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Title: Kangaroo! Post by: patch38 on November 24, 2018, 17:09:25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-46312134 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-46312134)
Keep an eye peeled folks - last seen at Bath Spa. Title: Re: Kangaroo! Post by: Red Squirrel on November 26, 2018, 17:38:24 Readers who are unfamiliar with Bristol may not know that Bristol's City Docks (the area now know as Harbourside) are also known as the Floating Harbour. Before William Jessop took things in hand, ships entering Bristol had to be able to cope with the Avon's extraordinary tidal range, hence the term shipshape and Bristol fashion, meaning well-engineered. Jessop's scheme maintained a constant water level so that ships no longer sat on their bottoms when the tide went out: hence Floating Harbour.
George Fawkes, the young chap who has lost his kangaroo, has Floating Harbor syndrome. This is a genetic condition leading, among other things, to short stature and is named after the hospitals where it was first described: Floating Hosptial in Boston, Massachusetts (which doesn't actually float) and Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California. Very odd that two such disparate things should share the same unusual name. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |