BRITAIN SINKING
NINE INCHES PER CENTURY.
CURIOUS EFFECTS OF TIDES.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) LONDON, Sep. 6
Britain is sinking in sea level at the rate of nine inches each century, according to Captain T. E. Longfield, of the Ordinance Survey, addressing the British Association.
He .said St. Paul’s Cathedral was gradually tilting, and the County Hall at Westminister was moving with the tides. The Bank of England was exhibiting disturbing behavious, and the railway tunnels beneath the Thames go egg-shaped at high tide, while Waterloo Bridge sinks at -high tide and rises at low tide.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1932, Page 5
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