A. アンカー醸造所のボイラーハウスの煙突でした。向かって右側にあったのが麦の製粉所。隣のボイラーハウスで焙煎をしていたのです。18世紀半ばから1982年まで利用されていました。ここの名産『ポーター』はロンドン生まれの黒ビール。これがアイルランドのギネスになります。対岸の通りに説明の看板があるそうです。
Q. POSHの語源について
A. Reputedly an Acronym for “Port Outbound Starboard Home (POSH)”. Wealthy British passengers on the P&O line ships going to India supposedly paid higher ticket prices for cabins that were located on the side away from the brutal heat of the sun. This term surfaced in the 1930s, but there is no evidence that the acronym POSH was actually printed on tickets.
****Mr Clive Bell’s Profile****
Clive Bell is a musician, composer and writer with a specialist interest in the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), khene (Thai mouth organ) and other East Asian wind instruments. He currently tours with UK-based Japanese drumming group Taiko Meantime, and joins koto and shamisen players to perform the Japanese classical repertoire. He toured with Jah Wobble, including shows at Ronnie Scott’s and the Glastonbury Festival, Walk Cheerfully, Yasujiro Ozu’s 1930 comedy gangster movie and substantial recording history as both as his solo album, Shakuhachi: ( reissued in 2005 by ARC Records) and as a composer for film, TV and theatrical productions (Complicit, Kazuko Hohki, IOU, Whalley Range Allstars). Jazz pianist Taeko Kunishima, Jaki Liebezeit, David Sylvian, David Toop, Jochen Irmler of Faust and Bill Laswell number among Clive Bell’s collaborators.
Based in London, he writes regularly for the music magazine Wire and shakuhachi player on Karl Jenkins’s album Requiem on EMI Classics, the final two Harry Potter movies, and the Hobbit.
His shakuhachi playing has been featured live on Radio 3’s Late Junction and In Tune. At the BFI and at Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival, www.clivebell.co.uk