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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Those Victorians certainly knew how to build well …
Gargoyle at St Pancras
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I couldn’t agree more. It gives me a lot of joy to see that some are still being trained in stone masonry. Screenshot of masonry work being the U.S., in Minnesota:
The demand is still there; the global public, mostly not Catholic, donated hundreds of millions of dollars for the Notre Dame recovery.
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I’ve always found Mount Rushmore to be be spectacularly impressive … the sheer scale of it.
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Whenever I’m out and about admiring some of these magnificent structures my mind tends to drift. I try and comprehend what it must have been like actually working/labouring in all conditions. Health and safety must have been virtually non existent.
Just carving the stone blocks out of the quarry would surely have resulted in some horrendous injuries and fatalities.
Getting them up whatever scaffolding was available doesn’t even bare thinking about 
It’s almost impossible to imagine what life must have been like…
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