Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] Garret Island House C. 1750-60
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:14:43 +0530
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A single visit to South Georgia is enough to put a person off even looking
at whale oil for life.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:08 PM Frank Filippone via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

>
> We visited a memorable historical House .  The house had a "foundation"
> made from whale bone vertebrae.  It was at least 150 years old and was
> still in great shape.
>
> as an aside, the once in a lifetime remembrance from that house was a
> small jar, which you were allowed to open to smell REAL whale oil.
>
> Horrid.
>
> >
> >> On Jan 13, 2021, at 10:42 AM, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I notice that concrete building blocks serve as pillars, and I wouldn?t
> think their ? invention ? is as old as the house itself. The bricks though,
> attest of much older established.
> >
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In reply to: Message from cartersxrd at gmail.com (CartersXRd) ([Leica] Garret Island House C. 1750-60)
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Message from cartersxrd at gmail.com (CartersXRd) ([Leica] Garret Island House C. 1750-60)
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