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Betws-y-Coed a town and tourist attraction in Conwy County, North Wales.
Nestled in Snowdonia National Park close to the mountains, the village was founded around a monastery in the late sixth century, growing with the development of the local lead mining industry
The name is thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon Old English, meaning 'prayer house in the wood'. Prayer house (Betws) in the woods (Coed) The name Betws or Bettws is generally thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon Old English "bed-hus", which means a bead-house: a house of prayer, or oratory.
In 1815 the Waterloo Bridge was built by Thomas Telford for the London to Holyhead road - now the A5 - which was the dawn of a new era for the village, bringing a whole wealth of developments.
The village became a major coaching centre on the route from London to Holyhead, which led to the improvement of the roads in the surrounding area and has since acted as a primary destination for the purpose of road signs.
When Betws-y-Coed railway station was constructed in 1868, it brought in the arrival of the railway line from Llandudno Junction railway station and increased the population of the town at the time by around 500 people.
The town has many 19th century buildings including the Church of St Mary which was built on the site of a former cockpit and fairground, and although it has an early English look but was completed in 1873. The square bell tower was added in 1907 the commemorative stone being laid by the Earl of Ancaster in 1976.
Information gained from www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/all-about-betws-y-coed-14173705
www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wales-wins-worl...
Wales wins World Flag Tournament
"Y Ddraig Goch crowned the best flag in the world"
Well today we went barn hunting east of Camrose, Alberta and had seen this guy once but he took off before I could take a shot. Then later in our grid search the wife spotted him on a post so we parked and he posed for a few shots. This made my day as the Snowy Owl is somewhat rare. Taken with the Pentax K20D with a 50-200mm lens. I wished I could have used the tripod because the long lens is hard to hold steady, oh well.
October 3, 2015 - 95% of the cranberries produced each year in Canada are farmed in British Columbia in the Lower Mainland and Fraser River Valley.
October 6, 2015 - I was flipping through one of Mom's photo albums this evening, this one spanned from Christmas 1965 when Mom Dad and my big brother moved into the new house on Garvin Street and spans until the summer of 1968.
That's me at 7 weeks old.
Looks like Dad needed a break but I'm still ready to go.
November 15, 2015 - We managed to get out to the last day of the Circle Craft Christmas Fair at the Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre. I love the moving art inside the centre, the huge suspended planet Earth that slowly turns above visitors heads.
Daily Post #88
Snappy title I know but it's true! Had a fab time visiting Suz in San Francisco and have taken an obscene amount of photos. They will slowly appear on Flickr (and the more touristy ones on Facebook).
December 23, 2015 - Yes, that's Loki, the problem child.
Now if we could only figure out what the problem is....
August 25, 2015 - Such a multifunctional little object. Have you ever had your day saved by something so simple as a safety pin?
and Flickr suggests we drop the location more accurately!!
A hot shared on Instagam and tagged #roundaustraliawithspelio but is cropped there..
LOL not out here....somewhere along the Sandy Blight Track…
see #Smoky60Series links
See where this picture was taken. [?] Approx only by Google and an App
Does not remember the location ...
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
Car and trailer are jack-knifed to make a wind-break!..
Google search With #Smoky60Series ... and see all the videos of the across Australia trip here.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPczLULhUgxFogPpnnsF9zM2B...
Sandy Blight Junction Road"
On the ABC Local ..666 this am....
ABC Radio are running a program on getting your life back?
Moments in your life that were relaxing moments out of the rat race where you were " In the moment" rather than rushing and absorbed in a career or running a family, dashing to work, taking the kids to sport or filling up the car.
I thought of all the 1/125th sec moments at f5.6 that I have in my photo collection
I could select some of my 33,000 images for an album of "Moments in Life" then realised that 95% or so would be suitable.
At least all in my "Faves by others" would be suitable,
August 29, 2015 - Some crazy weather today. We had a rain warning, but nowhere did it say it was going to be an afternoon of wild winds that would knock power out to over 330,000 people, including BC Hydro and the 911 dispatch.
More at The Philosophical Fish →
115 Photos in2015 - 71. It was a Very Blustery Day
Saw the light striking the 400k volt lines as I travelled past these pylons which are on the outskirts of our village. They have been with us since 1971 carrying electricity from the Wylfa Nuclear Power Station to the Pentir Sub Station before being fed into the National Grid. News this week is that National Grid want to push on with a complete new set of pylons from the new Wylfa station which will be built and due to be online by about 2022 if I understand correctly. There was a great deal of objection to new pylons with many objectors demanding that the new supply be under grounded due to the environmental impact they have. The additional cost of under grounding was substantial and believed to be in the region of five times overhead. Stand by for protests and the like when the time comes for erection!! (of the pylons that is). Unfortunately we live in such a power hungry World that we cannot live without the power that they carry. Link to the news story here www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/anglesey-overhe...
