Lam Tin Estate consisted of tower blocks numbered 1 to 24.
In "Building Blocks" the musicians assemble towers of tin cans and metal tubing, which periodically fall over and are rebuilt.
Apart from that rogue elephant, the stories about Jeremy James were realistic, domestic, even mundane: upsetting a tower of tins in the supermarket, secretly eating a box of liquorice allsorts and suffering the consequences, playing with the boy next door even though you don't like him very much.
Mountains of steaming rubbish tower over rusted tin shacks.
Eight east London teens are looking at a teetering jenga tower of biscuit tins and asking one big question.
Congo has never really recovered, especially in its staggeringly beautiful eastern region, where the real spoils are: the gold, the diamonds, the tin ore, the endless miles of towering hardwood forest.
But he became the best-known tin star of his era, portraying the towering, weathered marshal for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975.
On the evening of November 6 , 1997 the 'T's were nearly stolen from the north, south and west sides of Tech Tower by five students wielding hacksaws, tin snips, and rappelling equipment.
One particular peripatetic tiffin tin transports missives from an unhappy homemaker who unwittingly delivers a tower of lovingly crafted curries to an appreciative, if picky, widower.
Pieces of tin were twined high around the legs of a blue water tower, and the Piggly Wiggly grocery store was gutted.
Admittedly, the most dangerous transgressions taking place in Mallory Towers invariably involved the cracking open of a tin of sardines a few minutes after midnight, but the jolly hockey sticks life still appealed.
