Thursday, June 6, 2013

6 June 2013: Bath, England

THURSDAY
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance fundraising in Southgate.
Shadow on Milson Street building. Cigarette can locked to the side of a building.
 A lecture at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute. Dr. Jenny Collier from Imperial College in London presents a lecture titled "How Britain Became an Island" which explains the geological process cased by a catastrophic flood that separated England from the mainland European continent around 400,000 years ago. A similar lecture is featured on youtube.
Jacob von Hogflume, 1847-1909, Inventor of time travel, lived here in 2147.
In 2005, Dave Askwith and Alex Normanton created Signs of Life, a book of spoof signs that they put up around England. Jacob von Hogflume is a fictional character from the book. There is a similar sign in London and elsewhere.