[MR] BBC: Cobbled sidewalks to go

[David Chessler]

In NY, many of the streets below 14th St. (that is, "horsecar NY") were paved
with cobbles until a few years ago. Horses got a much better grip on
cobblestones than on asphalt. Also, I noticed that they survived heavy truck
traffic. They would get depressions, but not potholes or cracks. I think most
of the cobbles were quarried in the US. Ballast had been used to fill in the
shoreline.


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Received: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:23:49 AM EDT
From: "Garth G. Groff" <ggg9y at virginia.edu>
To: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org, isenfir at virginia.edu
Subject: [MR] BBC: Cobbled sidewalks to go

>   Noble friends,
> 
> BBC recently featured this short piece about the deterioration of 
> cobbled sidewalks (as we call them) in the medieval village of Dunster 
> in Somerset: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-11569523 . 
> I'm a bit dubious about the pavements being medieval, and think they are 
> more likely to be 18th century, but they do lend ambiance to this 
> charming little place.
> 
> For more on Dunster, try the village web site: 
> http://www.dunster.org.uk/ . That little market stall is really neat and 
> quite medievel, and of course so is the castle on the hill. Dunster 
> Castle was home to the Lutterell family (famous for the Luttrell Psalter).
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Lord Mungo Napier, Who Thinks Highly of the Luttrell Psalter as Source 
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