Both the Egyptian Aviary and the Monument to a horse in the previous blog feature in the PG tips card collection posted earlier. Intriguingly I think these men may actually be related, certainly George Durant, who built the aviary is related to "Mad Jack" Fuller who I'm sure you've all heard me harp on about at some stage; he is the one buried in a pyramid in East Sussex. I have got slightly lost in exactly how they are related due to all the different accounts, but as they are if does explain something of their influences, and explain how several pyramids got build in 18th and 19th century Britain, all by men unlikely to have travelled far out the own counties and those neighbouring, let alone on the Grand Tour (The Pyramid of Cestrius in Rome is often stated to be an influence; if was a popular attraction for those young men who went on a Grand Tour) let alone to the pyramids of Egypt.