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Spike Milligan's epitaph:
Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite
Irish for "I told you I was ill.", because the church wouldn't allow it in English / As Bearla!
Mike | 18.10.23 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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Although there were experiments well before,the fist fountain pens didn't get invented till about 1870, so Stephens didn't get the opportunity to make his killing till well after 1832!
crispy | 18.10.23 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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Stephens' ink, always under my finger nails at school.
Mike | 18.10.23 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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I've arranged visits to the house for others, but have never been there myself - maybe next time!
Cornish Cockney | 18.10.23 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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I used Stephens' ink through my school years.
I see there's a bottle on Amazon.
Joho | Homepage | 18.10.23 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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It was an occasional trip for my North London family in the early sixties. Going up the little mountain is all I can remember, your picture brought it back. We only knew it as Avenue House Gardens. Stephens got no mention, or perhaps one little notice board.
I think we preferred Hadley Woods.
Malcolm of Kent | 18.10.23 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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My son got married here. My grandchildren like the playground. And I like to come to the open air concerts in the summer. We have plenty of parks in Barnet but this is our favourite. It even had a miniature steam train not long ago.
MOTB | 18.10.23 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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The promise of walled gardens and rockeries is enough to get me there! Not fussed about sitting with Spike Milligan, mind you. The part of the main house with painted masonry looks amazingly like the Pah Homestead in Auckland, New Zealand; itself supposedly modelled on Osborne House.
cau1khead | 18.10.23 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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My daughter had her wedding reception here. Lovely place.
Caroline | 18.10.23 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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Rather strangely, ArtUK credits the Spike Milligan bench jointly to two other artists and Charles Holden, the peerless architect of Underground stations, Senate House, et al; which seems odd, as Holden died in 1960 and the bench/sculpture apparently dates from 2014.
Labourer | 18.10.23 - 12:56 p.m. | #
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Thought you'd uploaded a Monet, the first pic. Nice shot. :)
Matthew | 18.10.23 - 5:19 p.m. | #
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A bit muddled, crispy.
Ink has been around for a very long time - the word comes from ancient Greek. What Dr Stephens launched on the market in 1832, and patented, was a 'blue-back writing fluid' that was better than anything similar anywhere. It was indelible, didn't evaporate or go gummy, was non-corrosive on the nib, and above all never faded, which was why it was government-mandated for all official records, birth certificates etc. Long before fountain pens, they used what were called 'dip pens' and before that quills.
Dr Stephens' son, Henry Charles, transformed the family company into a worldwide giant that dominated the market for another hundred years until biros, typewriters and computers took over.
Keen Reader | 18.10.23 - 9:42 p.m. | #
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