Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[Gwynant]

                 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.

[Hugo]

Clues Cymraeg have done it again, da iawn Gwynant.     

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.

[Gwynant]

        Taking advantage of the good weather on a recent walk we came across this bench/seat but where is it in North Wales?

[Hugo]

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.     

I'm off for lunch now but will have a think after.           

[Gwynant]

  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.

[Hugo]

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?

[Gwynant]

            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........

[Jack]

Between Pensarn and Llanddulas on the coastal path?

[Gwynant]

              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!

[Hugo]

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.

[Gwynant]

           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.   

[Hugo]

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

[Gwynant]

               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.

[Gwynant]

                     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.

[Hugo]

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.