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Linked on the BBC News page today, with a rather nice picture:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17233100

"The restored 19th Century Cutty Sark ship is to be reopened to the public nearly five years after it was gutted by a fire. The tea clipper sited in Greenwich, south-east London, will allow people on board from 26 April: in December the masts were raised for the first time since the fire in May 2007.

An industrial vacuum cleaner which was left switched on led to the fire, which caused damage estimated at £10m. At the time, the 143-year-old ship had been in the middle of a conservation project, because sea salt had accelerated the corrosion of its iron framework; much had already been removed and put into storage".
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There was a program about her on the TV just a week or so ago. That looks like a cracking new visitor centre they have built. I can't wait to get up there to see her again.
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I'm ashamed to say that I have never seen her except from the outside, driving by because one grandmother lived in Lewisham and one grandfather in Romford (Woolwich Ferry route).

So: something to do next time I'm in London!
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