Nigel Bishop
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Chief Officer @ Working Together Ludlow - charity supporting people with learning difficulties & disabilities. Views my own. www.droversloft.co.uk Profile by @drawnalism.bsky.social
The second installment of Geowizard's odyssey to cross the breadth of Shropshire by footpath is now up on YouTube. By the time we reach Offa's Dyke, you'll feel like you've walked it with him! #Shropshire 🥾🏰🐑
Medieval Castles, Trapped Sheep & Total Exhaustion [Shropshire #2]
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It’s only a simple scene, but for me this is quintessential #Shropshire - evening sunlight in the Corvedale, with the church at Holdgate nestled beneath the slopes of Brown Clee. I came across this view during a walk that took longer than expected after a field of cows decided to run hell for...
✨️New Post ✨️ There is a new article over on the website! This one discusses some of my top tips for churchcrawling! There is a great joy to be found whilst visiting historic churches! nearlyknowledgeable.co.uk/guide-to-chu... #churches #history #heritage #churchcrawling
Guide To Churchcrawling | Nearly Knowledgeable
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John Lennon. George Harrison. The Music Hall. Shrewsbury 😯 #TheBeatlesInShropshire 🐐 #NicheHashtags 👍
Beatles Archive@beatlesarchive.bsky.social · 4d agoJohn and George backstage at the Music Hall, Shrewsbury, April 26, 1963 The #Beatles
Had a shortish walk this morning from Middleton Sands, around Sunderland Point and spent a bit of time snapping a few scenes that caught my eye...it was a black and white kind of day! #MorecambeBay
Coedwig hynafol #Borth / A section of the ancient petrified forest in Borth #Ceredigion #Cymru #Wales
Nun on a lawnmower, Ty Mawr Convent, Monmouth, south Wales, 1979, photo by Kevin O'Farrell, Irish photographer.
I'd hoped to go to the coast this weekend and photograph plants to share for #wildflowerhour, but the car's gear box had other plans. So here's a few favourite plants #bythesea instead. Sea Milkwort, Thrift, Sea Aster, Sea Holly, Sea Stock, Sticky Stork's-bill, Sea Bindweed, Sea Heath & Dune Pansy.
No water running over the weir on the River Onny at Halford on Wednesday... (St Thomas' Church in the background) #Shrosphire
It's pretty much on the wall folks! I prayed to Paul Nash, I drilled and screwed... And hopefully we'll be ready to welcome you to the Plaza in Port Talbot, from 6-8pm tomorrow! 'Steeling Ourselves, Port Talbot after the Blast Furnace', 31st July-14th August, The Plaza, Port Talbot
It doesn't seem to have attracted a lot of local attention but the funding cuts threatening Jodrell Bank could also spell the end for our own little iconic north Shropshire dish: #Knockin #Shropshire 📡
Famous Knockin Radio Telescope could be shut as part of Jodrell Bank cuts
The results of a review by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) could see the well-known radio telescope in Knockin close in 2028.
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Here’s a look back at some of my favourite pictures of the ‘golf ball’ on Titterstone Clee. Work has now started on a replacement dome, and this much-loved view will be changed forever. #Shropshire
An undeniably dramatic (if archaeologically unproveable) depiction of a full-scale Iron Age attack on the east gate of Danebury hillfort #Hampshire We love the Iceni-style carnyx and boar standard 🤩 © Peter Connolly 1977 (from *The Celts* - MacDonald's Peoples of the Past) #HillfortsWednesday
The impressive chest tomb of Sir Robert Broke (died 1588), who served as Speaker of the House of Commons. It depicts Sir Robert alongside his two wives, with the sides of the tomb decorated with images of his children in prayer, which was a common feature of 16th-century English funerary monuments.
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw material for her coastal scene sculptures #WomensArt
Don't cross the line 📷 Mamiya Press - 100mm f3.5 🎞️ Rollei RPX 400 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography
Bringing the curtain down... Scissor Sisters close the last show at Ludlow Castle for this year! It's been a fab, cazy, eclectic and hugely enjoyable week :-)
Anglesey Abbey remains a favourite haunt for a seasonal wander with a camera. Earlier in the year with the Pentax 17 and Ilford FP4 type 517 film - printed onto MGRC #believeinfilm #Filmphotography
