Часть здания обсерватории
лев - русалка
и Посейдон - русалка. Главное - корона на голове есть, и хвост в упругом завитке - значит, все в порядке...
While down at Greenwich, for slaves and tin,
The tall Phoenician ships stole in,
And North Sea war-boats, painted and gay,
Flashed like dragon-flies, Erith way;
And Norseman and Negro and Gaul and Greek
Drank with the Britons in Barking Creek,
And life was gay, and the world was new,
And I was a mile across at Kew!
But the Roman came with a heavy hand,
And bridged and roaded and ruled the land,
And the Roman left and the Danes blew in-
And that's where your history-books begin!"
(River's tale by Rudyard Kipling)