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06/04/2008 17:06
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Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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What does this
And this
Have in common?
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Sneds
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06/04/2008 17:27
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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English/Welsh?
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graham
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06/04/2008 19:18
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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You got it. The English and Welsh grounds Safe Water buoy and the forum Burgee based on English and Welsh flags.
Hoping to have the one fluttering in the breeze as I pass the other one on Tuesday on the way to Portishead. 
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Sneds
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06/04/2008 19:27
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Can't believe it, actually got one!
Can't think of a question though!
Give me a minute or two........................
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Sneds
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06/04/2008 19:36
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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OK, how many cranes are there on the quay side outside Bristol's (now closed for refurb) Industrial Museum?
They are on Princes Wharf alongside the Balmoral.
I'm refering to the old dock cranes not the new tower crane that is part of the building works.
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Damo
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06/04/2008 20:09
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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There are 4 on tracks by the museum, and another one further down towards the Buttery (the one with the curved jib)
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Sneds
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07/04/2008 08:00
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Had a feeling you'd get that one
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Sneds
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07/04/2008 18:32
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Here's the four by the museum........
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VinceH
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07/04/2008 19:17
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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I have a recollection that there is a crane on a railway wagon. Can anyone confirm that?
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Damo
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07/04/2008 19:53
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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What can often be seen on the BC, which was named after a Sir Walter Scott novel (which in turn was named after the ruins of the first Cistercian monastery in Britain)??
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Who
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07/04/2008 19:56
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Crane is fixed to the wharf.
The railway thing comes from the fact its Steam Powered. At least I think it is.
So you were on the right track... 
They used to have it running every now and then. Dont know if it still works.
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mattyg
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07/04/2008 21:04
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Quote:
What can often be seen on the BC, which was named after a Sir Walter Scott novel (which in turn was named after the ruins of the first Cistercian monastery in Britain)??
= Waverley/The Waverley
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Damo
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07/04/2008 21:30
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Correct, over to you 
(How's the Seefahrtkreuzer doing?)
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mattyg
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07/04/2008 21:51
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Sorry Damo... racked my brain and can't think of one. Will let you have my turn. I dont get to see much of the BC, just the little bit of the Gloucester Sharpness Canal that flows past as I chip away at the fibreglass sheathing of Esliina. 80 percent gone and giving better picture of her problems. Re-launch target June 2010.
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Damo
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07/04/2008 22:06
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Whereisit?
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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On the ground.
Nicki
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Damo
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08/04/2008 01:54
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Nope - in salt water
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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No idea then. Not even sure what I'm looking at. Is it a clock maybe? :-)
Nicki
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08/04/2008 07:40
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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The Waverley?
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VinceH
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08/04/2008 08:16
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It looks like some sort of rocket launch taken from above. But I can't recall any stories of that in the BC area.
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08/04/2008 08:42
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Its a navigation beacon, but I dont know where it is.
I guess the four dots are mountings for the cables that hold it up.
It must be in the water, not far from land.
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Damo
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08/04/2008 18:01
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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You've got the right idea.
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Is it part of the wave power demonstration project which is off the N. Devon coast?
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Damo
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08/04/2008 21:10
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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No. Try further up the BC
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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is it scar weather sands
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Damo
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09/04/2008 03:35
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Much further up
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Damo
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09/04/2008 06:21
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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...the bigger picture may make it clearer
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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the pool oldbury power station iknew i should have googled it first time 
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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one of the narlwood lights? (the sunken ship)
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Damo
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09/04/2008 22:13
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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That's right mrbloto, you should have (I did! )
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10/04/2008 08:24
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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I thought it was a bit of black seakaflex on the concrete under your boat with a few nuts dropped around it.
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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where is it, what is it, what have they been celebrating
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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cardiff waterfront's timeless face, monument for wartime seamen from the surrounding area's?
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VinceH
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10/04/2008 22:33
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Just when there is one I know... and I'm hours too late!
(Can I get a bonus point for saying its outside the Assembly Rooms?)
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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i take it i won that mrbloto?
ok vince you can have my go
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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sorry about that,yes you were right it was just after armistice day and the poppys were still there, and if you look there is a wet spot just under the eye which i thought was rather poignant
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11/04/2008 13:21
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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I think the whole statue is poignant. From the one side it just looks like a piece of ship wreckage then on the other side the human face.Kind of brings home the human cost of war to me.
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VinceH
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11/04/2008 14:16
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Another aerial image.
Why has this prime piece of waterfront real estate not been redeveloped?
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Who
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11/04/2008 17:18
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Because the ground has been contaminated a long time ago.
Just off of Anchor road in Bristol
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Damo
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11/04/2008 18:20
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Yes, it's the old gasworks, and a vast amount of contaminated earth has had to be removed in order that development can start.
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VinceH
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12/04/2008 06:22
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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Quite right.
The contamination was the result of converting whale oil to gas.
Your turn Who.
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Who
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12/04/2008 08:24
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Re: Bristol Channel Quiz 23
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I dont have a question at the moment.
Let someone else have a go.
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