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<blockquote data-quote="Jonathan" data-source="post: 239590" data-attributes="member: 17183"><p>Thanks Sandpatch. I've been able to travel a great deal, either on holiday or business (the latter having taken me to America, Canada and Australia). You are, I think, right but in Britain we are still enjoying the magnificent legacy of our Victorian (19th century) ancestors. We have built nothing on their scale since. To give a small example of their can-do attitude, I am told that Birighton Station (above) was measured in umbrellas as that was all the architect/engineer had to hand at the time!</p><p></p><p>Similarly, the first person to climb the Eiger was a Victorian Englishman who was in the Alps and bored. He asked the local Swiss what they did for entertainment and they jokingly told him they climbed the big mountain. So he did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonathan, post: 239590, member: 17183"] Thanks Sandpatch. I've been able to travel a great deal, either on holiday or business (the latter having taken me to America, Canada and Australia). You are, I think, right but in Britain we are still enjoying the magnificent legacy of our Victorian (19th century) ancestors. We have built nothing on their scale since. To give a small example of their can-do attitude, I am told that Birighton Station (above) was measured in umbrellas as that was all the architect/engineer had to hand at the time! Similarly, the first person to climb the Eiger was a Victorian Englishman who was in the Alps and bored. He asked the local Swiss what they did for entertainment and they jokingly told him they climbed the big mountain. So he did. [/QUOTE]
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