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Offline Hugo

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« Reply #4800 on: February 07, 2015, 10:52:34 pm »
I knew that you would get it Gwynant although I did crop the first photo of the Chapel as it showed Port Dinllaen and that would have given the game away.     &well&
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It's over 40 years since I walked down and back up there and the village was just in ruins.   They have really done an excellent job  and there is still  a lot of work going on there at the moment.
The place was called Port Nant at one time and boats from Liverpool and other ports used to call there for the granite.

I had that book also but lost it a long time ago.   I think that  it was a booklet called The Captain's Guide to hidden haunts and I tried to visit as many as I could and did most of them.

We too walked down and back probably about the same time, found it in a book called Hidden Haunts which I still have, be it very dog eared. Our daughter thought we were trying to kill her, the hill is very steep !

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« Reply #4801 on: February 08, 2015, 09:49:14 am »
Here are the two which I have left, I also had one called The Captain's Guide, but it seems to have gone missing ! The oldest copy of these two was 1972.
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« Reply #4802 on: February 14, 2015, 07:13:54 am »
          Where in North Wales would you find this piece of mechanical history and what was it used for?

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« Reply #4803 on: February 14, 2015, 10:54:43 am »
Me thinks I've seen that before!     ZXZ
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« Reply #4804 on: February 14, 2015, 11:55:31 am »
Me thinks I've seen that before!     ZXZ
            It's on a route which I know that Jack, Hugo and I think Pendragon have walked in the last couple of years but I I did a check and I haven't seen a photo of it on the Forum previously. The name of the area is very nearly identical (only one letter different) from the fictional location of a recent popular TV series.

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« Reply #4805 on: February 14, 2015, 12:46:37 pm »
It is an old incline drum and I'll take a guess at Moelwyn Bach.   Make a start even if I'm wrong!    ;D
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« Reply #4806 on: February 14, 2015, 01:02:28 pm »
Is it above Porth Wen brickworks, Anglesey?

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« Reply #4807 on: February 14, 2015, 01:40:23 pm »
                 Spot on Jack, sorry Yorkie. We walked from Bull Bay out to Porth Wen and back last Wednesday. I'll stick a few pics on the Walking Thread over the weekend. We were going to go on to Cemaes but my mate forgot his Bus Pass!

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« Reply #4808 on: February 14, 2015, 05:31:04 pm »
Where will you see this display of horses and what is their claim to fame?

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« Reply #4809 on: February 14, 2015, 08:52:45 pm »
Kentucky Derby Winners with Owners Colours.  At the Churchill Downs Racecourse.
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« Reply #4810 on: February 15, 2015, 06:17:00 am »
No, sorry but they are all winners of a famous race.

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« Reply #4811 on: February 15, 2015, 09:16:08 am »
Meydan Racecourse Dubai, winners of the Dubai World Cup?
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« Reply #4812 on: February 15, 2015, 09:36:42 am »
Yes, well done Yorkie.
I was there on Thursday night for the Carnival meeting but I have very fond memories of seeing Dubai Millennium win in 2000. I have found my race card which I kept from then and here is a photo of it. Such a beautiful horse and so sad that he died a year later from colic
I will put some photos of Thursday's meeting in the horse racing thread if there are any interested racegoers out there.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/3004491/Wonder-horse-Dubai-Millennium-dies.html

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« Reply #4813 on: February 15, 2015, 05:43:02 pm »
That took me two attempts because a horse with the same name won the Kentucky!  Chose the wrong one first, but then I should have realised.   ZXZ
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« Reply #4814 on: February 16, 2015, 11:57:09 am »
Where in North Wales was I at the weekend?  $walesflag$