Cold, snowy, evenings call for a nice fire. That's our new greenhouse in the background.
#SnowyDays #WarmFire #BigStormComing
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Black and white photo showing a male ward with parquet flooring, rugs, beds and chairs. The patient's beds are decorated with holly. Patients are sitting up in bed and two nurses are standing towards the back. On the right hand side of the photo is a fireplace, also decorated with holly.
Warm Fire - Photo of the top of a book page written in 17th century handwriting. It reads 'Agreed with Joseph Newland to Serve this house with old Cole for two and twenty pence per sack".
The wards in St Bartholomew's were kept warm with fire places, as you can see in this 1920s ward photo. Here are entries in the Governors minutes contracting Joseph Newland to provide 'old and small cole' to the hospital in the 1690s
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WarmFire #Archives #History
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Edwardian fireplace at Whitchurch Hospital with added flames 🔥
Same fireplace as first photo without the “added” flames 🔥
Edwardian fireplace painted white, question is where is it within the hospital??
Another fireplace but where was it??
Today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social is #WarmFire
Now i have to confess some artistic license used in the 1st photo… flames 🔥 added. Photos show three fireplaces in Whitchurch Hospital, can you guess where they were?
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#Edwardianfireplaces
#Hospitalfireplaces
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Part of a handwritten letter in the hand of Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington. The paper is a pale buff blue grey colour and the ink is dark brown or black.
“My house is the warmest and most comfortable in the county; and here I am obliged to trot off to go to seven or eight others.”
A grumpy Duke of Wellington writing to Colonel Gurwood, from his Stratfield Saye home on 25 December 1836
#WarmFire #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
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For aspiring 17th Century cooks Gervase Markham’s The English Housewife provided recipes for a festive menu.
This blog looks at some of the recipes from the book. blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/202...
A key element in prepping food 17th Century style was definitely a #WarmFire! #ArciveAdventCalendar
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A roaring fire with armchairs around it and ladies sitting, reading and knitting.
Well doesn’t this look cosy? This is the students' common room at the Teacher Training College, Rockside, Matlock in the #1950s. Best put that fire out before Father Christmas visits though.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #WarmFire
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Handwritten letter. Buff or grey coloured paper with dark brown or black ink.
Although W. Thorpe of Manchester has "a very large family & but a small income" he intends sending a portion of cannel [coal] to the Duke every winter as he is indebted to him for “the comfort I enjoy by my fireside”.
#WarmFire #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
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Photo of Redbridge Museum’s 1900 House room-set decorated for Christmas
Peek in through the not-so-frosty windows of our 1900 House this Christmas to imagine cosying up by the #WarmFire! ❄️
Can you spot some more Christmassy objects on display here?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
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Photo of fireplace at Water House, Walthamstow, c.1930s. Image from VHM collection, available in our Searchroom.
Fireplace at Water House, Walthamstow (now William Morris Gallery), c.1930s, awaiting a warm fire on this cold morning! #ArchiveAdventCalendar #WarmFire @arascot.bsky.social
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Stock image of a fireplace. Photo by Stéphane Juban on Unsplash.
As the weather outside is frightful, and the #WarmFire is so delightful, why not kick you feet up and read our newest blog, written by undergraduates from the University of Reading? 🔥 www.royalberkshirearchives.org.uk/blog/georgia... #ArchiveAdventCalendar
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Perhaps not the traditional #WarmFire depicting seasons greetings. #ArchiveAdvent #Advent #Christmas2025 @arascot
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This picture shows two men of B Company, 1st Battalion, enjoying some much-deserved R&R and cooking a meal over a fire at Errol Flynn’s estate in Jamaica in 1961. 🔥
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #museumarchive #visitwinchester #visithampshire #archiveadvent #adventcalendar #militarymuseum #warmfire
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Where there is a #WarmFire there is often smoke. Judging by the smoke coming from these chimney's it was a chilly day. Lots of fires being lit.
