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<p><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Sir Hiram Maxim: mouse traps and machine guns - 09/01/02</b></font></p>
<p><font size="1">When you think of Camden's Hatton Garden, you think of diamonds and jewellery. But the street has another distinction. In the 1880's prolific American inventor Sir Hiram Maxim designed and built the first machine guns there, fearsome new weapons that could fire three hundred rounds and more per minute. Less earth-shatteringly, Sir Hiram is also credited with inventing an automatic re-setting mouse trap. <br>
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<p><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>St Pancras: Local memories wanted - 23/07/01</b></font></p>
<p><font size="1">If you have a long memory and you can remember the Midland Grand Hotel before the secon world war then the St Pancras Oral History Group would love to hear from you. Closed in 1935, The Midland Grand Hotel was once one of London's top luxury hotels.</font></p>
<p><font size="1">if you worked there or stayed there at that time, or you've heard stories from people that did, contact the Oral History Group on 020 8530 6944.</font></p> <p><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>The Gothic wonder of St Pancras- 09/07/01</b></font></p>
<p><font size="1">St Pancras Station and hotel (originally called the Midland Grand Hotel) is one of the most outstanding examples of gothic architecture in London. The station was originally built for the Midland Railway in 1865 and the trainshed, at 210m long, 74m wide and 30.5m high, was the largest man-made enclosed space in the world at the time. The station and the hotel together cost £1m - a staggering sum for the day.<br>
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<p><font size="1">When you head north out of Kings Cross Station, you'll notice huge gasometers - gas storage tanks - that dominate your view on the left hand side. These outstanding monuments to a bygone industrial age were originally erected in the 1860's by the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company and then rebuilt by the Gas, Light and Coke Company between 1879 and 1881.<br>
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