People
Near the Dockmaster's office, on New Lock, is a memorial to Captain Peter de Neumann, GM, who was killed there in an accident on 16 September 1972. Rolf Harris visited the Docks during a TV episode of Rolf On Art, when he recreated J M W Turner's famous painting The Fighting Temeraire.
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“When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, the historic sense.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Some rough political choices lie ahead. Should affirmative action be retained? Should preference be given to people on the basis of income rather than race? Should the system be—and can it be—scrapped altogether?”
—David K. Shipler (b. 1942)