A dude shows us a typsetting frame
Capel Curig to Abergavenny: A Road-Trip With Hamish, Wales - 3rd April 1992
Nosher and Hamish take the legendary Mk.1 Astra from High Wycombe to the wilds of Wales, for no particular reason other than it's something interesting to do. On the way, we stop off at Ironbridge to see the birthplace of the industrial revolution, visit Blists Hill Victorian Town, and then head off to a youth hostel at Capel Curig for the night. The next day, we roam through Eryri (Snowdonia), cross the Menai Straight to Anglesey and South Stack - site of a school trip at the age of about 10 - and travel back down through the spine of Wales. However, there's an emergency at Machynlleth, where the headlight's full-beam switch sticks in the 'on' position, requiring a call-out from the AA. This makes us late for the next youth hostel, so we end up sleeping in the car for the night. Well, at least we get to experience the joys of cleaning our teeth in the morning in a public toilet in Abergavenny.
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The print dude preps some printing
The museum's printing room
Some kind of iron foundry
A very smoky ironworks at Blists Hill
Industrial Revolution action
Making cast iron
A girl in a Victorian apothecary
Hamish in an old butcher's shop
A dark machine room
A lovely hand-made boat
The world's first-ever cast-iron bridge
A mountain fence
A mountain pass through Eryri (Snowdonia)
A derelict tower and some open-cast mining
Hamish takes a photo
Nosher in the mountains
Hamish sips some water and surveys the view
Hamish and the mountains
A view of Eryri
Hamish strolls through Caernarfon Castle
Caernarfon Castle
A Caernarfon tower
A view of Caernarfon
Looking out over the sea from Caernarfon
South Stack and the lighthouse
A sheer drop at South Stack on Anglessey
South Stack Lighthouse
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A dude shows us a typsetting frame
A dude shows us a typsetting frame
The print dude preps some printing
The museum's printing room
Some kind of iron foundry
A very smoky ironworks at Blists Hill
Industrial Revolution action
Making cast iron
A girl in a Victorian apothecary
Hamish in an old butcher's shop
A dark machine room
A lovely hand-made boat
The world's first-ever cast-iron bridge
A mountain fence
A mountain pass through Eryri (Snowdonia)
A derelict tower and some open-cast mining
Hamish takes a photo
Nosher in the mountains
Hamish sips some water and surveys the view
Hamish and the mountains
A view of Eryri
Hamish strolls through Caernarfon Castle
Caernarfon Castle
A Caernarfon tower
A view of Caernarfon
Looking out over the sea from Caernarfon
South Stack and the lighthouse
A sheer drop at South Stack on Anglessey
South Stack Lighthouse