Bell Rock Lighthouse

Watched the prog about the building of this lighthouse on Beeb2 last night.
Bloody interesting stuff.
It seems quite likely that the (mean) physical endurance and tenacity of the
human race is reducing somewhat over time.

 

Hog said:

It was good - nice to see the masons aren't only evil goits trying to
destroy society, but they design decent lighthouses too.

 

In

Yes excellent television for a change .... must've been bloody
scary in that bunkhouse thing in the middle of the north sea!!
;o)

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I think the ability to exploit cheap labour helped immeasurably during
the creation of most major industrial/engineering achievements of the
past. Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, Golden Gate Bridge etc couldn't have
been built if the deaths of hundreds of workers wasn't considered an
acceptable loss.

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"Daz"

No change in much of the world then

 

La plus ca change and all that :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2266432.stm

 

I cut myself on a server rack once - does that count? I can still use a
computer
one-handed though. No hang on, that's for a different reason.

Chrisr | VFR800 | Bros650

 

That was decent of him, as the only compensation available to the poor
bastard was the hope that he'd get a job at the end of it.

Those were horrible times to be a working stiff.

Mindyou, I got the impression that Stevenson was a bit uphimself, and
I doubt if he'd have secured the job for Wishart(?) if the injured man
had been a bit of a blasphemer.

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Get youself over to

http://www.old-maps.co.uk for a 1890's map of the area. Well anu area in
the uk in fact.

Interesting stuff...

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Cool site..! It's slightly spooky to see so many places and buildings
I grew up around showing up on such an old map.

 

It's the public houses that get me. Sort of a landmark. Same name and
everything...

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