Daily Post #20
I'm baaaack! Yup, I finally got re-attached to the world and have been given a new broadband password. I am going to try and not waste the rest of my week off online though so I may be slow to catch up.
I shall leave you with a pony for the day...
September 8, 2015 - While the weather wasn't as nice today on the Pitt...any day on the Pitt is a good day.
Capel y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd. Fe'i hadeiladwyd rhwng 1808 a 1811. Ychwanegwyd y golofnfa Dysganaidd yn 1849, ond yr oedd yn rhan o'r cynllun gwreiddiol.
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Templ ar vetodourien Galvinour. Bet savet etre 1808 ha 1811. Ar porched toskanat a voe ouzhpennet e 1849; er raktres orin e oa avat.
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Calvinistic Methodist cchapel. Built between 1808 and 1811. The Tuscan portico was added in 1849 but was part of the original design.
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www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/gogleddorllewin/papurau_bro/yr_wylan/...
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Wedi ei ailolygu / Adwelet a-nevez / Re-edited: 6/2017
Ruthin Motors sold National petrol and were a Rootes dealership, pictured here in about 1965. The Triumph Herald is on a B plate so no earlier than 1964. The petrol station did not survive here, not a surprise really, but it lasted as a car dealership into the Streetview era. In its last days as a garage it was Slaters Citroen. However they closed down this premises and moved to Abergele.
www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/ruthin-car-dealership...
That clearly did not work out well as by 2018 they went into administration with debts of over £3million.
www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/collapse-slate...
In the present day and for the last decade or more the site is now occupied by Ruthin Decor.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1136393,-3.3068642,3a,75y,329.5...
The middle, 1990, receipt here is from a family holiday to Snowdonia when I was young. London Garage Service Station, Cym-y-Glo, Caernarfon (just along the road from the much-photographed derelict NWF at Llanrug), was an Oak site in the 2009 Streetview goo.gl/maps/LEuN769mBvxfJtnU8 then Gulf by 2011 goo.gl/maps/38EqucVot2vSh5JT6 and Essar in 2019 goo.gl/maps/9eTkFLi2fovivMPo7
The other two receipts I acquired from eBay. Note how the Burmah logo evolved slightly between the 1987 and 1990 receipts, with heavier text as well as the 'controlled' background added. Manor Garages, Scotia Autopoint, Burslem, I think became this ARC car wash site goo.gl/maps/JLraosCzcoEkUKnA8
Many Burmah sites used the Autopoint name, I think because the range of other motoring products Burmah could offer in a garage shop or kiosk from their subsidiaries like Halfords and Simoniz (as well as Castrol, of course) must have been quite substantial, but I don't know any more details. Note that both 1987 and 1990 receipts list Castrol as one of the possible pre-printed items for purchase.
The 1995 receipt, from Longacres Filling Station in Trelawnyd near Ryhl goo.gl/maps/iACpHt54JX477JYp8 (which has survived and is now Texaco according to Streetview—and run by Shanty Yoganathan who has quite a back story www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/amazing-mum-who... ) shows the final version of the Burmah logo, the chinthe as shown in more detail here www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/50166649466 and www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/50373065872
Stepped escalators in Liverpool One. The long exposure has made them flat.
I recently had this published in the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo and has been featured in Explore (Jan 27, 2009 #370) !
August 27, 2015 - Another field day, this time to Gates Creek Spawning Channel in D'Arcy, on the Mainland past Pemberton.
It's a poor year for sockeye, but some make it through to continue the cycle and close the circle as they prepare to spawn.
Daily Post #4
For January's Monthly Scavenger Hunt.
This month's hunt is all about words which are both nouns and verbs. I liked the fact that this photo could cover both, the branches for a nest and the pram for nesting.
June 29, 2015 - Most people like showy shells, urchin tests or sand dollars.
In my little dish of shells collected on outer coast beaches in BC, this little thing, half the length of my thumb, is my treasure.
115 Photos in 2015 - 98. Ancient
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September 12, 2015 - Today would have been Mom's 76th birthday. Seemed fitting to snap a shot of some random thing she appreciated. Here is a little pile of acorns that I found in her house when I was closing it up.