Thursday 7 September 2017

QUIZ ANSWER # 190


On 31st August a recent photo appeared with a place name blanked out.
The question: What is the missing name?
The answer: Llys Catrin.
Here is the original photo. Click on it to see the restored name.

Welmar Estate
Also a badge was posted from a campaign by The Visitor newspaper.
The question: What was the campaign about?
The answer: Point Of Ayr Colliery.
Here is the badge with the message restored.

The campaign was part of a struggle to keep Point Of Ayr Colliery in use before its eventual closure in 1996.
You can read about the colliery and Point of Ayr in general in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_Ayr

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MON 5th MAR 2018 UPDATE: On the subject of coal, this large china plate is a collector's item. It commemorates the North Wales pits and gives the opening date of Point of Ayr Colliery as 1874.
Click on it to see a bigger version.

Point of Ayr Colliery

The following references are added here for indexing purposes:

National Union of Mineworkers N.U.M. North Wales Miners Association.

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