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What I like about your blog is that it tells me about places I actually didn't know about - even though I have lived in London all my life - and it makes me want to go and see some of them for myself. Thanks.
Brian | 20.02.12 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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I often cycle through Crane Park when I'm going to Twickenham from the Hounslow area. The shot tower was renovated a few years ago. Although the park still has wild feel in certain parts, it is generally a lot tidier than it was.
John | 20.02.12 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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I know the owners of the Powder Mill Cafe, (in Powder Mill lane) near the park, could have got you a tea on the house had I known you were in the area.
John | 20.02.12 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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I always thought I had seen lighthouse in London, but never could find any information. I must have seen these shot towers. Thanks for clearing that up.
Michael in the Netherlands | 20.02.12 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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What Brian said...
s | 20.02.12 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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OK - so it's not 'lost' in the sense of the Fleet, Walbrook etc, but still unknown to many of us - so thanks for outing it for us !
fascinating to learn how these little tributaries survive and fortunately are cherished and preserved by local groups, otherwise I guess they would be at risk of becoming 'lost' by culverting etc in the same way as the Fleet and Walbrook and others did in the past
JohnHB | 20.02.12 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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...I'm guessing that choice of link target for "Help a London Park" was deliberate? ;-)
swirlythingy | Homepage | 20.02.12 - 1:31 p.m. | #
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Excellent. Like Brian said, another area I lived in but know virtually nothing about, that I now want to visit.
CornishCockney | 20.02.12 - 6:40 p.m. | #
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I'm sure if Thames Water had pumped Terminal 2 full of slurry no-one would have noticed.
ian | 20.02.12 - 10:42 p.m. | #
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"Some shot towers elsewhere in the country were 50% taller - these made larger ammunition, because pellet size was related to length of plummet."
I think you've got this backwards. How can a droplet get larger as it falls? Once the drop falls from the sieve that's it, surely. To make larger shot I'd imagine you'd use larger holes, and need a longer fall to allow the droplet time to set properly.
Conrad | 20.02.12 - 11:52 p.m. | #
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How about 'Outing' as JohnHB puts it, more unknown or overlooked rivers and streams.
Rick Berej | 21.02.12 - 6:24 a.m. | #
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The River Crane as such may start in Hayes, but it actually starts up here in Harrow as the Yeading Brook.
Steve Bird | 21.02.12 - 5:30 p.m. | #
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Rich post, as ever. And a heartbreaking link to the Thames Water pollution story. Your '... not in February' might be a more sinister silent spring?
Kathryn Edwards | 24.02.12 - 10:28 p.m. | #
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