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Busy couple of days away,starting in South Wales Sunday then back to Slough and into Surrey this afternoon.

A few pics for you to ogle,couldn't find the old thread so here is a new one.

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Neath Canal above,a little known canal that must of been hell to build with the Hilly Welsh terrain.

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Couple of nice pics above of the River Tawe in Glyneath near Swansea.....the Welsh call Swansea Abertawe which means River Tawe which runs through Swansea.


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Driving to Slough yesterday and close to Slough was following the team coach,,,thought i was seeing things,saw a small Italian guy waving his arms in the air like a madman...which was a worry because he was driving the coach :eek: :D
Maybe it was hired out :hmmm:
Bye the way the camera was mounted before you start having a go,wont tell you what it was mounted on though ;)

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A miniature Baptist Church in Sandhurst near Camberley,still in use above.

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Bourne Mill near Farnham,lovely building near Farnham above.

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Hazlemere Station,suprisingly tatty for a lovely village above.


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Lovely little Gatehouse conversion above in Cranleigh Sussex...which leads to a lovely converted farmhouse.



Hope you like them,if you dont let me know and i wont bother again :D

Nice set of snaps them Leef, particularly like the River Tawe ones.

 Aber as in Abertawe, means the mouth of the Tawe where it meets the sea....so Aberystwyth....mouth of the Ystwyth...Aber Mawddach....mouth of the Mawddach etc.

Farnham...home of William Cobbett, have you ever read Rural Rides, Leefer?

And Aberdare means shithole.

No i havn't Reg,will look it up though.

Great photos Leefer. Do you know Petersfield by Haslemere by any chance? Might be moving there soon.

That's in my local patch.  The William Cobbett also happens to be one of the best pubs in Farnham.  Lovely town.  Shame about the traffic.

Got very wealthy relatives who live near there, little village called Churt.

Nice part of the world Robin,to be honest there is not many places  around that area that isn't fairly pleasant.

Think the Mill pic is Badshot Lea just off that big dodgy roundabout Ardiles.

My uncle lives there, minted aswell

:D

Knew the building looked familiar.  (And yes...the Shepherd & Flock is, indeed, a bit odd.)

I think Churt was where Lloyd George had his house.

Appears there are a fair few famous connections, including a footballing one:

Industrialist Frank Mason spent the later part of his life in the area, and provided the community with a village hall, which remains the hub of the village.

The pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais had links with the village, subject of his most famous work Bubbles Henry James, remained a prominent figure of the community. A respected lady by the name of Mrs Lash played a leading role in the dramatic society. No surprise that her most famous grandchildren are the actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes. The Blue Peter presenter John Noakes lived in the village, he became a regular sight walking the famous Shep. The world renowned gentleman of golf commentating Mr Peter Alliss has made the village his home for many years. Kevin Keegan resided in Green Lane, when playing for Southampton Football Club. International jewellery designer David Buxton grew up in the village, the area influenced a lot of his work. Frances Stevenson, wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George lived in the village; his family still has presence. The cricketing brothers Harry Walker and Thomas Walker were born in the village. The journalist Anthony Loyd grew up in Churt.[citation needed] The Police drummer, Stuart Copeland, had a short spell in the village, with his family. Lord John Hunt lived for a period in the village, he was the force behind the ascent of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing. As well as a decorated military career. Roger Black, the Olympic Gold medal winner, also lives in the village.

Wishanger Recording Studios are world famous, and rock producer John "Mutt" Lange did some his best work from here with the likes of The Cars, AC/DC and more.

The amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, whose 1859 astronomical observations first corroborated the existence of solar flares, moved to Churt in 1865. He founded a private observatory and lived here until his death in 1875.

http://www.churt-pc.gov.uk/History.htm

Incidently went through the new Hindhead tunnel last week,a lot longer than i thought at over a mile.

Neath canal doesn't look like you could get a narrow boat through that lock.

Petersfield is really nice, I'm just down the A3 in Emsworth. Often cycle there for coffee and cake.

Also my wife's cousin lives there.....and to be be honest I'd bang her like a naughty drum.

She's not a 32 year old called Nikki by any chance?

No she isn't - and probably a good job by the sound of it.  :clap:

Yeh, especially since she a proffesional dominatrix  :wink: though I don't avail of her services!

Might be doing The Watercress not far from you on a few weeks, looking forward to it. New Alresford is lovely.

Yes it is, very nice indeed. There's plenty of other place to see and do as well.

Should have built a tunnel, then they could have gone underneath....

That's a good write up, and I was quite impressed with your knowledge, until I saw "citation needed" and then realised you had blatantly just copied and pasted from wikipedia ;)

Nice photos leefer, must be nice seeing so much of the country (albeit most of it motorways) as a lorry driver.

By the way, if you think it's tricky building a lock in Wales - have a look at this:

http://www.telemarkskanalen.no/eng/The-canal/Vrangfoss-locks

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Pah !   The Caen Hill flight in Devizes puts that to shame.

That is scary,....the lock i posted was at a little place called Glyneath,around 10 miles north of Swansea..on the Neath canal.