Showing posts with label Curiosities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curiosities. Show all posts
28 August 2020

Falkirk Wheel

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The Forth and Clyde Canal (built 1768 to 1790) and the Union Canal (built 1818 to 1822) were once linked by a flight of 11 locks at Camelon,...
17 February 2020

Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest

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Construction of what was originally called the Palace of the Republic began in 1983, the cornerstone laid on 25 June 1984. Romanian Communis...
11 November 2019

Foel Ortho

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Foel translates from the Welsh as bald, or bare, hill. But the hillside at Foel Ortho is anything but bald. ...
20 August 2019

Penang - Kek Lok Si

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Covering about 30 acres, and home to millions of representations of Buddha, Kek Lok Si is the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia. ...
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09 May 2019

Brogyntyn - Secret Tunnel

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The tunnel beneath Castell Brogyntyn is well known, but the parkland boasts a second, the location of which is kept secret by those in ...
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07 May 2019

Brogyntyn - Ozymandian Remnants

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The main entrance to the park was by way of a triumphal arch on Mount Road, built 1815 to a design by Benjamin Gummow, of Ruabon, also r...
06 May 2019

Brogyntyn - Castell

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Castell Brogyntyn is a univallate 'hill fort', supposedly of the Iron Age, and scheduled accordingly as an ancient monument. ...
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Brogyntyn - Swiss Cottage

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The two lakes of Brogyntyn were formed by 1800, by damming the Mill Dingle. A rustic bridge once crossed the head of the dam between the...