@BeardyHowse

Writer for the Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain.

Joined October 2013
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Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74
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The Government "Be Ready" campaign urges us to stockpile tinned food that doesn’t require heating. Apparently this includes baked beans. But what other tinned food would you like to eat cold? Anchovies? Pineapple? Ham?
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They might be able to get home by train from Oslo via Brussels and London.
Aviation News UK
@AviationNews_UKOct 24
You've really got to feel for these passengers and crew. Unable to land at Edinburgh and now diverting to Oslo.
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It's an interesting cultural aspect of aesthetics. Spanish books, like French ones, used to be issued in paper wrappers. Some were then bound in boards. British books of the same age, before paperbacks came in, were published as hardbacks, which look to us more finished.
Librófilos™
@librofilosOct 24
La belleza de los libros
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Most of Spain, except Barcelona, is west of the Greenwich Meridian. It should be on GMT like Portugal.
Xavi Ruiz
@xruiztruOct 24
Tonight, most European countries will turn their clocks back one hour. Should Europe abolish the twice-yearly clock changes or keep them?
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This storm's name, Boelo, is the same Germanic word meaning "bold" as the -bald element in Archibald. It's the bit missing in the name Archie, as in the Duke of Sussex’s son Prince Archie.
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Hill Top Farm@hilltopfarmgirlOct 22
Belties in Ribblesdale with Pen-y-Gent in cloud 💚
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No wonder the street is flooded.
Intrecci Veneziani@IntrecciVEOct 24
Pluviale grondante #veneziagram #igersvenezia #veneziadavivere #intrecciveneziani #venice
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Old houses on the corner of Hill Church Street (formerly Church Street) and Town Road (formerly High Street) in Hanley, Staffordshire. If you think they look nothing special, you should see most of the nearby buildings.
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Real Counties
@RealCountiesOct 23
Greenwich is a London borough, but that doesn't mean it’s ceased to be part of a geographic county. Greenwich is still geographically in Kent. Inclusion in Greater London in 1965 changed Greenwich’s local-government arrangements, not its county geography. Being part of London and belonging to a historic county aren't mutually exclusive. Both are true today!
Map of the geographic county of Kent - from RealCounties.com

ALT Map of the geographic county of Kent - from RealCounties.com

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Five musical instruments and an instrument of the Passion.
C B Newham@cbnewhamOct 23
Roof angels with musical instruments Late-15th / early-16th century angels at Bitchfield, Lincolnshire. The first plays a trumpet, the second holds a scroll, the third plays panpipes, the fourth holds something now broken off, the fifth plays a lute, the sixth a crown of thorns
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Swap: Town Hall, Arundel, given by 12th Duke of Norfolk in exchange for north part of the High Street taken into the Castle grounds. Built in knapped flint with galleting, 1833-36 to design of Robert Abraham. Listed Grade II.
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Brian Groom@GroomB22 Oct 2022
Grangetown, Middlesbrough, 1970s, by Robin Dale.
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Stephen Luxton@StephenLuxtonOct 20
Bit of sheeping this morning with the wife @kelper60, got them quite well trained now 😉 #sheep #chartresfarm #falklandislands #shearing
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Remarkable to see the old paint – and a blessing that it hasn't been done over with best vinyl gloss.
C B Newham@cbnewhamOct 21
Effigy of Elizabeth de Montfort, Baroness Montagu (d.1354), Oxford Cathedral. She was the mother of eleven, including the 1st Earl of Salisbury. She endowed St Frideswide’s Priory with the land now known as Christ Church Meadow. Much of the original paint remains on the effigy.
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Gothic octagonal tower before 1823 at the end of old Vicarage, now divided into houses, designed by Arundel estate architect, on the ridge where the town is built. Listed Grade II.
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Derek Turner
@DerekTurner1964Oct 9
It would be pleasant to get some wildly enthusiastic emails from publishers and filmmakers which are NOT AI-generated phishing...
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The outsize name board in early 19th-century slab-serif or "Egyptian" lettering distinguishes the coaching inn built in Arundel High Street by the Duke of Norfolk in 1785. The room above the arch could hold 150 at dinner. Listed Grade II*.
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Ennius@red_loebOct 18
18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist who is here depicted in the initial 'Q'(uoniam) of his gospel. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 004; The Dover Bible, Volume II.; 12th century; f.193v @ParkerLibCCCC @CorpusCambridge
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Richard Morris@ahistoryinartOct 18
In the wake of the far-reaching loss of WW1, pictures which had an emphasis on continuity and nostalgia had enormous appeal in Britain during the inter-war years. The clarity of definition in James Walker Tucker's 'An Idle Chat,' (1936) is down to his use of egg tempera.
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Derek Turner
@DerekTurner1964Oct 18
Donington-on-Bain church. The most interesting feature is a brass tablet from 1638 to the "learned prudent" rector Thomas Kent, which calls him "Both Chrysosthomer and Polycarpe in one"
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