Tranona
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In 1824-8 which was when St Kats was built?
Is St Kat's the best marina in the world?
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In 1824-8 which was when St Kats was built?
mainsail1
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Have you all looked at the St Kats Marina price per night.............Jeeeeeez!
Bru
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No but that wasn't the context of the thread to which i was replying.
It was a gradual process of displacement with growing overcrowding problems where the end game was tower blocks
Tranona
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Sorry but the post you were replying to was directly linked to what happened when the dock was built, not now. That is why I commented. There have not been slums on the dock site since 1828 and the current buildings around the marina area were not replacing any form of housing but the dock buildings and surrounding infrastructure. In many cases repurposing the dock buildings in others new structures for a variety of uses.
Bru
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The question was where people went when they were cleared from slums (my interpretation being that it was a more generic query rather than specific to the displacement of people when St Kats was built but in any case the answer remains the same)
And my reply was that the displaced people crowded into the remaining slums and as further development and clearances reduced the availability of low cost housing the process repeated itself over and over until the "final" solution of wholesale clearances and the building of new estates including tower blocks
Laysula
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To be honest, it's a bit too close to London for me. 
JumbleDuck
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What bit can't you believe? The slave trade, the opium wars or the military subjugation of half the world's population for about forty times longer than the Third Reich managed Europe?
Britain's wonderful navy was not a humanitarian institution: it was an instrument of racist and colonial oppression on a massive scale.
Bouba
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It was a force for social change
pyrojames
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Also fought against the slave trade while America and France pressed on with and fought Napoleon's domination of Europe.
Poignard
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My favourite town-centre marina is Vannes. Honfleur is good too.
capnsensible
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Not been to Vannes but agree about Honfleur. Also convoying past Pegasus Bridge through to Caen is top banana.
JumbleDuck
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The (ancient) Romans had insulae of nine stories.
capnsensible
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Proper lads in them days, no flaffin about wrist wringing snowflakey lightweights. Get in.
JumbleDuck
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So were black death, concentration camps and methodism.
JumbleDuck
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It still amazes me just how proud we are of having fought and deposed the most enlightened European ruler of the nineteenth century. Fighting against the slave trade for fifty years would be more commendable if the Royal Navy hadn't spend the previous three hundred years defending it - and using slaves in dockyards.
AntarcticPilot
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WHich regularly fell down, with vast loss of life. What goes around, comes around!
capnsensible
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Well hard.
Bristolfashion
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The seven days for the price of five is pretty reasonable for central London - worked out a shade over £50 a night plus a quid for the electric for the week. Bargain!
Poignard
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It seems a lot but I should think a comfortable flat rented for a week in such a location would cost a lot more
Poignard
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Yes it is. Did that in 2005. The Pegasus Memorial Museum is well worth a visit if you're ever that way again.
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