PeteZab
@petezab.bsky.social
Dabbles with a camera and loves music. Still on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/petezab/
A nice album by Andy Morton and Suzi Woods - two fine musicians from Birmingham. open.spotify.com/album/11CRHI...
Tales We Tell - Album by Andy Morton | Spotify
Andy Morton · album · 2026 · 12 songs
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That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.
Time Out has named Beeston as one of The 11 coolest neighbourhoods in the UK 2026, alongside Old Market (Bristol) Newington Green (London), Leith Walk (Edinburgh) and more. Link to full article here > www.timeout.com/uk/coolest-n... Big up to LeftLion alumna Eve Smallman for sorting it!
The 11 coolest neighbourhoods in the UK 2026
With hyped new openings, thriving indie businesses and heaps of community spirit
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The police threatened to arrest me when I was documenting the arrest of pensioners who were holding up pieces of cardboard in support of this group in Parliament Square last year. They said I was “too close”. The photos of those arrested are in our new Rebellion! exhibition.
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 3d agoAt least five journalists were arrested while covering a pro-Palestine Action protest in Leicester yesterday They were held on the scene for two hours by Leicestershire Police before being de-arrested pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/fi...
Larry Towell. “My wife Ann and I had been digging and transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned.”
This looks an interesting exhibition, it's not often we get the chance to view the work of African photographers. #photography #Nottingham www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/l...
LagosPhoto: Stories of Movement and Belonging
A photo exhibition bringing together artists from across the African continent and the diaspora, alongside a selection of international practitioners, who are part of the LagosPhoto Festival network.
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8 October 1967, Clement Attlee died (aged 84). As Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, his governments introduced a range of social and economic reforms includimg the establishment of the National Health Service. He’s ranked as one of the best UK Prime Ministers.
This is a print of Arthur Spooner's 'Goose Fair, Nottingham' in the cafe at Nottingham Castle. The original painting was completed in 1926 and actually hangs in the main gallery - it's one of my favourite pictures in there. #Nottingham #Photography
6 October 1958. Britain’s most popular children’s TV programme ,Blue Peter, was 1st broadcast on BBC TV. Its initial presenters were Christopher Trace, a relatively unknown actor and model Leila Williams who was best known for winning the 1957 Miss Great Britain contest.
I imagine this morning some of those former Greenham Common protesters are thinking... well, if only we'd known it was this easy to get rid of US bombers.
Liberal England: Ian Anderson on the old hippies who used punk to get on in music liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/10/ian-... Andy Summers had been on the scene since the early Sixties and was 35 when The Police formed. That's him on the left with Zoot Money in 1964.
4 October 1963. The Beatles made their 1st appearance on the new ITV pop show Ready Steady Go! The show went out early on Friday evenings with each episode beginning with the words: “The weekend starts here.” The Beatles only appeared live 2 more times on the show.
Lilian Marsden and her friend Phyllis, 14-year-old workers at Salt's Mill, Saltaire, in 1930. Lilian is carrying a hook on the string round her waist, which was used to wind yarn on to the spinning frame.
Today would have been resident artist Gayle Rogers' ancestor's birthday. That might seem like a strange statement - but Gayle's ancestor was Duncan Edwards a footballer of such stature that he is still regarded by many as one of the greatest players of all time - not just in the UK but globally.
Thank you @johnbcaddell.bsky.social for your amazing contribution to October’s Photo Challenge… www.johnmedd.com/2026/09/fall...
Falling
Hello and welcome to October's Photo Challenge. Yes, yes, yes, it's my Autumn Almanac. Whether you're of the opinion that this most beautifu...
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Singer and songwriter Bryan Ferry was born on this day 1945 in Washington, County Durham.
Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 3mo agoBryan Ferry in the Crown, Newcastle, 1975, photo by Brian Aris.
A fond farewell 🤝 Roger 'The Duke' Marshall bows out after 28 years as a Nottinghamshire scorer 🔢 #NOTvYOR
PHOTO OF THE DAY. The iconic photo of Christine Keeler (1963). 📷 Lewis Morley
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
Don McCullin, one of the giants of #photography, has decided to hang his cameras up - but their will be one more book, on Vietnam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IYH...
War photographer Don McCullin revisits harrowing assignment: "I want my pictures to hurt you"
YouTube video by CBS News
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+++ Born #OTD, the 21st of Sept 1866, visionary author H.G.Wells. +++ Its hard to believe that 'The War Of The Worlds' was first published in serial form way back in 1897, the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula #hgwells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #thetimemachine #TheInvisibleMan #theislandofdoctormoreau
Thinking of the size of the oven in which this baguette was baked. French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).
Car of Tomorrow is a 1951 animated short comedy film directed by Tex Avery and produced by MGM
10 September 1797. Mary Wollstonecraft died (aged 38). Her best known work was the feminist classic A Vindication of The Rights of Woman. She’s now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers.
Contrasting but cracking gigs. From a Dexys' instore at Rough Trade round the corner to Peggy's Skylight for The Necks, who played 2 hour-long improvisations. Mesmerising. Kevin in great voice. 3 oldies at the end, The Waltz, Jackie Wilson Said and Geno. Here's a new one one I relate to: 'Old Love'.