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In honour of the victims of yesterday's terror attack on #LondonBridge, a repeat of our history of that iconic bridge:
Remember the #nurseryrhyme "London Bridge is falling down"? Here's the story of #London Bridge!
#nspoli #NovaScotia #mining #ns #minerals #geology
Remember the #nurseryrhyme "London Bridge is falling down"? Here's the story of #London Bridge!
#nspoli #NovaScotia #mining #ns #minerals #geology
There's been a series of bridges across the #RiverThames in #London since #Roman times, 2000 years ago. They were wooden till a stone one was built between 1176 and 1209.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS #mining #minerals #geology #builtheritage
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS #mining #minerals #geology #builtheritage
The 1176 #LondonBridge stood over 600 years. The heads of traitors were impaled on it - so many that there was an official Keeper of the Heads! The first head, in 1305, was that of #WilliamWallace, the #Scottish solider #MelGibson played in #Braveheart.
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS
#nspoli #NovaScotia #NS
Excited to see the #DowntonAbbeyMovie? Here's the history of that amazing building...which is actually #HighclereCastle in #England but we will call it by the name we all know and love: #DowntonAbbey!
#nspoli #DowntonAbbeyFilm #NovaScotia #NS #builtheritage @DowntonAbbey
#nspoli #DowntonAbbeyFilm #NovaScotia #NS #builtheritage @DowntonAbbey
@DowntonAbbey #DowntonAbbey's land was granted to the Church in 749 and held by it for 800 years. A bishop's home (a palace, really) was built in the 1300s. The land was taken from the church in 1551 during the #ProtestantReformation and it’s been owned by several families since.
#nspoli #NS
#nspoli #NS
@DowntonAbbey The bishop’s palace at the site of #DowntonAbbey was rebuilt in 1679 as a #brick manor house (the drawing below). Some of the brick can still be seen at the building’s rear. In the 1700s, formal gardens and paths were built.
#nspoli #NS #NovaScotia #DowntonAbbeyMovie
#nspoli #NS #NovaScotia #DowntonAbbeyMovie
Sometimes it's the little things, the pilot projects & experiments that have the biggest city-building impact. In no particular order, here's a thread of #coollittlethings the City of #HamOnt did in 2017 ... and a shoutout to my staff who made them happen
1/ Special loading zones for musicians outside concert venues as part of our #MusicCity strategy #coollittlethings #hamont (thx to staff in Culture and Parking) 
2/ The "Mountain Climber" pilot project = free bus rides up the #NiagaraEscarpment for #cyclists #coollittlethings #hamont (thx to HSR and Transportation Planning staff) 
