[Stones] JL Macadam - The Foe of Stonehenge

[Ric]

my old history teacher (is history still taught in schools?) once amused us - and himself - with the anecdote that one particular PM - Palmerston? - belatedly thanked Macadam for his road building technology, publicly, on behalf of a greatful nation, with the following words: "tar Mac!"
   
  i don't know if this is a true story, however?
   
  R
  

Thelma Wilcox <thelmawilcox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
    Hi Tim,  the magic joining word is roads... J.L.Macadam builder of roads? macadam as an early surface, therefore poor Stonehenge beset by roads.  The link  below takes you to a Gutenberg book on Stonehenge by the way, with the following imbedded somewhere within...
  many a noble Grey Wether has been led to slaughter to provide macadam for the roads. ...
Thelma
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