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Members' Lounge => Hobbies and Interests => Topic started by: Merddin Emrys on January 17, 2011, 10:55:45 am
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yes it is, mind you I lost track of where i was as I was just concentrating on the back streets!
I also found this back alley amazing in that it had it's own street sign!
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/AustinRover/Jan%202011/DSCF1189.jpg)
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It's off Bodafon St and leads to the rear of the Alexandra Hotel.
The majority of small alleys and passageways around Llandudno were un-named for years, until one day, the council dicided to give them all names for some reason.
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I suppose it makes them easier to identify for maintenance purposes etc?
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It is amazing , some of the names are really unusual. What for instance is the connection for a back street to be named Arvonia Passage?
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This would seem just the place for me to ask about Augusta Passage, in Augusta Street. It has a street sign but the passage itself doesnt appear to exist any more...?
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It seems I can answer my own question. Looking at the large scale CCBC plan, it would seem that Augusta Passage ran for a hundred feet or so and connected with the end of Charlton Street. But when was it blocked up? Is it officially closed or just a landowner putting a gate across?
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I don't know if there is or was any connection but there is a large tour coach company based in Llanrug which goes under the name of Arvonia. I have always understood that the family owners took that name from the name of their house
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There's also Rathbone Passage.
Maybe Rathbone had a problem with his passage? ???
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Trojan, are you telling me you've been going around taking photos of dog poo? ???
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I was parked at the end of Drummond Passage today! Behind the National Trust Office in Trinity Square.
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How many of these little (and not so little) passages in Llandudno are there?
Drummond Passage
Augusta Passage
Alexandra Passage
Clement Passage
Chantrey Passage
Jubilee Passage
Zion Passage
Rathbone Passage
Lloyd Passage
Salisbury Passage
Any more?
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This would seem just the place for me to ask about Augusta Passage, in Augusta Street. It has a street sign but the passage itself doesnt appear to exist any more...?
from my book 'streets of llandudno' for Augusta Passage it says 'linking Augusta Street and Charlton mews, in 1990 it was named following a suggestion by Cllr. Phillip Evans.'
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How many of these little (and not so little) passages in Llandudno are there?
Any more?
Albany Passage
Almora Passage
Arvonia Passage
Davies Passage & Davies Way
Grove Passage
Marlborough Buildings and Passage
Norwood Passage
Primrose Passage
Windsor Passage
Whiston Passage
Woodville Grove Passage
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Trojan, are you telling me you've been going around taking photos of dog poo? ???
_))* i doubt there is a memory card big enough to take a pic of every dog poo in the area :rage:
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Trojan, are you telling me you've been going around taking photos of dog poo? ???
Of course!
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Trojan, are you telling me you've been going around taking photos of dog poo? ???
Of course!
brilliant _))*
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It seems I can answer my own question. Looking at the large scale CCBC plan,
Where can you see this map Dave?
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I downloaded it from somewhere, think its the Local Development Plan map. Will see if I can remember where I got it from - it's very detailed.
EDIT: Here is an interactive version of the whole County - you can zoom right down to individual house level.
http://conwy.devplan.org.uk/map.aspx?map=30&layers=all (http://conwy.devplan.org.uk/map.aspx?map=30&layers=all)
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I downloaded it from somewhere, think its the Local Development Plan map. Will see if I can remember where I got it from - it's very detailed.
EDIT: Here is an interactive version of the whole County - you can zoom right down to individual house level.
http://conwy.devplan.org.uk/map.aspx?map=30&layers=all (http://conwy.devplan.org.uk/map.aspx?map=30&layers=all)
thanks for that Davxe, very interesting
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Augusta Passage is revealed - it has a street sign at the other end too:
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Another one for the list - Clonmel Passage:
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It seems I can answer my own question. Looking at the large scale CCBC plan, it would seem that Augusta Passage ran for a hundred feet or so and connected with the end of Charlton Street. But when was it blocked up? Is it officially closed or just a landowner putting a gate across?
Dave
It was blocked up about ten years ago because of anti-social behaviour late at night. Basically it was being used as a toilet by late night revellers caught short while waiting for their kebabs from the Godfather or their chips from Becky's. There is an entrance to the flat above Nicki Charles Hair Salon (Formerly West End Cycles) down the alley and I think it was Mostyn Estates that instigated the gate. Jack
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That explains it, thank you! :)
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these back passages are definitely more interesting than the main streets, can we photograph every one i wonder?
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Carry on Merddin! That's a good title for a film! Just don't become too infatuated with Back Passages or it could lead to a career in the Prostate Department of the local hospital! L0L
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Drummond Passage
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there was a passage on Gloddaeth Avenue between Clifton and Maelgwyn roads, I had a look on Google earth but it appears to have been blocked up
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It was probaly what is now Breton Street, off Lloyd Street, which comes out on Clifton Road near the Gloddaeth end.
