Re: London Bridge & Camera Obscura

[P3D Tom Gardner <tgg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Motley wrote:
> Most
> prominent where the front or the back of the bus is visible is
> "NESTLES" on the top line with a logo and "MILK" on the second
> line.  ( Is this the same Dutch company that is famous for its
> chocolate and the company that bought Cleveland based Stauffer
> Foods?)

Nestles is a Swiss company, I believe it's the largest food 
conglomerate in the world.

> One
> story I recollect back from that time was that the buyer [of London Bridge] 
> thought
> he was purchasing the famous Tower Bridge as that was (and is) a
> symbol which means London just as the Empire State Building means
> New York,etc (don't know if that story is true).

Neither do I, but we like to think so ;)

> I remember from childhood the nursery rhyme which went something
> like "LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN, FALLING DOWN, FALLING DOWN,
> LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN, MY FAIR LADY...".  UK readers, was
> that the reason that the London Bridge was taken down and sold?

This is all dredged up from the recesses of my brain...

The London Bridge in Arizona is merely the latest of a long line 
of bridges. The one in the nursery rhyme refers to a wooden bridge 
that had shops on it's span, and maybe the heads of criminals stuck 
up on pikestaffs (or was that another bridge in London?). Would 
that have made a good 3D subject?

It seems that most nursery rhymes are informal teaching tales related #
to thinks kids would have needed to know a few centuries ago. London 
Bridge seems to be a way of teaching about the advantages and 
disadvantages of different construction materials. Or perhaps I should 
say the version I know, because there seems to be many different
versions of this rhyme.



George Snowdon  wrote:
> There is also one in Edinburgh, on the
> street  -   I forget its name  -  The Royal Mile?  -
> leading up to the Castle and not far from the Castle.

There's also one in Bristol, next to Brunel's suspension bridge and the 
slides on the rocks that countless generations of kids have polished by
sliding down on their bottoms.

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