http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/1514132.pdf
Friday 26 November 2010
Convoy's Wharf Planning Permission
It appears that there will be no further public consultation on the permission currently being sought for the Convoy's Wharf site. Anyone preparing a response should be aware of the December 30th deadline and consult the following helpful documents for policy and guidelines on planning and the historic environment. Happy reading!
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/1514132.pdf
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/1514132.pdf
Thursday 4 November 2010
Sweet Fanny Adams
There is an interesting connection between
canning and the phrase 'Sweet Fanny Adams'.
In 1867 a sailor from Portsmouth murdered his
girlfriend (Fanny Adams) in Alton in Hamp-
shire and tried to get rid of her body by hacking
it into small pieces. The murderer, Frederick
Baker, was hanged in Winchester jail on Christmas
Eve 1867. The morbid humour of his fellow sailors
at Portsmouth soon suggested a connection
between this murder and canned meat being turned
out by a newly established canning factory at the
Naval Victualling Yard in Deptford. It is one of the
few cases where the victim rather than the murderer
has achieved immortality!
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