Continual Quiz about the Bristol Channel (4)

[bluedragon]

OK...let's start a new thread (I mean who can possibly follow-on from the last one /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

So the QUESTION IS:

What electrifying experience happened in the Bristol Channel on the 13th May 1897...and it changed the world. What, who and where?

 

[damo]

Would that be early radio transmissions by Marconi, near Cardiff IIRC?

Not long after that he built a transAtlantic station near Llanberis in North Wales, and the building is now used as an indoor climbing wall.

 

[bluedragon]

Anyone care to add some detail?

 

[damo]

Oh all right then /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I think there were stations at Lavernock and Flatholm - the first transmissions across water?

 

[bluedragon]

Yes indeed..the world's first radio transmissions across water were between Flatholm and Lavernock Point. The first two days of trials were a miserable failure, then Marconi moved the equipment, added some more wire and hey presto...we all entered the age of wireless!!

 

[damo]

What have the following got in common?

Exmoor, Bideford Bay, the Hartland Point peninsula, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula and South Pembrokeshire.

(Clue: the Bristol Channel has more of it than any other area in the UK)

 

[Csail]

Coastal path?

 

[damo]

You are on the right lines....

 

[wotayottie]

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OK...let's start a new thread (I mean who can possibly follow-on from the last one /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

So the QUESTION IS:

What electrifying experience happened in the Bristol Channel on the 13th May 1897...and it changed the world. What, who and where?

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Well it was certainly before ******* went under the high voltage line at NUSC and shorted out part of Newport, and even before someone else did the same thing at Chepstow. So I dont know. But the experience was certainly an electrifying one for those two people.

 

[NJMcK]

High cliff coastal path mileage?

 

[damo]

Getting warmer

 

[Mike_S]

[ QUOTE ]
What have the following got in common?

Exmoor, Bideford Bay, the Hartland Point peninsula, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula and South Pembrokeshire.

(Clue: the Bristol Channel has more of it than any other area in the UK)

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Silt ? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[damo]

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For a clue I could say it's all part of our heritage...

 

[bluedragon]

I was originally going to say National Trust / areas of outstanding natural beauty...but Glamorgan doesn't quite fit as a whole. So..what about Viking settlements?

 

[damo]

Go with the nice coast bit of the answers so far....

 

[tonybarebones]

Wind turbines perhaps?

 

[Csail]

Heritage coastline?

 

[damo]

That's right /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif The longest stretch of Heritage Coast of any area of the UK

 

[Csail]

Where?

 

[damo]

Visitors pontoon at Dale, with an Avon Tyres rep