On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:49:15PM +0200, Ralf R. Radermacher scripsit: > Once Napoleon was safely locked-up on St. Helena in 1815, there was an > enormous surplus of cannons in France. On the other hand, the French sea > ports were going through a period of rapid expansion and there was a > shortage of bollards, until someone had a really clever idea: > > http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/06/boller-zu-pollern.html > > This picture is from a recent trip to Dunkirk but it could have been > taken in most French harbours from that period.
Are those muzzle up? All of the equivalents I've seen have been muzzle *down*, so you could see the trunnions. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
