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in which to contemplate the atom ![]() The word 'chiswell' may be derived from the Old English word for 'pebble' since the river Thames originally formed a wide tidal lake here and the river would have washed sand and pebbles up along its shoreline. The typesetter H.W. Caslon had his foundry near Chiswell Street and the area was also known for the making of guns and cannon. |
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is Chiswell, a site which bears the admixturing of metals for the casting of the gun; the bell; the type; the key; the rack; the gate. Stealth they cannot be seen in their black and angled wings a darkness to bounce back probing beams but the reds, yellows and blues of those other moving things who trudge because they have no wings Copyright Mike Ferguson from the poem 'Stealth' 'Voices for Kosovo' Stride Publications, 1999 |
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