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William Roxburgh

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  1. I like to choose names that nobody have heard of, or have a really elaborate association. At the moment, I like to call my current ship the HMS Schiltron (a Schiltron is a pike formation, similar to a phalanx, associated with Scotland). I know it sounds vague but I like the sense of uniqueness of a name that gives the ship it's own story.
  2. Falmouth, Jamaica has some great examples of British colonial architecture, being a well preserved Georgian town under restoration. This photo gallery has some other nice examples from the island: http://www.georgianjamaica.org/photos.html You'll see that British colonial architecture had a very interesting contrast of colours and shades. Lightly coloured walls (like white and yellow) and dark roofs was a very common sight among the older red or grey buildings and became fashionable from the mid 18th Century up to the Victorian period. The georgian houses along the waterfront in his image from the former British colony of Grenada (where my father was born) also shows a great example of the mixtures of dark red/grey buildings with the lightly coloured ones. I would argue that the United Kingdom needs an extra house colour or two in the 'prototype towns' to reflect this variety of lighter shades.
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