, of course it is.
I'd heard much about it, but never seen it.
A building both beautiful and morose in equal measure.
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http://totallyhaunted.co.uk/denbigh-mental-asylum.php (http://totallyhaunted.co.uk/denbigh-mental-asylum.php)
Such a shame to let such a wonderful building go to rack and ruin. :'(
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I've visited the site a few times to photograph it - its a very big place!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/albums/72157634948220280 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/albums/72157634948220280)
Main buildings soon to be renovated and houses built in the grounds.
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Anyone recognise this building?
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No guesses......it is somewhere you would go for retail therapy.
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No guesses......it is somewhere you would go for retail therapy.
Is it in Manchester?
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Yes and it has been there since the 1830's.
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Is it House of Fraser , Deansgate.
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Yes, well done although it will always be Kendals to me.
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Yes, well done although it will always be Kendals to me.
I had forgotton that it was called Kendals, we had an office in Deansgate in the 70s, I spent a few lunch times in there, one visit just before Xmas, I saw the perfect present for my daughter , without thinking I bought it,.... a rocking donkey complete with saddle, bridle etc, at the cash desk they said it would be a few minutes coming from stores, when it arrived I was shocked, the box was BIG to say the least and would not fit in the car, I had to unpack and dismantle piece by piece, one of those things you dont forget.
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A lovely memory and a lucky daughter!
I've got good memories of the place too.
Do you remember the tunnel which went under Deansgate to the food hall which is now Waterstones?
I was sorry to see that go.
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Perhaps I am going back even further, even to the late 50s, early 60s.?
Yes Hollins I remember the tunnel on one of our frequent visits there.
My Mother and I used to take the train to Manchester, taxi to Kendal Milnes as it was then and spend most of the day in the various departments. We had lunch on the top floor, in the restaurant whilst mannequins walked round between the diners modelling clothes from the various departments. Our meal was usually a roast and then sherry trifle served in scratchy metal dishes which set your teeth on edge !
Those were the days !
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A lovely memory and a lucky daughter!
I've got good memories of the place too.
Do you remember the tunnel which went under Deansgate to the food hall which is now Waterstones?
I was sorry to see that go.
Sorry dont remember the tunnel, but I do remember the shop was on both sides, I seem to remember a furniture dept.?
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I see it every year when I go to the Xmas market, same lights I think?
I'll be there next week!
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A very easy one for a Saturday afternoon, where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Thanks, Hugo. Glad to get one I know!
Its the old toll house at the entrance to the Promenade leading to St George's Pier, Menai Bridge.
Always looks as if it was a cosy little place with a nice fire going.
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Well done Cambrian, spot on. $good$
It's opposite Dylan's Restaurant in Menai Bridge where we had a short walk today.
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I came across this little fellow on a walk today. Where would you see him? $walesflag$
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I saw this creature too, so where were they? $walesflag$
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Glan yr afon??? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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B Y Coed.....Riverside hotel ?
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Good try Steve but it's not correct but they were on a riverside but which one and where?
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Time for another photo that should help.
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River Elwy at St Asaph?
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Spot on Jack, well done. $good$
We went there on Saturday for a short walk down the river and also to look at the Waxwings that were there in numbers
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Where in North Wales will you see this?
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Bodnant Gardens?
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Well done! Very observant.
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It was the colour more than anything that gave it away Hollins, something I'm always aware of at Bodnant.
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I came across this today, where would you see it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Sygun Copper Mine?
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That's a good guess and very quick too Hollins but I'm afraid that it's not correct this time.
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Slate Museum Llanberis?
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Another good guess Nemesis but I'm afraid that it is incorrect.
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Time for another photo
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It's no longer in a quarry or an underground mine and is on display somewhere, but would Clough Williams Ellis have approved of where it is? $walesflag$
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By the clue..............Portmeirion?
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He's famous for Portmeirion but that's not where this wagon is. If you want to see it then you have to go above? ???
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Is it his home...Plas Brondanw estate ?
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A good guess Steve but it's not Plas Brondanw. It was not his home but he was asked to design it, so where is it?
It's a two storey building and you can't go below to see it, you must go up to the first floor level to see it on display.
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Anything to do with the summit building Snowdonia ?
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No Steve, it's nothing to do with Snowdon. It's not far from the old Watling Street though?
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No wiser Hugo, but I found this, which I thought was a fitting end for a very creative man.....
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis died in April 1978, aged 94. In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated, and his ashes went to make up a marine rocket, which was part of a New Year’s Eve firework display over the estuary at Portmeirion.
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Thanks for that info on Sir Clough Williams Ellis, he has left a great legacy around the North Wales area.
Back to the question Steve. I have told you the name of the business or enterprise and also where it is located in a cryptic way but if you can't find it soon I'll post another photo to help
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Steve, you've driven 7 tonners up those narrow tracks to Llyn Geirionydd so this vehicle should be a doddle for you to drive.
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Just a shot in the dark Hugo, but that vehicle looks like one of the transporters used by "Go Below" adventure outfit, operating out of the Conwy Falls Cafe on the turning for Penmachno on the A5. I've been in the offices but I haven't seen any old mining trucks there.
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Gwynant, you're spot on so well done. $good$
The Go Below office is part of the Conwy Falls Cafe and is on the left behind the building and that's why you probably haven't seen it. To be honest we didn't know about it until we stopped at the cafe for a coffee after having a walk up to Capel Garmon yesterday.
Just to try and explain the clues:-
Sir Clough Williams Ellis was given the job of designing the building
It's a two storey building and you can't go below to see it, you must go up to the first floor level to see it on display.
The old Roman Road of Watling Street, now called the A5 is next to the building
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Thankyou Gywnant, I was going round in circles on this one..... $good$ good quiz H.
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Couldn't make it too easy for you Steve. ;D
We had a look at the adventure leaflet and it sounded very good but I'm going to pass on that and continue collecting my OAP
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Thankyou Gywnant, I was going round in circles on this one..... $good$ good quiz H.
Well done Gwynant!
Hugo, you are getting quite tricky with your quizzes making us think we were in a mine.
What a wonderful looking building. I don't remember ever noticing it before as we usually hit the A5 at Cerrigydrudion.
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You have been guessing them too quickly Hollins so I put a few Red Herrings in to try and make them last a bit longer. I've tried clues Cymraeg also but Gwynant still susses them out.
The cafe is just off the A5 and on the turning to Penmachno. We had our coffee in the central bit of the 1st floor of the building as we were rather muddy after the walk, the right hand section of the 1st floor is where most people go.
The Conwy Falls are just past there and there is a nice walk on the other side of the river where you get good views of the river and the Machno Falls
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Another easy one for a Saturday evening. Where is this in N Wales and what is it? $walesflag$
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Dove Cote at Penmon ???
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That's a good guess Nemesis but it's not correct.
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Time for another photo
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Porth Wen?
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Well done Jack, It is Porth Wen in Anglesey. $good$
We were there yesterday when we had a walk along the coast from Bull Bay and I took the photos from inside one of those kilns
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Lovely spot Hugo, one of my favourite parts of the Anglesey Coast Path $walesflag$
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Another easy one for Sunday. Where are these nice gates in N Wales and a bonus point for the name of the property.
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These very ornate gates wouldn't be out of place in Hollywood or some similar location. $walesflag$
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Gwydir castle or a posh pawn establishment ?
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It's neither Steve, although you must have gone past it many times.
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That looks so familiar but I can't place it.
Is it a crematorium?
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That looks so familiar but I can't place it.
Is it a crematorium?
It probably looks familiar because you must have gone past it many times but you could have been driving. It's not a crematorium either as the people who stay here are very much alive.
There must have been a Chapel here to give this place it's name ???
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Another photo may help, the Chapel must have been somewhere in the trees behind the building.
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Capel Curig ? or Garmon
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You're getting nearer Steve, but beware of any Red Herrings! WWW
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Time for another photo.
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That looks like a lodge house to something bigger, but sorry its not coming to mind.
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The Hollywood gates are on an A road and somewhere behind the trees in the picture must have been the prayer house. ??? $walesflag$
Where is it and what is the name of the main building? $walesflag$
You're correct Steve and you should know this one as you must have been past it.
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Perhaps this will help? $walesflag$
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Another photo
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Now this photo of the main house must help and I'm sure that I saw the sign for Hollywood near the gates. $walesflag$
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I'm sure that Steve has been beavering away at this one and thought that Gwynant would also have got this too as they have both passed very close to the gates,
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Every time you post a photo it looks less familiar!
Where's the experts?
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Is this the Towers outdoor centre Capel Curig ?
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Every time you post a photo it looks less familiar!
Where's the experts?
That's the idea Hollins ;D
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Is this the Towers outdoor centre Capel Curig ?
Steve, I've already revealed the answers and they are not in Capel Curig. $walesflag$ $welsh$
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I thought the woods behind the house resembled the area around Betws-y-Coed and with the "beavering " clue I looked on Google Earth and found Coed-y-Celyn on the A470 just after the Dolwyddelan turnoff and by the Beaver Pool.
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Clues Cymraeg have done it again! Well done Gwynant $good$
I only noticed it myself last Saturday when we had to walk on the A470 from Beavers Bridge to the lay by near the Ty Gwyn Hotel.
The clues again:-
A road = A470
Hollywood = Coed Y Celyn $walesflag$
Chapel (prayer house) in the trees = Betws Y Coed $walesflag$
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Another easy one for Sunday.] Where are these nice gates in N Wales and a bonus point for the name of the property.
H. I draw your attention to your opening remarks, I am beginning to dread reading ...... heres another easy one.....
Yet again another good quiz, I got all your clues but the translation for Hollywood didnt show up, so around in circles again.
Well done and thankyou Gwynant... $good$
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Hi Steve, I felt certain that it would be too easy for you with you having lived nearby for so long and that's why I cropped the top of the photos initially.
I drop some clues Cymraeg in from time to time but when I do I'll always put a $walesflag$ there.
Coed = wood
Y = the
Celyn = holly
It's a great big building but when you drive past all you can see is the tower but that would have been a give away
Now I've got an easy one lined up for you ..... ;D
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Uh, oh.
I am convinced "easy" means b....y difficult in Welsh!
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A room with a view photo.
Where has she been now?
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Have you been sampling the Cheshire life again Hollins? Those two spires look like the ones on Chester Cathedral ?{}?
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Probably the view from the Grosvenor, Hugo.
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Yes, you are both right.
Far too easy for the forum experts!
We had a proud family day yesterday watching my niece receive her masters degree from Chester University.
It is held in the cathedral and they put a good show on for them.
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Absent without leave......but where? ;D
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No idea where you are, but I am surprised you could hold the camera steady ;)
Sakl or Japanese beer, overlooking a river, lots of building work going on ? ? Clues. Please
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Or Chinese beer perhaps? I've no idea either but I'll have a wild guess at Hong Kong although it doesn't look hilly enough to be there.
Someone has been letting their hair down where ever it is. Z** Z**
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Not Hong Kong, sorry.
Whatever do you boys take me for?
No beer or saki consumed by me.
This is more my style......some clues in there.....
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The pillars are showing an Egyptian theme. .? I see you are slumming it again. ;)
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Yes, an Egyptian theme but I am not in Egypt.
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More middle eastern perhaps? No idea but another wild guess, Is it Abu Dhabi ?
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Well done, very close but a bit further up the road!
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That hasn't explained all those empty bottles Hollins. Action man must be having a good time there. $good$
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Oh dear, I can't even blame it on him. He isn't here!
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Dubai then ? and the bottles ?
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Yes, Dubai.
Japanese restaurant on the roof top of an Egyptian themed hotel, obviously! ;D
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Thanks for the quiz and photos,hope you are having a good time. 8)
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Another easy one for a Saturday evening. Where would you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Time for another photo
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Interesting, because I've not seen that tower before but it intrigues me for 2 reasons.
The arrow loop and crenellations look like Victorian facsimiles of medieval designs.
Nor does it seem to have a dense, or substantial enough base.
But the archway and stone layering look like a 13th century original.
Hmm... I like castles, medieval or not, so I'm looking forward to the answer on this one.
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Gwrych Castle?
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Some good theories there Fester and interesting ones too so where is it then?
Sorry Bri but it's not Gwrych Castle
It's a ruin now so there would be no point in any members of the Army remaining here? $walesflag$
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If the soldiers want to stay here they should bring their own tents. There is no point otherwise as the place is now in ruin. $walesflag$
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Not been there but is it Fort Belan ?
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Good try Mull but it's not Fort Belan.
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No soldiers on point duty yesterday and I wasn't surprised either.
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Soldier's Point next to the breakwater in Holyhead?
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Yes, well done Gwynant. $good$
I was wondering when you would get it because you had a walk in that area a few years ago.
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/soldiers-point-castle-hotel-holyhead-27-12-08.t35853 (https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/soldiers-point-castle-hotel-holyhead-27-12-08.t35853)
I had to crop the photo with the towers and the breakwater as it would have been too easy then
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Ahh.... so it is a Victorian facsimile.
Never heard of it. Good quiz! ✅
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Where in North Wales would you see this?
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No guesses?
Here is a bit more of the gorgeous view from the location which might help?
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I've been thinking about all the places on the Llyn Peninsula that have nice restaurants but can't think where this is.
A wild guess at Abersoch.
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You are on the right track Hugo but it isn't Abersoch.
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I thought that because of the shadows in the photo it was on the southern Llyn Peninsula but if it isn't Abersoch then is it Pwllheli?
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Not as far down as that.
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Dylan's at Criccieth is my guess.
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Well done Neil, correct.
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Did you enjoy the food? I have only had Mussels at Menai Bridge, it was excellent, I think I will be a regular at the new Dylan's in Llandudno.
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Yes, I like the food. I have only ever had fish dishes but there is plenty of variety including pizzas and snacks.
There was no lobster available this time so I started with crab cakes and then had sea bass. Mr H had whitebait and then sea trout with sweet potato and pak choi.
I have eaten at Menai Bridge several times but this was the first visit to the Criccieth branch.
The location is fantastic and I was so pleased to see the building being put to good use as the last time I was there it was looking rather forlorn.
I think they were understaffed this visit as we were asked to wait about half an hour before a table became available even though we could see spare places.
It was no hardship to sit outside on the terrace first with a drink though. The food was also slow to arrive but we were in no rush. The crab cakes arrived only warm though.
There is a smaller menu for the bar and outside terrace and after 2.30pm a smaller one still for the afternoon service.
I too am waiting with great anticipation for the Llandudno one to open but I think I will leave it a while for them to get organised as I don't want my first visit to be a disappointment if the service isn't good at the beginning.
What a delight it will be to get a window table there after a cocktail under the dome!
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I thought of Dylan's first of all and had a look on Google Street view but couldn't see the posts and the boardwalk so I discounted it and didn't have any other clue except that it was on the Llyn.
A lovely location and good quiz Hollins $good$
After we had a walk in Criccieth a while ago,we enjoyed a coffee and cake in Catwaladers, not quite as grand as Dylan's but still very nice with stunning views from the back
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Mr H enjoyed an ice cream from there on our first day but I was too full after our lunch at Dylan's.
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Any ideas where in North Wales this is?
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Here is another picture clue.
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In the first picture I thought that Cadair Idris was in the background and this latest photo looks similar to how I remember Castell Y Bere.
Did you go down to Abergynolwyn after your stay at Criccieth?
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No, we didn't go there Hugo.
The place we visited wasn't far off route on our way back home from Criccieth.
The building was a wedding present and there is an amusing story about it.
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Is it Dolbadarn castle Llanberis?
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No, sorry, not there.
The building was owned by an architect.
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The Outlook Tower - Plas Brondanw.
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Well done Neil.
Here is the story of the wedding present...
http://www.brondanw.org/english/garden/tower.html (http://www.brondanw.org/english/garden/tower.html)
This was the home of Clough Williams Ellis. We had a look around the house and gardens. I will put some photos of them in the gardening section for anyone who is interested.
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Where in the UK will you see this?
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Who's been to church then........ ;)
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Ha! Not me, but action man.
Well done Steve, I'm sure you know the answer.
Are you going to explain where it is or shall I?
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$thanx$ It's quite well known, but I thought you might get a few more tries, hence my cryptic answer, this link is informative.
The Cathedral quarries are a small network of inter-linked quarries above Little Langdale. The system is best known for its main chamber, which still stands forty feet in height, and is lit by two windows off the main quarry. They are frequently referred to as Cathedral “Cave”.
https://www.visitcumbria.com/amb/cathedral-cave/ (https://www.visitcumbria.com/amb/cathedral-cave/)
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&well&
Quick off the mark this morning Steve!
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Here is an easy one.
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I remember going to medieval banquets there years ago but not long afterwards Gwrych Castle ceased trading
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Well done, Hugo.
We enjoyed a tour last week conducted by Dr Mark Baker.
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It was a lovely building and I remember the very impressive staircase there, let's hope that someone can restore it back to it's former glory.
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I came across these graves a while ago, where are they in N Wales?
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I suspect these are not humans, but pets - possibly horses by the date and the use of "old dame". As to where, I've no idea!!!
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You are right DVT, they are pets but not horses but where would this pet cemetery be?
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Is it the pet cemetery at Penrhos Country Park near Holyhead?
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A good guess Jack but it is not on Anglesey.
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Oddstone Marine Drive Penrhyn Bay
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I don't think so, although it might look a bit like the ruined castle once the place is demolished
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They say that this place is haunted by a ghost but there were none about when we went through the graveyard
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Is it Wepre Park Flintshire....... &shake&
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Well done Steve, it is Wepre Park in Flintshire. &well&
What made you guess the answer?
Nora the Nun is supposed to haunt the area and the pet graveyard is in the grounds of Gwepre Hall which is now demolished
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Just good detective skills ;) and a lot of luck........ $thanx$
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I didn't want to give too much away because Gwynant went there not long after I was there. The pet cemetery was out of bounds though, but my mate Tellytubby and I found a way round it and we were glad that we did.
Nora the nun has appeared there a number of times and has been seen at the top of the waterfall a few times.
A nice easy walk for anyone and plenty of things to see
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I visited here recently, should be easy.....
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Easy! :o :o
You are kidding!
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Easy! :o :o
You are kidding!
Sorry about that H., I had to change the photo, because "it" was to easy.
The lion is a giveaway, only if you have been there,...... they also have peacocks roosting on the crow stepped gables of this very old, large house.
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Gwydyr Castle, Llanrwst ???
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Ruthin Castle Steve?
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Sorry lads you are both incorrect, more clues tomorrow.
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This is a very old house 1597.
The food here is very good, and they have a few beds if you want to stay the night, but they fill up quickly, however in an emergency, the place next door can sleep more, but everybody says the food is terrible.
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Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan and I agree the food next door is pretty awful as I have stayed there on several occasions.
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Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan and I agree the food next door is pretty awful as I have stayed there on several occasions.
&well& Very well done M., I thought it might need another clue,..... I attended a wedding there a while back, and someone took a photo of me astride the lion, needless to say, glass in hand.
http://www.faenolfawrhotel.co.uk/hotel.html (http://www.faenolfawrhotel.co.uk/hotel.html)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faenol_Fawr,_Bodelwyddan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faenol_Fawr,_Bodelwyddan)
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I should have got that one as I go to a meeting there every three months! I thought next door the beds are all full and you have to sleep in a corridor or ambulance!!!
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Had picnic lunch here last Wednesday, Where is it?
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Is it in Llangollen by the Horseshoe Falls? $walesflag$
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No Hugo not close.
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Here's a bigger picture.
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Alwen?
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No, not Alwen.
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Brenig ?
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No not Brenig, but getting closer.
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Lake Vyrnwy in Powys Mid Wales ?
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That's correct Steve, a long drive for a picnic, it was the wife's idea, I don't think we will be going again.
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Where in North Wales will you see this?
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Porth Madog ?
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No, sorry Steve, not there.
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Is it in Bangor?
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No, it isn't Bangor.
A clue, it is part of a sculpture.
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The sculpture depicts something which grows locally to it.
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That's a real toughie Hollins and I haven't got a clue so it has got to be a really wild guess. Church Bay Anglesey
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You are right with Anglesey but not Church Bay. The sculpture is called by the same name as a restaurant nearby that I checked out for Sunday lunch, yum!
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Sounds like it could be the Marram Grass Cafe/|Restaurant
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Well done Steve. Yes it is the Marram Grass sculpture in the car park at Llyn Rhos-ddu.
We did a lovely walk from there before lunch.
Will post the walk and meal in the relevant threads for anyone interested.
There are names on each of the leaves and I can't find out what they mean. Does anyone know what they are there for? I have googled it without success.
https://newboroughanglesey.wordpress.com/tag/marram-grass/
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There are various grasses used to create sand dunes, as coastal defense systems, they are possibly the names of those grasses ?
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Probably too easy, but where is this?
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Is it the Erddig Hall Gardens Wrexham?
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Is it the secret garden just outside Menai Bridge? $walesflag$
Did you take a photo of an old poster to get that shot?
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Hugo is correct, &well&
It is Plas Cadnant Hidden Garden near Menai Bridge called so because it was derelict in 1996 when the present owner bought it.
Then on Boxing Day 2015 much of their hard work was destroyed by floods.
There are amazing before and after the flood photos in the entrance area.
It really is a beautiful garden and well worth a visit. They also have holiday cottages with one of them in this situation in the garden itself (first photo).
As for the quiz photo, yes I did take it but here is an honest account of how it came to be like that!
I tripped on some steps and thankfully saved the wonder camera as I had the wrist strap on (lesson learned there from DaveR's experience a few years ago) but unbeknown to me until I downloaded my pics, the setting had got moved from my normal auto to "S" and all the ones I took after the fall were bleached out. I was so disappointed that I started playing with some effects and arrived at that one.
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It looks a lovely spot to visit Hollins and I've never been there before, just as far as the entrance to it. The only reason I guessed correctly was because the number on your photo was similar to those at Newborough and then I had a look on Google earth to see the layout of the garden.
I did wonder about the black and white photo though and it must have been very frustrating for you when you found out what had happened with your camera. I've done something similar myself and it's so annoying
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Glad you and the camera, are OK, hope you don't mind, had a play with your photo.
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I had a walk in N Wales today and passed this building on the walk, where was it?
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I thought at first it was the explosives storage building situated above the quarry at Holyhead Breakwater Park but I think it is too large and too tall.
However it is the same shape and colour so could it be a building used for the same purpose in the Llanberis quarry zarea?
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You are correct Gwynant, it is not the Holyhead building but I'm sorry as it's not the Llanberis one either.
I'll post some photos this afternoon if the answer hasn't been found, but right now I'm off for a few hours :golf: :golf:
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Cropping the photo didn't fool Gwynant, so here is the photo again and also one of another building nearby
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Time for some more photos
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Is it the fog horn station on Anglesey?
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Having just looked, I can see it isn't! :D
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You're on the right track ME, but just in the wrong place, so where will you see this? $walesflag$
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bardsey island lighthouse its a long time since I sailed past this but the foghorn rings a bell excuse the pun
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Well spotted Spotty Dog. $good$
We were there yesterday and the weather was really good for most of the day and about 5.00pm we caught the boat back to Aberdaron
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Anybody know where this shadow is?
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And that's from OUTSIDE the 3 towns area??
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Wild guess, Chester?
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Is it on the Pont Y Ddraig Bridge in Rhyl?
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No one close yet, I will put another pic on tomorrow.
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Here's another pic.
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A wild guess at the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel?
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No Hugo, here's another pic.
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Llangollen?
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Victoria Inn Llanbeder ?
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You could get a valuable antique at this location.
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Is it the Afonwen Craft Centre? $walesflag$
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Yes it is Hugo. Well done.
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Where would you see this horse grazing in N Wales? $walesflag$
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He was still there when I drove past again on this A road
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You'll see it in Dyffryn Conwy, but where exactly? $walesflag$
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The horse was alongside the A5 or was it the A470? ???
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I'm going to say that it was the A5 so that may make it clearer? ???
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I noticed the white house first and then looked across and saw this horse in the garden $walesflag$
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Anything to do with Ty Gwyn hotel B.Y.C.
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I don't think so Steve, but I'm going to give you that one as it's directly opposite the Ty Gwyn Hotel. So well done $good$
I was driving down the A470 yesterday and went past the Ty Gwyn Hotel when I noticed that sculpture opposite it and that stretch between the Waterloo Bridge and the turning to Dolwyddelan is on the A5 but it must be the A470 too but on Google it shows the stretch as the A5.
That sculpture is about 4 to 5 feet tall and it looked really nice in the morning sunshine
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Ta, I searched for every type of horse sculpture, with no luck, your clue "White house" gave me the idea, but no horse.?
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I did the same thing before I posted the question because I know that you're so good at finding things. I'm glad the clue Cymraeg helped a bit $walesflag$
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Well done on that last answer Steve. Like everything else it's only easy if you know it so this next one could be really easy for someone or it could be a real stinker!
Where would you see this sign in N Wales? $walesflag$
If no one gets it soon then I'll keep posting photos during the day
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On the beach ........... emergency telephone sign
Maybe Harlech
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Well that didn't last long did it. Well done Lyndylou, spot on. $good$
I was convinced that it would be a stinker but you got that straight away. We did a walk in Harlech yesterday and the weather was hot and sunny. The lovely safe beach at Morfa Harlech went for miles but there were only a few people on it
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Where will you see this building?
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I think you have been visiting Pembrokeshire , St Davids Cathedral .
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Well done Steve!
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Where in Wales will you see this fellow?
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Is it the World Harmony Peace statue in Cardiff?
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No, sorry Hugo, it isn't in Cardiff but it is something to do with peace.
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This is nearby.
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Is it at The National Botanical Gardens of Wales?
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Well done Neil, it is!
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Sorry I forgot to post the picture which explains what the statue is all about.
