Big Maggie is watching you!

• Guest 657

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  21 September 2011     16:51127619
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  This morning I was in Southend and spotted this.
  

  

  
  
  It's actually Margaret Thatcher's eyes. The picture is the first of the Focal Point Gallery's new series of temporary public art works commissioned specifically for the railway bridge. The former Prime Minister's photograph was taken by portrait photographer Norman Parkinson in 1981 and Kingston-based artist John Russell focused on her eyes to create this image on the north side of the bridge.
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• Guest 683

  • Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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  21 September 2011     17:10127621
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  Jeane
  I would feel violated and abused every time I walked past it!
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  21 September 2011     17:23127625
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  are you sure about that jeane, looks like a rattlesnake to me.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  21 September 2011     18:25127630
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  howard,maggie was a rattle snake.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  21 September 2011     20:01127634
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  I am shivering as we speak............I need that double Jamesons I have been promising myself......
• Guest 715

  • Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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  21 September 2011     20:03127636
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  Where is Banksy when you need him
  Audere est facere.
• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  21 September 2011     20:07127638
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  c2c
  
  It helps if you say it.
  
  Get it?
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  21 September 2011     20:15127642
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  i suspect that is connected with the dire train service that did/does run from fenchurch street to southend.
• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  21 September 2011     20:21127644
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  Yes Howard, it used to be called the misery line but like Chilton it's now one of the success stories.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 657

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  21 September 2011     20:23127645
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  Indeed Martin, where is Banksy when you need him.
  
  I have to say that C2C trains have improved immensely from what they were a few years ago. Very little by way of delays and the trains themselves are always clean.
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