Council Wind & Hot Air Councillors and residents are at odds over plans to turn a beautiful valley next to Bath into a green energy centre. The plans are now on hold as the depth of community opposition has made itself felt

Council Wind & Hot Air
Councillors and residents are at odds over plans to turn a beautiful valley next to #Bath into a green energy centre. The plans are now on hold as the depth of community opposition has made itself felt
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#Batheaston #Betjeman

Always look up !
Sir John Betjeman
St Pancras
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#london #johnbetjeman #betjeman #stpancras
#architecture #station #railway #sculpture #GeorgeGilbertScott
#nikonz8 #snap_architecture #snap_London #snap_city #snap_sculpture #snap_buildings #snap_railwaystations #snap_railway #snap_statues #snap_people

#learning #question #discovery #human #memory | Greg Morse I’ve been spending a bit of time reading books I read a long time ago. What strikes me is that the words on the page haven’t altered, but I have. It’s all got a bit Roland Barthes, who asserted – in T...

I’ve been spending a bit of time reading books I read a long time ago. What strikes me is that the words on the page haven’t altered, but I have. It’s all got a bit Roland Barthes... (though #Larkin and #Betjeman get mentioned too)...

#learning #human #discovery

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A glance of amused surprise in the Grosvenor Chapel, London.
#MemorialsMonday #Betjeman

With Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social of @bayloruniversity.bsky.social after our panel discussion on the poetry of John Betjeman. We were joined by Seamus Perry and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst for an event in #Oxford, part of the Betjeman Society's symposium
#Magdalen #Betjeman
#poetry
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Weirdly I’d already decided to watch this (really good) #Betjeman doc when I saw the post about the Burnham of now #Somerset #railways www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Cliftonville: The Shoreline of the Mind “On Margate Sands. I can connect / Nothing with nothing.” The lines, stark and sorrowful, sit at the heart of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land—a fractured modernist poem that helped redefine 20th-century ...

Cliftonville’s shoreline inspired The Waste Land and “Margate Pier”—but its buildings speak too.
Explore how poetry, architecture, and the sea shape a living heritage:
The Shoreline of the Mind

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#Cliftonville #Margate #TSEliot #Betjeman #BuildingConservation

Two part photo of John Betjeman sculpture. Left: A man with a hat, seen from behind, coattails flying, looking up at the station roof, staring into the cavernous station, holding a bag. Right: seen from the front, looking up, red station wall and two large windows framing him. Sculpture of British poet & broadcaster John Betjeman (1906-1984) by Martin Jennings (2007) at London St. Pancras International Station

'Dinge die mit "J" beginnen oder so aussehen ...'
Brit. Dichter John BetJeman,
Skulptur von M. Jennings (2007), St Pancras Station, London.
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I want my time with you!

#stpancras #betjeman #london

Welcome Page for the Betjeman Society Established to advance the appreciation of the work of Sir John Betjeman. We exist to inform and inspire members and public through the study, awareness and enjoyment of his life, work and influence.

The John Betjeman Society

""The Betjeman Society was established in 1988 to advance the appreciation of the work of the poet, writer, broadcaster and conservationist Sir John Betjeman (1906-84).""

www.betjemansociety.com

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John Betjeman’s Love Affair with Ireland | Cassandra Voices Bernadette Gorman reviews Dominic Moseley’s Betjeman in Ireland, where he exhibited a ‘particular’ fondness for ‘people who had gone to seed’.

John Betjeman’s Love Affair with Ireland
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#Ireland #history #betjeman #poetry #longford #westmeath

Love this series of #books published in #WorldWar2 by finest #authors including #Betjeman. Part of the effort to remind public what they were fighting for

And yonder dome, is not a dome at all — but painted in the semblance of a dome. #Betjeman