Tryfan
Date
23 July 2017
Location
Viewed from the Welsh Water track to Ffynnon Llugwy reservoir
SH 69475 61723; 53.13661°N, 3.95260°W
Tryfan
Category Archives: Landscape
Ffynnon Llugwy
Ffynnon Llugwy
Date
23 July 2017
Location
Carneddau mountains
SH 69281 62412; 53.14276°N, 3.95578°W
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Malltraeth Sands
Traeth Penrhos, Malltraeth Bay
Date
26 May 2017
Location
Malltraeth Sands, Anglesey
SH 40855 67251; 53.17848°N, 4.38280°W
Information
Carneddau
Looking towards Carnedd Dafydd
Date
7 May 2017
Location
Gwaun-y-gwiail, Bethesda
SH 63963 65936; 53.17308°N, 4.03673°W
Information
Yr Elen;
Carnedd Dafydd;
More posts in the Carneddau series…
Furnace Hill, Bodnant Garden
View of Bodnant House and the Terraces from Lady’s Seat, Furnace Hill
Date
30 April 2017
Location
Bodnant Garden, Tal y Cafn, Conwy
SH 80019 72289; 53.23402°N, 3.79903°W
Information
In April 2017 8 hectares (20 acres) of previously private woodland were opened to the public at Bodnant Garden. The opening of Furnace Meadow and Furnace Hill was the culmination of a 10-year renovation project carried out to counter the effects of decline and disease in the area. The area is named after a blast furnace that operated there in the 18th century. With other previously private sections – Old Park Meadow, Yew Dell and The Far End – having been opened between 2013 and 2015, over 90% of the grounds are now accessible. A final area, Heather Hill, is scheduled to open in 2020.
Further Reading
Other posts in the Bodnant Garden series…
Welcome to Furnace Wood and Meadow (Bodnant Garden Blog)
Britannia Bridge
Britannia Bridge
Date
21 January 2017
Location
View from Belgian Promenade, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
SH 55296 71708; 53.22264°N, 4.16892°W
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XT-Craft Midget Submarine Wrecks, Aberlady
The northerly wreck
Date
20 December 2015
Location
Gullane Sands, Aberlady Bay, East Lothian
NT 45184 81436; 56.02266°N, 2.88099°W
Information
In Aberlady Bay – which, incidentally, was designated in 1952 as the UK’s first Local Nature Reserve – rest the wrecks of two World War II midget submarines 1 km out from the Mean High Water line on the intertidal flats of Gullane Sands. In May 1946 these two XT-Craft – training versions of the X-Craft submarine – were moored one each 100 paces to the north and to the south of a set of five concrete anti-tank blocks (four forming a base with the fifth placed on top) positioned close to the low tide mark. Two aircraft – a Supermarine Seafire (the folding-wing, aircraft-carrier version of the Spitfire) and a de Havilland Mosquito then used the mini submarines floating at high tide as targets in a trial on the effects on X-Craft hulls of 20mm cannon shells. The wrecks of the two vessels were subsequently left abandoned in situ.
Built by Vickers-Armstrong, the X-Craft submarine was 15 metres long and was manned by a crew of four. The midget submarine was designed specifically for use in the 1943 attacks, codenamed Operation Source, on the German fleet in Norwegian fjords. The German Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz was put out of action for at least six months after sustaining damage from demolition charges placed below her by two X-Craft. (The Tirpitz finally met her end the following year when she took two direct hits from Lancaster bombers.)
Further Reading
X-craft: Aberlady Bay, Firth Of Forth (Historic Environment Scotland);
Operation Source (Wikipedia)
