Temple Bar

[Nemesis]

Whatever one's views on the rights and wrongs of moving Temple Bar, here is an interesting site about its re-siting:

http://www.thetemplebar.info/

 

[biffvernon]

I have it on excellent authority that the ladies lavatory has some particularly fine craftsmanship in marble and mahoghany.

 

[Nemesis]

I won't ask how you know - but next time I'm in Lunnon ... bet it's more than a penny though!

 

[biffvernon]

Oh it's not a public one. They don't let the riff-raff in.

 

[Nemesis]

I'm sure I can find contacts who will ensure I'm allowed to pee there!

I can claim to be a major expert on the history of the nettie.

 

[dusty]

I spent three weeks at Theobalds Park cleaning it before it was dismantled.
Then when they'd rebuilt it they put a sheltercoat all over it.......stood out like a blind cobblers thumb
Still glad I'm not involved in the hash up they're making of cleaning the exterior of St Pauls adjacent to it :shock:

 

[Nemesis]

It's a bit - well, startling, isn't it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/uk_st_paul0s_cathedral_renovation/html/1.stm

http://www.stpauls.co.uk/page.aspx?theLang=001lngdef&pointerID=43740xSTdTQ8hD7bRSCgcxTMIPIzURW2

 

[Moo]

Please explain, to one who's only seen the pictures, what they've done wrong with St Paul's?

 

[dusty]

When you look at an elevation that's been cleaned it looks clean but when I look at the large areas of ashlar stonework all my eye can see is the gun shading from the cleaning.Professionally speaking, I'd say that they have used a small nozzle close up and cleaned it dry which has left marks on the stonework, suggesting an uneven clean. The cleaner has moved the nozzle up and down in a repetitive fashion so that it has left lines and when he's made the return at that point the stone has sufferred a deeper clean than other areas. So as the building resoils the gun shading will become more apparrent, giving it a more mottled appearrance. A bigger nozzle, further back with the introduction of water on the surface to soften the impact, would have produced a flatter more even and less intense clean and allowed the operative more dwell time to gradually reduce the soiling......
Well you did ask