This is my kind of history!
There’s something vaguely touching about this, something relatable.
It isn’t always about the big battles and seismic events of the past…
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Some of them reasonably recent so may still be on the planet
Forgive me ,off topic but I immediately thought of this.
Del and Rodney Smash the Chandelier
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Oh yes!
A comedy classic moment for sure. laughing and wincing at the same time! 
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Intriguing isn’t it…I just hope they’re not going to penalise the more recent ones for vandalism …
Among those who left their mark are a group believed to have worked on the coving in 1968 and the earliest, a plasterer, T Harwood whose signature is dated 1843.
Otherwise I think it wonderful that a craftsman or any workmen should leave his moniker to say he’d been there.
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They deserve to be recognised.
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They do … I could be wrong but didn’t stonemasons of centuries ago, true skilled craftsmans if there ever was one … didn’t they chisel in their own mark or sigil?
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Yep, and I think sometimes they would carve gargoyle like images in their own likenesses. Almost like a kind of enduring medieval avatar I suppose.
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I think you’re right there … and some of their gargoyles doubled a downspouts on guttering. I have to say architecture was so much more aesthetically pleasing than it is nowadays. Modern buildings are downright ugly in comparison.
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Oh yes!
Looks rather familiar 
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