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| We're in a hotel at Quayside, a few minutes walk from the cat's cradle of bridges spanning the Tyne between Newcastle and Gateshead. In the downtown area, Fenwick department store has a large mechanised diorama of Gulliver tied up by the Lilliputians. |
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| I drove out to the Newcastle Business Park to pick up Chris from the BA headquarters. I parked on William Armstrong Drive near by the Tyne, and found I was next to a display board detailing Armstrong's invention of the hydraulic crane. This was rather spooky as the book I'm reading, The Worms of Euston Square, opens with the sabotage of such a crane in 1859 London. |
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Monday, November 20, 2006
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Mike,
Delighted you found the Wm Armstrong stuff and the Elswick Accumulator info. I nearly had a quarrel with an engineer friend who wouldn't believe hydraulic cranes were:
- that early
- that useful
so I shall be sending him that photo.
Glad you enjoyed the book. I just got on BBC London Radio with Robert Elms as a direct result of the reading at Pan's bookshop.
Good travelling, man and dog!
William Sutton
Mike,
Delighted you found the Wm Armstrong stuff and the Elswick Accumulator info. I nearly had a quarrel with an engineer friend who wouldn't believe hydraulic cranes were:
- that early
- that useful
so I shall be sending him that photo.
Glad you enjoyed the book. I just got on BBC London Radio with Robert Elms as a direct result of the reading at Pan's bookshop.
Good travelling, man and dog!
William Sutton
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