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We had a walk in N Wales today but we weren't sure if we were on the right track, so where is it?
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A long shot ....Penrhyn quarry railway.
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A long shot ....Penrhyn quarry railway.
And a good shot it was Steve $good$
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Ta. I thought the tracks looked small, so checked out quarries in your walking area, and found their web page after some searching.........
A big address for a small site.
http://www.penrhynrail.co.uk/apps/blog/entries?fb_sig_network=fw&fw_sig=d8b2a9113072de49ec41b51c1197d3b6&fw_sig_access_token=3b6e9a8ec48fa786bb87df6a7f9ca738948946b8&fw_sig_api_key=ynwfbf8k2f7dn9jssqvcguxv&fw_sig_is_admin=0&fw_sig_locale=en-US&fw_sig_partner=webs&fw_sig_permission_level=0&fw_sig_permissions=none&fw_sig_premium=1&fw_sig_session_key=fb49e96460be499293583920689369dc7208389ec558ea713cb0df5e6d4f6d4c-116261093&fw_sig_site=116261093&fw_sig_social=1&fw_sig_tier=0&fw_sig_time=1483638732118&fw_sig_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.penrhynrail.co.uk%2F&page=2&view_type=0 (http://www.penrhynrail.co.uk/apps/blog/entries?fb_sig_network=fw&fw_sig=d8b2a9113072de49ec41b51c1197d3b6&fw_sig_access_token=3b6e9a8ec48fa786bb87df6a7f9ca738948946b8&fw_sig_api_key=ynwfbf8k2f7dn9jssqvcguxv&fw_sig_is_admin=0&fw_sig_locale=en-US&fw_sig_partner=webs&fw_sig_permission_level=0&fw_sig_permissions=none&fw_sig_premium=1&fw_sig_session_key=fb49e96460be499293583920689369dc7208389ec558ea713cb0df5e6d4f6d4c-116261093&fw_sig_site=116261093&fw_sig_social=1&fw_sig_tier=0&fw_sig_time=1483638732118&fw_sig_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.penrhynrail.co.uk%2F&page=2&view_type=0)
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Thanks for posting the link Steve it was quite interesting to read and I wish that I'd have seen it before our walk today. We did the Lon Las Ogwen walk from Bethesda and walked down to Porth Penrhyn.
The walk wasn't without incident but I'll post details on here. It's golf tomorrow :golf: and then lunch on Friday $dins$ so I'll post on here asap.
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Where will you see this strange object and what is it's purpose?
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Is it an Ospreys nest, possible near Glaslyn Porthmadog
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Well done Steve. Not the correct location but yes it is an osprey nest.
We had to look it up to find out what it was and found this article.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/watch-north-wales-osprey-nests-10245094 (http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/watch-north-wales-osprey-nests-10245094)
I don't think they want the exact location to be known but it was on Hiraethog moor near Pentrefoelas.
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Right, now Gwynant is back in action (good to hear you are fine Gwynant) here is a quiz question.
I am never sure if things I post are really of any interest but I am inspired to put a quiz question on after seeing that this thread gets so many views!
Any guesses? Not Wales!
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You know I like the quizzes, especially on a dull Sunday, so I hope you are posting from the above town. ;)
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I am Steve, not dull here but are you going to enlighten us?
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I worked there in the late 60's when the new airport opened, I loved it then, unspoiled, I spent most of 67,68 and 69 and found it very difficult to return to the UK. ......Palma Cathedral
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I would have loved to have seen it then too but it is still very beautiful, gorgeous buildings.
Cheers, pigeons for ME!
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That was a very quick quiz, all over before I had even logged on. ME would be in his element there and I've got about 15 of his Pigeons on the roof and all soaking wet.
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I hope that it's not too easy but where would you see this sign in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Possibly the Clocaenog Forest ?
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It's a good try Meleri but it's not the Clocaenog Forest
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Newbornough Forest?
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Newborough Forest?
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Loggerheads?? Near Ruthin?
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It's not Loggerheads either
Gwynant, two attempts at Newborough forest but they are not correct. You must try harder, perhaps these children can help you remember?
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Time for another photo which may or may not help?
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Look's like a kids nature trail and pony rides theme from your clues, only one I can see locally is Foel Farm Park.
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That's a good try Steve but it's not Foel Farm Park. They are on a green lane but I don't think that it's a bridle path $walesflag$
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There is an old mill further up the green lane less than 100 yards from those posters $walesflag$
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People will drive past and not notice these posters
Some people can even walk past and not notice them
But if you come to a halt at old mill and look across then you should see them. ??? $walesflag$
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I've given too many clues away already and said exactly where it is so I'm going to have to be careful from now on. ;D $walesflag$
Many forum members have driven past, some have walked past and someone has even taken a photo of this place and posted it on here,
but where is it?
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Basingwerk.......Funny word to spell !
Holywell area?
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Sorry Nemesis but it's not there and is much further west.
Green lane is incorporated into the name of where you can see these posters but you're not likely to see them if you're driving past unless you halt at old mill and look across the road. $walesflag$ $welsh$ $welsh$
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Is it Green Wood at Port Dinorwick
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That's a very good guess Spotty dog and not far away from where the posters are.
There is woodland where the posters but don't let the word green throw you as there is a twist there. ??? $walesflag$ $welsh$
This photo should clinch it
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Last clue, so let's recap:-
It's near the old mill road
It's on an old Welsh green lane
Halt at the old mill and look across to see the posters
Now where exactly are they? $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Griffiths Crossing or possibly Treborth ?
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Another good guess Meleri and you're very near but not near enough I'm afraid.
It's a Welsh name so have a think about the clues so far $walesflag$
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Last try Lon Gwyrfai :-[
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I'm afraid that that's not correct Meleri but thanks for trying. I'm expecting some flack for my clues but I'll take my dog for a walk now and will post the answer later.
Minus 3 points for Gwynant who has driven past, walked past and taken a photo of the place and my clues Cymraeg have not helped him either. >?>??
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This photo is of the A4244 Felin Hen Road and the cottages on the left are in the village of Felin Hen. Just past the cottages is a buttress from the old railway bridge and that has been replaced by the girder bridge which goes over the road to Glasinfryn and at the end of the bridge on the right are the numerous posters.
I did the old railway walk from Bethesda to Bangor a few weeks ago and after Tregarth the track comes to Felin Hen Railway Station. In latter years this station was downgraded from a Station to a Halt
The disused railway track has been improved and is now part of Lon Las Ogwen which crosses the girder bridge on it's way to Glasinfryn and Porth Penrhyn
The clues which are in English were translated from their original Welsh names
Lon Las Ogwen = Ogwen green lane $walesflag$
Felin Hen = Old Mill $walesflag$
On top of the Railway Buttress are numerous items from the old railways history
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Sorry Hugo, I was following the kiddies nature trail theme, from the original photo's, never got close. :( :(
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That's ok Steve, I knew that you would be busy following the clues up but I couldn't make it too easy, especially as Gwynant has done the walk recently.
I put the green lane bit in because I thought that some may think that Lon Las Ogwen means the Ogwen blue lane and it would throw people off the scent.
When I was younger I always thought that Ffordd Las meant Blue Road but it means Green Road and is typical of the old Welsh names
"Lôn Las Ogwen is a 17.7 km (11.0 mi) cycle route in the National Cycle Network which runs south from the NCN 5 at Porth Penrhyn on the north coast of Wales to Llyn Ogwen in Snowdonia. Lôn Las Ogwen is Welsh for "Green Lane".
From Porth Penrhyn to Penrhyn Quarry it follows the former Penrhyn Quarry Railway trackbed. After Tregarth the route climbs about 700 ft. to Ogwen Cottage.[1]"
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You got me there Hugo, we did the walk the week after the tunnel opened shortly after Easter or Whit I think and I never noticed the posters on the bridge then. I was watching the football tonight and didn't see the pic of the house you posted with all the railway memorabilia which I instantly recognised till after the match. I must pay more attention to the "clues cymraeg" in future!
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Perhaps the posters weren't there when you did your walk Gwynant as they did look very new but it makes a change as you always guess correctly.
It is a great walk though and we plan to do it again but in Winter when the leaves are off the trees as the viaduct in Glasinfryn looks very impressive but it was hidden by the trees when we went past
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I certainly didn't see them Hugo so that might have been the case. It is an interesting walk, very much improved by the renovated tunnel, which gives access to great views downstream of the Afon Ogwen which were not previously available. The other thing that struck me was the brickwork on the arches of the bridges over the path between Tregarth and the Railway Cottage, the bricks seem to have been laid diagonally across the arch roofs, perhaps for extra strength?
The walk from the centre of Bethesda to the Zipwire through the woods by the river is a nice walk too, along the quaintly named "Wil Cwac Cwac" footpath!
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We must have missed the Wil Cwac Cwac footpath when we followed the narrow gauge quarry lines so next time we'll include it in the walk.
Those tunnels and bridges are really interesting bits of Victorian architecture, plenty of work there for Brickies in those days
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Top marks for that one Hugo, had us all foxed $good$
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Another easy one for a rainy Saturday. where will you see this in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Time for another photo of this slate picnic table $walesflag$
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If it's wet then you can always have a drink or something to eat in the cafe. It's very busy and there are always people passing by. $walesflag$
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This photo may help? $walesflag$
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If you cross the mountain you may come to this cafe. $walesflag$
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I don't recognise it Hugo but going by your "clues Cymraeg" and the fact that it's by some water I'll have a stab at Trawsfynnydd!
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And you are correct once again Gwynant. $good$ Trawsfynydd (Eng. Across the mountain) it is.
We did the Cwm Prysor railway walk again and ended up in the cafe which is just a few yards off the A470 as you head towards the nuclear power plant.
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A question from Mr H. Where will you see this?
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Hastings ?
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I went past them the other day but I'll pass on this and let someone else have a guess. $good$
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I thought you would know this Hugo. I think a friend of yours knows it too!
Blongb, it is much nearer the Three Towns than Hastings.
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Oh dear, does only Hugo know the answer or are you all being polite?!
I think I need Hugo to take over giving the clues as he is much better at it than I am.
However it sits beside a main road that many of you will have driven past at some time.
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There are enough clues there already Hollins but I'm surprised that my cousin Norman hasn't got it by now. ;D
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Are they waiting for a No 5 Bus? $walesflag$
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A No 13 bus would be better but those guys haven't been waiting over 700 years for it.
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Thats a ruddy long wait for a bus, Hugo
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Rhuddlan?
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Well done Meleri, they are by the bridge in Rhuddlan. &well&
I knew the answer too because I've used that photo in a quiz before. :-[
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Oh no, sorry about that. I need to be concentrating harder on the forum past content! ;D
Anyway well done Meleri and Hugo who knew it all along.
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Don't worry Hollins as I posted it years ago and it was only when I drove past the figures this week that I remembered what I had done.
In fact I'm thinking of putting one on that I've previously posted. It was a real stinker not like some of the easy ones I've put on recently.
&shake&
Hope that people don't remember it though.
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Okay, just before you go back in time how about this one?!
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Did you take that one when you were out shopping in Kendalls in Manchester? ;D
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Well done, too clever!
I wonder why it is there, anyone know?
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Just found the answer here...
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/giant-green-tentacles-kendals-roof-13810601 (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/giant-green-tentacles-kendals-roof-13810601)
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A bit of Welsh history here, but where is it and what is it called $walesflag$ $welsh$
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Anything to do with Hadrian.
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Not as far as I am aware Steve, the Romans had gone by then. It's in N Wales by the way $walesflag$ $welsh$
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The walls are part of the fortification of this place.
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Some more photos from inside this Welsh Fortification, but where is it and what is the name of this place? $walesflag$
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cadarnhau ?
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cadarnhau ?
It's not that Steve, where ever that is, but some forum members should know where it is and what it's called.
It was misty when we did the walk but there is always something mysterious and magical about water
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Time for another photo of this Iron Age Fortress and a later Welsh Castle
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Dimas Emrys ? Just a guess ........ there are 570 forts in Wales :o and this is linked to Merlin.
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And what a good guess it was Steve. Well done, $good$
I couldn't post too many photos as the location would give it away. It was our first visit there and what a location.
The pool is on the way to or from the fort and is called Merlin's Pool so I thought that Merddyn Emrys and Gwynant from the forum may have got this question
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I don't know what this building is but it's on a popular route in N Wales
Where will you see it, hope that it's not too easy for some. $walesflag$
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It's not on the main road although you can see it from there, but you're more likely to have seen it from the train. ???
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Perhaps another photo may help?
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Another photo clue
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No guesses yet?
Is it the end of the line if you come here?
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Llanberis?
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Well done Bri, $good$
it was on the miniature railway that we saw that wooden building and the Mortuary is next to the Quarry Hospital
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Thank you, Hugo.
We too went to the Quarry Hospital recently with the Open Doors event.
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Unfortunately the hospital was closed when we went there yesterday, the Mortuary wasn't, but we preferred to have our lunch in the drizzle outside sitting on the wooden bench seats rather than on the slate slab in the morgue. ;D
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Bit quiet on the forum!
Time for a quiz?
Which country?
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Is it the West Shore cycle track in Llandudno? *cycle*
On second thoughts that sky is so blue it can't be Llandudno at the moment as it's pouring down, perhaps it's Dubai?
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Your second guess is a bit nearer Hugo. ;D
Not Dubai though or the UAE.
Another picture clue.....
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This should help.....
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The second pic is “The Frankincense Burner / Mabkhara, Muscat, Oman”
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Well done Neil. Have you been there yourself?
Amazing rocky scenery.
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We recently sailed into Muscat and took similar pics as hollins.
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No Hollins, I searched red number plates, found a similar one and then it was easy.
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Very ingenious Neil, here is another number plate for your efforts!
Bri, we flew in via Emirates from Dubai, a mere 40 minute flight with a great view of Dubai as we took off from there. Hope you enjoyed your visit as we did.
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We only had a day in Muscat, hollins, as we flew out to Dubai, also with Emirates, to join the last sector of a World Voyage on QM2.
Nevertheless, we very much enjoyed a ship’s tour to the Grand Mosque, a souk and the Sultan of Oman’s Palace.
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A bit ostentatious for Rhos on Sea, Hollins, and if I took it to Liverpool or Manchester it would probably have some pieces missing very quickly!
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An easy one for a Saturday evening ???
This building is in a prominent location but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Time for another photo
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Trefriw?
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A good try ME but it's not in Conwy County.
Perhaps this photo may give some clues?
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Is it on the coast path on Anglesey?
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It is Hollins but as the coastal path is 125 miles long you'll have to be a bit more specific. ;D
Have a walk down this path to the building
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Moelfre?
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Spot on Jack, well done. $good$
We had a short walk along the coast yesterday and finished off with a meal at The Bull in Pentraeth
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A nice easy one again and no red herrings this time but where would you see this bench in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Perhaps this photo will help?
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Banks of the River Dwyfor at Llanystumdwy where Lloyd George is buried ????
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A good try Nemesis but it's not correct, perhaps another photo may help? $walesflag$
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I didn't realise that the river had Trout and Salmon in it or otherwise I'd have taken some home for the kitchen. $dins$ $walesflag$
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Avon Cegin ,Bangor - kitchen river in English
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Well done Peter, it was the Afon Cegin ( Kitchen River) $good$
Gwynant couldn't have been taking notice when he did the Lon Las Ogwen walk. I didn't post this photo as it may have given the game away as it shows the fence by the track
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I must have walked past this many times but never noticed it until today, where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
A bonus point if you can tell me what it is because I haven't a clue although I could hazard a guess ???
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Another photo of it
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Is it on the new 1958 Conwy Bridge on the walk up from the cob?
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Nice try Bri and I can see why you thought that but it's not listed in the Three Towns Area. $walesflag$
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Another photo may help $walesflag$
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Is that the boundary wall for Gwrych Castle that runs between Llanddulas and Abergele. Blowing up the pic to try and read it, not clear, but I think the right hand side says Llanddulas, Conway, Bangor and ? ... the left hand side I think says Abergele, ?, Chester, London (?) ... so is it a sort of milestone although I cannot see any mileages! Presumably a boundary marker between properties or perhaps parishes.
Or I could be on completely the wrong track!!!
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DVT, well done, you're spot on with that. $good$
I've since found out that it is a listed sandstone milestone that is inserted into the boundary wall and is on the Abergele Road by the turning to Rhyd Y Foel.
I had to crop the photo as it would have been too easy
Here's a bit more about that milestone:-
https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300019045-gwrych-estate-boundary-wall-to-s-side-of-abergele-road-llanddulas-and-rhyd-y-foel#.WlpAu7dG5Cg.email (https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300019045-gwrych-estate-boundary-wall-to-s-side-of-abergele-road-llanddulas-and-rhyd-y-foel#.WlpAu7dG5Cg.email)
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Another easy one for a Saturday evening.
Where exactly would you see this in N Wales $walesflag$
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That looks like a Russian Zil truck ? But no idea where.
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I'll give you a clue Steve as I know that you like a challenge, It's not in Russia. ;D
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Judging by it's looks I don't think that the vehicle has seen much activity recently
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At 5 mpg I am not surprised. There is someone in Wales who has two, drives one and uses the other for spares, but no location.
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I wonder who that person is Steve, would he be an action man? Anyway here's a photo taken nearby and the flowers didn't need watering yesterday!
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Time for another photo that may help, but what I'm looking for is the name of the business and the location.
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Zip World ?
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A good guess Meleri but it's not zip world, perhaps another photo may help
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Off the wall guess...
.TheCanoeMan White Water Coaching
Canoe & Kayak Rental Service · Capelcurig, United Kingdom
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Another good guess Steve but the action isn't in Capel Curig either
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Go below at Conwy Falls Café have a few military vehicles - is it one of theirs Hugo?
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It's not one of theirs Jack and not in Conwy County either $welsh$
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Is it Dragon Raiders Activity Park at Llanystumdwy?
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Well done Jack &well&
This milestone was going to be my last clue but you beat me to it, was it the Welsh Dragon that gave it away?
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No, it was the earlier 'action man' reference! I looked up Bear Grylls and Google did the rest :)
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Another easy one for a Saturday evening.
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Another easy one for a Saturday evening.
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OK Bri, a nice easy one for a Sunday evening and I know that you'll get it because you've been past it so many times before ???
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I shall have to wait for your next clue, Hugo.
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Here it is then Bri, another photo clue and it's on a main road so you've gone past it quite often?
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Is this only for Bri to answer? :P :P
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Go on Jack put me out of my misery ‘cos you obviously know this one as well. D)
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Thanks Bri - I will probably be wrong now!
I think its Ffin-y-parc between Llanrwst and Betws $walesflag$
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He's Jack the Lad and he's spot on again. $good$
I was there today looking at the art exhibition that has been on this month. Nice coffee and cake so you'll have to stop off there when you're going past again Bri
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Easy one for a Tuesday afternoon
What and where please $walesflag$
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Old cinema ?
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'Fraid not SteveH
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Is it John Summers steelworks in Shotton?
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Well done Hugo, it is indeed. Sad to see it in such a dilapidated state now.
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Sorry forgot to attach photo!
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I think it could be the former offices and works of Graesser Salicylates at Sandycroft. You can just about see the building from the railway line. Its on the opposite side of the Dee to John Summers.
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With hindsight Hugo's right!
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What year?
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1997.
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No sorry, wrong decade!
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1983 D)
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Still the wrong decade!
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:-[ must be 1972 or 1977 then?
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A guess,1979?
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Close Peter! It was actually 1976/7.
I went to the Darryl Hall and John Oates concert.
I found the cutting yesterday in an old knitting pattern book.
Amazing how interesting a little bit of paper can be after all these years. Lots of memories!
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I would imagine showing the whole advert would have been your second clue, hollins, and revealing those prices. :o
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I would imagine showing the whole advert would have been your second clue, hollins, and revealing those prices. :o
I thought that too Bri and had a second guess at the 1960's but then realised decimalisation didn't come in until the 1970's so I modified my second answer and saved myself further embarrassment
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Jethro Tull at £1.75 ?.
I saw them in about 1980 and it was around £12.00
When I next saw Tull in about 2008, it was about £35.00
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A nice easy one for a change ;D Where is this building in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Fort Belan Caernarfon
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Good try spotty dog but it's not correct
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Another guess Soldiers Point Holyhead
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That's another good guess and I can see why you guessed that but it's incorrect I'm afraid
This photo should help
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Point Lynas lighthouse the petty was the old pilot station before it moved up the coast
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Well done spotty dog you deserved that. &well&
I must admit that I had never seen the jetty before we went there yesterday. It's a private residence now and we had a nice chat with the owner of the property
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I looked everywhere but I couldn’t find that.
It’s a small pier, but nowhere to be found online.
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Its a jetty....some info here
https://openmindimages.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/the-mersey-docks-and-harbour-boards-pilot-jetty-at-point-lynas-anglesey-uk/
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Rhuddlan, I've just looked at the jetty on Google using the satellite image and noticed that there is a proper path from the jetty leading directly up to the bungalow that we parked the car near.
Perhaps the bungalow is for the pilots to use rather than a holiday home as we first thought?
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Rhuddlan sent me this link about the Liverpool Pilot Station at Point Lynas, the photo was taken nine years ago but it's still an impressive dormer bungalow.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1411511 (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1411511)
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This property looks like it could be at home in the Wild West but you don't have to go far up the Valley to see it, but where is it exactly?
$walesflag$
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It's near St Michael's Church if that helps to find the house? $walesflag$
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A river or stream flows through the valley but this place strangely is not at the head of the stream. ??? $walesflag$
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Anything to do with Pen Y Nant
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Where exactly is Pen Y Nant Steve?
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Where exactly is Pen Y Nant Steve?
It's only a translation of "head of the stream" but I thought it might be relevant. :( :(
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You are certainly on the right track Steve but where is the building which is near St Michael's Church.
A photo of a nearby Chapel may help
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I'm sure that Gwynant and Dwyforite should know where the house is. $walesflag$
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A well know walker called Mary lived in this village but she didn't actually live here, I wonder why? Does that make any sense? $walesflag$
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Mary Jones who lived at Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Abergynolwyn, walked to Bala barefoot to obtain a bible. Any connection?
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Well done Nemesis, the village name is the same but Mary Jones lived in the village near Cadair Idris, whereas this Llanfihangel Y Pennant is in Gwynedd near Garndolbenmaen. $good$
I have mentioned the name of the village in the clues, albeit in the English language:-
Llanfihangel = St Michael's Church
Y Pennant = Head of the stream
The stream or river is the Afon Dwyfor
That old house is one of the first buildings you see as you go to Cwm Pennant
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Nem. $good$ $good$
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'Twas only a guess, but the last time I went to Bala curiosity overcame me :o and I read up on her. She must have had some jolly tough feet !
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Yes and she walked the 25+ miles barefoot I think. We went to the Church in Llanfihangel when we had a walk in Abergynolwyn and did about two miles of the walk she did and that was enough for us. One very determined young lady
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Here's another easy one for a Saturday evening, where is this bridge in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Easy?
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Swallow Falls?
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A good try Bri but it's not that easy. Sorry but it's not Swallow Falls
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The falls were in full flood yesterday but where are they?
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A couple more photos before the power goes off in the street for at least 3 hours
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Hopefully these photos may help to pinpoint these water falls
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If you know the name of the farm then you'll know where we are.
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Perhaps this may help? $walesflag$
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So many walkers on the forum have gone past this place that I thought that it would have been too easy but only Bri has had a guess. You can hear it before you see it but Gethin Jones would know the answer $walesflag$
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Last clue and this should solve it. $walesflag$
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Must be Afon Lledr, Gethins Bridge on the Conway Valley railway line.
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You are spot on Mull, well done $good$
All the way up there in bonny Scotland and yet you identified this place on the A470. The waterfalls are immediately behind the viaduct.
Now Gethin Jones, or to give him his full title Owen Gethin Jones was born to a local stone mason on 1st May 1816, Owen Gethin Jones grew up to be a large building contractor from Tyddyn Gethin, Penmachno who was engaged by the Festiniog to construct the Rhiwbach Tramway between 1861 and 1863 for the quarries to the east of Blaenau Ffestiniog
He built the grand-looking station at Betws-y-coed, but is perhaps best remembered for the construction of Gethin's Viaduct, a major work of engineering on the Conwy Valley railway line between Betws y Coed and Pont y Pant.
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Grand indeed, and now disused by the look of it.
Well done Mull, I’ve never seen or heard of it.. and judging by the lack of guesses , I’ll warrant that many of the Forum regulars haven’t either.
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It is a secret gem Fester, probably the lack of parking space ans a dangerous section of the A470 prevents it from being more well known.
Even Tellytubby who is a keen walker hadn't heard about it or seen it before. The Afon Lledr flows under the first arch on the left of the photo of the viaduct and joins the River Conwy by the Fairy Glen lower down stream.
We didn't go to the Fairy Glen but I bet that was impressive too.
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Another one for a Saturday night, what is this and where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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I thought it looked a bit like a dam, after a bit of research my guess is.
The upper reservoir (Llyn Stwlan) and dam of the Ffestiniog pumped storage hydro-electric scheme,
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Well done Steve, you are spot on. $good$
We had a walk up to the Stwlan Dam in Tanygrisiau today and it was a nice walk up the steep tarmac road to the dam
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Blimey SteveH, you were on the ball with that one. Well done, can't believe you got it from that! :o
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It was indeed very impressive!
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It was indeed very impressive!
It has, in the past, been used in car rallies, possibly the 3 Castles if my mind serves me correctly. Imagine a huge blower Bentley $good$ sailing up through those bends !
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Quite correct Nemesis ... it has been used on the Three Castles event in June a few times. It cannot be used as a full timed blast, there has to be some stop astride lines and cone chicanes to ensure the speeds do not get dangerously high. I have marshalled at the top of the hilll and it's a wonderful noise as some of the old cars negotiate the tricky bends.
