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TRIVIA: Dumfriesshire to Docklands
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2007 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Telford, the son of a Langholm shepherd, and the Chelsea Flower Show 2007 will have a garden in his honour which will be worth seeing. Tam went to London in 1792 to work as a stonemason on Somerset House and became a renowned architect and engineer, One of his finest achievements is St. Katherine's Docks, just below Tower Bridge, now redeveloped as an upmarket residential and shopping centre, and a revolutionary project when built in the 1880s. Look out for the entrance lock to the Thames keeping the Docks four feet above the level of the River. The quay names, Ivory House, the Marble Quay and Indigo House recall the exotic cargoes landed here. St.Katherine's is open to visit anytime, hidden behind the Tower Thistle Hotel.
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