Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Grand Shaft at Dover

From the Napoleonic era.

On a separate topic, notice the combination of original(?) photos and text 'shared' with another page in "the grand shaft - amazing military engineering."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

'shared'? what exactly are you implying?

Brian H. Gill said...

Deputydog,

Two posts share a fairly substantial sections of text:

"Later, after the fear of invasion had subsided the three staircases, which had been designed initially to allow the maximum number of troops to descend or ascend as quickly as possible, became segregated. Notices which changed slightly over the years were erected at the top of each staircase stating who was entitled to use which set of stairs. The best remembered of them all is as follows:-

1. Officers and their ladies
2. Sergeants and their wives
3. Soldiers and their women
"

The odds of two people independently coming up with identical verbiage of this length are so low, that there's a near-certainty that one or both passages are copies. (Each may have copied from a third party.)

The identical passages are in "Dover - Lock and Key of the Kingdom" and "White Cliffs Country - Heritage -The Grand Shaft."

Your post seems to be unique.

And, has an impressive set of photos: thanks!

Anonymous said...

apologies.
i got the wrong end of the stick and thought you were taking a pop at the text on my page.
glad you like the pics.

Brian H. Gill said...

Deputydog,

No problem. Your comment gave me an opportunity to revisit - and clarify - this post.

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