Where is this archway?
Used to go this way quite a lot to/fro a loading point. The company are still there, but now use a shunt truck to ferry goods to a newer warehouse.
EDIT. It does show on Google street view.
Clue time?
The tuffeau is also used in a much more impressive structure a few miles off.
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Another clue then. An orthographic rather than a geological one;
The town name has, 3 hyphens.
And maybe “doubly holy”?
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Colombey-les-deux-eglises? former home of General de Gaulle?
Gidders:
Colombey-les-deux-eglises? former home of General de Gaulle?
That would certainly fit the clues given, but sorry, no.
The small town fits the clues given but the bigger town nearby doesn’t.
And I’m sure you know that place.
The arch is in the same style as…
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Saint-Georges-Sur-Loire?
Lonewolf Yorks:
Saint-Georges-Sur-Loire?
Correct river valley. Nice castle there, but sorry, no prize.
To try and tempt some more attempts, a summary:
Loire valley, lovely well known castle in nearby town, on a main route, and a doubly-holy, triple-hyphen name.
St.Hilaire-St.Florent,Saumur?
Gidders:
St.Hilaire-St.Florent,Saumur?
Yes.
Dunno if you’ve actually found the arch?
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No.I haven’t found the arch but I’ll have a look when i travel down to Spain next week.I’ve been this way for 40+ years without knowing about the arch.There’s a good routiers restaurant a couple of miles away adjacent to the autoroute access.
Gidders:
No.I haven’t found the arch but I’ll have a look when i travel down to Spain next week.I’ve been this way for 40+ years without knowing about the arch.There’s a good routiers restaurant a couple of miles away adjacent to the autoroute access.
That resto has been renovated again hasn’t it? Always popular.
It might take you a bit of wandering around to find the actual wee bit of road the arch is on to be honest.
St-H-St-F ain’t huge but it could take a while.
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To add a bit of scale to it: that road is a short section of single track lane controlled by traffic lights. The other sections are still narrow though. It is only a dusty track that crosses over the archway.
No height signs that I remember, but I flinched everytime I went through.
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Gidders:
St.Hilaire-St.Florent,Saumur?
Thats only 1 hyphen??
Lonewolf Yorks:
Gidders:
St.Hilaire-St.Florent,Saumur?Thats only 1 hyphen??
On both Michelin and Google maps it’s:
St-Hilaire-St-Florent.
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Is it the Rue du Porteau behind the Caves Ackerman warehouse?
Do the full stops count as compressed hyphens therefore 3 in total?
Gidders:
Is it the Rue du Porteau behind the Caves Ackerman warehouse?
Do the full stops count as compressed hyphens therefore 3 in total?
Excellent!
The front entrance to those premises on Rue Palastre had a covered building for tankers. The warehouse at the back took in empty bottles and packaging, loaded out wine. Both still and mousseux. The rear warehouse is considerably higher than the front one with some steep dark stairs between. The nearby roads are too steep and narrow, so access involved running past under that are arch and near the airfield. I don’t know how much production goes on there now, as they have a newer and bigger place at Chacé.
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