tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912529977982751506.post5364545255873773420..comments2024-03-28T16:04:17.263+00:00Comments on ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS: Old Patent Office, Southampton Buildings WC2Chris Partridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14883064324795042491noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912529977982751506.post-27827500707146855682010-10-10T07:43:17.153+01:002010-10-10T07:43:17.153+01:00The Patent Office I knew employed some very intell...The Patent Office I knew employed some very intelligent and eccentric people such as the barmy inventor Arthur Paul Pedrick (google him!), and Bennet Woodcroft was an outstanding example. Einstein was in a class of his own, of course.<br />Happily, it wasn't the Patent Office that was responsible for destroying the Birkbeck Bank.Chris Partridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883064324795042491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912529977982751506.post-53655775465681087132010-10-10T01:37:47.560+01:002010-10-10T01:37:47.560+01:00This is the most accurate line I have read in a bl...This is the most accurate line I have read in a blog for ages: "in a scandalous demonstration of what can happen when greedy developers enlist modernist architects to defeat supine planning authorities.<br />" *tragic sigh*<br /><br />Is it a coincidence that Albert Einstein laboured for years in a Patent Office also? The history of invention amuses and educates later generations, but it also may spark off some great originality.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com