Tracey Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 I'd have to have Brunel in my top 100, though I'm not sure exactly where - we are surrounded by him in Bristol. I grew up less than a mile away from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol Temple Meads railway station is one end of the Great Western Railway, the SS Great Britain is in dry dock here (her original birthplace) and is nearly fully restored, there are a couple of statues of him in the city. I prefer things of the natural world than constructed (so I fully agree with David Attenborough too!!), but what Brunel built in Bristol is beautiful. Tracey Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 It's the dreamers and visionaries that often make the most beautiful things, and Brunel was very definitely those things, but it's also why Ninette de Valois would be up at or near the top of my Top Ten Britons, foreigner though that I am. Link to comment
beckster Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 I've gone off David Attenborough, because he was an honourary graduand at my undergraduate degree ceremony, and he started his speech by saying how wonderful it was to be in Bradford. Bradford is several hundred miles away (and several places down the university league table) from where he actually was ... snobs like me care about these things ;) Link to comment
dirac Posted November 4, 2002 Author Share Posted November 4, 2002 In the Guardian, Roy Hattersley says the entire business was settled a long time ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/...,825469,00.html Link to comment
dirac Posted November 26, 2002 Author Share Posted November 26, 2002 Final results in, and it's Winston: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/t...dio/2509465.stm Link to comment
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