I missed this when it first made news a few months ago. Some 50-odd previously unknown photos of the construction of London’s Tower Bridge, taken circa 1892, were found by a guy who saved them from a skip at the site of a building renovation. The historian to whom they were first shown reports being gobsmacked upon first seeing them.

More photos and story at The Daily Mail.

[A skip is a large open-topped waste container designed for loading onto a special type of lorry. Instead of being emptied into a garbage truck on site as a dumpster is, a skip is replaced by an empty skip (or no skip at all) and then tipped at a landfill site or transfer station. Source: Wikipedia]

[A lorry is a truck. Source: Wikipedia]

[Gobsmacked is British slang meaning astonished. Source: Dictionary.com]

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  1. fuiru said: You are doing an excellent service to the English language.
  2. cwj posted this