John and Ann wrote: > A down at heel and niffy part of London will bear the name of Prescott > forever. BW yesterday announced a £15m lock and flood control > structure on the R Lea , which will be essential to the Olympics, it > will be called Prescott sluices. It's close to where a storm outfall > for the East End sewers enters the river and has been called Prescott > channel since the 1930s.
Indeed it has, after a Major Prescott who was (IIRC) Chairman of the Lee Conservancy at the time it was built. Mike Stevens nb Felis Catus III - currently at Three Mills web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk No man is an island. So is Man. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
