From Bob's archive: A land without people for a people without land?
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*Continuing my monthly post from the archive. This is from November 2008.
Since then, the Maldives have not succeeded in finding a new location, and
instea...
1 day ago
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Looks like SE London was on the receiving end of the odd V2 but did you know Barnes Wallis (of bouncing bomb fame, also designed the Lancaster bomber I believe) lived in New Cross?? so we got our own back
see
http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/irmurray/pictures/241NCRplaque.jpg
and
http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/irmurray/wallissites.asp
241 new cross road apparently
Yes I've noticed the plaque before - there's also a Barnes Wallis Community Centre behind Somerville Adventure Playground.
I'm reading "The Italian Boy" all about the 'reurrectionists' of London - body snatchers basically. There was a roaring trade in the 1800's supplying medical schools with corpses. One of the pubs they used to meet at
"....as unofficial guild halls, where bodies could be stored, and tips and warnings exchanged, and as houses of call for those indirectly involved in the trade.... "
Was the Bricklayers Arms. Ah! the good old days, when you could leave your door open and everyone smiled....obviously don't leave your door open for long or some bugger will steal your granny's body!
Apparently it was only a misdemeanor to be in a possession of a body as it was not considered theft because a corpse was not considered to belong to anyone. Although some resurrectionists had a way of 'finding' fresh bodies.
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