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Offline Yorkie

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2610 on: March 20, 2013, 09:13:45 pm »
Mine often predicts the wrong worm!  ;D

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2611 on: March 23, 2013, 10:57:46 am »
            I came opon this commemorative stone during a recent walk in the North Wales area. Where is it situated?


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2612 on: March 23, 2013, 11:50:47 am »
Glyn Valley?
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« Reply #2613 on: March 23, 2013, 01:07:47 pm »
Canal-side memorial Froncysyllte.    ZXZ

To see this memorial: leave the A5 at Froncysyllte and turn onto B5434. Find a parking spot in the village and head for the canal towpath. Walk along the towpath towards the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and you will pass this monument.

Chirk Castle Limestone Company and Canada Bill are the inscriptions.
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« Reply #2614 on: March 23, 2013, 01:51:15 pm »
            Spot on Yorkie. We parked on the other side of the valley in Trevor, walked across the aqueduct and then carried on along the towpath, through the tunnel and past the Kronospan plant and on into Chirk, a distance of about 4 miles (and all on the flat!) where we had a very nice (and very reasonable) lunch in the Hand Hotel, and then caught the 64 bus back down to Froncysyllte. The stone is called "Set in stone" and features the old picks of the quarrymen and as you say a stone-carving of Canada Bill.
          I don't know who Canada Bill was but Google tells me that there was a Canada Bill Jones who was born in Yorkshire and emigated to America when he was 20 where he was a notorious riverboat gambler, but I don't think it can be the same person. 
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2615 on: March 23, 2013, 05:30:58 pm »
That's a nice walk Gwynant, we did that earlier last year and went up to Chirk Castle then we walked back along the canal to Trevor Basin.  I don't know how long it was but it seemed quite far

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« Reply #2616 on: March 24, 2013, 11:45:50 pm »
you should have tried the chiken and chips at Chirk golf club with a view of the canal, well recommended

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2617 on: April 01, 2013, 06:47:13 pm »
            I've just got home after having bumped into a BT engineer who told me the location of M.E's poser about the telephone exchange in Allanson Road, Rhos, hastily logged on with the answer and found out that Hollins had beaten me to it after the latest clues which were posted after I left home.
            Never mind, here is a fairly easy one after the last one!. Where would you find this in North Wales? (And for a bonus point what is currently situated next to it and why?)

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2618 on: April 02, 2013, 10:33:36 am »
Is it Portdinorwic ?

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« Reply #2619 on: April 02, 2013, 11:58:49 am »
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                   Well done, Mull.  If this question had run for a while ( and mine never do!), I was going to post a further photo clue (see 1st Photo below) which shows the answer to the bonus part of the question just visible behind the bridge. The brand new £2.7m. Tamar Class Moelfre Lifeboat RNLB "Kiwi", (see 2nd photo) which was built with the help of a donation from a seafaring New Zealander was tied up there last Wednesday. When I asked why she was there and not on station at Moelfre, I was told that there were problems with the planning and construction of a new boathouse to house her there, and she was moored either there or Holyhead to shelter from the strong N/E winds which were in force at the time, as she is normally on a mooring in Moelfre Bay, and therefore the crew could only access her by tender. The old Tyne Class life-boat is still on station in the old boathouse at Moelfre until the problems with Ynys Mon C.C. and the residents of the village are sorted out, and the next meeting is due later this month. When I told the Dockmaster where I was from he said that he had heard that we had been having the same problems with planning at Llandudno, and I confirmed that and said it had been going on for years.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2620 on: April 02, 2013, 12:36:43 pm »
I had no idea with this one, I've been there just once over 35 years ago!
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2621 on: April 14, 2013, 01:38:39 pm »
Where in North Wales will you find this building and what is it used for now?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2622 on: April 14, 2013, 01:40:51 pm »
Not in Denbigh, is it?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2623 on: April 14, 2013, 01:43:11 pm »
Correct, I'll have to go further afield with my questions!

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2624 on: April 14, 2013, 01:51:24 pm »
Town Hall I believe, also let out for private and other functions.   Good idea to raise revenue.   ;)
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