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Offline Hugo

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2985 on: August 24, 2013, 01:20:30 pm »
Is it on the old Penrhyn quarry track that goes through Tregarth?     I've had a peep over a gate on Google but either have picked the wrong area or wrong gate.    ?{}?

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« Reply #2986 on: August 24, 2013, 01:51:04 pm »
         You've got it Hugo. If you Google the B4409 as it leaves Tregarth by the Shiloh Chapel crossroads and travel app. 150mtrs west past the Garage/Depot on the left you come to the sign for the Lon Las Ogwen cycle path, also on the left. Look down the track and zoom in to the left of the wooden fencing and you can just see a bit of the toothed shape of the stone on the right of the path. It marks the start of the lower part of the 11 mile cycle path from Ogwen Cottage and follows the old narrow-gauge and also part of the old B.R. Bangor-Bethesda track bed over the new bridge which you identified recently down to the end at Porth Penrhyn


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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2987 on: August 24, 2013, 02:54:53 pm »
         I was wondering when you would attempt this one Yorkie. You are in fact much closer to the location and correct (as was M.E.) in saying it is an old track-bed, but not that one, which I think is known as "Lon Las Menai."
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2988 on: August 24, 2013, 03:33:21 pm »
This one was a bit too complicated for me, so I left it to the experts in Welsh topography!  :D
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                   Sorry about that Yorkie, try this one, it's a bit less involved and a good deal more conspicuous! On  which imposing and very important North Wales structure would you find this?
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2989 on: August 24, 2013, 04:16:20 pm »
Menai Suspension Bridge?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2990 on: August 24, 2013, 04:51:57 pm »
              No, sorry Dave, but I can understand why you tried that guess. The stonework is very similar.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2991 on: August 24, 2013, 05:23:20 pm »
Is it the Brittania Bridge then?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2992 on: August 24, 2013, 07:55:22 pm »
                 Well done again Hugo, two in a day! It's a nice easy circular walk from the Menai Suspension Bridge along the N.W.Coastal Path through the woods alongside the Swellies to the Brittania Bridge and then back along an alternative different route. There is a section of the old tubular bridge which was damaged by fire in 1970 which is on a plinth below the pillars (see pics.)

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2993 on: August 24, 2013, 08:59:24 pm »
Where will you find this ancient British Rail sign, its only a few miles outside the Three Towns area?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2994 on: August 24, 2013, 10:49:25 pm »
Is it on the cycle path by the jetty at Llanddulas?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2995 on: August 24, 2013, 10:56:43 pm »
Station Road, Llanfairfechan, funnily enough I thought of having that as a quiz question a few months ago! (Hope I've got the right sign!  :laugh: )
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2996 on: August 25, 2013, 05:18:48 pm »
Where will you find this building and what is its purpose?
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2997 on: August 25, 2013, 07:16:13 pm »
Milton Keynes indoor ski centre!
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2998 on: August 25, 2013, 07:50:20 pm »
ME, you were right about Station Road, Llanfairfechan, btw.  $good$

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« Reply #2999 on: August 25, 2013, 07:59:11 pm »
ME, you were right about Station Road, Llanfairfechan, btw.  $good$

Thanks Dave, I was wondering!  $thanx$
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