E:04/06 3 day break in Malta

NOSONDDU

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/where_was_i/article1271593.ece

the gasworks were the Beckton Gasworks


ans 1 = Simon Adams Beck - ignore - wrong answer -


sorry have to go sorry -

PLEASE IGNORE THIS POST AND READ ETCH'S POST UNDERNEATH AND GIVE HIM THE THANKS - NOT ME

Etch

Answers:

1 Who was the gas engineer? Frederick Albert Winsor
(Simon Adams Beck was the company's governor after whom the neighbourhood of Beckton is named)

2 What is the second engineering triumph? Blackwall Tunnel
This was the work of Alexander Binnie.

Anwers to other clues:

The awesome feat of engineering completed in 1880 is the Royal Albert Dock, which was designed by Alexander Meadows Rendel.
At Prince Regent DLR station The Port of London charts the district's past.
The Experimental Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf dates from 1864 and was used by Michael Faraday.
The well-known pianist born in 1918 was Gladys Mills, better known as Mrs Mills.

And finally, the connection between a submarine, a (presumably frozen) leg of lamb and 1926 is given here:
"Royal Victoria and Royal Albert Docks handled bulk grain. As refrigeration methods improved, they started handling frozen meat as well as fruit and vegetables. During the 1926 General Strike, the threat was posed of some 750,000 frozen carcasses in the Royals rotting when electrical power was cut off, but two Royal Navy submarines sailed in to save the Royals' bacon by connecting up their generators to keep the freezers going."

Esther_McVittie

Etch wrote: »

Answers:

1 Who was the gas engineer? Frederick Albert Winsor
(Simon Adams Beck was the company's governor after whom the neighbourhood of Beckton is named)

2 What is the second engineering triumph? Blackwall Tunnel

Thanks Etch, we were miiiiiles away

rrickyuk

NOSONDDU wrote: »

sorry have to go sorry

Not good enough - GET BACK HERE NOW! :rotfl:

NOSONDDU

rrickyuk wrote: »

Not good enough - GET BACK HERE NOW! :rotfl:

sorry about that but suddenly had to rush to loo - too much info - you wouldn't want to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice to be back from North - had mseritus - a whole week without a forum is so painful!!!!!!!