Daily Archives: September 7, 2009

He also does stations and memorials

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Clifton Hampden bridge, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott: him as also did St Pancras, lots of churches, and memorials to the Martyrs (Oxford) and Albert (London). According to the guide book of walks around Oxfordshire, it replaced a ferry across the Thames and was privately commissioned by a local family.

“I say, dear, who do we know who does a bit of building?”

I completely agree that if a job is worth doing then it’s worth over-doing.

The house at the end might be nice to live in, though I’m not sure I would enjoy having high water flood marks in my back garden. Even less would I enjoy people being able to look down into my back garden and say “oh look, you can see where the water comes up to.”

We have a thing

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Anyone know what it is?

Yours truly has taken over as secretary for the management company for the building. As well as power! a large pile of paper we got … this.

The outgoing secretary got it off his predecessor. No one knows quite what it’s for. It comes in its own little pouch. In the top picture you can just see a little roller inside the bit that squeezes down, though it doesn’t squeeze down very hard.

We also got power! an official company stamp, in a weighty metal stamping machine that embosses the paper with the stamp design. I can remember something like it from my grandfather’s study and it has a wonderful Victorian steampunky sort of feel to it. That, I can work out. The squeezy thing shown above, though … still guessing.