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Offline hollins

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5925 on: June 04, 2017, 09:26:25 pm »
No, sorry Steve, not there.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5926 on: June 04, 2017, 11:25:11 pm »
Is it in Bangor?


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5927 on: June 05, 2017, 08:27:16 am »
No, it isn't Bangor.
A clue, it is part of a sculpture.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5928 on: June 05, 2017, 12:09:30 pm »
The sculpture depicts something which grows locally to it.

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« Reply #5929 on: June 05, 2017, 05:02:33 pm »
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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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5930 on: June 05, 2017, 05:10:18 pm »
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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« Reply #5931 on: June 05, 2017, 05:32:57 pm »
Sounds like it could be the Marram Grass Cafe/|Restaurant

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« Reply #5932 on: June 05, 2017, 05:42:29 pm »
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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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5933 on: June 05, 2017, 06:39:29 pm »
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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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5934 on: June 07, 2017, 05:29:15 pm »
Probably too easy, but where is this?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5935 on: June 07, 2017, 10:39:07 pm »
Is it the Erddig Hall Gardens Wrexham?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5936 on: June 07, 2017, 10:49:02 pm »
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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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5937 on: June 08, 2017, 08:35:49 am »
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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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #5938 on: June 08, 2017, 08:47:49 am »
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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« Reply #5939 on: June 08, 2017, 11:29:33 am »
Glad you and the camera, are OK,  hope you don't mind, had a play with your photo.