HS₂ installs a plaque 40M below London to celebrate the Brunels' legacy

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That’s a nice detail:

> The plaque has been fixed to the wall of the Euston Tunnel just as it passes beneath Kensal Green Cemetery, where Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, are buried.

Geez! What a poor choice of a material for the plaque. Are we so thoroughly fucked on our fall of the west phase that we can't even pay for a proper bronze plaque anymore?

Blue plaques are standard in London: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/

Circling back to the parent post: it's a shame that the standard historical marker plaque in one of the greatest cities in the world isn't something more pompous and bronze

Yeah, the one they installed looks like a cheap acyclic thing. Which probably makes sense as nobody will see it and it'll probably get quite dusty and potentially damp.

The real deal street ones are ceramic: https://youtu.be/BAmnwsVfu1U

They should have linked the grave to the tunnel with a shaft. Marc would probably have appreciated that.

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