London Part II Back in Business

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August 25th 2023

Published: September 5th 2023

OK, we’re back in business mainly due the loving care and attention provided by Nurse Dianne supported by the Princess Cruise line staff. I think the many errors I found in the text versions of the blog were not caused by the effects of COVID, but from the fact that I can’t type. But onwards…. London Day 4 The British Museum was our main target for today. It is so immense that you can’t ... Read Full Entry

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Peter and Dianne Wilson

ToBeContinued

In July 2011, Dianne and I returned from three fabulous years in China where Dianne was an administrator for Maple Leaf International Schools. To read about our China adventures, click WilsonsInChina. Dianne spent the next 4 years as an administrator in three elementary schools in B.C. In September, 2015 she officially retired. So what happens now? The nickname of this blog is ToBeContinued for a reason... ... full info

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More locks

Okay, a slighty different take on locks

Camberwell Public Baths

We stumbled onto the building when we went out for pizza after we got back to the Airbnb. They opened in 1892 and have been in continuous operation. Now it is the Camberwell Leisure Centre that includes an exercise studio, swimming pool and gym.

How did they build the piers that Tower Bridge stands on?

There were several of these descriptions of how the cassions worked. Construction began in 1894. We were amazed at the engineering technology.

Divers

This is the kind of gear men had to wear to go down to the bottom of the caissons.

Great diagrams

About how they raised and lowered the bridge deck in the time of steam power.

A riveting story

I had heard about this sort of thing. A team at the bottom makes the rivets and heats them, then throws the rivets up to the team that catches, inserts and pounds the rivets home. Wonder how often they missed?

Memorials to workers

The path from the second tower to the lower workings were marked by this sort of circle with a worker's name, date and job. Until I read the previous photo caption, I had missed what a holder up actually was. Even though we were on a river I was pretty sure he wasn't a bank robber.

Outside the Victoria and Alberta Museum

The building was the best part for me.

Typical inside the V&A

Can't imagine the work to put this place together

The Death of the Virgin, circa 1430-40

Here Christ, shown with his hand raised in blessing, has returned to transport his mother's soul and body to Heaven upon her death.

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