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The Local => Times Past => Topic started by: dwsi on September 02, 2011, 07:05:31 pm
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I remember following the construction as a child and going to see the enormous tunnel sections being built in what is now the basin of Conwy Marina. An amazing engineering project and, to think, we could have been lumbered with a massive bridge across the river from Deganwy to Conwy Morfa if wiser heads had not prevailed.
Great photos, btw, Dwsi, keep em' coming! $good$
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Even worse. Around about 1946 the idea was to run a road from around the exit off the Telford bridge right along the quay, through bodlondeb (knocking down a few old walls!!) and join the road somewhere around the morfa. How about that for destruction, but it was touch and go what happened
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just wondered how my photos from webshots got on here , don't mind sharing my photos , but a bit annoyed no reference to where they came from ....Gwyn
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My Dad was inspector for the new penmaenbach tunnel and he has photos that he took during various stages of it's construction which I am hoping to pick up this week. ;D
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I always upload my photos to Opera. The Webshots site always has those annoying flashing boxes on it which drive me mad. :rage:
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my tunnel project photos also appear on our Deganwy History Group web site ....will send some more on here if I can work out how ...lol
this one shows the panoramic view of a few shots combined that I took from the Vardre mountain behind Rathbone Terrace where I lived as a child .....now that I've sussed out the process I'll set out to provide you with some more later ....
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same view from behind Rathbone Terrace - panoramic shot
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:'( So where's the pictures ????????? :'( :rage:
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I've got them, are you logged on ?
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I can't see the original 5 pictures either.
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Can you see the landscape pictures of the Conwy estuary, ME?
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Yes Ian, but the 5 at the top have a blue box with a question mark in it.
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I can not see pictures either.
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That's because DWSI has linked to an external site, which has - presumably - removed them. They're not on our server.
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That's because DWSI has linked to an external site, which has - presumably - removed them. They're not on our server.
Try this.
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&q=pictures+of+building+the+conwy+tunnel (https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&q=pictures+of+building+the+conwy+tunnel)
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A great achievement we have all benifited from for the past 20 + years.
But just think... For a quater of the cost of the tunnel the railway could have been electrified from Crewe to Holyhead, plus the branch to Llandudno.
A bit late now, but I wish they would have gone for it at the time.
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Forgotten images show ingenious Conwy Tunnel scheme and how it came to life 30 years ago
North Wales Live scoured the archives for pictures to show the construction of the amazing structure
These revealing photographs show construction work on one of the most brilliant feats of engineering in Wales.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Conwy tunnel.
A £190 million four-lane, underwater structure, it was the UK’s first immersed tube tunnel.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/previous-unseen-images-show-ingenious-19589642 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/previous-unseen-images-show-ingenious-19589642)
Last photo.....Welsh Office Minister Wyn Roberts with The Queen at the opening of Conwy Tunnel on October 25, 1991
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Breathtaking scale of Conwy Tunnel project captured in these incredible images
The late local photographer Harry Rogers Jones was there 30 years ago to chronicle one of North Wales biggest ever schemes.
Harry was well-known as a dispensing chemist and optician in Llandudno Junction, but loved to get out his trusty camera whenever he could to record steam engines running along the coast and local events.
Sadly, he is no longer with us but his son David Rogers Jones read our recent coverage of the tunnel to mark its 30th anniversary year and offered North Wales Live the chance to showcase some of his late father's wonderful images.
Over the years, Harry used several cameras including a Voigtlander Vito fixed lens camera and a Zeiss Ikonta for his black and white shots.
cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/breathtaking-scale-conwy-tunnel-project-19717539 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/breathtaking-scale-conwy-tunnel-project-19717539)
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We have a history of impressive engineering work in Wales. The Menai suspension bridge was the first suspension bridge to be built anywhere in the world.
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Conwy Tunnel: 30 years since The Queen opened the £190m structure
"It really was like walking through six submarines end on end. It was a quite amazing engineering feat."
cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/conwy-tunnel-30-years-queen-21937234?IYA-mail=a05105fc-304d-4c50-9807-edab51f779a4 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/conwy-tunnel-30-years-queen-21937234?IYA-mail=a05105fc-304d-4c50-9807-edab51f779a4)
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Conwy tunnel's 'beep-beep' tradition that holds a deep meaning and poignant reminder
A55 car users have been shocked to find out that they've been missing out on a decades-old tradition that they possibly mistook for just a noisy tunnel, yet it is in fact something else entirely. The A55 is North Wales? busiest road and has carried an increasing volume of traffic each year.
Built to link Chester and Bangor alongside the railway work to upgrade the road started in the 1930s, two workers reportedly lost their lives in the process, but their memory has always endured. Not a lot is known from that time, but what we do know is that workers involved in the project were brought in from elsewhere in North Wales and many were coal miners forced out of a job by the Great Depression.
cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/conwy-tunnels-beep-beep-tradition-25038929?IYA-reg=49560bcd-5a9c-47f0-8fc5-ba2e71710589