We used to get about 20 cars to the top then stop the timed runs to convoy them down, then run the next batch. We had radio link between the top and bottom to monitor all the cars. Most years we had glorious weather although there was one very damp one I recall, not a nice place to be then and not good for the open cars occupants!
In my role as Chief Marshal for four years on the event I have driven up there many times, but not at competitive speed!
Another hillclimb used was the road up to the Marchlyn Lake above Llanberis, choice of two courses there, both equally challenging!
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Thanks for the description DVT. It brought back great memories of 'rallying' in my teens, the worst being left to look after the car, a Morris Minor whilst the others went for help after they had 'run out of road'. It was pitch dark on Saddleworth Moor and it wasn't until much later that I found out that I had been left hanging on the edge of a steep cliff. ! My Mother went nuts when I got home. :o
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I came across this on a walk today in N Wales. Where would you see it?
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Perhaps another photo may help?
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The panels tell you a bit about the area so there may be a few clues there
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This place at one time had its own fleet of ships? ???
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There are loads of these panels on the railings where the boats moored, here's one more
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Pure guess, Connah's Quay?
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A good guess ME but it's not correct .
As they sat in Catchphrase, say what you see as the clues are there.
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Time for another photo
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Is it somewhere around Point of Ayr or Talacre with the coal mining connection?
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Well done Jack, you are spot on.
The railings are on the spot where the Colliery's own fleet of boats sailed from. If you saw the spot a few hours before high tide you would wonder how any boats could get there but the tide comes in very quickly there as we found out when we walked past later
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Marking on the buoy is all wrong.
Green on bottom part should be Black.
How did i work that out ?
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Marking on the buoy is all wrong.
Green on bottom part should be Black.
How did i work that out ?
I must confess I hadn't even realised it was a buoy. I've looked them up since and the top bit suggests it's a South Cardinal Mark.
https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/mariners-information/navigation-buoys/cardinal-marks (https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/mariners-information/navigation-buoys/cardinal-marks)
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Marking on the buoy is all wrong.
Green on bottom part should be Black.
How did i work that out ?
Perhaps it's been in the Irish Sea too long, to be sure
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Get it a pint of Guinness !
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This may well be too easy for those that have been to this property but what well known person once lived in this house in N Wales?
Name the person and the location please
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Is it Lloyd George, Llanystumdwy?
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That's a good guess Hollins but it's not Lloyd George, it's nearer to you than that
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It's only easy if you know it, but a number of forum members have been to the property including DaveR. When Dave went there the property was open but I don't think that he went inside the building, however he did take a photo of it and posted it on the forum.
Now that may make it too easy!
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No guesses? the person was famous for a number of things and if anyone has ever worked in an office they must have used one thing that this person is most well known for.
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It's in an ideal spot, set in a valley with a river running through it, perfect for fishing, relaxing or getting inspiration for your next work.
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Definitely intriguing but lists of Welsh inventors aren’t helping me nor are things like staplers, filing cabinets, pens, etc.
Mind you, I’m no good at these quizzes. Most I don’t know but I couldn’t even get beyond thinking after some clues that a recent one might just be very close to somewhere I once lived...
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You've been busy Squiggle and I've not been too generous with the clues, mainly because DaveR has taken a photo of it in recent years and also because a number of other forum members have seen the property on their walk
The person is English and stayed at a friend's or relatives property near the building many, many years ago so it's not anything modern that has been built but the persons legacy lives on and you may have to refer to it from time to time, I know I do.
The name of the river will give some clue to the location, that is if you understand Welsh! ;D
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Thanks Hugo but I’m lost. The one thing I can can come up with that I do refer to regularly is a dictionary but I doubt it’s Samuel Johnston. I’ll leaver it to others and may kick myself when the answer is revealed.
I doubt my Welsh makes tipyn bach btw. The odd small phrase but that's it.
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Don't under estimate yourself Squiggle because you are spot on. Well done, because it wasn't easy and there are some clues that were correct but meant to make it a bit harder,
DaveR did post a photo of the property and it was open when Dave passed it, I suppose with no roof, no door or windows you could call it open, but you couldn't go in it because it's fenced off!
It's just a ruin now but in it's heyday looked quite an attractive building. A former workmate of Tellytubby sent him the postcard and her relative once lived in this delightful cottage which is on the banks of the Afon Ystrad (Vale River)
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English wit and author of the Dictionary of the English Language, on the 308th anniversary of his birth.
Johnson’s dictionary appeared in 1755 and remains a landmark achievement of English prose, an extraordinary individual undertaking that included over 42,000 entries and took its writer nine long years to assemble.
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Thanks Hugo. I've just tried to follow up a little. Maybe the walk you took but I'll post this link anyway:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2006/may/20/gowalk.guardianspecial53 (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2006/may/20/gowalk.guardianspecial53)
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Thanks Squigglev 2 , the walk we did was a variation on the walk that you've posted. What I remember about it was that it was the wettest and muckiest walk we have done but the views were good and I fancied doing it after reading Dave R's post on his walk to Dr Johnson's cottage
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Where in Wales will you find this structure?
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Is that the white rock that acts as a lighthouse marker in Porthgain, Pembrokeshire ? It couldn't have been much use on the day you took the photo Hollins
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Can't believe you got that Hugo!
Too clever.
Unfortunately it was today.
We have been walking in sea mist all day while hearing about the blue skies and sun in the rest of the UK. Maximum temperature here 13 degrees!
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I take it that you took that photo after your stay at the Llangoed Hall, it's been a really warm sunny day up here in the north.
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This working water wheel can be seen in action in North Wales but what is the name of the building where you can see it?
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This one looks similar ?
Llandyfrydog Water Mill - Felin Esgob (Bishops Mill) on the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) in North Wales
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Good try Steve but this wheel is not on Anglesey, here is another photo of it which may help
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This is what the mill looks like so it should be easy to name now
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It's not in Anglesey but has it got any connection with the Island, beaumaris perhaps?
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I was lucky to be able to see it as it hasn't been open for two years!
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Was it open under the National Gardens Scheme, Hugo?
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It might have been Dave so put me out of my misery and say the name of the Mill
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Let's recap
The mill with the water wheel is not in Anglesey but it's name would not be out of place in Beaumaris
Hasn't been open for two years
Part of the National Garden Scheme perhaps?
So what's the name of the building?
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Bulkeley Mill, Rowen?
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Well done Hollins, it is the Bulkeley Mill in Rowen.
We were there on Sunday for the Rowen Open Gardens of 2018. The event is for one day only and is held every two years. The Mill is our favourite garden along with Oak Bank which is next door. Both properties have beautiful gardens with a variety of shrubs and trees.
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Well done Hollins, it is the Bulkeley Mill in Rowen.
We were there on Sunday for the Rowen Open Gardens of 2018. The event is for one day only and is held every two years. The Mill is our favourite garden along with Oak Bank which is next door. Both properties have beautiful gardens with a variety of shrubs and trees.
I should have guessed it, I was staying in the Bulkeley Hotel in Beaumaris only last weekend. >:(
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It's only easy is you know it Dave but this should be a lot easier? What is the name of this place in N Wales?
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Time for another photo of this place
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Plas Tan y Bwlch.
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Well done Cambrian, spot on.
We had a walk in the area yesterday and then went and had a look at the gardens there.
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It's Plas Tan Y Bwlch in Maentwrog - the Snowdonia National Park Study Centre.
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Where in the UK would you find this splendid building?
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Isn’t it the corner of the Grosvenor shopping area in Chester?
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Looks like Chester, but I think it is King Street in Manchester.
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Well done Steve. King Street it is.
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Lunch out today.
Any guesses as to where we might have been?
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No guesses...... Does this help with the location?
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Dinorben Arms 8)
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Well done DaveR.
We had a super lunch there yesterday. What a lot of money has been spent on the place with gorgeous terraces for this nice weather and great views from them.
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It looks very impressive, I remember having a look around when it was empty - almost completely derelict then.
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That's quite an improvement since I last saw the place, I'm pleased that the lunch was good for you.
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Yes. some friends invited us. We had not been before so I looked on google street view to check where it was and the photo on there was of it in a derelict state which was a bit worrying.
Then I noticed the google photo was October 2009. When did you take your photos Hugo?
I would recommend it. Lovely food and good service with a great view. There is even a lift to take you to the upper terrace.
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The photo was taken in October 2014 when we had a walk in the area. In the 1970's it was the place to go to and car treasure hunts often ended up in the place.
We've had many a smorgasbord meal there in the 1970's and it has quite a history. The last time I was there they had found a well in one of the rooms and made a feature out of it, is it still there?
I've just copied a piece about the pub for you
The Dinorben was established in the 17 century and during the 1960s and ‘70s gained a reputation for its food, in particular its smorgasbord, which attracted diners from a wide area. It had a turnover of £500,000 a year.
But it is also known for alleged hauntings involving a ghostly apparition of a woman in black.
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Back in the 1970's Dinorben Arms sponsored the Escort of Bob (Twin-Cam) Williams and then later his two sons, Ian and Eryl, with many good results on north Wales road rallies. They were members of Rhyl & District Motor Club and Clwyd Vale Motor Club, so the venue was used quite a bit for club meetings.
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In the 1960's we used to go to the Rhyl Odeon Children's Club on a Saturday morning. it was general mayhem but there was a lull
in "messing about" when the adverts came on. I recall the Dinorben Arms being one of the adverts . The male voice was rather plummy
and clearly someone unfamiliar with the pronunciation of Welsh towns. All the kids used to exaggerate his miss pronounciation in unison.
It went seem thing like.....
For the best smorgasbord in the area do attend the Dinorben Arms at Bodfari ( said as Bodfaireeee) near St Asaph ( said as Arsehalf!)
It was funny at the time!!
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Thanks everyone for all that interesting info. I shall look at the place in a new light when we go again.
No, sorry Hugo. I didn't see the well.
Has anyone else eaten there recently?
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We had a lovely day out today but where? ;D
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The obvious answer is on a Beatles tour in Liverpool. 8)
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Of course, ME.
We also went on the Big Wheel outside the Echo Arena and alongside the multi-story car park where there was a devastating fire on New Years Eve.
At the top, we were very surprised to see around a dozen burnt out cars and many more unaffected by the fire still to be retrieved from the top floor.
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Anyone know where I spotted this?
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It's a toughie Nemesis and I've no hope of finding it, Was it in Barmouth by any chance?
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Now whatever made you think that Hugo?
and no not Barmouth.........can you get any nearer?
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Another very wild guess and I'll have a pop at Hope House Hospice near the Groes Hotel
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No, not there Hugo, you were nearer with your 1st answer.
I suppose it is rather obscure, but I have been trying to get a picture of it for a number of years, but it is not in an ideal place to hesitate.
It is on a house on the left side of the A495 between Barmouth and Dolgellau, just after the turn for the Penmanpool toll bridge ( which gets more wobbly every time we pay our 70p and cross it !)
Just out of interest, as we passed through the village of Llwyngwril I managed, as we crossed the bridge, to get a shot of this latest offering from their 'yarn bombing' activities. !
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Where in North Wales will you find this ???
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A wild guess at the Lake Vyrnwy Sculpture Park
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Sorry Hugo, not there - seems you've been tracking my movements over the past week days marshalling on the Three Castles Classic Rally - I did cover a lot of ground! Away from home all day tomorrow so will post another pic when I get back, unless someone has found the answer!
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No other answers - see if this helps!
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Nant Gwrtheyrn?
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I haven't seen the sculpture but I knew that I'd seen the cottage but couldn't remember where.
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Yes, correct ... I only realised after posting the second pic, and then going out, that google would probably help - checked when I came home a short while ago, and it did !!! Well worth a visit, a very steep road down (and back up!) - was there last Wednesday for the Three Castles competitors (it was a coffee stop!) and the sea was calm, it was hot and sunny, and you felt as if you were miles from anywhere!
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Yes I have to admit that I Googled the names.
Your comment about the road brought back memories. Over 40 years ago we went there, when it was all nothing but ruins, no car access, nothing. It nearly killed us walking back up that track, our daughter was only about 10 and she was in a worse state than we were ! We returned at a later date, after the road was made, in the middle of a horrendous storm, but everywhere was so wet and muddy that we didn't venture down ! :-\
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To try something a bit different…
I don’t think the (public domain) photo will help much but who is he?
It might take a bit of a specific interes tthat maybe one or two here have. He was a hero in the North Norfolk area I’m in. What he is known for is valuable to towns like Llandudno and he received a few medals for his efforts.
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Yes I have to admit that I Googled the names.
Your comment about the road brought back memories. Over 40 years ago we went there, when it was all nothing but ruins, no car access, nothing. It nearly killed us walking back up that track, our daughter was only about 10 and she was in a worse state than we were ! We returned at a later date, after the road was made, in the middle of a horrendous storm, but everywhere was so wet and muddy that we didn't venture down ! :-\
We went there about 45 years ago, down that track and did it on an August Bank Holiday which happened to be the hottest day of the year and cooled off by having a dip in the sea.
But then we had to climb back up that very long and steep track and it was torture.
When we had a coastal walk from Pistyll to Nant Gwytheyrn in recent years we made sure that we used two cars and one had to be in the Nant Gwytheyrn car park as we would never have been able to walk up that steep hill.
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To try something a bit different…
I don’t think the (public domain) photo will help much but who is he?
It might take a bit of a specific interes tthat maybe one or two here have. He was a hero in the North Norfolk area I’m in. What he is known for is valuable to towns like Llandudno and he received a few medals for his efforts.
Sometimes the face tells a story and that person must be Henry Blogg one of the historic Cromer lifeboat men. Brave people indeed
Henry George Blogg[1][2] GC BEM (6 February 1876 – 13 June 1954) was a lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England and the most decorated in RNLI history.
Blogg of the Cromer Lifeboat Station is referred to as "the greatest of the lifeboatmen".[1] From the rescue of the crew of the Pyrin and then of half of the crew of the Fernebo in 1917, through to his near drowning in the service to the SS English Trader in 1941, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution three times and the silver medal four times, the George Cross, the British Empire Medal, and a series of other awards.[
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Must have made it too easy, Hugo, says me with a wink ;)
But, yes, absolutely spot on.
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Another easy one, where is this white building in N Wales?
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toll house Penmanpool?
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Well done Nemesis, I thought that you would get that.
We did the Mawddach trail walk yesterday from Penmaenpool and ended up in one of your favourite spots Barmouth.
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The Mawddach Estuary has always held a fascination for us. The scenery is so spectacular.
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I can understand why Nemesis, it's a beautiful place with superb views in all directions. That Mawddach Terrace is in such a lovely spot right by the riverside and I can understand why the residents want to keep it exclusive to themselves.
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Can anyone guess where we were sitting having a picnic lunch on Tuesday?
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Is it Beddgelert?
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Correct, Hugo, and I tried to find the hardest photograph.
Instead of travelling all the way to Portmadoc on the Welsh Highland Railway, we decided to do a return from Caernarfon-Beddgelert which gave us a couple of hours to enjoy the village.
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Too many clues there Bri with the mountains and those houses in the background but it's a beautiful place to visit. I'm pleased that you had a nice day out and the weather looked perfect
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Thanks, Hugo.
Here is another one from another recent day out.
I wonder if there maybe too many clues again !!!
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A very quick guess that you've been to the Aber Falls and the photo was taken on the high ground on your way back.
Not too confident though Bri
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Sorry, Hugo.
This was another visit was on another day.
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You've got me there Bri as I thought that I could see the Great Orme, Pen, Puffin Island and the Lafan sands.
So if it's not Aber then it may be in Beaumaris just past the castle on that raised grassland.
Fingers crossed this time.
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You are warm, Hugo.
Here is a second clue.
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It's a toughie Bri but from the angle of the photo and your latest clue, I'd say that you've been to Penrhyn Castle and taken the photo from there. ???
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Correct, Hugo.
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These two likely lads were out and about in North Wales today but where exactly?
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Here?
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SNAP Well done Hollins I thought that would have lasted a bit longer :'(
Did you see it when you were on holiday in Bull Bay?
It's Porth Dynion by Amlwch
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Yes, May 2016. I loved that holiday and did the walks in both directions from Bull Bay.
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Yesterday, we had another trip out but where?
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Plas Tan Y Bwlch is a nice place to visit Bri
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I don’t know how you do it, Hugo.
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You've got one up on me though Bri as we never saw the Halt. The Oakley family had the halt built for their home Plas Tan Y Bwlch
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A few years ago I used to put the posters up at Plas Halt, parked at Plas Tan y Bwlch and walked up through the woods.
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Where in Wales will you find this building?
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Plas Teg?
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No, sorry. Much further from the Three Towns and only just in Wales.
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Hay Castle.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_Castle
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Well done ME, correct!
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Thanks, amazing when you consider that I have never heard of Hay Castle before! 😆 ::)
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Loving this thread at the moment!
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Which lake?
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A very wild guess at Llangorse Lake
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Well done Hugo, a lovely place.
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That brings a lot of happy memories back to me Hollins, as many years ago I lived a 10 minute drive from Llangorse Lake and it is a very scenic area. If you enjoy reading there is a book called The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston who is a wonderful storyteller. It is set in that area about a Prince Brynach that lived in the Crannog on the lake.
As for Hay on Wye and Hay Castle it too is a very interesting town, a bookworms paradise. When I lived nearby a local entrepreneur and bookshop owner who also owned Hay Castle proclaimed himself King of Hay and we had a fantastic firework display set to the 1812 overture. The whole area was so beautiful and we enjoyed our time there very much.
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Thanks Meleri for your memories. It is indeed a beautiful area and a first visit for me.
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Here is a tough one.
Where did we see this today?
* Ian, can you please rotate?
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York railway museum?
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Nope.
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A very wild guess here at Tan Y Bwlch railway station, only because you have been in that area recently
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Good guess, Hugo, but incorrect.
I did say suggest it was a tough one so here is a clue.
* Ian, can you please rotate this one as well?
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I was on the wrong track there Bri, perhaps I should have been on the Welsh Highland one so I'm going for a pop at Dinas which was an important station on that route.
August 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th : Journey into the Past
Take a heritage train ride into the past - travelling between Dinas and Rhyd Ddu in historic carriages, behind a 150-year old steam locomotive...
PineappleArrive at Dinas station 10:15-10:30.
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Very close, Hugo, but still incorrect.
Do you give in?
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I'm not giving in because I seem to be on the right lines so to speak. Must have another look at the photo clues when the crick in my neck gets better! ;D
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Tryfan Junction ?
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The photo does look like Tryfan Junction but I'm going to have a pop at Porthmadog railway station.
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Sorry, Hugo, but Cambrian is spot on.
There are three Sundays left in August and I would highly recommend the trip at £36 each.
If anybody wants any more information then please don’t hesitate to ask.
It starts and finishes at Dinas and includes a buffer lunch at Rhys Ddu.
It lasts about 4-5 hours.
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An easy one for you Bri, where would you see this Church in N Wales?
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Time for another photo so this may help?
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An easy one for you Bri, where would you see this Church in N Wales?
Churches in North Wales are not my strong point, Hugo.
Neither are chapels, I hasten to add.
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Not even when you've seen it Bri and taken a photo with the Church in it and posted it on here? ;D
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Funnily enough, Hugo, I did check straight away to see if it was the church in Beddgelert but the steeple looked different.
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I wouldn't make it that easy Bri so here is another photo of the Church
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No guesses so perhaps it's not as easy as I first thought, anyway no more clues but minus one point for Bri if he fails to know where the Church is. ;D
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Is it St Twrog's in Maentwrog Hugo?
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St Twrog’s Church down in Maentwrog.
Only because you made it so easy for me, Hugo. ;)
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I'm going to have to give that to Jack as Jack did beat Bri by just 1 minute but Bri did actually take the last photo so had an unfair advantage there. ;D
So well done Jack
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Another well known place in N Wales but where would you see this?
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This should make it easy?
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Will this photo help?
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If you went there by boat you could have moored in the dock
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No guesses? I bet he would know
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Going by the stone mason clues on the statue, I found............The Master Mason statue at Beaumaris Castle.
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Well done Steve you're spot on.
It's the Chapel inside the castle and if you look closely at the stained glass windows you will see a plan of the castle walls. The metal ring on the wall is where the boats used to moor in the dock. The first photo shows the dock to the right of the footbridge into the castle
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I have not been to the castle before so it was nice to have a look around it before we went on a boat trip on the Straits
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Been here many, many times and never noticed this before. Anyone know where it is?
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Nem. I think we need a clue, !!!!! ???
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The building is named 'The Towers'
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It's a different colour building on Google but is it the Towers in Marine Terrace in Criccieth?
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Spot on Hugo. I think the colour change is recent...and awful !
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That was a toughie Nemesis and I was expecting to find it in Barmouth but then tried Criccieth. Now here's an easier one ;D
You'll see this if you are walking in the high street but which high street is it in?
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You've got me there Hugo ! No idea!
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Well done on Nem's question, and yours has me searching without any luck, apart from the Green man connection, there is nothing showing for NW, will try harder.
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ok Nemesis and Steve this photo should help a lot
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You may also see this as it's not far away from the high street
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Wild guess-------------- Trefriw. ???????????
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A good guess but it's not Trefriw
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More wheels? so where is this place in N Wales?
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Slate museum Llanberis
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Well done Spotty Dog it was Llanberis.
The tree figure is in the High Street and we saw the wheels in the slate museum there. I thought that the colours of the houses in the high street may have given it away sooner
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Where would you see this in N Wales?
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Is it in Ysbyty Ifan?
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It's a good guess Neill but it's not in Ysbyty Ifan
Another photo may give a clue to where it is
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He was a King's Counsel and a Welsh politician but where is his final resting place?
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He was a radical Liberal politician and had been knighted. He was also named twice! ???
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You'll see it in the new Church but what I'm looking for is the name of the Church and it's location
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This photo may help a bit more
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AAAAAAaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggg. :(
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Steeeeeve I bet that you have driven past it many many times. ;D
It's on a main A road and stands out when you drive past it. I wonder which A road though? ???
Another big clue:- The name of the Church's location starts with the letter LL ;D
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Last photo and clue. There are two Churches of the same name in this location and Agricola is believed to have come here in AD 78 long before the old Church was built
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If there are no guesses at this roadside Church I'll give the answer in the morning
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Is it Eglwys St Nidan Church, Brynsiencyn?
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Google tells me it's Llanidan Church in Anglesey.
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Well done both of you because it must have been a difficult one.
The Church is St Nidan's in Llanidan and can be seen on the right hand side as you get near to Brynsiencyn when you are travelling from Menai Bridge. The memorial in the Churchyard is of Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith
St Nidan's Church, Llanidan is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Brynsiencyn, in Anglesey, north Wales. Built between 1839 and 1843, it replaced the Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan, which needed significant repair, providing a place of Anglican worship nearer to the village than the old church. Some items were moved here from the old church, including the 13th-century font, two bells from the 14th and 15th century, and a reliquary thought to hold the remains of St Nidan. The tower at the west end has been described as "top heavy" and looking like "a water tower".[2]
Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, 1st Baronet, PC, KC was a British barrister and radical Liberal politician. He was born Ellis Jones Griffith
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Here is an easy one, which we visited last Saturday as part of the Open Doors event.
* Ian, can you please rotate.
FYI, I tried and it did not move for me.
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A nice walk too Bri but it looks like you were Lion on your side when you took the photo by the Brittania bridge
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Well done, Hugo, but did you know that trains use the same single track both ways to travel over?
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I didn't notice that Bri but I just hope that the rail companies don't get their timetables wrong and the trains meet in the tubular bridge.
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Yes, but there used to be two lines in use when it was a tubular bridge, Hugo.
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Where in England will you see this view?
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Is that on the Beeley Walk above Chatsworth House in Derbyshire?
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Well done Hugo!
Yes, it is taken from the Hunting Tower above Chatsworth. It is available to rent as holiday accommodation along with some other beautiful ones in amazing locations.
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Hugo, how on earth did you get that? :)
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I was wondering that!
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Too many clues Hollins! ;D
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Such as?
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Sorry Bri but I can't give my secrets away! ;)
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Too many clues here, especially for Golfers and those with good memories
The building in this photo was on an 18 hole Golf Course in N Wales
What is the name of the building?
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Is it Oakwood park Conwy Hugo
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Nice try Spotty dog but it's not Oakwood Park Conwy and it's out of the Three Towns Area
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Another lot of clues to help ???
It's not Penmaenmawr Golf Club because:-
Penmaenmawr is a nine hole course and the property was also on a Links Course by the sea
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There couldn't have been many 18 hole Links Golf courses in North Wales in those days but I'm looking for the name of this property which was less than a stone's throw from the sea
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There couldn't have been many 18 hole Links Golf courses in North Wales in those days but I'm looking for the name of this property which was less than a stone's throw from the sea
Struggling, best guess on course is Anglesey Golf Club, Rhosneigr. not a clue on the house.
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It's not the Anglesey Golf Club and it wasn't in Anglesey and it isn't in Gwynedd either.
In fact it is no longer an 18 hole Golf Links but was at the time of the photo. ???
The place looks a bit spooky and I wonder if ghosts or witches ever lived there?
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Now this should help as it's a photo of all that remains of the property and explain why it's no longer an 18 hole Golf Links.
There are still 9 holes left but they are tucked up "safely" behind a sea wall
I'm looking for the name of that property
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Could it be Rhyl looking at Google earth ,unfortunately tide is in
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It is Rhyl Spotty dog so well done but do you know the name of that property?
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MDCXCII = ? Will this give a clue to the name of the Bungalow?
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Salam ??
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Well done Cambrian you've worked out the name of the Bungalow
MDCXCII = 1692 = Salem Witch trials
This property once stood in its own grounds flanked by beautiful lawns with two lines of sand hills separating it from the sea opposite RobinHood Camp.
As the sand hills were steadily eroded away, the owner was faced with considerable expense building a succession of sea walls to try and protect his property. In late October 1944 high tides coinciding with almost hurricane force gales smashed into the bungalow causing it to collapse like a pack of cards. One eye witness present when the bungalow collapsed recalls the sad sight of beautiful bathroom fittings still standing forlornly, washed by the waves amid the wreckage of the former bungalow. All that remains is a heap of concrete blocks."
If you look towards the sea from this point on the Wales Coast Path, you may spot a jumble of stones amid the sand. They’re all that remains of the former home of engineer Alfred Dickinson, a pioneer of electric tramway technology.
In 1915 he bought a parcel of land here from the Bodrhyddan estate and had Salem Bungalow built on it for himself and his wife Sarah. The building featured a veranda and a rooftop balcony. Parts of Rhyl’s golf course lay to the property’s east and west, but soon the sea was eating into this land. Mr Dickinson had a small sea wall built, but erosion continued
He died in Rhyl on 21 January 1941. His relatives abandoned Salem Bungalow in 1944 and eventually it crumbled into the sea
Some good photos posted on here by Tina
http://sunnyrhyl.forumotion.com/t7364-salem-bungalow-with-tina (http://sunnyrhyl.forumotion.com/t7364-salem-bungalow-with-tina)
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Thanks for posting the photo and history, Hugo. A fascinating story and one about which I knew nothing! Just shows the power of the sea.
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I'm pleased that you liked the post Cambrian and you did very well to get it.
My original clue "Too many clues here, especially for Golfers and those with good memories" was because I had actually posted the question on here a few years ago and thought that people would remember it
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Rhuddlan sent me an old aerial photo of the site of the bungalow after it was destroyed by the sea
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Very interesting and I can’t remember thinking of things lost to the sea when I was in North Wales. The East coast near me suffers a lot and I guess Happisburgh (https://www.bgs.ac.uk/landslides/happisburgh.html) (pronounced Haysborough) all succumbs one day. ..
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I hope that your place doesn't go the same way as that bungalow Squigglev2
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Cheers, Hugo. At a guess and trying to take a straight line to the sea, it would probably wind up about the best part of mile away so should be safe for a long while (and we are a couple of miles into Cromer). Still, you see reports of large falls on the coast, pictures of places becoming unsafe after falls and even people having to abandon (sometimes forcibly) what probably (Although much closer) looked safe when purchased…. There was this one (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-44010329/hemsby-home-dragged-back-from-crumbling-cliff) though!
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Could this be too easy? Where is it?
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Early guess,.......... Part of Gwrych Castle :-\
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That's a good guess Steve and I can see why you thought that it was Gwrych Castle
Sorry but it's not correct, it's easy but not that easy ;D
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Checked the NW castles, next guess .... Bodelwyddan Castle, if not,more clues, also is it a castle ?
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It's not Bodelwyddan Castle either and it's not a castle, although it is described as a castle styled mansion and it's not in Conwy County if that helps a bit
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Gotcha...... I hope,.......... sneaky, I thought you had cropped the photo very small, not one of your travel finds, ...... Plas Gwynfryn at Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth
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Not sneaky enough to beat you Steve so very well done.
It is Plas Gwynfryn in Llanystumdwy
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/castle-mansion-could-now-yours-15273225 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/castle-mansion-could-now-yours-15273225)
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Thank you, a very lucky find, I had glanced at the headline this morning, and did not take much notice, it was only by chance looking through the Daily Post site later, I spotted the picture,............ it would be expensive but a great project.
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We saw it from a distance when we had a walk in Llanystumdwy but there were notices saying that it was private land so we didn't attempt to get there. I'm sorry now because it would have been good to take photos of it as it looks very impressive
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Can anyone remember where this des res is in N Wales?
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It's got a nice river side location with stunning views but where is it?
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Is it on the western Bank of that Avon Lledr in the meadows between the old salmon fishing ladder and the confluence of the Avon Conwy.
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Well done Gwynant that's the one.
It's actually between the old Salmon ladders and Lledr Hall in Pont Y Pant, We were there on Wednesday doing a walk up stream from Gethin's Bridge to Dolwyddelan.
I've had trouble posting my photos from the walk so I downsized the hut to test it on the forum
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Does anybody know where this painting can be seen?
* Can Ian please rotate?
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When I saw it recently Bri it wasn't hanging like that but I'll pass on this one and let someone else have a guess. ;D
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That is very gracious of you, Hugo. ;)
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It was behind a little curtain at Lady Lever's art gallery last time I saw it
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That is its normal home, but a few years back it came on loan to Bangor Art Gallery, so I went to see it. I was surprised how small it was !
My OH won't have that one in the house, but I have another of Sydney Curnow Vospers paintings. Market Day in Old Wales.
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Well done, Jack.
Many forum members may be interested in reading this (providing it is eventually the right way up) 😂
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Where would you see this in N Wales?
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Some more photos that may help
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A lovely deciduous wood in a steep valley with a river flowing through it, but where is it?
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Looking at this photo you could be reminded of the Horseshoe Falls or even the USSR perhaps
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No idea where you are, but your clue is suggesting "steppes" which led me to the Roman steps, but that walk looks a bit steep,
so am I getting warm.
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You're thinking well Steve but the steps are not Roman. You might be getting warmer but the wood is hotter!
Another photo should get you the answer
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If this is right, you are "out of area" in the opposite direction of your usual walks...........here goes.
NANT MILL WOOD, WREXHAM (WRECSAM)
Just found some photos of the tree carvings ?
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Llyn Mair and Tan-y-Bwlch?
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If this is right, you are "out of area" in the opposite direction of your usual walks...........here goes.
NANT MILL WOOD, WREXHAM (WRECSAM)
Just found some photos of the tree carvings ?
Well done Steve, you are spot on again and it wasn't an easy one either. We did a walk yesterday from Nant Mill Coedpoeth and went on the Clywedog Trail covering Minerva to Bersham
Just to recap on the clues
The carving is of King Offa and his dyke goes through the wood
The Russian Steps is another name for the weir
Coedpoeth ( Hot Wood )
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Thank you, it was the last photo, even then I was not sure, have a look at the link, some weird and wonderful views, of the waterfall.
https://www.google.co.uk/search? (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nant+mill+waterfall+wales&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enES433ES433&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7us76q97eAhXHC8AKHSz7D)
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Thanks for posting the link Steve, there were some really great photos there.
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i used to go swimming in the river at Bersham when i was a young lad, we built a dam across the river in the farmers field and that's where i learned to swim you'v taken me back to some good old memories,Thanks
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You are very welcome Snowcap and lucky to have been brought up in such a lovely place
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Another easy one, where would you see this in N Wales?
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Marquess of Anglesey column
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Well done Spotty Dog, it is the Marquess of Anglesey column
I had an e-mail from Tellytubby tonight that made me think of the time we went up the Column. Tellytubby, Rhuddlan and I were one of the last ones to go to the top of the column before it closed. It's well worth the trip up there when it reopens
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/marquess-angleseys-column-been-closed-15584864 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/marquess-angleseys-column-been-closed-15584864)
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The staircase was deemed unsafe and the article said that the column was closed in March 2012, yet I've looked at my photos and they were taken on 26th Feb 2014. ???
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46672200 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46672200)
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It must be 60 years since I last climbed up those stairs Hugo I don't know how I remembered the statue for your quiz have a happy Christmas and peaceful new year
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You've got a good memory then Spotty Dog to remember the statue after so long. I was nearly 70 when I went up it for the first and only time but I'll do it again when it reopens as the views are superb on a good day.
Thanks for your good wishes and I hope that you have a Happy Christmas and a good and healthy New Year
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I was once told the Duke had the largest erection on Anglesey. ;)
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Where would you see this in N Wales?
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Is it the Cwm Prysnor viaduct?
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It's a very good guess Hollins but it's not the viaduct in Cwm Prysor
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Is this the Pontrhydyfen bridge made famous by Richard Burton?
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A good try Neil but it's not that bridge, this one is in N Wales somewhere?
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Very near this standard gauge railway line you'll see this river, but where is it in N Wales?
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If you follow the trail
No 9 should take you to the rail ???
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Some more photos that may help to get you on the right trail
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Do these photos help?
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I think I've walked this area. Looks stunning ;)
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Looks like the line between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Trawsfynydd.
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Spot on ME, well done.
It's actually in Llan Ffestiniog where we did section 9 of the Snowdonia Slate Trail yesterday. The Cynfal Falls walk through the woodland was stunning even in the Blaenau rain ;D
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Where would you see this in a N Wales cemetery?
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After a bit of digging, I came up with Wepre Park, which rang a bell, on checking the Forum's search link, I found it was part of your quiz in May 2017, so I hope Wepre Park IS the right answer.
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A good bit of investigation there Steve because you are spot on with Wepre Park.
It's a pet cemetery in the grounds of the old hall, it was out of bounds when Tellytubby and I went there but we couldn't resist having a look
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What is this and where is it?
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Bring us back some oranges. ;) I am assuming you are in Sevilla, having a good time.
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That was quick Steve finding the tomb of Christopher Columbus
I hope the weather is better for Bri than it is over here as I've just been caught in a heavy hail shower when I was out walking my dog
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We are back now, Hugo, but I cannot believe SteveH got that so quickly.
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Hola señor Bri., Es fácil, cuando sabes la respuesta. EstebanH 8)
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Steve's a wizz kid Bri, we are going to have to make them harder ;D
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Steve's a wizz kid Bri, we are going to have to make them harder ;D
Thank you Hugo, it brought tears to my eyes, long time since I was called a "Kid"
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If you wanted a drink, what is the name of the nearest pub to this milestone?
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Is it the Tafarn y Plu near the Lloyd George Museum?
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Well done Neil, very well worked out
Tafarn y Plu is in Llanystumdwy and I saw the milestone at the far end of the bridge that goes over the Afon Dwyfor
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Where would you find this strange construction and what is it?
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Does it turn with the sun ?
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No but it does change colour at night.
It is part of this building.
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Is it Dubai airport Hollins?
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Good guess. You are in the right country but it isn't Dubai or the airport there.
This view should help?
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Yas Marina F1 circuit Abu Dhabi?
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Well done Peter, correct!
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Where would you see this building in N Wales?
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Llangelylin New Church
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Spot on Brian, Well done, $good$
It is the Llangelynnin New Church and we were there this afternoon and had a nice chat with the guy who has purchased it
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This was a big mill in it's time and still is a big mill but where is it in N Wales $welsh$
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Perhaps this will be a big help?
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There were at least 7 mills along this river at one time, this mill was nearby
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Earthworks and bridges for a railway to get to the mills were built but the track was never laid because it was never laid. An old photo is attached that shows that there once was a big waterwheel on the side of this big mill $welsh$
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$booboo$ I meant to say it was never laid because it was too expensive so a bonus picture to show where it is
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Remember this? It's near a Norman Castle but it's not the one near London.
It's in N Wales and is about 2 miles from the big mill, but where is the big mill? $welsh$
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Hugo Dyserth Mill
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Well done Robbie &well&
I was starting to run out of clues on that one. It was Felin Fawr ( Big Mill ) in the Marian Mills area of Dyserth
Rhuddlan sent me a link on the area which is interesting
https://www.dyserth.com/mills.html (https://www.dyserth.com/mills.html)
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What is the name of this building where you would you see this fireplace? A bonus point if you know the name of the person who allegedly engraved the message
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You will see it in a bar in Conwy County and it's not far from a river
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This is the building, what is the name of it and who did the inscription on the fireplace?
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I think I have checked out every pub fireplace in NW................. THE EAGLES PENMACHNO cannot find who did the inscription.
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I think I have checked out every pub fireplace in NW................. THE EAGLES PENMACHNO cannot find who did the inscription.
I did have another go at the quote, best I could find........
This proverb is a good example of personification, then, because it ascribes human abilities to both Fear and Faith: both abstract and intangible concepts that are, obviously, not human. Fear is given the human ability to knock at a door; to do this, it must have both the intention to knock and the ability to do so—so it must have hands or some physical part with which it can knock. Faith is given the human ability to answer the door; to do this, it must have both the intention to open the door and the physical ability to do so. Again, then, it must have some body part with which it is capable of opening a door.
Ultimately, the proverb means that, when we have faith, we will have no need to fear. However, it uses two examples of personification in order to convey this idea
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Well done Steve, you worked really hard for that one. $good$
After Meleri posted something on here about Joseph Hughes, I was having a chat with my brother and it turned out that our G Grandfather Joseph Hughes did the inscription. He is Mereri's G G Grandfather who at one time lived in Penmachno
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Thank you H. not an easy one, for a change :roll: nice to know your Grandfather did the carving, something for posterity , by the way, my great uncle was a carpenter who carved church furniture in the area, I believe he was a Thomas Hughes, at the time living in Old Colwyn.
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My mother's father was also a carpenter like his relations were and her maiden name was Hughes too, That would be a coincidence if they were related
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That is very interesting Hugo, I really will have to go up there & have a look ;D
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Anyone know who and where this chap is?
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I cannot make my mind up, I am Split between a few answers :-X
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Well done SteveH!
Gregory of Nin in Split.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Nin
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Hollins, am I missing something because Steve said that he cannot make up his mind? i think that he should be deducted one point for that. ;D
If you are on holiday there I hope that you're having a great time $good$
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Ha! Sorry Hugo. I was pretty sure Steve knew the answer so I was kind and gave him the benefit of the doubt!
My Christmas present from Mr H was an island hopping trip in Croatia. We started off in Dubrovnik and walked around the city walls there which were amazing. Then we took a ferry to Korcula for 2 nights, then Brac on Bol Island which was very beautiful. Last stop was Split which we weren't so keen on as it was very busy and the historical sites were very commercialised. Mr H did have me walking up the local hill though. Most of the stays were in apartments and the last one in Split was next door to the British Consulate with a great view.
Hope you are feeling better now. I was reading that you were having back trouble. Not good for your walking.
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Hugo, you leave my points alone, Hollins knows what she is doing, ;) But I have been remiss, Hollins post reminded me, that you have had some problems, I do hope things are progressing and you are on the mend.
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I did know that you knew the answer, I don't know how, but you always seem to get them right. I'm going to have to look for a hard question but I bet you'll get it right also ;D
Thanks Steve for asking, I'm on the mend now but no walks planned for the future and definitely no more golf ever
It's good to see Hollins is enjoying her holidays and posting those lovely photos too.
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Glad to hear things are looking up, sorry about the golf, I had to give up three years ago, quite a wrench, but I am sure you will keep busy.
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Did you have the same problem with your back and hips Steve? The physio told me that the injury had not just happened as it must have been coming on for a while' Looking back on my games of golf, I would complain of pain in the back after each game and just put it down to all the bad shots I made.
It's a shame it happened as we had a few good walks lined up but they will have to wait for a while
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I suppose it was time I packed in golf anyway!
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Great joke, sums things up perfectly, frustratingly I have good mobility, but no puff, so no long walks for me. :(
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Great joke, sums things up perfectly, frustratingly I have good mobility, but no puff, so no long walks for me. :(
Who’s a puff?
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Where am I?
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Lucky you $good$
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Where am I?
If I was you Bri, I'd ask someone ;D
Brooklyn Bridge in New York is quite popular so someone will know. Have a great day
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Correct, Hugo.
How about this then from a little nearer home?
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I'll take a wild guess at Moel Famau
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No, Hugo.
That bit on the very top is the big clue.
Perhaps, you can make the photo bigger.
Here is another clue as to where I was.
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My very first thought was Cadair Idris because of the building on the top but now I'm not sure because of the angle, but I'll say Cadair Idris anyway
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Nope.
Give in?
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I'm losing my touch Bri or you're making them too hard for me but I'm not giving up ?{}?
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It's the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. I hope you had $good$ a good walk
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Is it in the Snowdonia National Park Bri? I can't enlarge the photo so I'm stumped at the moment but I'm still ?{}?
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Is it in the Snowdonia National Park Bri? I can't enlarge the photo so I'm stumped at the moment but I'm still ?{}?
You are getting warm. Hugo. 😆
Blogb, you are correct and the walk from one end to the other was wonderful although extremely busy.
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I think you are looking at the summit of Snowdon from the Welsh Highland Railway as it approaches Rhyd Ddu, as the second photo looks like the view back down towards Llyn Cwellyn from the same spot.
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Spot on, Gwynant.
Sadly, Hugo was unable to make out the summit and the summit restaurant just below.
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It's only easy if you know it but where would you see this one?
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Llanberis Slate Museum?
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That's a good try Hollins and I can see why you thought it was the Llanberis Slate Museum but it's not correct. These tracks lead to something more sinister :o
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Is it a quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog?
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You re getting nearer Bri but it's not in a quarry
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Is it an explosive or ammunition store ? just noticed, that is a very short track, for loading and unloading , and why is the arch wider at the top? big horses ? heavy loads ?
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At least you are on the right track steve even if it was only a short track. I''ve attached a side view of the building plus more photos of other things that are on site
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I am still thinking explosives, but a thick protective wall for a wooden building, ? I'am intrigued , is that cylinder lead ?
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Mr H thinks it might be this place?
https://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/gwaith-powdwr/
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My long shot was a device for testing canon balls..... :laugh:
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Mr H thinks it might be this place?
https://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/gwaith-powdwr/
He's spot on too Hollins so well done Mr H $good$
We were there yesterday and the weather was perfect with some stunning views
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He is already planning a visit and says well done for a very interesting quiz question.
How about this one, anyone know where this is?
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No guesses, does this help?
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Just a wild guess to start, is it in Llanddewi Ystradenni?
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No, sorry Hugo.
Keep going North. There are two of these and they mark the entrance to this place.
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Once you are through the gateway, this is what you might see.
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There's a place in the distance that might may you think you were in Scotland but actually it is much closer to home.
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It's a good one Hollins and I'm still thinking about it ?{}?
It looks like it could be a nature reserve and even a coastal one but those terraced houses have thrown me so it's back to the drawing board and scratching my head on this one ;D
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You are correct with the nature reserve and coastal resort.
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With a bit of detective work on your last photo, my guess is for Burton Riggs nature reserve, Yorkshire .
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No, sorry SteveH, much nearer to home.
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Talacre lighthouse?
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Well done rhuddlan!
Yes, the two stainless steel sculptures are at the gateway to Talacre beach which leads over the dunes to the lighthouse at Point of Ayr which is the most Northerly point of Wales. Talacre is also the most northerly settlement of Wales.
The designers of the sculptures were Craig and Mary Matthews who also designed a stainless steel one in Prestatyn and the Llanduno Millenium sculpture.
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I hope that the ice cream was Mr H's as it's far too big for a lady. ;D
I must admit that I did a google street view on that spot but couldn't see the sculptures so I dismissed it and couldn't remember seeing it there last year
Just to the right on the track going to Ffynnongroyw is a colony of White Egrets and they make such an unusual noise when they are calling out.
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It was definitely Mr H's ice cream!
We did see one of the egrets too. A lovely place and the first time we had been there but hopefully not the last.
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Probably too easy but anyone know where this is?
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Surprised there were no guesses for this one as it is quite near the Three Towns area so much so that I wondered if I had chosen the right thread.
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I've been looking online for this mosaic but couldn't find it. It looks like a place in North Wales where the train line is near the sea. I thought that it could be at Talacre with the sea bird on it but it looks more like Llanfairfechan or Penmaenmawr
I'll say Llanfairfechan just on account of the white houses on the sea side of the rail track and also because of the bird hives in Llanfairfechan
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You should have gone for the other one Hugo! ;D
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I'm gutted Hollins and definitely losing my touch ;D
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I'll let you off but you need to watch out, the quiz whizz kids will be catching you up! ;D
We walked yesterday from Penmaenmawr Station to Conwy along the scenic A55 route! I couldn't find out who made the mosaics. There was another one on the other side of the bridge but unfortunatley I didn't take a photo of it. The main street looked very attractive with beautiful hanging baskets there and by the station bridge. So, whoever was responsible for these and the mosaics well done.
I'll post some pics of the walk on the Exploring the Area thread if anyone is interested.
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I think that I was beaten because the artist used all his artistic licence on the mosaic and that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. :(
I'm pleased that you enjoyed a nice walk from Pen to Conwy, it's a pleasant walk on a nice day. We did a nice walk some time ago at low tide from Llanfairfechan to the western end of Penmaenmawr and returned on the cycle track.
You can see both the road and rail viaducts that way and it's an easy walk
I can't recommend any restaurants near by so you'll have to rough it and take sandwiches instead ;D
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Penmaenmawr in Bloom a community group of volunteers can take the credit for the beautiful flowers Hollins. They have their own Facebook page if anyone wants to have a look at their displays, they even grow the flowers themselves. &well&
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Where in Wales would you see this?
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Here's a bigger photo of the place which should give a clue as to what type of building this is.
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I thought that it was some type of prison when I saw the first photo but now I'm stumped, it's certainly a substantial structure but I'm clueless as to what it could be.
It's like a buttress, possible bridge or even a reservoir but I'm still ?{}?
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You are certainly right with substantial structure Hugo and it was built to improve the lives of the people in Birmingham.
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Is it the Elan Valley Reservoir then?
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It is the Elan valley where there are several reservoirs and dams. This is the Pen Y Garreg dam.
We walked around the Garreg-Ddu Reservoir. I'll post some pics of the walk in another thread.
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We can across this on a very wet walk in N Wales yesterday, where did we see it? $wales
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It is set in a very impressive location
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A few bridges crossed the Afon and although this was a place for the Summer it certainly wasn't Summer weather yesterday and we all got soaked but at least the waterfalls were impressive $wales
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Keep them coming Hugo far more interesting than some of the political fantasies that have been posted of late ,
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Thanks Spotty Dog, even though we were soaked to the skin and had to abandon the walk at least we were out and about and it was far better than listening to all this political hypothetical guff all the time
Now some more photos so where were we yesterday?
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GGGGggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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It was so wet when we finished our walk that we had to take refuge in this Church. Well we had to have our refreshments somewhere!
We sat in the porch there and enjoyed the food, far better than eating soggy sandwiches
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Steve ))* $booboo$ the location is not in N Wales it's in Mid Wales Sorry about that but I bet that there will be more Grrrrrrrrrr's now :-[
You'd need a lot of cash to keep up with the Johnes' in that part of the country
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Thank you Hugo, $good$ ............. Ystwyth Forest, Gorge walk. Ceredigion ? ? PS 18th century Hafod estate of Thomas Johnes
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Well done Steve, you deserved that after all your hard work. &well&
We had been planning the walk for a while but unfortunately chose the wrong day but we'll be back. The Cavern Cascade was out of action anyway so hopefully it will be restored when we do go there again
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Thank you H. I did not notice you putting N.Wales, I was looking at "out of area" however my searches were focused on NW, and the same searches, in fact, the first mentioning Mid Wales, came up (trumps) on the button,.......... pity you got rained off, but nice to hear you were out and about, better luck next time.
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Here's one you can have a bite of, where is this in N Wales? Hope that it's not too easy for some people.
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Definitely N Wales Steve! ;D
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This sign is nearby but has nothing to do with the second photo. Does that help?
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The "butt nugget" sign is at Gareth Wyn Jones' farm above Llanfairfechan on the way up to Plas Heulog. Never noticed the other sign tho.
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That's correct Jack, the "butt nugget" sign is at Gareth Wyn Jones' farm which is nearby so where is the other sign?
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It's at the entrance to this place so where is it?
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Platt's Farm Bunkhouse ?
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No Steve it's not the bunkhouse. Jack was very near but didn't have the answer I was looking for. It's a stretch of woodland in a valley with a stream running down it and is below the summit of this place
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The nature reserve is Nant-y-coed and the hillock Dinas (but still don't know where the sign is :()
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That's the answer Jack, the sign is at the entrance to the reserve alongside a number of other signs. $good$
Well done for getting the farm sign in the first place, I wasn't expecting anyone to get that.
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Wonder if its new or if I need to go to Specsavers?
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Where in England will you find this?
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No guesses? Here is a bigger view of this recently restored building.
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Have you been to Buxton again?
Pump Room Contract Sees Renaissance of Buxton’s Historic Crescent Begin
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Well done Hugo, correct!
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This may be too easy for some but where is this building in N Wales? $welsh$
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Is it Plas Brondanw?
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It is Plas Bron Danw so well spotted from that photo &well&
It was only after I posted the photo that I remembered that you had been there some time ago and posted some photos on here. It's a very interesting place to visit
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Who lived in a house like this in N Wales?
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Thomas Edward Lawrence?
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Well done Jack, spot on. &well&
That didn't last long did it? I drove past the house in Tremadog yesterday and took the photo while I was there
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A bit of trivia, one of my favorite episodes of Antiques Roadshow, is when a man turns up with a first world war pilots watch, a receipt inside, with the name T.E.Shaw...............
"Lawrence of Arabia's pilot watch appraised by Simon Bull
The owner of a First World War pilot's watch gets a shock when he's told that it belonged to Lawrence of Arabia. "Good God. To be truthfully honest, I always thought he was a fictional character." The owner bought the watch at a bric-a-brac stall in South Wales 20 years ago and hadn't realized that the "T.E. Shaw" on the repair bill that came with it was in fact better known as T.E. Lawrence. Simon Bull guesses that with the Lawrence connection the watch would be worth £5,000 ($7,500), or maybe even £10,000 ($15,000). "I'd better get it insured then!" says the owner."
famous watches blog........."On Monday I wrote to Omega asking if they could tell me more about T.E. Lawrence's (Lawrence of Arabia) Omega chronograph. Obviously, such a watch would be a prime candidate for the Famous Watches list if one could find, these days, a similar watch or one from the same series."
