The pebbledash has chipped away on an end terrace revealing a partial ghost sign which so far reads “ask for - RESTFUL - guarantee” possibly an upholsterers? , hoping the rest will be revealed at some point 🤞 Telephone pole and red brick shed building in front Hillsborough, Sheffield
Sleepy terraces
#ghostsigns
Photo of a brick wall with a stone marker inset between white-painted stone lintel and T-shaped sill, the inner edges of which and vertical brick edges around the marker are chamfered. The marker is a white-painted stone rectangle with relief shield form, on which in relief are a carved cross dividing it into quadrants, painted black, with arms terminating in leafy arrowheads. It's surrounded by relief letters painted black: spanning the vertical axis at the top, the initials "WW"; behind and vertically aligned with the horizontal axis, spread to be alongside the arrowheads, "AD"; and split half-and-half between the centre of the bottom two quadrants, "1888", using flat-topped eights. Below and on either side of the shield are a pair of small red and black-painted relief Tudor roses.
One of my enduring interests is the Victorian architectural trend of 17th century-style flat-topped eights. Searching on Instagram is absolutely trash now but #flattoppedeight will still mainly get you my pics. It's been a while since I spotted a good example, here's a triple threat in Stroud Green!
Medieval floor tiles preserved in the south range of Byland Abbey
Intricate geometric and patterned medieval floor tiles preserved in the south aisle of the ruined Byland Abbey church
Fragments of devotion, craft, and daily ritual worn gently back into the earth still whisper of colour beneath monastic feet. Images Byland Abbey Tilman2007 CC BY-SA 4.0
I attended one of James' talks recently (about the recorded experiences of travellers in medieval England) and it was excellent, so looking forward to this.
Can't believe I've never noticed this wonderful sign at the Bank junction.
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
Glazed brick wall and window frames
Glazed brick wall and window frames
Glazed brick wall and window frames
Turville Street, London E2
Glazed brick wall and window frames
#reference #buildingreference #materialreference
Much catchier than "Moustachioed Beefeaters". (Postcard from my collection, 1910s)
If you know someone who loves history and heritage, then please follow the link below to purchase a gift membership for the Friends of Friendless Churches.
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
Look what we have here then.
We need an Egyptian Revival Revival
Photo of a cast iron fire hydrant cover set into the pavement. It's covered with small diamond shapes in relief to provide grip when being walked on. A rectangle in relief surrounds large relief letters reading "BH FH 1928". Above and below the rectangle is smaller relief lettering reading "J. Stone & Co. Ltd London S.E.".
Hydrant cover, Church Rd, Highgate. In grand condition for a 97-year-old thanks to low footfall. Cast at Josiah Stone's, Charlton. I had to look up "BH"; if it's the same as you see on council maps, that means borehole. Nearby Highgate Wood is home to the origin of several of north London's brooks.
Whenever I'm in Chicago I always notice their heritage of tiled floors. Great account, recommended follow
The front of a small terraced house, the bricks of which have been painted red until ¾ of the way up (the middle of the upper windows), and the pointing of which painted over in bright white in an extremely wobbly way. Many of the vertical lines of pointing in the upper part are slanted to the left, suggesting someone clinging onto a ladder with their left hand and stretching to paint with their right. Oh dear
"Why should I pay someone when I can just do it myself?" Moselle Avenue, Wood Green.
Scan via:
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Full text:
quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A0766...
Scan of a paragraph of text. Reads: And you ſhal haue moche more mony for your labours & paynes then you haue had in tymes past / & better name and fame. And at your endynge the glory of the kyngdome of God for your rewarde, to the whiche I pray God ſende us there to remayne.
The rewards of diligent study, from "The practyse of cyrurgyons of Mountpyller and of other that neuer came there", a 1540 pamphlet decrying quack surgeons.
Anyone have opinions about the best approaches to digitizing movable books? Pop ups, flap, etc.
Thinking about these things
And when in it you want to piss
Remember them who sent you this
Jazz cellars are good cheap entertainment & v. popular.
Super frustrating to be informed that the British Library's digitisation studio "is still not accepting orders, and there is no timescale for when they may resume". How are we supposed to proceed with research intended for publication that needs images?
@goingmedieval.bsky.social omggg
In London St Barts is THE ONE for this.
LAST CHANGE TO SAVE LIVERPOOL ST STATION FROM THE MONSTER BLOCK! Note the height of Grade II*-listed Great Eastern Hotel in front and observe that this pile is more than twice the height and it will block out all daylight from the concourse. shorturl.at/sByFe
A lovely pub, happily long moved on from its days as "The Sheepwalk" with a strange yellow coat of paint and an atmosphere inside that made you feel like you might get stabbed if you glanced at the wrong person!
I have uploaded the Songbook of Zaghere van Male to archive dot org:
archive.org/details/zegh...
This large songbook from 1542 is celebrated as much for its bizarre illuminated capitals as for its record of late medieval music.
cc @justinhancock.bsky.social and @goingmedieval.bsky.social
An interesting look at teething issues in the Barbican in 1972 and comparing it to the facilities of the adjacent Golden Lane Council estate, designed 20 years earlier
youtu.be/vvXpvH99tic
