Category: Engineering

• Apply Some Pressure

  

  A wonderful testing works on London’s South Bank The imposing art deco Tate Modern and its new-ish extension, coupled with the glass severity that is the Blue Fin Building, tower over a nearby testing facility whose custom-made machine is as enduring a memorial as his own gravestone. The entrance to the building is surmounted with…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  September 5, 2022

  Engineering, Heritage, History, London, Restored

  Design, Engineering, Highgate, history, mechanical, Science, Southwark, victorian

• Strolls in the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

  

  I was making full use of my recent membership of the British Library and delving into their archives to explore ye olde books on Cemeteries. I came across one such book that was written in the 1860’s for the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery; imagine Bradshaw’s Guide, which was written as a timetable and guide to…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 21, 2017

  Architecture, Engineering, Furniture, Photography, Railway

  Brighton, Daffodils, flowers, gothic, Locomotive, Parliament, Rastrick, Rocket, Spring, Sussex, train, Urpeth, Vanity

• The Albion Disaster

  

  For a time I worked amongst the glass towers of Canary Wharf, where the history of Docklands tickled my historical fancy. I regularly found myself stalking the exhibits of the Museum of London during my lunch hour and I paid a visit to Tunnel, the Archaeology of Crossrail where I learnt more about a Victorian disaster most…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  February 27, 2017

  Engineering, History, London, Lost, Memorial

  Albion, Black and White, Blackwall, disaster, Docks, Footage, Forgotten, Leamouth, London, Poplar, Thames, West Ham