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Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Works
built 627 days ago
One of the busiest venues in this circuit, the Ismbard Kingdom Brunel offers very cheap drinks, heaps of promotions and reasonably priced food. A music-free and traditional pub environment. This pub attracts a wide variety of customers being very popular with business and office people at lunchtime and early doors as well as students and a local party crowd, who start the night off here before working around the circuit. Almost 100% male during the morning and afternoon sessions. The menu offers light lunches - nachos, chilli, garlic mushrooms and filled baps while mains include a range of burgers.
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Many of Torbay's Railway Stations clearly show Isambard Kingdom Brunel's influence. Though it no longer functions as a working station apart from the platform and footbridge, Torquay's original train station, Torre, is a fine example of a Brunel wooden station which is based on a limestone foundation. Torquay Station ... bears the influence of Brunel and is of the French Pavilion style and has a fine decorative cast iron cresting.
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Isambard Brunel was a short, neat man, who stood just over 5 feet tall. He seems to have been self-conscious about his height, and he favoured tall top hats to make himself appear taller. He was a workaholic, often laboring 18 hour days and sleeping at his office in Duke Street.
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A major programme of events celebrating the life and work of Brunel is planned for the bicentenary of his birth under the name Brunel 200[3]. Brunel is ... to be featured on the reverse side of the £2 coin in the UK to commemorate the same anniversary[4], and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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