Ireland's Lane & Bell Street Lane From Technical Institute
Ref: TC/Sanitary Department Album 2 Photo 2
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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 20 is #WarmFire. Dunblane Museum shop space has recreation of a warm fire - see it when you visit today, Sat 20 Dec, last day before Christmas that Museum is open - 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
It will then close until spring
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Which Classic #Hollywood star would you like to share a #warmfire with? It's deffo James Stewart c It’s a Wonderful Life for me 😍 From Picture Show Annuals 1935 & 1948 for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar #filmarchive #filmhistory
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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 20 is #WarmFire. When Dunblane's historic Leighton Library first opened, rules for running library included requiring librarian to light fire in library at least once a week in winter
🚶Library is now closed for winter, except by special arrangement
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Quiet evening at home! Outside it is 35°F.
#WarmFire #NiceEvening #ALittleWine #SomeShrimpDennisCooked
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A true Fall day around here… the kind of cold that seeps into your bones…
Happy to be home for the rest of the night. #CozyJammies #WarmFire 🧡
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🌟 Don't forget tonight's quiz at the Fox and Hounds Comford starting at 7:30 PM! 🧠❄️ We won't let a little snow put us off - there will be a warm real fire awaiting us! 🔥 Join us for an evening of fun, knowledge, and cozy vibes. See you there!
#QuizNight #FoxAndHounds #FunTimes #WarmFire
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Cold winter’s night in Portarlington, Co. Laois, with a #WarmFire glowing nicely onboard Midland Great Western Railway No. 583, pictured on sugar-beet duties in the Midlands. #ArchivesAdventCalendar #irishrailarchives #ExploreYourArchive🔥🚂❄️
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colour photo of decorated fireplace with a garland across the mantlepiece with holly & mistletoe
A #warmfire deffo brings the #festivevibes here & just look at this gorge decorated fireplace in #VogueXmas 1935. Someone get me a book (to read not burn a la Day After Tomorrow!) for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar #librarydmu #VintageChristmas #ChristmasDecor #Christmas2024
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True story; between 1935-1939, Berea's fire truck was driven by this marvellous dog. 🙃
#WarmFire #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social #exploreyourarchive
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Christmas card produced by Barnsley Trades Council in 1984. It shows four members of an official NUM picket standing around a fire in a wire metal brazier. A Christmas tree topped with a star is next to the fire.
A #WarmFire on a picket line. This Christmas card was produced by Barnsley Trades Council during the 1984/5 miners' strike & shows NUM pickets with Christmas tree & flaming brazier
Included in archives of Women Against Pit Closures mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/WPC/...
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Black and white photo of a group of male fire fighters, wearing uniforms and hard hats. At the front of the group is a large St Bernard's dog. Image courtesy of www.picturethepast.org.uk
A #WarmFire can be lovely in winter, but could be quite dangerous as well, especially in the days before there was an organised fire service. At least the people of Alfreton in 1908 were protected by these volunteer fire fighters and their dog.
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #history
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We do love a nice cosy fire to sit by during the festive season. Check out this impressive fire place in this photograph of Sir Joseph Swan and his wife in their home at Warlingham, c.1904 #warmfire #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Christmas
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A pencil sketch of a Victorian lady in an armchair by a fire, with her feet on the fender. A pile of books is behind her on a table and a cat sits beside her on the floor. The caption reads 'Kitty, take these three books to the Library, get Mr Brown to change them - tell him I am fond of the Romatic' (From Seymour's Sketches)
'Kitty, take these three books to the library, get Mr Brown to change them - tell him I'm fond of the ROMANTIC'
A charming C19th little pencil sketch of a library-loving lady and her little cat by a #WarmFire, found in a Victorian scrapbook.
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We also offer this fireplace along with 17th century ceiling at Hall Place #Bexley. At the time of the 1662 Hearth Tax #HallPlace had no fewer than 29 hearths! #WarmFire #ArchiveAdventCalendar
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How about this highly decorated late Victorian sitting room complete with #WarmFire in winter, this is the Nursing Sister's room away from the ward at Salisbury Infirmary! c. 1903 #ArchiveAdventCalendar salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/nursing-cent...
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We have an unusual fireplace for a #WarmFire on the first-floor drawing room at #RedHouse #Bexleyheath, the home of designer and artist William Morris. The Latin inscribed above it translates as ‘Art is forever, life is short’. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
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