Today
In 1993 failure of the piling resulted in part of the railway embankment being washed away. More recently, flood prevention measures have resulted in reconstruction of the river defences and walls, and this work was completed in 2006.
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“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:43.
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“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)