The energy transition is often told as a story of new entrants displacing incumbents.
But it also depends on incumbents making the shift themselves.
Visited the @vaillantuk.bsky.social factory in Belper today — founded 1874, now making heat pumps. 150 years of heritage, transforming from within.
A venerable black and white shelter with wooden seating on each side. Behind it are brown pebbled beach and the English Channel.
Every seaside town promenade should have one. A venerable shelter, Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Morning all.
Photographer Robin Weaver. Pensioners on a day trip to Aberavon beach 1970s.
The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted there he was – chasing sticks, doing tricks, and all that stuff next minute, woof Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.
Three figures under a Victorian style beach shelter on a promenade. The sea behind & a hazy clear blue sky.
Shelter.
#Alphabetchallenge #WeekMForMovies
Morning all.
Day Trippers, Aberystwyth, 1985.
Photographer Colin Thomas.
The tide is out. Estuary grass is in the foreground and sand beyond. Above the wooded island are clouds and a small moon.
An afternoon moon over Holme Island, Cumbria, United Kingdom.
A narrow gap between a pink and a blue beach but reveals layers beyond: grass, pebbles on the beach, orange water, blue water, a strip of land and blue sky.
Between the beach huts #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLayers #Photography
Stones, sand, sea, sky and distant dog walker. West Cumbria, United Kingdom.
Figureheads, National Maritime Museum, London, United Kingdom.
A photo of Elton Reservoir early one morning in December. There is a thin blanket of pinkish mist over the horizon that is mostly on the right if the reservoir. An electricity pylon/tower can just be seen as well as trees that surround the water. The clear sky above is reflected in the still water below
A person looking out to sea. They are standing on paving stones beneath a dramatic clouded sky.
Skyscape, Fleetwood, Lancashire.
West Kirby sands, sky and clouds with distant views of Hilbre Islands and North Wales.
Winter sun finds the fruit bowl.
Rear view of Eric Morecambe statue with the face of a smiling spectator in bottom left corner. Morecambe seafront, United Kingdom.
The comedian in winter.
From the Post Office’s 1934 “Outposts Of Britain” posters by the great Edward McKnight Kauffer. I’m not sure folks would warm to their homes being labelled as “outposts” today.But I do love the posters & how commercial art of the period characteristically incorporated quite radical designs elements.
If you love the seaside please consider supporting this proposal to have it added to the UK's first inventory of #LivingHeritage 🏖️🌊⚓
Wintry picture of a silhouetted Big Ben surrounded by the London Eye wheel.
Wheelie Ben
Breaking news
Geese on the move this morning.
Sea easing, sky clearing
12th January 2026 08.39
The calm of a South Yorkshire morning
drifts into the place.
“This year has made people look and think about living here differently. There’s a whole generation of young people coming up who won’t believe what I did about Bradford.”
Wave breaking on shingle beach. Rocky outcrop on right. Blue sky with orange patch and clouds.
Never the same view twice at the beach.
Aldwick, West Sussex.
26/12/2025
The cat has never really got used to sharing its windowsill with the Christmas lights.
If there was more goodwill than ill will, the world would be a better place. It is within our power to do this. Within the power of each & every one of us.
Brown pebbles, benches and English Channel. Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom.
Late afternoon December sun and cloud. A sitting person watches the English Channel. A standing runner checks their wristwatch.
Watching the sea and checking a wristwatch. Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom.