A fascinating view within the cloisters of Lacock Abbey. Every item a beautiful thing in its own right. Something I can’t say about my own house, but perhaps it would be a helpful aspiration.

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A photo of the Porta Nigra, a massive Roman city gate in Trier. Constructed of sandstone blocks, featuring two large cylindrical towers with multiple arched windows and passageways. The weathered structure stands prominently in a modern urban setting, surrounded by buildings. Sunlight casts shadows on the stone facade, highlighting its intricate details and imposing presence.

The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate North of the Alps. It was built around 170 AD and converted into a church in the Middle Ages.
The Porta Nigra was restored to its original state in 1804 at Napoleon's behest.

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The window of a cheese shop. The left and right sides contain pillars with decorative tiles. Below the glass is a contrasting panel of tiles.

Here’s my local cheese shop for #TilesOnTuesday. For many years this was a newsagent’s shop, covered with modern cladding. The change in ownership and refurbishment uncovered some lovely original features.

Pulling out of #Sheffield station, I'm glad I twisted my head around, else I'd have missed these jolly platform canopy beauties.

The tomb sculpture of Edward, the Black Prince (so named because he wore black armor), holding his hands in prayer - but it looks like today's "heart-hands" gesture! The tomb is in Canterbury Cathedral in the UK.

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Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, son of King Edward III, making heart-hands (upside down) in perpetuity on his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral. He died in 1376.

More glittering bosses were available inside the cathedral (left) as was Skidmore's heavenly screen. It is a marvellous piece of work.

Francis Alfred Skidmore was born in Birmingham in 1817, the son of a jeweller. Skidmore worked with Scott on the Lichfield, Hereford & Salisbury cathedral screens.

Anglo-Saxon Crypt, Ripon Cathedral. An extraordinary survivor from St Wilfrid's original AD 672 church.
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This image shows a memorial blue plaque in Leeds dedicated to David Oluwale, a British-Nigerian man who died in 1969. Oluwale migrated to Leeds from Nigeria in 1949 and faced systemic harassment and persecution by local police officers. He drowned in the River Aire near Leeds Bridge in April 1969 after being pursued by police.

David Oluwale, a British-Nigerian, died in April 1969 after being “hounded to his death” by Leeds police; his body was found in the River Aire on 4 May. Born in Nigeria in 1930, he arrived in Hull as a stowaway in 1949 and later faced homelessness and mental illness in Leeds. OTD 18 April,

🔔 Good News! The campaign for the Railway Bell has won through. Congrats to Friends of the Railway Bell for their good work and the wider community in Gipsy Hill and Crystal Palace too. The Victorian Society, other amenity societies and heritage charities wrote objections.

A Bubb and sons Victoria Foundry receiving box in Millers Point in Sydney, still very much in use. #PostboxSaturday

Prehistoric seal tooth pendant reveals ancient culture in Devon A reanalysis of a misidentified Stone Age seal-tooth pendant reveals new insights into ancient British technology and cultural connections, led by researchers from the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

A 15,000-year-old pendant is changing how we see Ice Age Britain.

Reanalysis of a Kents Cavern artefact shows it’s a modified grey seal tooth, likely worn as a pendant and transported over 100km inland.

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Prospect Park Audubon Center - Brooklyn, NYC

Back at wonderful Denny Abbey today 🤩
Founded as a Benedictine Monastery in 1159, shortly taken over by the Knights Templar and then by Franciscan Poor Clare Nuns in the 14th century. After the dissolution in the 16th century, it became a farmhouse - in use until the 1960’s 😀

© Norfolk Historic Environment Service (photo by Derek Edwards)

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The outline of the fort at Brancaster is dramatically revealed in this aerial photograph by parching of the grass over its buried ramparts, revealing the positions of gates, traces of internal buildings and, at the top of the image, an external settlement.
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St Michael’s Church, Yanworth, Gloucestershire. #adoorableThursday

I have honey fungus here in Normandy but it doesn’t go anywhere near deep enough to kill large trees with root systems several metres below ground level!

Was it really dead? Yew trees can take decades (centuries?) to die. Was it really necessary to cut it down?

The 200 year-old cedar tree next to the village church was dying, cut down last week. 😞

🪖 In 1940, Churchill authorised an elite defence: the Auxiliary Units. Known as the ‘Stay Behinds’, this secret network of farmers, gamekeepers, and miners was trained not to survive an invasion, but to sabotage it from within...

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The medieval church of St Helen's, Skeffling is filled with some fascinating figurative carvings.

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Máscara maya de mosaico, hecha de jade y concha. Procedente de Guatemala, 200-600 d. C.

The late Saxon Church of St Mary, Breamore, Hampshire. This afternoon, in gentle sunshine.

Waltham Abbey
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According to local legend Harold Godwinson is buried here. This was also the last monastic institution to be dissolved by Henry VIII in 1540.

St. Botolph's Church at Boston in Lincolnshire. The main body of the church dates to the C14th, while the magnificent west tower (the ‘Boston Stump) was largely constructed during the C15th. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Boston #Lincolnshire

Norman central tower - c. 1140 “Late 19th C tower raised by 1 stage in limestone ashlar with blank arcading” - Historic England “Saddleback top #Victorian by G E Street” - Pevsner @yalepress.bsky.social

Church of St Lawrence, Castle Rising,
Kings Lynn Norfolk

Norman central tower - c. 1140

“Late 19th C tower raised by 1 stage in limestone ashlar with blank arcading” - Historic England

“Saddleback top #Victorian by G E Street” - Pevsner @yalepress.bsky.social

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Titanic anchored offshore of Queenstown (Cobh) around 11:30 AM on April 11, 1912.

11 April, 1912 – At 11:30 AM, the RMS Titanic dropped anchor off Roches Point at the entrance to Cork Harbour, offshore of Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. (1/3)🧵

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Gretel, they’ll be fine when they have a good reason to gang up against you for some cruel injustice you have made them suffer…

This is giving unhappy married couple vibes…

Although originally established as a private family chapel, this medieval place of worship is now accessible to all.

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