It's amazing to think of all the true bollocks that is talked by all the proud citizens of various towns around the world. Just to think, for instance, that Jehovah was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, all those years ago. Actually, I might have got that one wrong.
Anyway, I know that Hollywood started right here in li'l ol' Bath, because there is a bronze plaque saying so. I am more amazed that the bronze hasn't been torn off the wall and melted down for scrap.
And just to think that about 6 miles away from here, William Fox-Talbot invented what we now call 'photography', if he wasn't beaten to it by a Japanese Samurai, about 100 years previously.
Well, one thing we can be sure of is that Fox-Talbot's home, Lacock Abbey, was DEFINITELY the home of young Harry Potter, becausehogwartsandotherplacescangoinandoutofreality,like.
I'm getting this post in quick, because I've just bought a new router, and I'm not sure about how long I am able to use the old one...
Wot, it's not TRUE? I thought anything on a plaque was gospel! The things you learn on this blog of yours.
ReplyDeleteThere are bronze plaques all around Bath and most of them say that so-and-so happened to have spent a couple of nights there in 1750-something.
DeleteI like the old joke about the man who visited HMS Victory, saw the plaque on the deck which said, 'Nelson fell here', and said, "I'm not surprised, I almost tripped over it myself."
There's also a plaque in Brighton which states that Brighton born William Friese-Greene developed cinematography there.
ReplyDeleteW F-G also supposedly had a photography business in Bath (but I think they're confusing him with Harry H Potter).
Bristol is also given as his place of birth (probably on another bronze plaque in Bristol).
DeleteI smelt a rat when I saw the word, 'undoubtably' on the plaque - as if there might have ben a little discussion about it first.
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