The capstan in Sennan Cove, Cornwall. Built in the mid-1800s to protect the large capstan that was used to haul ships up the slipway. The upper floor was used to store nets and ropes. Some of the winches survive to this day (middle photo). It’s now an art gallery.
#Cornwall #History
Seems to have been more disruption on the #ECML yesterday meaning everything was crawling past Peterborough at lunchtime. Here is #LNER 91105 'National Railway Museum Years 50 Years 1975-2025' running 20L with 1A19 11.37 Bradford Forster Square to Kings Cross. @225group.org.uk 18/4/26
BR #Class150 150137 #Sprinter #DMU stands poised to work London Northwestern Railway 2S28 1947 Bedford > Bletchley #MarstonValeLine
Hailes Castle, East Lothian (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. A Hepburn family stronghold. #HailesCastle #HistoryRebuilt #ScottishCastles
The last photo of RMS Titanic as she sails west from Cobh (Queenstown), Ireland.
Photo taken by first class passenger, Kate Odell.
Happy Easter Everyone! 🐣
#Playmobil #Easter
An SNCF express train sweeps round curves at Chamarande south of Paris.
"The station was crowded by the time the express pulled up. I felt then, as I do now, that there is no joy like the arrival of a train [...] particularly a European train that will carry you south."
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
This mammoth ivory statue is 40,000-years-old!📷
This is the Lion Man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel, considered to be the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world.
The Lion Man has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body.
The Fen Line nearly a decade ago. 365514 arrives into Littleport with a King's Lynn to London King's Cross service. (15/09/16)
Menhir de Porzh Pohon: A standing stone at the entrance of a farm, to the east of Loudéac, Côtes-D'Armor. #StandingStoneSunday 📷 peulven More: http://www.megalithi
Huntly Castle (Strathbogie), Aberdeenshire (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up over @undisscot.bsky.social image. A Gordon family stronghold. #HuntlyCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt
Freightliner #Class66 66510 hauls 4O99 1048 Leeds Freightliner Terminal > Southampton Marine Container Terminal across Stenson Jn
The British Museum image shows a painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. They are seated on low stools, facing each other, across a low table on which a board game with black playing pieces is laid out. It is probably the popular ancient Egyptian board game senet. The gazelle sits on the left of the table facing the lion on the right. The animals are seated on their haunches, sitting upright, legs hanging down from the chair seat, and their forelegs raised, being used as arms. Each animal holds a game piece with their hoof and paw respectively. The gazelle is painted brown within a black outline. It has black hooves, two long, black, s-shaped curved horns, and a black dot for its eye. It has long pointed ears at the back of its head. The lion is painted a sandy brown within a black outline. It has a darker-brown shaggy mane and a black nose and eye. It’s mouth is ajar as if speaking. Detail from an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus from Deir el-Medina
A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet.
From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts.
📷 British Museum
#Archaeology
Fragment of a red-figure terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup) depicting an enthroned Zeus and a small winged Eros. The Palermo Painter was a follower of the Amykos Painter but shows a much greater interest in detail and texture. The (unusually hairy-chested) king of the gods sits on a throne whose armrest is embellished with a lion and a small face. He holds a scepter surmounted by a bird. Eros, god of love, hovers with a wreath and looks back at a figure who may be the seated Hera, Zeus's wife. A tiny winged Eros hovers above, holding a laurel wreath - perhaps about to crown Zeus. Greek, South Italian, Lucanian, ca. 430-400 BCE, attributed to the Palermo Painter. Met Museum, New York (11.212.12)
One of my favorite ancient Greek artists is the Palermo Painter. His figures are beautiful and, frankly, sexy. I mean, a hairy-chested Zeus? Total stud.
Fragment of a skyphos, with an enthroned Zeus, a tiny winged Eros, and possibly Hera's arm. 🏺
Greek, early 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me
Hello again, old friend. 91106 'Swallow' on tonight's KX-Newcastle 1N09 LNER service at Tyne Yard.
A church that’s is almost entirely decorated with sgraffito. St Peter’s, Hornblotten, Somerset.
Brough Law Iron Age hillfort brooding over the Breamish valley near Ingram, Northumberland. Huge multivallate rocky ramparts and traces of hut circles in the large flat enclosure.
#HillfortsWednesday
A male Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted) pauses on a fence post before hopping back down into the grasses. Instead of hammering on wood, these birds prefer to dig in the dirt to look for ants.
Northern DMU 156447 approaches Sellafield working 5C57 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle. On the left, three DRS class 68 locos - 68004 “Rapid”, 68007 “Valliant” and 68001 “Evolution” - are lined up in a siding. 68018 “Vigilant” is also visible in another siding.
Approaching Sellafield. 26 March 2022. #railway #photography
13th century lavatorium (communal washing area) at Kirkham Priory in North Yorkshire. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednsday #KirkhamPriory
Whenever I go church crawling, I obsessively look for graffiti. Recently, in All Saints Church, Claverley, I hit the jackpot when I found this fantastic little guy ✨️
#history #churchcrawling #churches #historicgraffiti #churchesoftheworld
A black and white aerial photograph of a large hill, with a bank and ditch circuit around the top. The near side has suffered heavily from landslips.
Mam Tor, viewed from the south east in 1975. Signs of occupation are visible, terraced into the slope away from the prevailing westerly. The A625 is just out shot at the bottom right - it closed four years later.
#HillfortsWednesday #Derbyshire
📷 Cambridge Air Photos CUCAP BWG84
This magnificent brooch was found in Galloway as part of a Viking age hoard of gold, silver & crystal. It remains unclear who buried the hoard & why. The silver brooch is finely crafted with sinuous interlocking patterns & the heads of 4 creatures (maybe dragons).
🕰️850-1000AD
🏛️Melbourne Museum
📷me
ROMIC Group #Class20 20007+20205 powering RailAdventure 5L26 1347 Burton Wetmore Sidings > Mid-Norfolk Railway through Stenson #CastleDoningtonLine
L-Plan Keep of Neidpath Castle, Peebles (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up. Original Tower started by the Fraser family and held by the Hays. Mary Queen of Scots visited in 1563. #NeidpathCastle #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt
Results of a geophysical survey of a hillfort interior showing roundhouses, pits, ditches and roads as darker signals, the encircling ramparts depicted in red
Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
Here's our magnetometry survey of Maiden Castle, Dorset’s very own mega-hillfort
Zoom in (you know you want to) to see the outline of Iron Age roundhouses, pits, ditches and roads, a Neolithic enclosure and a bank barrow 👍
© Dave Stewart 2014 / Bournemouth University
Relief from Roman Cirencester (Corinium) depicting three Genii Cucullati and a seated mother goddess. The relief was found at the site of the Police Station in Cirencester, and is now part of the collections at The Corinium Museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain
Burrow Hill Camp (Shropshire): What an interesting outline, and some beautiful photos on our page too, have a look. This hillfort is another Shropshire defended hilltop well worth a visit.
A bronze wine jug from the Mediterranean which was found at Trimontium Roman Fort at Newsteads in the Scottish Borders. Now part of the collections of the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #RomanScotland #Trimontium #NMS
‘Ulysses and the Sirens’, painted by John William Waterhouse in 1981. Details and full painting.
