In 1931, the Gramophone Company merged with its main rival, Columbia, to create Electric and Musical Industries Ltd – EMI – which went on to sign many of the big names of the Sixties. As the company grew, it began to press its own vinyl records and released them under the label His Master’s Voice (named after a painting of a white terrier, Nipper, that became the company’s famous logo). The factory was built in 1907 for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company, an American manufacturer of those exciting new precursors of the iPod, gramophones. If you have any vinyl albums by artists on the EMI label (such as classic Beatles records), you’ll be subliminally familiar with the words ‘Manufactured in Hayes’ on the label. She’s soon tracking down some kind of anomaly (that old cinematic staple, along with force fields and portals) in a deserted industrial estate, which is the Old Vinyl Factory on Blyth Road in Hayes, West London. The long-awaited new visitor centre opens in December 2013. There was a time, many years ago, when you could walk freely around the mysterious ancient monument on Wiltshire’s Salisbury Plain, but damage to the precious stones mean that it’s now strictly off-limits – though you can pre-book Stone Circle Access, out of usual opening hours. Things start adding up when Jane recognises the naked guy on TV, arrested for cavorting around Stonehenge as Dr Selvig ( Stellan Skarsgard). Which happened to spell out OXO across the city. When illuminated advertising signs were strictly regulated, the Oxo company (makers of the famous beef stock cubes) imaginatively designed the windows of its Tower in the shapes of a circle, a cross and another circle. The glass-walled restaurant with its great views across London is the OXO Brasserie, on the eighth floor of the OXO Tower, Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, SE1, on the South Bank. On a more mundane level, poor Richard ( Chris O’Dowd) is sidelined as Jane ( Natalie Portman) is distracted by memories of Thor and by her intern, who has news of something very strange going on in the city. “Odin only uses structure to help him achieve his objectives for personal fulfillment.Thor: The Dark World location: the opening battle brings peace to the Nine Realms: Bourne Wood, Farnham, Surrey “Zeus is anchored to Olympus and is concerned with maintaining structure and order among the gods, while Odin is constantly away from Asgard on self-interested quests,” McCoy said. For example, he said that “the god Odin is a relentless seeker after knowledge.” While Odin is often likened to Zeus, the ruler of the gods of Greek mythology, McCoy said they really are very different. ![]() Still, he had some interesting insights into the mythological underpinnings of some of the movie’s central characters. “But then I saw the trailer for the movie on YouTube, and I could see it wasn’t a movie that I was interested in seeing” - not because of any scholarly objection to the way significant Norse mythological characters are presented in the film but because “action movies and supernatural movies in general just don’t appeal to me.” ![]() “I had every intention of going to see the first one,” he said during a telephone interview last week.
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