This is the reply from Jean-Luc Miranda of the Omega Museum:
Here is the full description of this famous time piece (#2885 in our Museum Inventory). This text is self-explanatory.
Lawrence of Arabia aviator chronograph-wristwatch, 1915: This watch of exceptional historical interest was worn by Thomas Edward Lawrence, British archaeologist, officer and writer, called Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935). Animating a rebellion against Turkey from 1916 to 1918, he freed the Arabic Middle East countries. Caseback engraved with an "A" (Aviation) and the "Broad Arrow", symbols of the British army in which Lawrence firstly served in 1914, as an interpreter and second lieutenant, and a second time incognito upon his return from Arabia on August 30, 1922 under the name of John Hume Rossas, as a mechanic with the Royal Air Force. He enlisted a third time on February 23, 1923 changing his pseudonym to T. E. Shaw, which is why the guarantee slip dated April 18, 1933 (issued after a revision) included with this chronograph is made out in the name of T.E. Shaw and not in the name of the writer of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Calibre 18''' SO PB CHRO, enamel dial, 1/5-second minute track, hollow Arabic numerals with inner 13-24 in red small seconds at nine o'clock, 15-minute totalizer at 3 o'clock, blued steel Empire hands, lentil-shaped 925 sterling silver case with red gilt mono-pushbutton at 6 o'clock, caseback with hinge, Louis XV crown, curved loops, sewn "two leather straps" bracelet, silver buckle (ref. 568.18)
The serial number 4'428'513 shown on its movement identifies this chronograph wristwatch as ordered on September 23, 1915 by France or one of its colonies, while the serial number 4'789'732 on its caseback refers to a standard 17'''hunting type pocket watch ordered on September 1912 by the agent Joseph Sewill of Liverpool! The caseback interior was enlarged by hand in order to fit the case-middle size of the 18''' chronograph. Its dust-protective double back cover was eliminated to allow this replacement back, flatter than the original one, to snap when closing.
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There can't be many of these in people's gardens so where did i see this one in N Wales?
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If you go through the meadow and across this boardwalk you will see this Elephant
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This photo may help?
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Elephant mountain :-\
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That's a good guess Steve but although there is an Elephant Mountain near Rhyd Ddu that's not the answer I'm looking for.
Try asking at the old Post Office and they will tell you where this is
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Hugo, we spent 3 hours at Rhyd Ddu last week and we never saw one elephant.
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I'm not surprise Bri, if you spent 3 hours in the Cwellyn Arms at Rhyd Ddu you would have only seen pink Elephants when you came out of the place.
There are some strong beers in there if I remember correctly $drink$
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Bri, you could probably ask some locals where the Elephant is, but they may think that you're quackers
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Where you on the Rhyd Ddu down to Beddgelert village walk ? still can't find your XXX elephant, Gunga Din
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I'm not surprise Bri, if you spent 3 hours in the Cwellyn Arms at Rhyd Ddu you would have only seen pink Elephants when you came out of the place.
There are some strong beers in there if I remember correctly $drink$
Only one hour in there, Hugo, waiting for the train to take us back to Caernarfon and it was only diet cokes and wi-fi for us. $lol$
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Bri, you could probably ask some locals where the Elephant is, but they may think that you're quackers
There weren’t that many on the lake, Hugo, when we passed on the walk more fully described by SteveH.
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I'll believe you Bri, but why didn't you see the Elephant Mountain because you were right next to it?
https://www.mudandroutes.com/routes/snowdonia-walks-walk-eryri-mynydd-mawr-from-rhosgadfan/ (https://www.mudandroutes.com/routes/snowdonia-walks-walk-eryri-mynydd-mawr-from-rhosgadfan/)
Steve, I've got no chance now that you're on this case so I'll give a clue in a moment and you'll be sure to get it ;D
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Bri, you could probably ask some locals where the Elephant is, but they may think that you're quackers
There weren’t that many on the lake, Hugo, when we passed on the walk more fully described by SteveH.
Who said anything about a lake Bri? I haven't been in that area for years
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With Bri, Gwynant, Steve and others on the scene I've got no chance of winning this one so I'll give a clue that will identify exactly where this is:-
If you had gone to the old Post Office you could have nipped around the corner to The Saracen's Head for a beer or diet coke whichever takes your fancy. Now where is this place? $wales
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Ah well, no guesses perhaps this photo will help?
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Thousands of years ago there must have been a settlement or camp in the meadow around this place, perhaps that explains its name. In the last century or so it had a Church, two chapels, 3 pubs, a butcher's shop as well as other shops and a post office.
It was even mentioned in the Doomsday Book so where do you think it is? $wales
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This building is in the same street as the old Post Office ( now a cottage called Bryn Teg ) and the old Saracen's Head is just around the corner, so where am I?
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Gwaenysgor?
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Thanks Jack, well done $good$
I was quickly running out of clues on this one
The Elephant can be seen on the left of the track that goes down to Meliden
https://www.clwydianrangeanddeevalleyaonb.org.uk/files/144636359-Gwaenysgor%20Booklet.pdf (https://www.clwydianrangeanddeevalleyaonb.org.uk/files/144636359-Gwaenysgor%20Booklet.pdf)
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Where is this place?
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It's over the border and in a National Park so that should make it easier, but where is it?
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You might see these birds there
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Is it Peckforton Castle? Don't think it is in a National Park though. :-\
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A good try Hollins, it is a castle but not Peckforton
You won't see these birds there though, although they are in the same National Park
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Anything to do with Bolton castle ? Second guess Ripley
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Sorry Steve but your guesses are not correct, so where is this castle?
It's not by this lake either but more westerly
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Muncaster castle?
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Well done Hollins, it is Muncaster Castle in the Lake District $good$
We had a few days away in the Lake District and it was a nice break with beautiful weather as a bonus
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How lovely for you and what weather! We were saying how lucky it was for anyone on holiday this past week.
Where would you see this in North Wales?
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Is it the exit point of the milwr tunnel near bagillt?
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Well done Rhuddlan!
We had our picnic lunch there on our walk from Llannerch-y-Mor to Bagillt.
What an amazing story it is about the tunnel.
Here is a link to some info taken from a book about it.
https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/milwr-tunnel/ (https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/milwr-tunnel/)
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Rhuddlan, Tellytubby and I were looking at the torrent of water coming out of that tunnel some time ago , at least 23 million gallons a day and wondered why they hadn't considered harnessing the power of that source of water
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There used to be a waterwheel at LyM apparently
Slightly bigger than the Lacey wheel
On the IOM. There is an information plaque about it at
abakhan's. That would have made a better attraction
Than the dreadful fun ship.
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That book extract is very interesting Hollins. I'm not too far from Cadole and though aware to an extent of local industrial heritage, found the detail fascinating. Anyone know which once popular household cleaning product has links to this area?
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I was going to put these photos in a quiz, but they are too easy to find on google search, so just for fun without searching can you identify these............
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I'm still thinking on these two Steve but I'll have a pop at the bottom one
Just based on the clue at the bottom of the 2nd photo " into the fire " are they fire balls that you use in a gas fire? I've seen that effect with pebbles but not with those round shaped balls
The first one I'm stuck on but just thinking that it is an optical illusion at the moment ?{}?
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Hugo I thought they would make a good quiz, because when I found out what they were, I was gobsmacked, some clues for those playing the game without searching.. and sorry they are not balls for the fire
One is far away, and also photographed from far away.......... and the other a lot closer to home, and not they way you would think..........
Mrs H just got one !!!
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A wild guess at the 2nd photo. Are they some of the many moons of Jupiter?
Still no idea on the 1st one but am working on it
Just in case it's right here's one for you and Mrs H Steve
Without using Google or any IT how many moons does Jupiter have?
A) 53
B) 79
C) 91
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No they are not moons, they are the closer to home clue, .... further clue, you will have noticed the photo title, well there are six words in front of that clue.......
XXX XX XXX XXXXXX XXX XXX into the fire. ( I love that spellchecker is telling me that the fourth set of X's is incorrect ? )
Second photo clue still stands,... (One is far away, and also photographed from far away) this is the one Mrs H got by looking very closely at the photo, she has better eyesight than me, even with my glasses.
And neither of us know the answer to your question, would only be guessing.
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Another very wild guess for the 1st photo, is it a close up of a denim fabric
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Sorry Hugo afraid not, these are as I think you said, an illusion, created by unusual photography, and I am not sure if they fit the criteria for the quiz, so some more clues, then I will give the answers.
The one you thought was denim, as I said was photographed from far away,..... like the great wall of China ?
And the circles think kitchen.
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Is the first photograph from a satellite looking down on a city? The second lot of photographs could they possibly be different coloured hens eggs, with the clue 'out of the frying pan?'
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Meleri ,I am pleased you got them..... &well& Sorry Hugo, Good try.
First photo.....The city is New Delhi I heard recently it will not be long before their population is greater than China.
The second photo, "different coloured hens eggs, with the clue 'out of the frying pan?'" not eggs, but they are the bottoms of old frying pans. I would have put money on planets.
Well done again, and this is the link for your further enjoyment........... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vnmGH0jUg&t=7s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vnmGH0jUg&t=7s)
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That's not me Steve, I hadn't got a clue. It's Meleri who worked them out
Good quiz though $good$
Did you just modify your last post Steve?
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That's not me Steve, I hadn't got a clue. It's Meleri who worked them out
Good quiz though $good$
Just made the changes, that's what I get for not paying attention, thanks to you both for having a go.
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What were these originally built for and where would you see them?
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Mrs H, worked this one out, is it one of the river viewing points on the A5 going into BYC ?
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Mrs H, worked this one out, is it one of the river viewing points on the A5 going into BYC ?
The A5 is correct and the photo was taken in Betws Y Coed but what was their original purpose?
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Telford had them built every 1/2 mile or so for road maintenance
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"Lay-bys" from the days of stage coaches and horse & carts ???
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Well done Robbie and DVT $good$
They are depots' along the route of the A5, being roadside alcoves to store grit and materials and were normally just a few hundred yards apart except in the steeper sections when they were closer together.
Apparently they are all on the south or west facing section of the road and you can see many of them on the way to Bethesda
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Another easy one. Where would you see this in North Wales?
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Time for some more clues
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Perhaps this photo may help?
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Not a clue, but I hope you are staying for the weekend, looks very nice.
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It is a nice place Steve and you get a warm welcome when you come into the building. It's also located in a beautiful location with two beaches, a bit like Llandudno perhaps?
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Hugo's weekend retreat................and I only hope the weather is better than ours....https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/castell-deudraeth-portmeirion-r5295gfqdk2 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/castell-deudraeth-portmeirion-r5295gfqdk2)
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Well done Steve, I bet you worked hard to find that. $good$
It's Castell Deudraeth (deudraeth = two beaches ) in Penrhyndeudraeth and we had a delicious lunch there yesterday.
There is an offer on there at present:-
two courses for £20.00
three courses for £25.00
included with the lunch is a ticket to get into Portmeirion which is about half a mile away. The entry into Portmeirion village is normally £12.00 so the offer is good value
The weather was perfect yesterday so after our three courses we went into the village to have a look around
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Many people have walked past this building over the years but where exactly is it in N Wales?
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They say that this is where it all begins, but what and where? ???
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Is it around this area ? Tywi Trawsnewid / Blaenau Ffestiniog
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Good try Steve but It's not there.
I'll give you another clue, well half of one anyway!
When I go to Tal Y Bont and pass the pub Y Bedol I often think of this place
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Horseshoe Pass( big guess here)
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What a good guess too Spotty Dog. Well done, did Y bedol ( Pedol = horseshoe ) give it away?
Mrs H and I had a short walk in that area yesterday and the River Dee was in full flow.
The building is the pumping house where the Llangollen canal starts by the Horseshoe falls
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Yes Hugo a bit of school boy Welsh
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Where would you see this, it's not far away in fact it's quite near?
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There have been three clues listed already but I think that the GR on the post box must be George V and not George VI
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Luck must have played a big part in this place
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Hawddamor, Dolgellau ?
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Sorry Steve but it's much nearer the Three Towns, it's further North and very near and that's a clue too!
Hope that you have more Luck finding the answer
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Llanfairfechan yn agos iawn/Aber falls ?
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Not Aber Falls but it is in Llanfairfechan you're getting quite "near" to the answer Steve
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Sorry Steve but it's much nearer the Three Towns, it's further North and very near and that's a clue too!
Hope that you have more Luck finding the answer
Let's recap, the clues are there and it was all started in the reign of George V.
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The Close, Llanfairfechan, the architect of these lovely Arts & Crafts houses was Herbert Luck North. I really, really wanted to live in one of those houses when I was younger but they were far to expensive.
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Well done Meleri, that's spot on $good$
It's a beautiful street and I think that every thing in the street is listed including the post box featured in the photo
If anyone hasn't seen the street before then it will be well worth a visit there
http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/409754/details/the-close-llanfairfechan (http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/409754/details/the-close-llanfairfechan)
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Was there not a girls school nearby,I think it was called St Winifred's .similar houses on Deganwy road high gables green slate roofs
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Yes Spotty Dog St Winifred's School was just in front of The Close but shut in 1968. It was then demolished to build the Parc Henblas Estate, but there was a St Winifred's Close as part of it.
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Where in the EU would you see this bell and what does it commemorate?
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I know that the bell was cast Loughborough ;) enjoying the $sunny$
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Back home now. We did have some sunny days but very windy for most of the week.
I didn't know the bell was made in Loughborough, so interesting to know that thanks.
Steve H , you obviously know the answer so do we leave it for others to guess or should I reveal all?
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Back home now. We did have some sunny days but very windy for most of the week.
I didn't know the bell was made in Loughborough, so interesting to know that thanks.
Steve H , you obviously know the answer so do we leave it for others to guess or should I reveal all?
H. Leave it for awhile, let the others have a chance to see it (on previous page) $good$
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Here's the answer then. Well done Steve H who knew it all the time.
Valletta, Malta. The only country ever to receive a George Cross.
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Thanks Hollins... Looking into your quiz question, brought up some unexpected historical information, the company originated in the 14th century, and is the world's largest working bell foundry ..... Cont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_%26_Co
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It's very near a footpath in N Wales and many walkers must have gone past it this year, but where is it?
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This photo may give another clue
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Old Colwyn?
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A good try Bri but it's not correct
Perhaps you didn't see it when you may have walked past it this year?
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There are many paths here but they don't all lead to a dead end
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Perhaps these photos may help
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I didn't expect this one to be hard as it's on a walk that some forum members have done before. This guy knows where we were and kept an eye on us all the time
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So far I have Lord Nelson statue, Llanfairpwll ...... I'll keep an eye out for the rest ;)
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Hugo, is that St Marys Church as in Llanfairpwll....?
and Menai Bridge at the start?
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So far I have Lord Nelson statue, Llanfairpwll ...... I'll keep an eye out for the rest ;)
Aye Aye Steve but you'll need to be able to swim!
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Hugo, is that St Marys Church as in Llanfairpwll....?
and Menai Bridge at the start?
You've got the Church right Bri, but isn't this the walk that you were going to do with some friends?
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No more clues so here are the results of the quiz:-
Hugo 1 point
Steve 0 points ( wrong side of the Straits )
Bri Roberts minus 1 point for not noticing the RD marker
I don't know what the marker was for but it's at the base of one of the towers on the mainland side of the Britannia Bridge
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I did notice the RD marker, Hugo, but like yourself I didn’t know what it was for.
Yes, we did the walk last year as part of the Heritage Walks and that is how I finally recognised Menai Bridge which you failed to award me a mark for. ))*
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$booboo$ I'm sorry Bri but I seem to have overlooked your last answer. Because it's the Christmas period and LFC are doing so well I'm in a happy and generous mood and have decided to upgrade the score you were originally awarded
After due consideration I have given you a very generous award of 3rd place with a score of minus half a point
Well "Menai Bridge" as the location of the marker stone was very vague and your first answer was "Old Colwyn" which was miles away
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Here's another easy one. Where is this building?
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Menai Bridge?
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A good guess Bri but it's not correct. It is further south and on a main road and this is another view of the building if you were looking northwards and I bet that you have gone past it at sometime?
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Ganllwyd?
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Spot on Bri, well done $good$
We have been past there so many times but only ever stopped there to use the toilet facilities, that was until yesterday when we went to see Rhaeadr Ddu which is an incredible water fall
The path starts by the corrugated village hall and goes upwards to the waterfall and we then continued upwards to the Cefn Coch gold mine and ruined buildings
Because of problems with my computer I haven't been able to down load all my photos so I can't do a report of the walk yet
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Hurrah, I finally got one. $bounce$
Yes, we regularly used the toilet facilities as well in Ganllwyd for three years when our eldest was at Aberystwyth University.
Then one day, we took a walk ourselves into the woods behind the toilet block and very much enjoyed our short journey,
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Well done again Bri $good$
Go across the road next time Bri and see the falls, about half an hour max to go up and down. If you think Swallow Falls are good then you should see Rhaeadr Ddu as there is no comparison in my opinion
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I've had a few days away in the UK this weekend, any ideas where this is?
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Mainland UK ?
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Yes ;D
But that's not the answer I'm looking for and I think that you may have seen it already? ?{}?
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I was there but they didn't put me in the tower?
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This photo must help?
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At first I thought it was Warwick castle or a similar one in N. Ireland, the red brick photo didn't fool me, I could see the turret in the distance, so a bit more work, and I am sure you visited Studley Castle, I lived in Warwickshire for most of the 70's, but never visited Stapley.
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You've all got it wrong,it's Hugo's English holiday home 😄😄😄
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I wish Spotty Dog, ;D
Congratulations Steve, it is Studley Castle, the newest place on the Warners Group of historic hotels &well&
We went there for our 50th Wedding Anniverary on Feb 14th
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I wish Spotty Dog,
Congratulations Steve, it is Studley Castle, the newest place on the Warners Group of historic hotels
We went there for our 50th Wedding Anniverary on Feb 14th
Congratulations to you both, very romantic and on the 14th $good$
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Thanks Steve, I didn't want to post this photo as you may have seen it on the TV advert but you got the answer anyway.
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I wish Spotty Dog, ;D
Congratulations Steve, it is Studley Castle, the newest place on the Warners Group of historic hotels &well&
We went there for our 50th Wedding Anniverary on Feb 14th
Congratulations to you Hugo and Mrs Hugo. +}}{--
We had a day trip by train to London to the theatre for ours, 5 years ago come March, it nearly killed the pair of us. One forgets how quiet Llandudno is compared to the speed of London.
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Thank you very much Nemesis and a very belated congratulations to you. It's certainly a milestone to celebrate nowadays $good$
We feel the same as you do and although it is nice to get away sometimes it is always nice to come back home. We realise just how lucky we are to be living in such a beautiful area
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This is a Geography quiz and I thought that I was good on the subject but could only manage to get 15 out of 21 right
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/21-very-tough-geography-questions-18293332 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/21-very-tough-geography-questions-18293332)
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I managed 18 / 21 but have to admit a did guess a couple ))*..... anyway nice quiz thank you Hugo $thanx$
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I sat by this guy today but where was I ?
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Because of the Coronavirus, wood he have had to reserve a bench there ?
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Could you have been at the zoo?
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I could have been there Nemesis but I wasn't so where was I ?
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There are all types of birds here and it is near the site of an old Railway line but the last train went many years ago
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I was going to say RSPB Conwy, but I am not sure, I think you have been to this place before, and used it in the quiz, but I'm stumped. :(
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You are spot on Steve, I have been to the place before and used it in a quiz $good$ It's all repeats nowadays ;D
But it's not the RSPB Conwy $hands$
It's in a marsh just like the RSPB in Junction
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The Valley Wetlands, formerly known as Valley Lakes, is a wonderful nature reserve in Anglesey which gives you the opportunity to see wildfowl all year round. Look out for tufted ducks, pochards, shovelers, gadwalls and grebes around its reed-fringed lakes when you visit.
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Thanks for all that info Steve, I'll have to pay it a visit as I haven't been there before..
Meanwhile where was I on Thursday? Think Cymraeg $walesflag$
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Alongside Afon Cegin?
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A good guess Bri and I can see why you thought that but it's not correct.
This marshy reserve is much further east
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Some years ago if you visited this reserve you would have seen the Marsh Warden before you went in, now where is it?
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Cors Ddyga marshes on Anglesey ?
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Good try Steve but it's not in Anglesey, Gwynedd or Conwy
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Burton Mere Wetlands is a nature reserve on the Dee Estuary ........... This seems a bit far, for your normal trips, but best guess.
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Too far away for me Steve but you have worked hard on this one.
One more clue and if you can't find it then I'll tell you the answer
You can possibly see the sites of four castles from this spot on the Welsh marsh $wales ?{}?
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Hugo, I think it is the Rhuddlan Marsh Nature Reserve. I am struggling a bit with the castles though. Rhuddlan of course, possibly Denbigh, maybe Dyserth and, at a push, Gwrych on a clear day and on tip toes! The old railway was the line from Foryd Junction to Corwen. Rhuddlan station itself closed in 1956 but the goods yard was in use for coal and for camping coaches for a few years afterwards, looked after by staff at Denbigh. The line from Ruthin to Corwen closed completely in 1961 the through route having been used by the summer "Land Cruise" trains and special excursions until then. All traffic ceased in 1967 and the line abandoned with the usual short-sightedness.
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Well what can I say, you've beaten me again and come up with the correct answer and a lot of interesting info as well. $good$
Well done for guessing the Morfa Rhuddlan Nature Reserve. We stopped there on Thursday to have a look around the Reserve and had our sandwiches in the car..
It's only a small reserve and after you leave the car park to go into the reserve, the first part is a gentle uphill walk that once went over the train tunnel.on that line you described
I hadn't thought of Denbigh Castle but the ones I was thinking of were Gwrych Castle, Dyserth Castle, Rhuddlan Castle and the earlier motte and bailey castle at Twt Hill Rhuddlan
Do you remember the Marsh Warden? It was a pub on a corner across the road but that has long since been demolished as has the foundry and other buildings too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Rmx4SO6PA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Rmx4SO6PA)
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I've attached some old photos of the Rhuddlan Railway Station and that bridge in one of the photos may be where the Morfa Rhuddlan Nature Reserve is now
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Thanks, Hugo. Nice to see the photos. I made a typo in the previous entry, the all traffic on the line to Denbigh ended was 1968. There were four camping coaches on a siding adjacent to a loading platform (behind the coal truck shown in the middle photo). They were there from 1955 to 1968. BR saw North Wales as an ideal area for the siting of these facilities - in addition to Rhuddlan, there were ones at Glan Conwy, Betws y Coed (a Pullman car!), Aber, Abergele (9 here), and, briefly, at Pont y Pant and Roman Bridge.
I do remember the Marsh Warden but don't recall ever having gone there. You can still see the occasional metal grid in local roads bearing the legend "Rhuddlan Foundry" - mainly road gullies in rural areas.
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I am finally able to contribute something after going out and about for the first time since March.
Hope everyone is keeping well.
Where in Wales would you see this fellow?
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Conwy ?
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No sorry, much further afield.
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Hi H, Nice to hear from you, trust all is well ? $good$
It took a bit of searching.............King Henry VII - Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
King Henry VII - Born Henry Tudor, in Pembroke Castle. He was the first Welshman to sit on the English Throne, & the Last King to win the English Throne in battle. The sculpture is located on the Mill Bridge, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
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Well done Steve. yes all well thanks.
We stayed a few days in a holiday house with this amazing view of the castle from it, (see 3rd photo). The house was also directly on the coast path so did some lovely walks too.
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That's a difficult one Blongb ?{}?
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That's a difficult one Blongb ?{}?
I'm getting old Hugo. I guessed Beddgelert for the Henry VII statue and then realised the question had been answered on the next page, so I tried to delete my feeble answer and no matter how hard I tried, I had to leave the B. So the B is for $booboo$
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I'm glad it's not just me Blongb ;D
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I walked past this property today, where is it and a bonus point for the name of the property. $walesflag$
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It's on the roadside so you can't miss it but which road?
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Royal Welch Way?
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No it's not that one Bri, it's further afield and to the east of the Three Towns
Although there is a date of 1988 on the guttering but it's a particularly fine late mediaeval house substantially enlarged in the C16 and C17 which has been the subject of extensive recent careful restoration, with full preservation of its historic and architectural character
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It's in a valley and you'll see this impressive building on the valley road $wales $walesflag$
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GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr apart from translating Valley Rd ffordd y dyffryn I am no wiser, but I am hoping you are enjoying
one of your "posh house " breaks.................... $good$
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No posh breaks for me Steve, certainly not at the present moment but perhaps next year.
You're on the right track with the valley $walesflag$
Valley + dyffryn $walesflag$ so where is this Grade II listed building that looks over the Vale?
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The village has a Church and a nice pub across the road
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Pentre Cwm, Cwm, Dyserth, Rhyl built in 1632 for William & Ann Mostyn -
Pub clue gave it away , Ta
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Well done Steve, you got the name of the village and the pub &well& $good$
I must be going soft in my old age with too many clues but I can blame it on too much Sun ;D
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300001391-pentre-cwm-cwm
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Came across this earlier while out for an afternoon drive and picnic lunch - where was I ???
It is not in the immediate Three Towns area, but it is in Conwy County.
The inscription appears to be a date, nearly 30 years ago if it is, but I'm intrigued to know what it is about !
I'll post another pic tomorrow evening, if no-one has got it by then !
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That's a really good find DVT and I haven't got a clue about either the location or the meaning of the stone.
A very wild guess that the location is a reservoir and I first thought of Llyn Celyn but discounted that as it's in Gwynedd but my second guess is the Alwen Reservoir but I have no idea about that stone so I'm still thinking ?{}?
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Not Llyn Alwen but you're not very far away !!!
You're in the right corner of Conwy County !!!
