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History, London, and Beyond [All pictures my own unless cited]
No more will HSBC denizens be able to mock Barclays next door as ‘the bungalow’
ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 2d ago
No more will HSBC denizens be able to mock Barclays next door as ‘the bungalow’
ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 2d ago
A Wild Man for #WoodensDay See that his leg is gripped by a fierce claw. The rest of his attacker was lost when he was removed from a choir stall, as were his hands. No wonder he’s wild. Late C14.
A glimpse of P G Wodehouse using a continuous paper roll in his typewriter 30 years before Kerouac
Tortoise for #YorkshireDay (Jake Thackray b Leeds 1938) youtu.be/syMhxz3xzSc
03 Thackray Unseen Tortoise
YouTube video by Jake Thackray Unseen
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Mid-C14 lead font, St Peter, Parham, Sussex. Its thin circular bowl is decorated by lettering, with the inscription ‘IHS Nazar’ repeated vertically and horizontally, enclosing the arms of Andrew Peverel, knight of the shire in 1351, who presumably gave it. “Very rare”: Nairn/Pevsner #FontsOnFriday
The cat just has to learn to say ‘Please dispense my food’ in Chinese
Font at St Etheldreda’s church, in Ely Place, London. What date would you say the basin is? There’s a later font in the upper chapel itself. Perhaps this at the chapel door has been used as a stoup?
Ah, where is that? I've seen a similar one at St Peter's Harborne, in memory of Freda Strawbridge, seventeen-year-old pillion rider on a motorcycle killed with two others in a collision on the Wolverhampton Road in 1936.
The temptation of Christ, with an alarmingly devilish Devil, and further tests and temptations in the background, for #StainedGlassSunday Cologne C16, Schnütgen Museum my 📷
"Charing Cross Station, July 1916 Casualties from Battle of Somme". J. H. Lobley. 1918. Over 1 million soldiers from all sides became casualties during the Battle of the #Somme, 1 July 1916 including those killed, wounded, or missing.
‘Not everybody can be Cary Grant, not even Tony Curtis. Wit, beauty, wealth, leisure, happiness – these are unequally distributed; only craziness is common.’ Ruby Hamilton on what makes a screwball comedy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ruby Hamilton · At the Movies: Screwball Comedies
Screwballs aren’t miserabilist-humanist comedies about learning to revel in imperfection; they’re comedies of...
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One of my favourite downpipes…not sure I had a particular thing for rainwater goods, until I saw this! 🤩 😂 One of the many excellent new(ish) interventions at Caernarfon Castle.
St Vitus being boiled in cauldron of oil - for today’s #London feeling (Swabia, Late C15, Museum Schnütgen) #WoodensDay
A white stag trotting past the Jacobean mansion at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk this morning. Through the heat haze, a 400-year-old view into the past. #earlymodern #sevenoaks
While the Post Office is busy closing its branches, here’s an example of some branches closing in on the Post Office. This postbox on Drayton Gardens, South Kensington is slowly being devoured by a London plane tree.
