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Few, if any, can paint a pint of ale, or pub as well as, Michael 🍻
His book ‘Painting Manchester Pubs’, has a treasured place on the #GrimArtBookshelf 📚 and is still available via the link @MJAshcroft 😍
A pint at the Gaslamp, Manchester by Michael Ashcroft (b.1969) #Art
Parents of Broomhill, you might want to think twice about paying over 11 thousand pounds a year to send your child to Sprogwarts Academy when they can’t tell the difference between a cello and a double bass, or more alarmingly, a trumpet and a Saxamaphone.
Fellow flâneurs and intellectuals, what should I look at in Bath? Obviously lots of columns, pediments, crescents and mellow aged stone, but what’s exciting?
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This by @ollywainwright should be shouted to the rooftops - especially the wobbly rooftops with tiny potted trees on top.
theguardian.com/artanddesign… – at Poplar, London
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REMEMBER EVERYBODY. STREETS WITH AMENITIES CLOSE TO WHERE YOU LIVE, THAT ALLOW YOU TO WALK AND ENJOY URBAN SPACE SAFELY, THAT LIMIT VEHICULAR SPEED AND POLUTION AND THUS ULTIMATELY ASSIST HUMAN WELLBEING AND HEALTH ARE HARE-BRAINED, ANTI BRITISH AND WOKE.
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Since Edward Sexton's death last week, I've been reflecting a lot on his work. I doubt another tailor will leave as strong and distinct an impression on men's tailoring in my lifetime. For those unaware of him, I thought I'd share a bit about his story. 🧵
Portmerrion, like a dream Poundbury wrought by inspired bricolage and playful genius rather than pastiche hack work.
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And a cropped view of those stupendous cooling towers. These structures should be listed and repurposed rather than sentenced to death.
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FINALLY someone says it, skinny jeans was at its peak in the 70s so wear them like your in the 70s with heel boots (in my opinion)
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Grown up Easter Fun! 🐣Cemetery Cinema Presents… A Matter of Life & Death 🎞
Fri 7th April. Doors 8:00pm, The Samuel Worth Chapel.
More info and book below:
gencem.org/event/cemetery-ci…
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#sgtpepper2022 update 4
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I’m super late to discovering this but oh my god LIVE SUMMERSON?? Pevsner??? AND Ian Nairn’s wife?? Sobbing so well fed today, I need this movie in full 😭💗💗
#OnThisDay 1968: Nikolaus Pevsner was casting an eye over the buildings of Barrow, for the latest volume of his 'Buildings of England' series of architectural guides.
"Barrow is, altogether, a very exceptional case"
This clip is from Contrasts.
Precision engineering at @bondbryan ‘s Charles Street campus


































