tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post6820920835307131914..comments2024-03-27T03:22:46.572-07:00Comments on The Cat's Meat Shop: Aldersgate Underground BombLee Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-29268435452948425702016-08-20T13:29:35.900-07:002016-08-20T13:29:35.900-07:00Very sad to read that terrorism took place even in...Very sad to read that terrorism took place even in the Victorian age.<br />F.H Ayres were a marvellous manufacturer of many timber items especially, Chess Sets, Croquet sets, Billiard tables and of course their splendid rocking horses, the earlier and more superior extra carved models are amongst the best made in the World.<br />The victim's brother was a carpenter, and I wonder if he too worked at F.H Ayres?<br />The shock of the atrocity, the poor young man being mortally wounded, perhaps if it had happened today mr Pitt would have survived..<br />But in that era, blood loss and shock could not as well treated as they are now.<br />The men and women who worked at F.H Ayres were masters and mistresses of their crafts.<br />When the firm was sold to Slazenger, the standard of rocking horses fell, they were still strongly made, but lacked the fine carving and lovely proportions of the true F.H Ayres 'glory days' models.<br /><br /><br />Catherine Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18321859403060084313noreply@blogger.com