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Sir Hiram Maxim:
mouse traps and machine guns
- 09/01/02
When you think of Camden's Hatton Garden, you think of diamonds
and jewellery. But the street has another distinction. In
the 1880's prolific American inventor Sir Hiram Maxim designed
and built the first machine guns there, fearsome new weapons
that could fire three hundred rounds and more per minute.
Less earth-shatteringly, Sir Hiram is also credited with inventing
an automatic re-setting mouse trap.
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St Pancras:
Local memories wanted - 23/07/01
If you have a long memory and you can remember the Midland Grand
Hotel before the secon world war then the St Pancras Oral History
Group would love to hear from you. Closed in 1935, The Midland
Grand Hotel was once one of London's top luxury hotels.
if you worked there or stayed there at that
time, or you've heard stories from people that did, contact
the Oral History Group on 020 8530 6944.
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The Gothic wonder of St
Pancras- 09/07/01
St Pancras Station and hotel (originally called the Midland
Grand Hotel) is one of the most outstanding examples of gothic
architecture in London. The station was originally built for
the Midland Railway in 1865 and the trainshed, at 210m long,
74m wide and 30.5m high, was the largest man-made enclosed
space in the world at the time. The station and the hotel
together cost £1m - a staggering sum for the day.
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Kings Cross Gasometers
- 25/06/01
When you head north out of Kings Cross Station, you'll notice
huge gasometers - gas storage tanks - that dominate your view
on the left hand side. These outstanding monuments to a bygone
industrial age were originally erected in the 1860's by the
Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company and then rebuilt by the
Gas, Light and Coke Company between 1879 and 1881.
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