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Aled Isaf has a lot of coarse fishing going on, and the painted rock looks like a fisherman in his sou'wester, and his rowing boat, so that is my guess, perhaps the date of a record fish. ?
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Good detective work there Steve. $good$
I still hadn't got a clue until your posting. I have seen some photos of massive fish caught in the Brenig but didn't associate the place with DVT's photo
The Brenig in 1990 it was selected as the only Welsh reservoir used for the World Fly Fishing Championships.
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Yes, quite correct - Aled Isaf Reservoir !!!
... the water level was very low yesterday and the rock had become exposed. I'd never seen it before and have driven that road quite a few times in the past. I have also rallied along it in the middle of the night, nearly went into the lake many years ago when travelling northwards - the bend that caught us out now has a chevron on it - I was navigating so can blame the driver for not taking the bend I'd called! Took us 20 minutes to regain the road but we ended up winning the event, but that's another story!
... I thought I would be able to overcome anyone using Google as it doesn't show (see pic), but Super Sleuth SteveH wins again! I like the explanation as well - I thought the pic was of a ghost, now it has been said then I can see a fisherman in so'wester. What we want to know now is how big was the fish!!!
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I think the fish was this big" .............................................................." thanks for the clues $good$
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This property has been going cheap for a number of years but where is it? $walesflag$
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Hugo, I have cheated a bit, and will not give what I think is the answer, but the owner, Mr Roberts breeds Charrollais sheep ?
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Steve, you've found out more than I have as I haven't been able to trace Mr Roberts.
I thought that I had only left two clues: Smith and 01248
So where is this bargain buy? $walesflag$
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I could be way off the mark, but going on one of your clues, I came up with LLANGAFFO YNYS MON ANGLESEY LL60 any good ?
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I could be way off the mark, but going on one of your clues, I came up with LLANGAFFO YNYS MON ANGLESEY LL60 any good ?
You're spot on Steve, it's way off the mark. You had me sweating for a while as I thought that it might have been too easy
It's not in Anglesey and the 01248 Tel No could be misleading so where is this bargain buy situated? $walesflag$
It's in a very nice and convenient location with a main line train station and a very busy main road within 200 yards
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Back to work, my answer was based on the full tel. No. which gives the details I mentioned before.......... :(
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That was very crafty Steve, you're a whizz kid on IT so I'll have to think more carefully next time
Anyway back to the whereabouts of the bargain buy at just £26,750.00 if you find it you might like to buy this old shack to go with it
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Whizz on IT and a Kid.... :-[ :o PS I think this is a repeat &shake&
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The garage isn't a repeat Steve, it's brand new, unlike the one in the photo which has seen better days.
I'll direct you to it, so go down the busy road, turn left over the bridge and it's about 200 yards away on the left in a hollow. $walesflag$
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Is This near the BYC bridge area ?
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You are getting warmer Steve $good$
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There is a name on the garage that is bilingual and it could be translated like this:- Hollow Grove $welsh$
Ty Modur
Many walkers pass this place including other forum members and you can't help but see it as it's right on the roadside
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Hugo I read your translations as Pant Llwyn garage I guess it might be Pont y Pant but cant think of a garage there
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You are on the right lines Robbie and spot on so well done. &well&
If you leave the A470 to go over the bridge to Pont Y Pant Railway Station you will pass this garage on your left. Above the Garage door is the name Gelli Pant Motor House and what is up for sale is the garage and a plot of land that you could just about park a caravan on.
It was on sale for £38,500.00 but that has been reduced to £26,750.00 No wonder it's still on sale at that price, so when I walked past it I thought that I'd take a photo of it.
http://www.iwanmwilliams.info/images/properties/LL1845.Gelli%20Pant%20Motor%20House.pdf (http://www.iwanmwilliams.info/images/properties/LL1845.Gelli%20Pant%20Motor%20House.pdf)
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&well& Robbie, I was checking the area around the Ty Gwyn hotel, without luck.
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Steve, do you fancy buying a garage at a bargain price? :o
You were right about the shack as it was in a previous quiz but the garage wasn't a repeat. I knew that if I posted another photo of the shack you would have got the answer correct like you did before
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If I was posting a letter here, where would I be in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Well Hugo the house is on a steep hill and going by your recent walks I will guess its on The Orme ?
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Moelfre?
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Bull bay
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Well done Spotty Dog. &well&
It's in Bull Bay and very near the old Bull Bay Hotel. Was that a good guess or did you know it?
I was in Anglesey today and it's just as well as I wouldn't be able to go there after the lockdown on Thursday
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Hi Hugo I knew it was Anglesey architecture which is quite distinctive and I knew I'd passed it recently,so a bit of Google produced the result
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Thanks Spotty Dog, that was good detective work there. $good$
It's a good place to start a walk but today we only had a flying visit there but still enjoyed it. Normally it's a good spot to see Dolphins but we didn't see any today
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A nice easy question for the afternoon.
Where is the nearest cafe to this bridge and what is the cafe's Welsh name? $walesflag$
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Ty-hyll, Ugly House, A5, Betws y Coed
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Well done Brian, that's spot on. &well&
I went to that area today and took some photos of the place but it looked like it was closed
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It looks like this cop has already copped it but where would you see him on patrol? $walesflag$
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Pentrvoelas a friend of my son made it it gets me every time I pass
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You're on the wrong road for this one Spotty Dog but I'll give another clue, you'll have gone past this Chapel before you see this cop
Was it you that knocked this cop's block off? ;D
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Abergele to Llanrwst Road
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You're getting closer but not quite there Robbie
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Ah well, must be time for another clue?
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Here's another view of the well which may help
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The view from the well overlooking this main A road should help to pinpoint this place
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I can only make a guess that it is in the Llanrwst area Hugo Trefiew ?
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A good guess Robbie but it's not in the Llanrwst are but it is on the A470
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Hugo,
The well seems to be Ffynnon Elan at Dolwyddelan and the church is the old 16thC Anglican church in the village which is dedicated to St Gwyddelan. There is another church on the A470, St Elizabeth's, dating from 1884, but that closed a few years ago and was converted to residential use.
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Well Done Cambrian, that's spot on &well& It's Dolwyddelan on the A470
The Ffynnon Sant Gwyddelan or Elen's Well is just above a former Chapel and the Church of St Gwyddelan was closed as expected when we called there yesterday
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We were parked in a car park yesterday that had a Lady's name in it's title but where was the car park?
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These photos may help?
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The car park was on the hillside opposite this well seen building
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From the last clue, Coed y Brenin Forest Park ?
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Ganllwyd?
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Well done Steve and Bri as you are both correct. &well& &well&
The car park is called Tyddyn Gwladys and is a mile and a half uphill on the opposite side of the road to that Black Building. We had a walk yesterday to two very spectacular waterfalls about another mile uphill from the Tyddyn Gwladys car park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXuTi_MA8Ls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXuTi_MA8Ls)
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Where will you see this little Bat hanging out?
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Perhaps these two photos may help?
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These photos must help a bit to locate this place
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No guesses? these photos may help
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Sorry Hugo, not for lack of trying..... :(
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Thanks for trying Steve. I didn't think that it would be that hard but when I checked it now the pub that was near the pheasant has changed it's name. :-[
I'll put some more photos on here to help and another clue is that the river starts its life in Conwy County
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I think you where on the Afon Lledr ? but will look into it tomorrow
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A good try Steve but it's not the Afon Lledr
This river although it starts in the County of Conwy is a tributary of another river that flows out in another county in N Wales
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Last Clue
This tributary river gives its name to the place it passes through and then flows under the A55 before joining on to the main river
That must help a bit?
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Just a guess Hugo is it the Afon Elwy or Aled ? I do not recognise the church is it Rhuddlan
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Well done Robbie it is the Afon Elwy &well&
The river gives its name to Llanelwy or St Asaph.
It flows through Llanfair T H and just north of the A55 joins the main river which is the Clwyd and that eventually flows into the sea in Rhyl
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Seems the Mayor thinks a kingfisher is a humming bird !!!
https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/15764066.wildlife-sculptures-on-riverbank-to-grow-in-numbers/ (https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/15764066.wildlife-sculptures-on-riverbank-to-grow-in-numbers/)
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With a name like Peter Scott, you would expect better :-[
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Sorry Robbie but I forgot to mention the Church in my last post.
It's the Church of St Mary's in Cefn Meiriadog, a small village about 2 miles from St Asaph and the River Elwy flows near there
The sculpture of the Pheasant was also meant to be a clue because I'm sure that the pub at the bottom of St Asaph hill was once called the pheasant something but is now called The Bridge
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I think I have been there!
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You have indeed Hollins and you'll remember the River Elwy from the time you had your Sunday lunch in Llanfair T H ;D
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You may have seen this on a walk but where is it?
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Is it a burial mound ?
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I'm not sure what it is Steve, it's not a burial mound but may have something to do with water.
There was certainly a lot of it today when we had a walk, but where were we? $walesflag$
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A couple more photos that may help if anyone has done the walk before
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Cwm Cwmorthin.
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Well done Brian. &well& It was Cwm Orthin.
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This should be very easy for motorists as you will have driven past it at some time. Can you remember where it is? $walesflag$
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In the 1960's you would have driven past this place and may have stopped here if you needed to but now you can still see it from the nearby A road
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This must jog your memory if you have ever driven past it
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It reminds me of one left high and dry, after the improvements to the A55 somewhere after St. Asaph ?
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Well done Steve, that's the one &well&
Before the A55 it was a really good garage and friends of ours owned it at the time so it was sad to see it in that condition when I went past in November
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The reason I remember it, they got me out of bit of trouble, I needed a bit of emergency welding on my old Bedford truck, I was on my way to a County show, and it could have cost me a lot of income without their help, I always thought it was a shame that a few changes to the access could have kept their business going.
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I came across this chap on a walk today, but where was he in N Wales?
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It's not far from the old castle?
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A little lower down the lane I came across this peaceful setting. Now this photo may help?
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Remember the clue about the old castle? Well it's not this one ;D
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Gwrych Castle /
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That's a good try Steve but it's not correct. It's near a Norman Castle but Edward 1 didn't build this one
There is a good clue on the photo of the little garden which may help
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Gwydir Castle
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I'm afraid not Steve, your first Castle guess was much nearer, but where is it?
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Is it near the old castle Twthill near Rhuddlan?
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Is is near the old Dyserth castle along Carreg Heilin Lane ?
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That's exactly the one Cambrian. Well done as it wasn't an easy one &well&
I had a walk there the other day and it was only because I altered my route that I came across those two places. The old Dyserth Castle built by Henry III has all gone after being quarried away.
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We walked across the bridge yesterday. any ideas as to where it is and which river it is crossing?
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It's in North Wales and is part of a very long walking path.
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A very wild guess that it's on the Pilgrims Way but not sure of the river. Is it the River Clwyd by St Asaph?
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No, sorry Hugo, it's further away from us than that and it's part of a much longer walk.
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is it in Wales ?
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Steve, Hollins' second post said N Wales so I'm presuming that she's been on the Wales Coastal Path somewhere.
If it wasn't for lockdown then I would have thought that it's near some nice restaurant Like Dylan's in Criccieth but I'm just wild guessing at the Afon Dwyfor but am not convinced as those gates look very much like a connection with a Church or Abbey
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Steve, Hollins' second post said N Wales so I'm presuming that she's been on the Wales Coastal Path somewhere.
If it wasn't for lockdown then I would have thought that it's near some nice restaurant Like Dylan's in Criccieth but I'm just wild guessing at the Afon Dwyfor but am not convinced as those gates look very much like a connection with a Church or Abbey
Thanks, I missed that, and I agree it does look like a private bridge, or a very fancy cattle gate.
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It is on the Welsh coast path. It's not a private bridge. The river flows out to a sizeable tidal estuary. In this photo you can see a small station and a wharf with the same name as a place very near to us.
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Dovey Junction
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Sorry, not Dovey junction but you are on the right line!
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Penmaenpool Toll Bridge ?
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No sorry but getting closer!
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At last I've found it on the Afon Artro. Hope that you enjoyed your visit to that beautiful part of North Wales
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Well done Hugo.
Yes thanks we did have a lovely few days in a cottage in LLanbedrog. On the way back we wanted to visit Shell Island but after passing lots of rather unfriendly notices we realised that access was closed so we parked near this bridge and stopped for a bit of lunch.
The Afon Artro is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long and has its source at Llyn Cwm Bychan below Rhinog Fawr and Moel Ysgyfarnogod. It flows westwards from its source and is joined by the Afon Cwmnantcol at Pentre Gwynfryn before passing through the centre of Llanbedr where it turns north and passes Pensarn Wharf.
The Artro enters the sea at a sizeable tidal estuary between Llandanwg and Mochras/Shell Island.[1] The current estuary was formed following a diversion of the Artro by the Earl of Winchilsea in 1819 to improve access to the wharf at Pensarn which was the shipment point for slate from Llanfair and Llanbedr. Prior to this the Artro entered the sea to the south of Mochras
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Sounds like a lovely break Hollins and Shell Island ( Mochras ) is a place where I enjoyed camping many, many years ago
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An easy question for a change
I'm not looking for the name of a village or town but the name of this workplace in N Wales $walesflag$
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Perhaps these photos may help?
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Is it DIFFWYS SLATE MINE (NR BLEAUNAU FFESTINIOG).......... I hope I'm right as this is a good link https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/diffwys-slate-mine-nr-bleaunau-ffestiniog-sept-2020.125327/ (https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/diffwys-slate-mine-nr-bleaunau-ffestiniog-sept-2020.125327/)
I have always admired the skill of the slate builders, their buildings are so precise, up at Ty Ucha we faced the farms old slate barn, and as your photos show, derelict, but the walls still perfect.
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A good try Steve and very very close but it's not Diffwys Quarry. I enjoyed that link though and perhaps its a walk for the future
Tou're in the right spot so here are a few more photos
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Thanks again for putting that link in Steve, it was very interesting to read and will appeal to many who are interested in that type of thing.
Anyway it is not Diffwys but the name is in that link you posted, the place is adjacent to Diffwys but which one is it?
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Sorry about putting in the link, but glad you liked it, my next guess ...Maenofferen Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales
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Spot on Steve, well done &well&
We did the walk for the first time yesterday and it was really good seeing all the old working sheds etc. It was dry too which was a bonus in Blaenau but it was very dusty in the working part of the quarry where those big machines were operating
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Thanks Hugo, I was pretty sure I had it right first time, as one of the photos matched yours, :-[ :-[ that will teach me to look before etc.
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A big job broken out at the start of our walk today. Any guesses as to where we were?
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Brenig ?
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Sorry, not Brenig but you are on the right lines.
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Here's another photo which might help.
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I'll admit to this being a guess, but it is Llyn Alwen, not far from Brenig - refurbishment of the waterworks?
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Yes, well done. They are having to divert the water from the reservoir to the water treatment place below so that they can do maintenance work in the depths of the dam. They were telling us that there is a long spiral staircase going down to where they will be working and obviously it has to be dry down there for them but the water still needs to get to the water treatment place.
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Thanks for that ... I admit it was a total guess due to the comment about being close with Brenig, and knowing the forest rally stage well !!!
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What is the name of this place and where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Here are some more photos that may help
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Is it Flagstaff Quarry kilns, Penmon?
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It certainly is Hollins, well done &well&
Didn't you post a photo of Penmon on here recently?
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Thanks. I think I posted some pics of a walk we did to Penmon in 2017 but I don't remember seeing the place in your quiz so I shall be interested when hopefully you will be posting your walk info.
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An old mill by the stream but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Sorry Hugo ... thought it seemed familar, so ...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1758066,-3.8058532,3a,90y,131.8h,89.17t/data= (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1758066,-3.8058532,3a,90y,131.8h,89.17t/data=)!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdKzF8T3yLzfMcqF4WzvREQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
... my great-grandfather, a chap named John Vaughan was a miller back in the 1800's and into 1900's and was, at one time, there - as well as Melin-y-Coed where he met his wife. He later was the miller at Pontwgan, near Rowen where my paternal grandmother was born and grew up.
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Well Done DVT it's the Maenan Corn Mill &well&
We passed there on a walk we did recently and went to see the mill after reading Chris Draper's book " Walks in the Conwy Valley"
An interesting passage in the book referred to:-
"At the end of the 19th century John Vaughan, a monoglot Welshman from Llanefyddin Denbighshire was the miller there".
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Thanks for that info - I didn't know he was famous !!!
He was born 1848 in Llannefydd where his father was a shoemaker. In 1881 he is shown as a widower, but later married Margaret Williams, a milliner from Melin-y-Coed in 1883. In 1891 John is on the census as a miller, boarding at Maenan Mill, but his wife is in Llannefydd with their three children, the eldest Alice (1884-1931) being my grandmother. In 1901 they were in Pontwgan. John died in 1930, aged 82, and is buried in Caerhun Church cemetery with his wife and their youngest son.
John and Margaret were my great-grandparents. The surname Vaughan was given to me as my middle name.
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DVT Have you any house names or details where the Vaughan`s & the Williams `s livid in the Llannefydd area please
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1841 Robert Vaughan (Shoemaker, born 1818) was at the home of David Owens in Bontnewydd.
1841 Ellinor Williams (1815) with daughters Ellinor (1837) and Mary (1839) are listed under many entries for the Vicarage, Llannefydd - cannot read Ellinor's occupation, seems to be something mistress.
1851 Robert is shown as being in Llannefydd Village with wife Ellinor (1813) and children Ellinor (1838) and Mary (1839) who are both shown as Williams, along with three Vaughan children - Louiza (1845), John (1848) and Margaret (1850). Seems Robert married Ellinor and took her two daughters as his step-children,
Cannot trace them in 1861 or 1871, although there is an Ellinor and Louisa at Rhydyddauddwr, Criccin, St Asaph (farm mid-way between Rhuddlan and St Asaph) as servants, and they would seem to be the same ones as above.
1881 Robert, Ellen (Ellinor) and John are in Fron Deg, Llannefydd. John is shown as a 32 year old widower.
1891 at Fron Deg there is Margaret Vaughan (nee Williams) with children Alice Louisa Vaughan (1884), John Philip Vaughan (1888) and Robert Owen Vaughan (1890). John is at Maenan Mill in 1891. Robert & Ellinor are not listed.
After that John & Margaret Vaughan and children were in Pontwgan, Nr Rowen.
Any connection to yourself?
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DVT Thank you for your reply re place names Llannefydd , my wife is a Vaughan but the family originate in the Llanfair T H area .
However my family originate in the Llannefydd area Tan Y Gyrt a substantial farm in those days another farm Y Derm both farmed by 2 brothers ,Robert who farmed at Tan y Gyrt had 1 daughter who married a John Jones and eventually went to farm Rhydyddaudwr at Rhuddlan descendants of the family still farm there ,and Peter the younger brother farmed at Y Derm .
I don`t think there is any connection between the families if you require any further information please let me know
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Robbie ... there seem to be a lot of farming Vaughans in the Llannefydd area back in the 1800's and they could well link up further back. Robert, the shoemaker, is the furthest back I can go with the Vaughan side of my family. Ellinor and Louisa in my family were at Rhydyddauddwr in 1861, the farmer was Edward Ellis.
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Where is this in North Wales?
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A very wild guess at Valle Crucis in Llangollen
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No sorry. here's another photo that might help.
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This should help, a detail of this huge building.
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I'll try Hafodunos Hall Llangernyw. it seems to have similar windows on the building
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No sorry, here's a photo of the entrance door.
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The building has a rather opulent interior but the funds that enabled it to be built partly came from a dubious source.
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Good clues Hollins, so is Penrhyn Castle third time lucky for me?
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Hooray! Well done Hugo.
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I've never been there before so I'll have to make a point of going there sometime as it looks a very interesting building.
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I think you would enjoy the garden. I'll put some pics on later.
There's only the ground floor rooms open at the moment. When I have been before I found the kitchens really interesting but they weren't open this time.
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STOP ! you can't walk past the front of these houses
Or can you?
We were faced with this conundrum yesterday, but where and what is the name for these terraced properties? $walesflag$
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These photos may help?
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Is it alongside a disused railway line ?
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It is indeed Mull well done. Now you're an expert on disused railway tracks in Wales so which one is it?
Also I'm looking for the name of those terraced houses which have been written about in recent years.
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Another photo of the disused railway track
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Mawddach Crescent (LL39 1BJ) ... not far from Barmouth Bridge on the southern side of the river Mawddach. I thought at first it was Penmaenpool, then did a bit of google map searching along the Mawddach Trial!
"Mawddach Crescent was a row of properties overlooking the Mawddach estuary that was built early in the 20th century at Arthog near Barmouth. It was intended to be the start of a purpose built holiday resort but the surrounding land proved unsuitable for further construction. In 1941, during the Second World War, the Crescent was commandeered by the Royal Marines. It was renamed Camp Iceland and used as a training facility. In the 1990s the run down Crescent underwent major renovation. The properties are now used again for their original purpose as holiday homes."
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Good detective work DVT, well done as you are spot on on both the location and name of the terraced properties. &well&
There is an ongoing dispute about the right of way in front of the terrace. The residents are appealing against a Council decision to change the footpath from the rear of the crescent to the front of the properties. Because of Covid the appeal has not been determined but the residents have again blocked the way and closed and locked the gate. We were lucky and were told the combination number so we could open the gate and then lock it afterwards
://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=122573&headline=Path%20to%20be%20made%20a%20public%20right%20of%20way%20in%20shock%20move§ionIs=news&searchyear=2018
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Not too far away but where were we today? $walesflag$
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Keep going and you'll get there!
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It's a popular walk and you can get to the start of it by train or bus or just by car But where is it? $walesflag$
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Nice views from the top but where had we been? I'm sure that our walking forum members have been there sometime
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Is it the walk around Brenig?
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Just seen the bit about getting there by train so I think my guess is a non starter!
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It's a good guess Hollins but we were further west. You can get to it along the Llandudno to Blaenau railway line or the A470 if you travel by bus or car
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Bit of guesswork and close look at the OS map, but is that last pic the small dam at Ceunant-y-Garnedd, just north-west of Roman Bridge? Grid square 6953
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A good try DVT but it's not correct although it isn't far away. This photo should give it away
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Would it be Llyn Elsi ?
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Would it be Llyn Elsi ?
It certainly would be, well done Cambrian &well&
We drove to Betws on Wednesday but in the past we have also gone by train or bus and started the walk behind the Church in the village.
I put the photo of Moel Siabod in only because it looked like similar views of the mountain that I've seen from Dolwyddelan.
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Thanks, Hugo. There's an interesting story behind Llyn Elsi. The dam was built in 1911/12 by the former Betws y Coed UDC and a pipe ran down to a building in Pentre Du. At this building, the pipe bifurcated: one line provided drinking water, the other drove a Pelton wheel which generated the electricity supply for Betws. Those were the days when even small Councils concentrated on "bread and butter" issues.
I think once MANWEB came into being the electricity supply came from the grid and the old power house was then simply used for water treatment until the main from the Cowlyd source was laid about 25 years ago and it became surplus.
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Fancy that Green electric in 1911/12 the way they go on these days you would think it was something new !
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Very true Mull. A few of the slate quarries used hydro generation to power equipment and even some electric narrow gauge locomotives before WW2. I think the power house at Betws reverted to Ancaster Estates when Welsh Water ceased to use it and the Estate were toying with the idea of reinstating generation to sell to the grid - not sure if that has happened yet.
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Which is the alligator and which one is the crocodile?
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I think that it's the Croc on the right with the narrow jaw and the alligator on the left. I'm not positive that I've got it the right way round as it was a snap decision
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$lol$
Does anyone agree with Hugo?
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I would agree. See you later.
... or in a while.
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I know one's a croc..................
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Another one with a 50/50 chance Crocodile or Alligator which one?
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There is probably a wide and a narrow fitting in this driving shoe but that won't help at all &shake&
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You would have to be a snappy dresser to guess correctly with these driving shoes, they are alligator shoes so one point to me $good$
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... so they're not the ones Jimmy Nail sang about !!!
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What is this and where is it?
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I think it is a ventilation shaft from a railway tunnel. If so, I will proffer a couple of options Hugo. I am sure I have seen it!
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Well done Cambrian, that answer was quicker than the time it took for me to walk to it today. ;D
So where do you think I saw it?
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Above the Blaenau tunnel ?
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Spot on Cambrian. &well&
It's actually the first air shaft as you enter the tunnel from Roman Bridge
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I visited this cemetery today but where is it? $walesflag$
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It reminds me of the Mostyn Plot in Llanrhos Churchyard.
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It does look a bit like the Mostyn Plot but it's not in Llanrhos
It can be a rather spooky place at night but we didn't see Nora walking across this waterfall
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You've not been to Holmfirth have you Hugo? clappinghappy
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This Nora is not Batty and doesn't make a habit of walking across the waterfall
But this is One of the reports about Nora
"Ten years ago me and my partner went for a late evening walk in the woods. As we approached the waterfall we heard a humming sound and when we looked around there was nobody there. Following the humming we looked up and saw a womanly ghost figure walking across the top of the waterfall. As me and my partner walked away my partner felt cold hands on his shoulder and the humming became louder. Looking up at the waterfall the shadowy figure had gone!"
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Their final resting place
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The old Hall has long gone but the older castle ruin still remains. There is no connection to the Three Towns apart from this red sandstone called Holins Rock but Gwynant must have noticed this when he walked past it ?{}?
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Would that be Nora the nun at Wepre park Connah's Quay?
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It would indeed be so well done Meleri &well& The pet cemetery is on what was the estate of Wepre Hall
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/northeastwales/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8148000/8148199.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/northeastwales/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8148000/8148199.stm)
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Where did I see this today? Not in the Three Towns Area but it is in Conwy County.
