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From: Keith (R.K.) Berry <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT - Long - An Irish Mystery
>Giles wrote:
>
>>I do not know where that rotunda is. I was sort of hoping someone in the
>UK might
>know...
>
>It looks like a market building. There are still quite a few around but
that
>one is particularly elaborate. It would have to be very lucky to survive
>subsequent traffic improvement schemes though, sitting as it does in the
>middle of a narrow road.
>
>The cars look to be of late '20s styling but the picture can't be earlier
>than 1934 because of the two Belisha beacons, which were introduced while
>Leslie Hore-Belisha was Minister of Transport from 1934 to 1937.
>
>A very interesting mystery and a worthy OT subject.
>
>Regards,
>Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
>keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
>
According to my well informed source in England the Rotunda is in fact the
Market Cross, in Chichester, West Sussex......about 30 miles east of
Southampton.
John Hudson
Vancouver, BC
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