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Така и не мога да я видя тази Елинор, а камъните на снимките на Додо2 са уникални. :]като швейцарско сирене са надупчени, по-скоро имат структурата на "морска пяна"
Eleanor Coade (alternatively Elinor Coade) (1733–1821) is famous for inventing and manufacturing Coade stone: a spectacularly durable cement-like building material which still looks new even today. She was a resident of Lyme Regis, in Dorset, England. She took over Belmont House, Lyme Regis, from her uncle, in 1784, which later became the home of author John Fowles (1926–2005). She had a great deal of ornate Coade stone work done on the house. The house and its decorative work can still be seen, up Pound Street, near its junction with Cobb Road. The house is now in the care of the Landmark Trust.[1]
Ammonites in the pavement outside the Lyme Regis Museum.
She set up business in 1769, in Lambeth, London. Although unmarried, she followed the normal practice of the day when she went into business and called herself 'Mrs Coade' to appear more respectable. The Coade factory was sited on the site of the present-day Royal Festival Hall. She is commemorated there by the quiet display under the bridge of the bottom stone of a horse-mill used in her factory; passers-by can recognise it as a large, worn, wheel-shaped millstone with a prominent internal axle lip, placed on a 30-degree slope beside the under-bridge footpath.
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The factory produced large ceramic statues and all manner of decorative architectural features, which proved to be extremely durable, even in London's corrosive atmosphere, brought on by the use of coal. A good example of the work can be seen in Lyme Regis, in the pavement outside the Philpot Museum. In London, another is the frontispiece of the original Twinings shop (tea merchants) on the Strand opposite the Royal Courts of Justice, rediscovered relatively recently during refurbishment and apparently unchanged since installation. She also made private ornaments in the rear of Buckingham Palace, the (magnificent but rather unhappy looking) lion on Westminster Bridge, the Nelson Pediment at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich (a mural above the terrace's main entrance reckoned by the Coade workers as the finest of all their work), the stone awning and statues at Schomberg House, and the crest on the Imperial War Museum. The plaques at Hammerwood Park were also made of Coade stone.
Her success as a business woman, in that era, was very rare. She became one of the greatest ceramic artists in the UK. She founded the 'Lyme Cement Works', in 1865 that lay at the base of Ware cliffs (Monmouth Beach) and functioned until 1914. The buildings survived until its demolition, in 1936.
Elsewhere, Coade stone is so durable that "there are more than 650 pieces still, all over the world."[2] For example, in Rio de Janeiro, the entrance to the zoo is made of Coade stone.
Триста години по-късно ние тук си "чепкаме вълна" по въпроса!
