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I took my parents to the MoL Docklands at the weekend, and they enjoyed the Crossrail bit more than the permanent exhibits!
martin | 21.02.17 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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The Crossrail artifacts have come from worksites. Presumably, then, anything in between will have been smashed into rubble by the Tunnel Boring Machines? Or do the TBMs operate below a level where anything of interest can be found?
dg writes: The TBMs operate below a level where anything of interest can be found.
RayL | 21.02.17 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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+1 for Two Temple Place. Almost empty just before closing time on their late opening last week, and a different feel in the dark compared to my visits in previous years. .Must go again to see it in the light. A good exhibition again. Lancashire was similarly good, but my favourite is still Cornwall.
The Black Death and the Great Plague are both thought to have been strains of Yersina pestis, a bacterium not a virus.
Andrew | 21.02.17 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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Highly recommend snapping up £11 tickets for the next Curator's Tour of Sussex Modernism: I went to last night's 6pm event and 25+ of us had the gallery and Dr Wolf to ourselves, as she took an hour to walk us around, explain her thinking in the choice of exhibits and how she had arranged them geographically and cross-thematically and talk us through a generous selection of them in-depth. She is clearly passionate about her subject and I gained immensely more from the tour than I would have done by visiting the show by myself. All for the cost of admission only at a charging show. If you cannot make the tour, read her essay in the £7.50 exhibition a handbook, you will get the substance of her talk, though without the style or the opportunity to question her.
David | 21.02.17 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Pendents' Cornor: the Stepney Green link is incorrect and pointing to the Liverpool St page.
dg writes: Fixed, thnanks.
Jamesthegill | 21.02.17 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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I think I will visit the Tunnel exhibition this year.
Michael | 21.02.17 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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What DG does well, is showing how much there is to see and do in London. I really need to try and get out more.
Grumpy Anon | 21.02.17 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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Grumpy Anon ... +1 to that ... in fact I think I'd better shift myself down to the British Library pronto now that the weather's warming up a bit
Caz | 21.02.17 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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I don't think that pointing out a bad link is being pedantic.
Bryn Davies | 21.02.17 - 12:55 p.m. | #
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I'm aiming to visit the Docklands Museum soon, to see the 'Crossrail' exhibits.
It was always one of my disappointments that, although there was a fair bit of publicity about an archaeological dig in Welling - between the demolition of Embassy Court (including the old Tesco's, and the construction of their new store - there was rather less in the way of news when it came to saying what finds there might have been, and where one could go to see them.
It might be known now as the A207 / Welling High Street... but the site was alongside what was once known as Watling Street, one of the principle routes through London in Roman times.
I mean, sheesh, surely they must have dug up something !?
RogerW | 21.02.17 - 6:40 p.m. | #
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Sorry to be pedantic, but a bacterium and a virus are quite different things.
Cause of 1665 Great Plague of London confirmed through DNA testing - confirmation that the Great Plague of 1665 was caused by the bacterium Yersina pests.
Andrew | 22.02.17 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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Bugger. Thought I had fixed that. Should be Yersina pestis. Blasted predictive correction.
Andew | 22.02.17 - 8:05 a.m. | #
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Did the maps exhibition today. Thanks for the tip. Loved it, especially the map of the world according to President Reagan.
scrumpy | 22.02.17 - 4:12 p.m. | #
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