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It was a very narrow passage between two houses on Gloddaeth Avenue just past the corner shop, I can't remember where it led to but remember wheeling my bike down there. Looking at Google earth it looks as though it was blocked up at the end of Breton street by "Snug Cottage"
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There was also another passage in Gloddaeth Avenue between 6th and 7th (or maybe 7th and 8th)houses down from Great Ormes Road, on the Oval side. It was just where 2 new houses had been built. No idea of the name but I remember it being discussed in Council about it being blocked up by a resident. Part can still be seen on Google Satellite running behind some of the old houses.
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I knew I had a pic somewhere:
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I've always wondered how Marble Arch came to be named. It's not made from marble, and is no-where near Hyde Park.
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I've always wondered how Marble Arch came to be named. It's not made from marble, and is no-where near Hyde Park.
I don't know the answer to that one Trojan but the tunnel through the shop ( previously Lazar's } was once the entrance to farmland belonging to St George's Hotel.
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Does Rectory lane count as a passage?
Has Lloyd passage been mentioned?
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I believe Marble Arch was just a nickname that the council adopted.
Dwsi, where is Lloyd Passage? That's a new one on me.
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Lloyd Passage runs from St Mary's Rd to St David Rd, behind the lifeboat station
Primrose passage anyone?
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from "Streets of Llandudno" Primrose passage is the service road behind Rosebery Avenue and Mostyn Avenue, Until 1910 its name was Back Rosebery Avenue. The name is the family name of the Earls of Rosebury. The road was made up in 1920. No. 4 Mostyn Avenue (Formerly Hills) was known as Primrose House. This area was developed by the Craig - y - Don Land Company
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Does Rectory lane count as a passage?
Has Lloyd passage been mentioned?
Rectory lane seemed to have once been called back Abbey Road (until 1910) and was bisected by the ornamental garden now occupied by nos 18-26 Abbey Road.
This seems strange as Abbey Road was then Tudno Street as far as Plas Gogarth.
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Do passages in Craig Y Don count?
Curzon Passage off Curzon Road
and there is a 'something' Grove Passage also off Curzon Road but I can't make out what it says.
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Woodville Grove Passage
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loving this thread! and the fact they can be checked out on Google Earth. i'm trying to think of some obscure landmarks we can list in a future thread,
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There's also a Back Woodville Grove Passage, a spur that connects Woodville Grove Passage with Mostyn Avenue.
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Found this odd little passage today, just by the Police Station:
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the other day we saw this passage leading off Upper Mostyn Street
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/AustinRover/Feb%202011/DSCF1542.jpg)
The later sign (and wherever you look they are getting tatty and rusty) looks very sad compared to the earlier sign
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/AustinRover/Feb%202011/DSCF1543.jpg)
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Hope you watched where you were putting your feet in Vadre Lane, it can have some very unpleasant deposits if you get my drift !
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Hope you watched where you were putting your feet in Vadre Lane, it can have some very unpleasant deposits if you get my drift !
Sadly, we have become very carefull where we tread wherever we go, we have learnt to stand still before looking around :roll:
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Found this odd little passage today, just by the Police Station:
You seem to be up a lot of back passages recently Dave? L0L _))*
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me and er indoors too :o L0L
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Sadly, we have become very carefull where we tread wherever we go, we have learnt to stand still before looking around :roll:
They all need an enema by the sound of things! _))*
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Some who sneak up there have obviously had one. :-X
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Not quite the same kind off passage but my Dad was telling me the other day that the week before he went down the underground tunnel by the pier (there's a manhole in the grass) He said there was little clog marks in the clay. Sounds really interesting.
You just know I'm going to get dodgy responses now :roll:
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What could give you that "impression"? Z**
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Call me Mystic Meg......................I just know :P
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Didn't see any of Llandudno's back passages on the Embarrassing Bodies program a few nights ago! L0L
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Didn't see any of Llandudno's back passages on the Embarrassing Bodies program a few nights ago! L0L
none of the back passages are embarrassing , its things like the Pier Pavilion site and the Clarence that are :-[ _))*
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Not quite the same kind off passage but my Dad was telling me the other day that the week before he went down the underground tunnel by the pier (there's a manhole in the grass) He said there was little clog marks in the clay. Sounds really interesting.
You just know I'm going to get dodgy responses now :roll:
The Great Orme Exploration Society have "been there done that". :)
http://www.goes.org.uk/ (http://www.goes.org.uk/)
It's an entrance to the Ty Gwyn Mine. Click the above link, then photos, then Ty Gwyn
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I found a passage called 'Back Holland Terrace' the other day. It both starts and finishes in Deganwy Ave.
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I found a passage called 'Back Holland Terrace' the other day. It both starts and finishes in Deganwy Ave.
It's behind Taliesin St, in-between James & New Streets.