Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[hollins]

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!

[Hugo]

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?

[hollins]

Yes, well done. Completed August 2015.

http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/blog/stories/mands-cheshire-oaks-store

Well worth a visit for the roof alone!

[Hugo]

Where exactly would you be if you saw this in N Wales?         

[spotty dog]

Fort Belam  near
Caenarvon

[Hugo]

A good guess but it's not Fort Belam.

[Hugo]

Same place but from different angles.         

[Hugo]

This should make it easy as this is the view from the building.     

[Cambrian]

Pwll Fanogl on the Menai Straits ?

[Hugo]

Spot on Cambrian, well done.   

Last time we walked along the Straits there was a nice motor cruiser moored alongside the mill

[hollins]

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.

[Hugo]

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"

[Cambrian]

Thanks Hugo. It looks as if it was a shelter for whoever looked after the small dock.  Possibly also used by Pilots.

[Hugo]

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

[Hugo]

An easy peasy one for Sunday.    Where would you see this?