"Mary Fisher" wrote
| I'd have thought so - but I don't call 150 years "very, very old"!
| Reminds me of when I first went to america and was proudly shown
| "the oldest house on the island" - it was 90 yo.

I was reading posts elsewhere about someone's trip to Abu Dhabi and the
local museum showed what life was like in "Old" Abu Dhabi ... in 1974, I
think, before the oil brought prosperity, skyscrapers, desalination plants
and cheap immigrant labour.

Owain