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A very wild guess but is it off the A470 and on the Bodnant Road just before you get to the car park for Bodnant Gardens?
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Caught out by you knowing where I work! But totally wrong!!! $donald$
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Will this help?
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There is a bus shelter like that in Pentrefelin but it's not that one because that one is on the roadside. Is it on the A470 somewhere?
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Sorry Hugo, not near the A470. Not on a main road (it's on a yellow one on the OS 1:50000 map) - it is in Conwy County - just! Further pic tonight!
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Pat calls here daily.
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Well Postman Pat may be able to find it but I haven't got a clue.
Is it to the east of the AS on the Denbigh moors?
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You're heading the right way if you go east - nowhere near an A road. It is between two small villages.
Another pic, moved out a bit. Ignore the orange arrow on the signpost, that was my doing in relation to why I was there (think classic cars and another post I put up in the Cars thread!)
The next one will be the last pic and will give it away, but that'll be tomorrow!
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I think that it's on the Alwen stage of the rally but where exactly? I'm still thinking ?{}?
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I think it is between Henllan and LLannefydd at a little crossroads at Cefn Berain.
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Well done Hollins - perfectly correct. Sorry Hugo, you really tried hard!
I was running a checkpoint there for the Pilgrim Tour last Saturday, No idea what the "artwork" was about.
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Where does this fella hang out in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Perhaps this may help?
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This photo of the hotel may help? $walesflag$
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Criccieth?
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Well done Nemesis &well&
We had a short walk in Criccieth yesterday and it was the first time that I have been inside the castle, some great views from up there.
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It's been a couple of years since we went, but I saw the shape of the hotel !!!
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This is a very easy question for a Sunday afternoon. $walesflag$
It's so easy that I'll only give one clue:-
" Many people will want to go to this place but not many wanted to go to the building it replaced"
So where and what was the previous building on the site?
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Is that the old North Western Hotel. Its OK I can not sleep.
Just wondering , was it owned by London North Western Railway in the past ?
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That's a very good guess Mull and you're closer than you may think. It's not in the Three Towns area though and is not the North Western Hotel
There are only Two Certainties In Life and the former building was one of them. But which one and where is it?
I'm not sure exactly who owned the North Western Hotel in the past but my G Grandfather leased The Temperance Hotel which later became part of the North Western Hotel
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No more guesses? It's only easy if you know it, which I did, but I thought that the answer would have been given yesterday afternoon.
This old saying is a big clue "There are only Two Certainties In Life" Just to clarify things for my cousin Norman and my friend Mull "That Everton will not win the league" is not one of those two certainties! ;D
So what was the former building and where was it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Is it the site of the Old Gwynedd Tax Office in Portmadog, now a Premier Inn ?
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Spot on Meleri, well done &well&
It was the old Porthmadog Tax Office. It's now going to be a Premier Inn and what a fantastic location to have the Hotel with stunning views all around
I remember doing a sponsored walk from Bangor to the Porthmadog Tax Office some years ago and it was a fair hike there
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I saw the new footbridge yesterday and was very impressed by it. The bridge replaces an earlier concrete bridge that was destroyed by
flood water from the river that goes through this location
Where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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It looks like a grave headstone in the middle of the river bed but it's only a boundary marker. But where is it?
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Time for another photo of this tributary of the River Clwyd
I'm looking for the name of this place and a bonus point for the name of the river $walesflag$
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More photos may help? The first two are of the concrete bridge that collapsed, the third one is the new bridge
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This place is near an Iron Age Hill fort as well as a Norman Castle so where is it?
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Is this close.........Castell Dinas Brân
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A good try Steve but nowhere near Llangollen, although this place did have a rail terminus until 1973 and it is much nearer the TTF
You have seen the old concrete bridge before, but where?
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Lots more clues needed?
Nemesis once described the broken concrete bridge as reminding her of a crocodile ?
DVT may remember a Skoda rally car being driven around this area too
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I thought I had seen this before, and I am afraid the crocodile clue gave me the hint I needed, it's from the Dysarth walk you did back in April, and posted on the 17/4/21
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Good detective work Steve, well done. &well&
It is Dyserth and the bridge is across the Afon Ffyddion. In fact it is near the top of the very impressive Dyserth Waterfall. Tellytubby and Rhuddlan have many times both walked over the concrete bridge together but I'm sure that it was the weight of the floodwater this year that finally finished off that old bridge. Anyway the new bridge is a splendid replacement so well done to all the people that were involved in the construction of the new bridge.
I lived in Dyserth for over six years and when I took my wife to see the bridge, I parked the car in Dyserth High Street and went through Bryn Y Felin to get to the footpath. We had never been there before and it was a lovely experience to see the old detached and terraced cottages it was like a reminder of times gone by.
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I have been on my travels to England again but can you guess where?
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I have been on my travels to England again but can you guess where?
Tumbleton lake Northumbria
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No sorry Steve, not as far north as that.
This is a photo of the pinetum.
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Is it as far south as Pinetum Gardens in St Austell Cornwall?
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No sorry. More east than north or south.
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Hve you been to Chatsworth House again or is this Pinetum further east?
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Well done Hugo. Yes back to Chatsworth again. I stayed in one of their cottages on the estate, so beautiful.
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I went to this place in N Wales today but where is it and what is it called? $walesflag$
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I have a vague recollection of a jetty looking like that near Penmon on Anglesey?
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Well I'm afraid that it isn't that one Fester and it's not in Anglesey.
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It's situated on a sea marsh, perhaps that clue may help? $walesflag$
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The spinnies at Aber ?
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A good guess Spotty Dog, it is a Nature Reserve but not the one in Bangor
The smallholding on the sea marsh is still nearby and the beach is not far away. But where is it? $walesflag$
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Ynyslas?
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A good guess Hollins but this Nature Reserve is much further north
This long sandy beach is nearby and not a person in sight, you can tell that the holiday season is over
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Big pool wood talacre ?
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Spot on Spotty Dog it is the Big Pool Wood &well&
It's actually in Tyn Y Morfa ( smallholding in the Sea Marsh English )
Tellytubby my walking buddy is a volunteer there and he and the other volunteers have been very busy this year creating boardwalks
I'll post some more about it tomorrow when I post something about the walk we did yesterday
https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/news/new-boardwalk-big-pool-wood (https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/news/new-boardwalk-big-pool-wood)
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Any idea where this is in N Wales and what it is called? $walesflag$
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Some more photos may help to locate this place? $walesflag$
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No guesses? Don't rush to go there it's all a scam?
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Time for another photo which may help
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Anything to do with an old lead/gold mine, (I can't see any slate around), or a lift shaft ?
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Steve, you can do better than that as I know that you know the place. ;D
Lead Mines yes, Gold Mines no but a very dodgy silver mine yes. Now tell me the name of it please and put me out of my misery $walesflag$
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Sorry H, I have gone blank, I don't recognise it from the Gwydir area, and I cannot recall if it was from a past quiz....help :-[ :-[
AHH Senior moment ....Klondyke mill.... your silver clue helped, now I remember, this idiot used second hand gold refining equipment to separate the silver, and ended up poisoning the lake by sluicing water contaminated with high amounts of lead, you will notice very little grows there now,
Klondyke Mill was an ore processing mill on the edge of the Gwydir Forest, near Trefriw, north Wales.
Constructed in 1900,[1] the mill was built to receive lead ore (and some zinc ore) from Pandora mine, some 2 miles away - with which its history is inextricably linked - this ore travelling along a tramway which followed the eastern shore of Llyn Geirionydd. The mill saw little usage; Pandora mine was never profitable after construction of the mill, and the mine ceased operation in 1905. Klondyke mill itself closed in 1911 after having a short succession of optimistic owners.
In the 1920s, the mill achieved notoriety as the scene of an elaborate money-making scam, when investors were sought for the Klondyke mine, which was allegedly rich in silver. It is this scam which gives the mill its current name; during its years of operation it was initially known as Geirionydd Mill, then as the New Pandora Lead Works.[1]
Today the mill lies in a ruined state, a tribute to the false optimism of the time, and is believed to be the largest upstanding building associated with lead mining in north Wales.[2] It is a registered ancient monument [3][4] and, despite its state of disrepair, is under the guardianship of Cadw, the only mine structure in the Gwydir Forest to be so designated.[1]
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Well done Steve $good$
We had a walk there yesterday and it's the first time I had walked across that dodgy plank across the river to see inside the mine. Tellytubby and I both walked across it but only one at a time because it was creaking a bit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondyke_mill
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I had a nice easy walk today but where was I? $walesflag$
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It lies on a Sea Marsh? $welsh$
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35-acre wetland has been saved for community use but where is it in N Wales? $walesflag$
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Is it the Morfa near Prestatyn ?
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Kinmel Bay, outfalling to the River Clwyd ?
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It's not the Morfa near Prestatyn that I went to before, that was Tyn Y Morfa. Very close but the photo attached will show you where it is exactly
There are so many Morfa's or Sea Marshes on the N Wales coast that it needs to be more exact
Sorry Cambrian it's not the Afon Gele that flows into the River Clwyd but it does look a bit like that cut in Kinmel Bay
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Coed y Morfa ?
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Well done Steve, spot on &well&
https://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/18179121.35-acre-wetland-prestatyn-saved-community-use/ (https://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/18179121.35-acre-wetland-prestatyn-saved-community-use/)
I've never been there before so Tellytubby took me for a walk around the reserve. There's many varieties of Birds in the reserve and lots of Ducks on the cut itself.
Tellytubby is very positive and recovering well from his stroke and all being well we shall have a long awaited walk together at the end of January
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Thank you, and good to hear Tellytubby is doing well, please send my regards to him.
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Where in North Wales will you see this unusual building?
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Here's another photo which might help.
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Is it the Gunpowder Magazine near North Stack Holyhead?
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Well done, it is!
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I thought it was that straight away but when I looked at it again that looks like a fireplace so I thought that a fire and gunpowder don't go together!
So I had a wild guess instead
The first week in October every year is when the Seals go to North Stack to have their pups and you can hear the racket going on before you get near that point. For many years we used to go there and go on the cliff top by the light house to watch the event
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Where in N Wales would you see this well known landmark? $walesflag$
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Another photo may help? $walesflag$
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Most people of a certain age will at some time have gone past the well. Time however has bypassed this place?
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No guesses?
Perhaps the drinkers amongst us took more notice of the building adjacent to the well when driving past?
So where is the well?
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Struggling with this one, but this guess is based on your pub clue and your recent walk..........Tafarn Y Plu / Lloyd Georges burial site
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A good try Steve but my recent walk has thrown you.
I know it's only easy if you know it but I'm guessing that you've driven past it many many times.
It's much further east and it's actually on the St Asaph Road where it's quite visible, but where exactly is it ?
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The large building adjacent to the well was not a public house but did supply beer to the pubs.
If anyone drove from Llandudno to Chester via Holywell before 1986 then they would have driven past the well. It's also visible on Google street view so where is it exactly?
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Last clue Does anyone remember anything about Bass Charrington?
I've already said that the well is in St Asaph Road but what is the name of the location that it's in?
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At the junction just to the east of the Argos Centre on the old road that runs parallel to the A55 "behind" the expensive petrol station at Bodelwyddan!
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WELL DONE DVT &well&
It is on the corner as you have described and the Address is St Asaph Road Terfyn. The old Bass Charrington depot was across the junction to it
https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/32302
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A nice easy one for a change. ;D
I'm looking for the name and address of this place
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This photo may help to guess the name and address of this lovely property? $walesflag$
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Kimmel hall
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That's a very good guess Spotty Dog and you're close, very very close but it's not correct.
You have seen it many times before but I'm looking for the name and address of this imposing building in N Wales $walesflag$
Did someone with the Midas touch once live here?
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Golden Lodge, St Asaph Road, Bodelwyddan, LL18 5SP
On the old A55 just along from your previous quiz pic! Between the old and new A55's.
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I'll give you that DVT as that's the house in the photo &well&
The address is Golden Lodge
Terfyn
Abergele
LL22 9BY
It's a beautiful looking property and you can see the back of it on the A55 just before the petrol station
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Thanks Hugo ... for bending the rules a little!
I worked out where it was, got the Lodge name by zooming in on the Google Maps pic, got the road name because that was on the map, and the post code I got by using Gridref finder, and that gave me the LL18 code.
Yet Google Maps goes to the same location when you key in the LL22 code that you quoted!
Must have been a lodge for Kinmel Hall originally.
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Where is this place in N Wales? $walesflag$
A few photos attached to make it easy?
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No Guesses? Perhaps a few more photos of this lake in the meadow field may help to identify its location?
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Surface water from the meadow drains into the lake and then drains from the lake into the river which flows through the valley
Now where is it? $walesflag$
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I think this may be on the outskirts of Ruthin and the properties are adjoining the River Clwyd. The playing fields look like Ruthin Rugby club.
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Well done Cambrian you are spot on again &well&
I did give the name of the lake in a clue, albeit in English. The lake is called Llyn Cae Ddol ( Eng Meadow field lake ) $walesflag$
First time I had been there and we were unable to do the walk we had planned as the Rugby ground had been flooded days before. As you can see from the photo I don't think that anyone will be playing rugby on the field for a while
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While we were stuck in the UK and having to put up with one storm after another, Old Uncle Albert left his walking mates and flew away to a warmer place
The Old man did send us some photos but where had he been to. It shouldn't be too hard as the clues are there
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Did it involve feeding fruit to the natives ....... ;)
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Spent a special birthday there the weekend Monarch Airlines went bust , stayed on the cruise ship.
Bit of a hike to the top
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As I recall this is one of the roads through the Rock of Gibraltar?
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Well done to the three jet setters, it is of course Gibralter. &well&
I don't blame old Uncle Albert for escaping to there and missing our Winter storms
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We went to this local nature reserve today but where is it? $walesflag$
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Time for some more photos, perhaps these may help
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This Local Nature Reserve has a variety of Ducks and is good for fishing. If you are lucky you might see a Terrapin there.too.
It's not in Ruabon or Buckley but is a more local nature reserve but where is it? $walesflag$
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Out of area and local ? And I think you have been here before?
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It is out of the area Steve and it's a Local Nature Reserve, at least that's what it says on the Advertising board by this pond. There are Carp in the pond plus many other fish but no Red Herrings, would I try and make it harder? $hands$
It was in the news years ago when it was claimed that the Terrapins "were as big as dinner plates".
It is more local to the Three Towns Area than Ruabon and Buckley but it does have something in common with those two places but where is it and what is it called
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Brickfields Pond, Country park in Rhyl, Wales
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Well done Steve that's a very good bit of detective work. &well&
Ruabon and Buckley are both associated with Brickworks but the Rhyl Brickfields Pond is the "Local Nature Reserve" where I was yesterday
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/pets-dumped-teenage-mutal-hero-5162855 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/pets-dumped-teenage-mutal-hero-5162855)
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This should be an easy one for a Wednesday morning.
Where is this building and what was it called? $welsh$
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I remember coming here years ago and the walls of the property were White washed, the place looks so different now
$drink$ $walesflag$
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There may have been some changes in the village but the old Chapel is still there in Dyffryn Conwy $walesflag$
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There may have been some changes in the village but the old Chapel is still there in Dyffryn Conwy $walesflag$
The White Horse and Capel Seion, Capel Garmon ?
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You're spot on again Steve, well done &well&
It is the White Horse Inn in Capel Garmon, sometimes known as Tafarn Penllan in Welsh. It's now a lovely looking private residence, well that's at the front elevation anyway. The back of the property is more like work in progress?
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Anyone know where this filling station is - arguably within the Three Towns area!
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Conwy Morfa ?
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Not Conwy Morfa!
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A wild guess at the Riverside Garage Glan Conwy
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Sorry, not that one!
Note my wording "is" not "was" !!
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This is an early incarnation of the Black Cat Garage at Glan Conwy Corner. It has been rebuilt at least twice since then to my knowledge.
I think it was originally built around 1936 and re-built in 1948. It was substantially re-built in the early 1970s and again a few years back when the whole site was reconfigured to take account of the slip road and roundabout alterations.
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CORRECT Cambrian - well done! Unfortunately I have no info as to when or who took the picture.
I passed my test in 1966 and have used Black Cat to this day, albeit with a break of a few years when Marineland sold fuel.
It didnlt look like that when I first started going there but there was a man in a white coat who served me.
Back then I lived in Tal-y-Cafn and worked in Colwyn Bay 1966-1970 - always put fuel in on my way home on Fridays - £1 a week was enough in the early days!
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Thanks DVT. I can recall it being run by a chap from Maeshyfryd (Mr Davies) whose father had the little cycle shop near Glan Conwy station. After he retired, a local couple, Brian and Branwen, ran it for quite a few years.
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Where would you find this building in N Wales? $walesflag$
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These photos by the big mill may help $walesflag$
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I thought this might be the answer........... https://wellhopper.wales/2012/02/06/ffynnon-asa-cwm/
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That's a very good link you've posted Steve and we saw all of those places in our walk yesterday from Dyserth to Marian Mills.
Well done for finding it so quickly &well&
I've attached a photo of Melin Fawr (the Big Mill ) but there are a few other mills in that area and I'll pass on the link to my walking buddy Tellytubby as he'd be pleased to see it too
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Thanks Hugo, glad you found the link interesting.
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Thanks Steve, I've saved it and will pass it on to my walking mates as we have plans to go back there again soon
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This should be an easy one. $walesflag$
Where is this building and what was its previous use?
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A chapel..........
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Not a Chapel Steve although it did save some souls?
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I think it's the old life-boat station on Llandulas Beach.
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Well done Gwynant you're spot on &well&
It is the old Lifeboat House in Llanddulas. We had a walk yesterday from there following the river to the Thornley Leisure caravan site and enjoyed a coffee in a nice cafe on the site
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We came across this old building today, what is the name of it and where is it in N Wales $walesflag$
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That one's got me foxed ;)
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I thought that it would be too easy for you Steve as you're leaving it for someone else to have a go ;D
It's not a new building as you can see, in fact it's very very old but what's it called $walesflag$
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It reminds me of Plas Mawr in Conwy but Plas Mawr is in better condition than this ruin even though it is nearly 20 years older than the ruin.
What is the name of the listed ruin? $walesflag$
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Is it Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw?
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That's a good guess Gwynant but it isn't Hafodunas Hall.
This place is Elizabethan and was built in 1592. and it's in Denbighshire.
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Is it Foxhall Newydd near Henllan ?
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It is indeed Foxhall Newydd in Henllan so well done &well&
It's within a short walking distance from the Llindir pub ( depending of course how many drinks you've had beforehand )
I saw a programme on BBC I Player Hidden Wales " Last chance to save " and when I saw Foxhall Newydd I wanted to see it first hand
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This should be easy as it's a repeat but what is it called and where is it? $walesflag$
It is a repeat and that clue is not a Red Herring!
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Time for another photo?
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No guesses? Perhaps this photo may help?
Coming down from the cavern you'll come across this sign. It's Friday today so I wonder if they will have fish on the menu?
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Devils pulpit cave on the Offas Dyke path ?
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A good try Steve but it's not the Devil's pulpit
It's in Denbighshire and I think that it may have been the Romans leading the way into the cave rather than the devil
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Is it the old Fish Mine (lead ?) below Gwaenysgor and overlooking Prestatyn Golf course? The path leading past the Offa's Paddock notice board could be the route of the old railway up to Dyserth if my memory is right.
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Well done Cambrian, you're spot on. &well&
It's an old lead mine, one of many in the area but this one is not blocked off. I've not been far inside the cave but you only have to go a few yards inside it and the temperature gets quite cold. It's a bit like being in a fridge
https://www.mythslegendsodditiesnorth-east-wales.co.uk/fishmine (https://www.mythslegendsodditiesnorth-east-wales.co.uk/fishmine)
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Anyone know where this amazing rock is and what it is called?
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That's a love;y photo Hollins but I've cheated so I'll leave it to Mull and others to say the answer.
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Snap Hugo, but you can still get a good tune out of it ?
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Well done lads!
It's Bow Fiddle Rock on the Moray Coast. We are back from a holiday up there exploring the fishing villages and walking the Moray Coast path.
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Sounds like a good holiday, thanks for the quiz $good$
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It does sound like a nice place to go to and I hope that you weren't troubled by the Midges up there at this time of the year
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No problem with midges in the North East but we also went to Arran for a couple of days and when we visited the gardens at Brodick Castle one drizzly damp day they were out in force there.
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How to enjoy Midges.
Remember Wainwright from the Lake District being asked when interviewed on a Skye holiday how he coped with them.
His answer was , they don't like it when you smoke St Bruno in your pipe !
Not bothering Mrs Mull and I at the moment, we are enjoying 3 weeks in Porthcurno, Cornwall.
Looking at the weather up north I don't think next door will have had to water our plants very often.
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Anyone know where this is?
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Is it Caernarfon Airport near Dinas Dinlle?
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No sorry, it's not Caernarfon.
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I should have said it is in North Wales and Gwynant wasn't too far away.
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A wild guess at the old Ferodo Factory just outside Caernarfon
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No sorry. Behind the camera is the sea.
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Another wild guess, is it the old Saunders-Roe site near Beaumaris that converted Catalinas and played a role in the war effort
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No sorry. This place has royal connections and can be noisy.
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Mona Airfield ?
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Very close but not correct!
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It must be Ty Groes then, that's very noisy
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It isn't there either!
Here is a photo taken slightly to the left of the previous one which should solve it hopefully.
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Anglesey Airport ....The airport is situated at Llanfair-yn-Neubwll in Anglesey, Wales. ?
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Is that the Bodorgan Estate?
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Steve is correct. It's the back sea facing side of RAF Valley. We were at Cymyran Bay.
If you want to see what was behind my camera tune into Room with a View shortly!
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This should be very easy for train buffs or for motorists in the N Wales area
I'm not looking for the name of the train just the name of the bridge so that should make it easier. Apologies for the quality of the photo
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Would that be Barmouth Bridge on the Cambrian Coast Railway?
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Think it is between Penrhyndeudreath and Minffordd.
Must be an old photo as steam locomotives are no longer able to run over the Cambrian lines.
New radio cab signalling is in operation and is only fitted to the Diesel units and the 3 Type 37 locomotives that run over that line.
Idea is to do away with conventional signals. Now being installed on the East Coast Main line between Grantham and Kings Cross.
Trials are taking place with a steam locomotive to see if the equipment can be installed to work on a steam locomotive footplate , not easy in a cramped and dirty enviroment. Hopefully it will be a success and steam will again be able to run to Pwllheli.
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That's a good guess Hammy and I can see why you thought that it was the Barmouth Bridge,
I'm afraid that it is not correct, so what is this bridge called?
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That's a lot of info there Mull and you are on the right lines. That loco was the last one to go over that bridge but I'm still looking for the name of the bridge
Now thankfully you don't pay a toll to go over the bridge
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Nice to have have something historical/geographical to exercise the mind.
I think this must be the Briwet bridge between Llandecwyn and Penrhyndeudraeth. Although primarily a railway viaduct, it also had a narrow one way system for cars and toll was paid to a railway collector - not sure if that is still the case. The railway engine looks like a British Railways 75000 class with a summer Saturday train judging by the number of coaches.
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Well done Cambrian, you're spot on again and thanks for all the info you have added
Thr last time I drove over the bridge was many years ago and I can't remember how much I paid. I do remember turning left to Porthmadog and then getting hit with another toll by the cob in Porthmadog. In both cases the toll wasn't much
I've attached a short link about the bridge which is a really attractive now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-33512539
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What is the name of this mound in Conwy County?
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Here's a better view of the mound and one you'll see from the road. So what is the name of the mound?
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Perhaps more photos are needed in order to find the name of this place in Conwy County
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These photos are saying old mine workings using pit ponies, but I can find no reference to coal mines ? in Conwy county, unless its a lead mine we are looking for ?
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Sorry Steve but it has no connection with any type of mine working. You could imagine that you were in tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. if you knew this place's name not in Conwy County ( just about )
It's very near a busy A road and you must have gone past it many times before
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OK coral, Wyatt ! !
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Keep trying Steve, but think of a wild west cemetery
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As a Western fan of many years, it has to be Boot hill...
?Boot Hill? near Blaenau Ffestiniog ? where thousands of heel irons, hobnails and buckles lie amongst the rough, tussocky grass on the windswept and snowy Crimea Pass. But how did they get there?
Down in Blaenau itself, the Market Hall was used to repair military boots in the Second World War and the story goes that at the end of the war, thousands of unserviceable boots were taken to ?Boot Hill? and set on fire, leaving just the metal parts!
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Well done Steve, that was a good bit of detective work on your part
As tellytubby and I were walking off the site we noticed one of the metal studs sticking into his trainers and he's kept it for good luck
If anyone is interested, you'll see a brown mound on the left of the A470 as you descend the Crimea Pass to Blaenau Ffestiniog. It's immediately before the Gwynedd signpost
There is a car park on the opposite side of the road
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I took this photo when we had a walk today. Does anyone know where this is?
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Llechwedd slate mine caverns?
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It's supposed to be a secret Hollins but you are spot on so well done
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We had a walk yesterday and came across this landmark. Where in N Wales would you see it?
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It's not f ar from a City in N Wales but what is the landmark called?
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The monument is near to a City in N Wales
Iy's also near the coast by the sea, but that's not a Red Herring!
It's not Bangor, Wrexham or St Asaph so what other city could it be?
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&shake& :-[
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Look for a City on Ynys Mon and that's near the Memorial, but whose memorial?
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Menai Bridge War Memorial or Druids walk ?
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Moruslaid Memorial Monument, near the A5025 Menai Bridge to Amlwch road, just south of CITY Dulas, and near the Pilot Boat Inn. Had to scan over an Anglesey OS map to find it!
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Well done DVT, that's good detective work. That's the location but what about the Memorial near the Pilot Boat Inn?
