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Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Started conversation Apr 22, 2009
Yesterday I was in South Wales on business. I finished what I needed to do early afternoon, so since I wasn't flying out of Bristol until the evening I took a thirty mile diversion to Penarth, where my Grandma was from. We were all brought up on tales from her early life - like the time she had to sing the Japanese anthem for some visiting dignitaries...and the soldiers that were billeted with them in WWI...and ice cream from 'the hokey pokey man'...and how her mum would put a red hot poker in a jug of beer to heat it up. But as far as I know, I'm the first family member to have visited since.
At first, it wasn't quite what I imagined. As you can see, it's rather bijou (or, as Grandma would say, 'There's posh, look!').
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=penarth&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=10.966832,27.773438&ie=UTF8&ll=51.433411,-3.16844&spn=0,359.945755&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.433316,-3.168456&panoid=-rJHY9Pay91T2sTNrvc61A&cbp=12,11.677215189874822,,0,15.110759493670892 
The seaside town/ They forgot to close down...
But then I looked at a map and realised there was a less posh side, facing the old docks. I remember Grandma talking about seeing her father, who was a sailor, walking up the hill when he came back from sea. This kind of street is more likely:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=penarth&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=10.966832,27.773438&ie=UTF8&ll=51.441276,-3.173504&spn=0.022577,0.054245&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.441171,-3.173586&panoid=0PQmVbb1L5r0SztdpCSABw&cbp=12,35.95867454417269,,0,14.19936708860761
I sent postcards to my brother, sister and two uncles and then headed off to Cardiff's Millenium Square to see if I could spot the rift in the fabric of spacetime.
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
Recumbentman Posted Apr 22, 2009
The streetscape function is 
A red-hot poker revives flat beer. I have seen it done (by my Dad) on a bottle of Guinness that had lost its joie de vivre; the results were amazingly refreshing to look at -- I was too young to appreciate the taste 
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Apr 27, 2009
That second link looks very similar to some of the older streets in the middle of Tullamore.
TRiG.
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Apr 27, 2009
Originally, yes. It's moved to Cork since.
TRiG.
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