A photo below may give the game away?
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Apologies DVT but you were spot on with your answer for the location and also for the name of the Memorial. I missed the family name in translation. I've been past the place many times but Thursday was the first time that I had been up close to the memorial. So well done again DVT because a lot of people drive past it and don't notice it
Moruslaid Memorial Monument is a monument dedicated to the Morris Brothers
The brothers became famous for the many thousands of letters which they wrote to each other during their working lives which have remarkably survived and give a fascinating glimpse of life in rural Wales in the early 18th century
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I have to admit I found CITY Dulas by using the OS map, something rang a bell about a City in Anglesey, some trivia from years ago I think! On the map it does show a monument (mon) so I went onto Google maps and could see it from road level, that gave the name Moruslaid, but I could not get any sense from that ... no wonder, as Google maps has spelt it incorrectly - nothing new there! Morrisiaid (spelling on the plaque) translates as Morris's, the family surname.
Zooming in on your photo did not work, could not read the inscription, so thanks for the detail - someone on here must be able to translate it fully but it does seem, from my limited Welsh, that there were three brothers, Lewis, Richard and William, back in the 1700's and they were involved in Welsh literature, poetry and music, and also the Welsh bible. For some reason Richard is buried in London. The memorial has been there since September 1910.
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Sorry about the plaque DVT but I couldn't make it too easy but you got the answer anyway! I've enclosed two photos of plaques, the first being on the main road and the other at the base of the memorial.
There were actually four brothers, John being the other one so I've attached a link that tells you more about the Morris Brothers
https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=morris-brothers-farm-city-dulas
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Hugo, Found this article today, relating to your quiz above, thought you might like it..........
Gifted brothers from Anglesey throw light on the 18th century
A collection of letters in the British Library are a rich mine of information for Welsh historians
cont https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/gifted-brothers-from-anglesey-throw-light-on-the-18th-century/
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Thanks very much for posting that Steve as I found it very interesting. The original inscriptions on the memorial are very faint but they do have a modern plaque in Welsh at the base too
I'm going to pass the link on to a friend who once lived in the Pilot Boat Inn as I'm sure that she will enjoy reading it too and I'll forward it to my friends who did the walk with me.
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On a walk today we went past this building. What is it and where is it in N Wales
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Perhaps these photos may help?
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Hugo, I found this short video, which you might like.............
Capel Celyn was a rural community in north Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley. The village and other parts of the valley were flooded in 1965 to create a reservoir, Llyn Celyn, in order to supply Liverpool with water. The reservoir was handed back to welsh water 22 years ago and is now under their control. the grave stones in the clip were brought up and displayed here while the families opted to cover the graves with concrete and leave them where they rest. It does not supply Liverpool anymore.
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6zn8Q2bvBc
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Well done Steve. It is the Capel Celyn Memorial Chapel
Thanks for attaching the video too as it solved something we were talking about on our visit there yesterday. The Memorial Chapel was locked so we didn't get to see inside it but your video link was a great help.
We did a short walk to the old village and started it from a car park with toilets nearby and I'll post some photos on here later
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author=Hugo link=topic=258.msg124302#msg124302 date=1665137637
Thanks for attaching the video too as it solved something we were talking about on our visit there yesterday. The Memorial Chapel was locked so we didn't get to see inside it but your video link was a great help.
We did a short walk to the old village and started it from a car park with toilets nearby and I'll post some photos on here later
You are very welcome, glad it helped, as for the memorial it is a grand piece of work to remember those gone before.
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I haven't been to this place in North Wales before but what and where is it?
We were going to have a walk there today but the weather has been atrocious all day and we called it off early this morning. There's always another day.
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The Gop near Trelawnyd?
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A good guess Bri and you are vet close but it's not the Gop.
It was built in 1073 if that helps?
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I think it could be the site of a old motte & bailey fort to the south of Rhuddlan Castle, erected by the Normans before the castle itself was built. Looks like Vale of Clwyd in background.
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Well done Cambrian, you're spot on as usual.
It's Twthill Caslle built by Robert of Rhuddlan in 1073, just south of the Rhuddlan Castle built by Edward I
I've copied a picture of what it would have looked like when it was built, We were rained off from our walk yesterday but I'd like to see the site sometime soon
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I saw this old house today. It's well known in the area but where is it and what is the building called?
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I got lucky with my search, very early, did you stay there ?......... so an extra hint...they put on a good spread here in the olden days.
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That's a bit quick Steve. I must be getting too soft in my old age
It's very good of you to pass it on for someone else and you've also guessed what my second clue was going to be, so well done again
Let's see how long it takes for the next person to guess it correctly
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Steve's last clue was good but you have to do your own cooking there as it's now a holiday let
This 14th century property is set in a historic town in North Wales. and is a Grade II listed property, which has retained its wealth of medieval character
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There is talk that a secret passage leads from this Feasting Hall to inside the nearby castle and was used in times of danger many years ago
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No other guesses so I'll reveal the answer which Steve got in just 20 minutes. So well done Steve
The answer is The Banquet House in Princes Road Rhuddlan
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You can still see it on Google Street view but it's not there now
Where was this 19th C bridge and what river did it cross?
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Here's a top[cal clue;-
It's in North Wales or maybe north Wales :D
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Hugo,
Looks a bit like the Llanerch Bridge between Trefnant and Tremeirchion (or what's left of it)?
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Well done Hammy, you're spot on with the Llanerch Bridge over the River Clwyd
When I looked at Google Street view today the railings looked like they would have fallen off the bridge anyway
I've attached a link from the incident
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/historic-bridge-washed-away-might-22252956
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Mr H treated me to a surprise birthday trip recently but where was it?
I didn't know until check in at Manchester Airport!
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Could it be Prague Steve?
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No, it isn't Prague. It is a capital city.
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Some of you may have been here on a cruise.
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Here's a view of the city which has lots of steep cobbled streets.
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A wild guess at Valetta Malta. but wherever it is the weather and place looks good
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I think Funchal, Madreira, lucky you.... 8)
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No sorry, not Malta or Madeira. The highlight for me was the beautiful tiled buildings.
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How about Lisbon? Was the building you saw called the Sintra National Palace (?Pal?cio Nacional de Sintra?) ?
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Well done Hugo. Yes it was Lisbon.
We didn't see the Sintra Palace.
PS: Your tip about reducing the photos worked perfectly this time, thanks.
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That was a good quiz Hillins and I had a nice trip on line looking at European capitals.
Mr H should be in your good books for a long time with such a lovely surprise like that
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Here's an easy quiz for this evening.
Where would you see this bridge?
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Just a few metres up the road from the turn off on the A5 to Penmachno from the Conway Falls cafe?
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Just a few metres up the road from the turn off on the A5 to Penmachno from the Conway Falls cafe?
It does look like the pack horse bridge by the disused woolen mill but it's not, but it's a good guess Gwynant
The bridge is in North Wales though
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A varied search found this.......
Ivy Bridge. This Grade II listed stone arch bridge crossing the Afon Prysor dates back to the 18th century or earlier and was part of the old packhorse route from Harlech to Maentwrog.
cont https://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/coed-felinrhyd/
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That's an excellent piece of detective work Steve so well done
It is the bridge crossing the Afon Prysor We did a new walk yesterday starting from near the Maentwrog Power Station and we were only about 200 yards into the walk when we saw that beautiful bridge
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I saw this nice wooden bridge yesterday but where is it?
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Perhaps this photo of the bridge in Conwy County may help?
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This clue should put you on track for finding this location
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Roman Bridge - but not the original!
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Well done Cambrian The wooden bridge in the photo wasn't that far from the Roman Bridge railway Station
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A friend who is on holiday in the UK sent me a photo of something she had seen on her holiday
What is it called and where is it?
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The Kelpies at Grangemouth, wonderful aren't they!
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Well done Meleri, you're spot on
I had never heard about them before my friend sent the e-mail to me. They are an incredible sight
https://www.visitscotland.com/info/see-do/the-helix-home-of-the-kelpies-p889261
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It's a nice place to stop at, but where is it in N Wales?
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Perhaps this photo may help?
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Huge still trying, :( but I came across two Woodland Trust sites that look interesting, if they are within your walking area.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/coed-felenrhyd-llennyrch/
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/pen-y-coed/
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Steve, you'll have to try harder but I'm adding two photos to make it easier
Those two links are really good and we did the Felinrhyd one recently, it starts by the Hydro electricity place in Maentwrog and is well worth doing. The Llangollen one may be a walk for us in the future
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A bit closer ..........Welsh Highland narrow gauge railway. possible PorthMadog way?
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You're getting warmer Steve
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You're on the right track Steve, it's not Porthmadog but where is it, the bridge may give you a clue?
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Here's a birds eye view of the location, This must help to find the spot
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The Glaslyn Ospreys Porthmadog, but still cannot find the bridge. :-[
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Well done Steve it is the Osprey reserve at Pont Croesor Pont Croesor is the bridge in a previous photo
We went there on Thursday when we did a walk in the area but I'll post the walk later today, The reserve is on one side of the rail track and the Pont Croesor Station is on the other side
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Ta, and looking forward to your travelogue.
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Where in N Wales would you see this viaduct?
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Anglesey.
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Nice try Mull, but it's not in Anglesey
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The viaduct crosses a river and perhaps these photos may help? So where exactly is the viaduct?
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Cwm Prysor, Trawsfynydd ???
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That's a really good guess but it's not Cwm Prysor DVT. It's just one of the many disused railway lines in N Wales
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Is it Viaduct over Afon Cynfal south of Ffestiniog ? Tawsfynydd Branch line ?
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Well done Mull, that's the exact spot. It's in Llan Ffestiniog and near the Cynfal Falls where we had a walk yesterday
At the end of the walk we had a look around the area and found an access to the railway line. The rails and sleepers are all intact and from the photos you can see how the rail is designed for the slight bend in the track
The line was from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Trawsfynydd and an effort was made to restore the track for reuse as a tourism attraction. Unfortunately the group of volunteers used the wrong machinery and the permission was then withdrawn
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Hard to believe that 30 years ago as an operating safety officer with Trainload Freieght I walked that line between Bleanau Ffestiniog and Trawsfynydd several times. Certain safety matters had to be addressed, interesting times.
Nuclear Flask trains still running at that time. Hear there is talk that the power station may be starting up again.
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Well done Mull ... I was on the right line, just further on, a bit off track - the viaduct I gave can just about be seen from the road from Trawsfynydd towards Bala.
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Apologies for putting this link on again but I can't locate the photos of the 9 arched viaduct at Cwm Prysor that I took when I had a walk up there. This link shows you the viaduct plus some old photos of the railway. You have to see it up close to appreciate the engineering that has gone into creating that old railway line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJtnZWCoLk
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Great pics in that clip ... when I saw the viaduct pic that was the original part of this quiz I remembered seeing such a construction from the Trawsfynydd-Bala road ... so did the usual Google Maps and came up with the first pic below. The others are the work of Dan Bovington who must have gone there with a drone, linked from google maps, so all credit to him.
Amazing constructions back then when you consider there was no heavy machinery, it was all hard labour. I also suspect no red tape back then, to create all sorts of delays! Major, and expensive, task to get these lines open again but what a tourist attraction they would become. This particular line to Bala was partly lost into Tryweryn Reservoir.
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Thanks for posting those clips DVT it is a very impressive sight from the main road but more so when you are nearer the viaduct. The rails and sleepers have been removed unlike the line at Llan Ffestiniog.
It's only a short walk from the main road and worth the effort to see the viaduct up close but be warned that the first part from the main road is very boggy.
At the western end of the viaduct is an old gold mine but we haven't ventured in it because it is usually flooded
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Here's a short drone video on the viaduct that shows how impressive the viaduct is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAUg8iKR2oM
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Can you name the sport, the player and the location?
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Hurling ... Nicky Rackard ... Wexford
Sorry Hollins ... realised the sport straight away - then googled - never heard of Nicky Rackard before!
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Well done DVT, correct. We braved the trip across the Irish sea from Holyhead for a week's holiday in County Wexford.
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Here's an easy one for Wednesday, where is this bridge in N Wales?
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I think it's the footbridge over the Afon Ogwen by The Spinneys in Llandegai. Mrs. Gwynant and I walked 3/4 of the newly opened section of the N.W. Coastal Path yesterday, she got a bit tired after we reached the boardwalk section as she had a replacement knee last year so we turned back and will park in Port Penrhyn and complete it in the future from the other end!
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Well done Gwynant, it is the bridge over the Afon Ogwen
We walked from Llanfairfechan to Port Penrhyn today and it was very hot, but it was the first time that we have done the new section of the coastal walk through the Penrhyn Castle estate
I think that it's the first time that I've been back to the Spinney's since the bomb squad detonate an unexploded bom within yards of the Kingfisher hide when we were inside the hide!
Nice to hear that you and Mrs G are getting out and about and hope that the replacement knee will be a huge success
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Sounds great. We would like to do that. Did you have two cars or is there a suitable bus back?
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There is a bus service every 20 mins or so (No.5 or 5D regular Llandudno - Bangor service.) which passes the access road to Port Penrhyn and also top of the access road to The Spinneys by the railway bridge near Tal-y-bont which is about a mile long. We took the car and met a massive tractor towing an even bigger trailer on the single track lane to The Spinneys and had to reverse guitar a distance but I guess we were just unlucky!
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Thanks for that, very useful.
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The walk we did was from the Promenade in Llanfairfechan along the coast to Port Penrhyn. Because of the start and finishing place it is a two car job and it took us about 4 hours to complete it and it was on a hot day which was energy sapping.
The area around the Spinney's Nature Reserve is worth seeing for the wildlife and scenery.
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Does anyone recognise where this is? It is the back of a special looking seat.
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You can see this beautiful carving from this special seat.
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Penrhos Coastal park, Anglesey ?
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No, sorry Steve. It isn't on Anglesey but it is in North Wales. It is one of several splendid seats that have been raised to give a beautiful view over an estate wall.
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Is it by the Penrhyn Estate on the new coastal walk? If it is then I must have missed the benches on my walk! :-[
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No, sorry Hugo. It isn't there but good news you are not losing your memory!
Here's another of the splendid seats but what is over that wall?
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Where's Gwynant when you need him? He did this walk in 2014.
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I must admit to a bit of cheating but Gwynant did a few very interesting walks in 2014 following his hip operation and my wild guess from them and the clue of "estate" made me think that it could be the Vaynol Estate by Bangor
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Well done Hugo. A good bit of detective work!
I will put a description of the walk we did yesterday from Y Felinheli to Bangor in the walking section.
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The clock is not the only thing that has stopped working here, but where is it in N Wales?
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The clock is not the only thing that has stopped working here, but where is it in N Wales?
Sorry Hugo, a bit quick on this one, but I hope you like the link............
https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/dorothea-quarry-nantile-valley-north-wales-july-2020.38022/
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Well done Steve, it is the engine house in Dorathea Quarry...... That was very quick indeed
We had a walk there today, it's a fantastic place to go to and many ruined buildings to see
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This is a nice looking Welsh bridge but where is it?
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I think it might be Pont Minllyn down towards Machynlleth off the A470 ?
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Well done Cambrian it is Pont Minllyn
What a beautiful looking old bridge, I just wish that it was a bit nearer home so I could go and see it
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g1096505-d8806532-Reviews-Pont_Minllyn-Dinas_Mawddwy_Snowdonia_Eryri_National_Park_North_Wales_Wales.html
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This property is on a busy A road in N Wales but where is it exactly?
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Is it on the Llandegai- Llanberis road just where the footbridge carrying the Bethesda- Port Penrhyn cycle path crosses it? There is a house with a lot of railway relics which can be seen from the bridge.
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I think it could well be part of an eclectic collection of mainly railway relics at what used to be the two railway cottages at Felin Hen, a mile or so north of Tregarth on the old branch line to Bethesda. The 1'11" gauge Penrhyn railway also passed in close proximity on its way to Port Penrhyn.
Felin Hen had a very small station which seems to have become an unstaffed halt in1939 until final closure in 1951. In its early years it boasted a station master and a porter but was latterly supervised by the Tregarth station master.
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Well done Gwynant, you're spot on.
It's actually at the top of the old railway bridge buttress and I took the photo from the other side of the road. Are you still doing your walks now?
The Lon Las Ogwen trail is a nice walk especially if you're doing it from the Ogwen Cottage as it's downhill most of the way I've attached a link with the 3 sections of it in case anyone wants to see the route
https://www.ogwentrail.co.uk/the-ogwen-trail/
Thanks for all that info Cambrian, it's really interesting to hear about the old railway. Mull is interested in the old railways and I'm sure that he'll appreciate all that info too. That railway track from Port Penrhyn to Bethesda is quite steep but we do it the easier way walking downhill from Bethesda
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I've just copied photos of two of the railway stations that were on that line
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Cambrian, that was an interesting posting about Felin Hen so I did a google search and came up with the link I've attached below.
There's a nice viaduct at Glasinfryn that is quite impressive at this time of the year when the leaves have fallen from the nearby trees
http://disused-stations.org.uk/f/felin_hen/index.shtml
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Thanks Hugo. An arcane snippet of minor local relevance is that a Mr L O Davies was probably the last Station Master in charge of Felin Hen when he was at Bethesda. Of a Deganwy family, he started his career at Deganwy and held various posts across North Wales, his final SM's post being Prestatyn.
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Where would you see this creature in North Wales?
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Perhaps this photo may help?
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Some more photos may help to locate this place?
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I'm not sure what this sculpture is supposed to be. It's pretty ugly anyway. Could it be a Toad, if it is then it must be rare as I've never seen a Toad looking like that before? :-\
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The nearest I can find is a sand lizard found on Anglesey, unless someone has nicked half of the sculpture..... :-\
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It's not Anglesey Steve and I don't know what that ugly little sculpture is meant to be. A sculpture of a Natterjack Toad would be more fitting for this location
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Hugo,
No idea what variety of reptile that is but could it be around the Talacre area?
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It is around the Talacre area so well done. The photos were taken in Tyn Y Morfa where the Natterjack Toad lives in the protected fenced off water area.
Talacre is a few miles further on and just around the corner on this photo. There is a colony of protected Natterjack Toads there too.
Just look at the photos, miles and miles of soft sand and we only saw three other people on the whole stretch of beach
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This was the last Post Office in a North Wales village. The question is in which village?
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The village was in Caernarfonshire but with all the boundary changes is now in Conwy County. Now that should help a lot?
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Well, so far I know where it is not................. :-\
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Are you trying to fool us by saying it was in Caernarvonshire? I think it is Maenan, which is on the east side of the River Conwy but, at one time, was in Caernarvonshire!
My great-grandfather, John Vaughan, was the miller at the Mill just down the road!
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Well that didn't fool you DVT. If you had of got it wrong I'd have been surprised.
It is in Nant Y Felin Maenan and was in Caernarfonshire because of Edward 1. Your Great Grandfather John Vaughan was the Miller at the Corn Mill across the road but according to a local lady I spoke to he lived at the Mill House ( the one in the photo ) which later became the Post Office
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Well, so far I know where it is not................. :-\
I couldn't make it too easy Steve and it was in Caernarvonshire at one time ;D
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I was watching a holiday programme on TV and saw this place. It's about 18 years since I was there so it was nice to see it again
What is the name of the country and a bonus point if you can name the town?
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Did you stay in the hotel?............ 8)
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No Steve, but it's on my wish list ;D
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Think it might be on the Sognefjord in Norway as I seem to remember passing by on ferry during a business trip to Alesund many years ago?
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You are spot on with a the country Hammy, it is in Norway, so well done.
We went past it on a cruise of the Fjords when I retired from work and I've always wanted to go back there again.
Now for an extra point can you name the town?
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If anyone has sailed to Bergen then they would have gone past this town which is set in a stunning location
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Balestrand is a former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn.
Your photo showing the Kviknes Hotel, This grand, 18th-century waterfront hotel is also located in Balestrand.
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Good detective work there Steve, well done. So a bonus point for Balestrand and another bonus point for telling me the name of that hotel
I had a Norwegian Fjord cruise when I retired from work at the age of 60 and it was a very moving experience for me. My Father had sailed in the Fjords and had told me how beautiful they were and how friendly the Norwegian people were to him. The only difference between our experiences was that my Father was only 20 at the time and was on a Royal Navy minesweeper that was sweeping the waters for German mines
When I went past the Fish Market in Bergen and saw a large German mine on display there, I was quite choked and realised that I'm one of the lucky generations that didn't have to go to war
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Where in North Wales would you see this?
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Woodcarvings inside and out of this building.
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Gwydir castle....... ?
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No, sorry Steve it isn't Gwydir.
This house is well known for the people who lived and visited there.
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I've no idea at present but your first photo made me think that it was a National Trust property. I'll have a wild guess at Chirk Castle?
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Sorry Hugo, not National Trust and not Chirk.
This is the entrance hall of the house.
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Searching for a house with multiple interior carvings i NW this came up...............
Plas Newydd – carved wood... https://sublimewales.wordpress.com/attractions/mansions-and-grounds/ladies-of-llangollen/plas-newydd-the-house/plas-newydd-carved-wood/
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Well done Steve.
Yes Plas Newydd in Lllangollen. We had a lovely interesting day out there the other day.
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Thanks Hollins, and for the great photos too.
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Where are you likely to see these steep and lengthy step in N Wales?
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These steps seem to go on and on but where are they?
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Is it St Beunos Centre, Tremeirchion?
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Well done Hammy it was St Beuno's in Tremeirchion . You did really well getting the answer right with just those clues
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Hugo, I only recognise two long garden staircases, Chatsworth and St Buenos, but Chatsworth is not in N Wales!
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Good detective work there Hammy so well done. It's so tranquil there and an ideal location for a retreat
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This was a popular attraction for visitors but what is it and where is it in North Wales?
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Another photo of this place where people have been coming to for many years but what and where is it?
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Perhaps a couple of photos may help to find out what it was and where was it?
Visitors started arriving here in 1847 and I wonder if this old building was once a tearoom where the visitors could enjoy a quick cup of tea?
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No guesses? Yet I'm sure that most people will have gone past it as sometime
Perhaps this clue may make it easier? It's in Conwy County somewhere.
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Last clue for the day and it requires some detective work but remember the clues are there!
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It's 400 years old and day trippers visited this place for just over 100 years. In its heyday as many as 1000 visitors would arrive daily
So what is it and where is it?
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I am struggling with this one, from the lifebelt clue I got Deganwy, possibly the old dock and railways conections ?
However I did find an interesting piece you will enjoy reading.......... The Deganwy Dock Story
https://www.deganwyhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Deganwy-Dock-Story-2013.59-final-pdf.pdf
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Well, if the Forum's top detective is struggling with this quiz then it's time for me to reveal the answer
The clues are there,
The photo of Llandudno's third pier on the West Shore had a short life span and was for the Paddle Steamers going to Trefriw
The old lifebelt was probably left from the Deganwy landing stage where the Paddle Steamers left for Trefriw
That old dilapidated building was the Tea Rooms where the day trippers could have a quick cuppa before returning on the ebb tide
So the answer is that I was at the old quay in Trefriw. It's located below the wall on the opposite side to the Prince's Arms in Trefriw
You must have gone past there many times ;D
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/400-year-old-quay-always-27476221
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I am not that old.............. ;) I think ?....... what was I going to say ! !........
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I went to this place today with Mrs H and took this photo Who is it and where exactly is it?
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Have you been to the Knight Shop in Conwy?
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That's a great try Hammy but not correct. I was in Conwy County today but not in Conwy Town
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He once lived near this building and may have looked like this?
But who was he and what is this building?
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He had the Church built for his wife Joan, so who was he and where is the Church?
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From your last clue I found this....... A bit slow considering I lived in Llanrhychwyn :-[ I hope this is correct?
Llywelyn Fawr, Prince of Wales, and his wife Joan worshipped here in the early 13th century when they stayed at their Trefriw lodge. Joan complained that the walk to church was tiring – 2km uphill from Trefriw followed by 2km downhill. It's said that Llywelyn founded St Mary's Church in Trefriw to save her this effort.
cont https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=llanrhychwyn-st-rhychwyn-s-church#:~:text=Llywelyn%20Fawr%2C%20Prince%20of%20Wales,to%20save%20her%20this%20effort.
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Well done Steve, that's absolutely spot on and thanks for attaching that link which is very interesting to read
I don't blame Joan for complaining about the trek up to Llanrychwyn to worship there. As you know it's one very steep hike up that hill and it isn't much better on the way down. It was better for Llywelyn to have the Church built in Trefriw than to get earache ever Sunday
Mrs H has been wanting to go to the Church ever since I told her about the stained glass windows that are there
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Hugo, glad you liked the link, I was able to check out my old house on the links Google map, not a lot changed, but good to see my outbuildings still standing, and the trees I planted have survived.
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I have driven past this fountain hundreds of times but never noticed it until last week. It's near a very busy main road, but where is it ?
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Another photo which may help to locate this fountain ?
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No guesses / so here's another clue. It's about 100 yards from the A55 and if you are in the eastbound carriageway you may see it
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By the marble church.
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Spot on Norman, well done
It's on the left on the sharp bend in the road opposite the Marble Church. I've driven past there hundreds of times but not noticed it. It was only when I was walking from Ysbyty Glan Clwyd to Costa Coffee that I noticed it
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I came across these buildings on a walk yesterday, can anyone guess where they are?
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Something to do with Guy Fawkes, I recognised your photos from before 8) so will let others have a go............
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You've got a good memory Steve, I was there again yesterday when I took those photos. I thought that I wouldn't beat you on that and I was right
It was something to do with explosives and the photo should give the location
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This will give the game away and I'll give the answer tomorrow
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No guesses? but Steve did know the answer but let others have a try..
The answer is the Powder Works at Penrhyndeudraeth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwaith_Powdwr