Michael Hall

Where is it from?

Exactly the period I was in Glasgow!

Always had a fascination with this line and the other short Yorkshire lines. Some where I have one of the last Metro Train timetables for the branch.

Haven’t been since COVID.
Le Petit Grain, 19 Rue de la Charité, lyon, Delightful Vietnamese with a French twist.
Top of the Grande-Côte used to be chocolate heaven!

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Amazing work about the Dunston Staiths and those who worked on them. @rwldproject.bsky.social @coaltrimmers.bsky.social

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Farage lied when he said he was too ill to appear for the BBC interview on Sunday.
The Heartland Institute, whose party he attended instead, doesn't believe in tobacco harms, climate change and seeks the dismantling of the NHS.
Be warned. If you care

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Such a tragedy. Compare with the achievements in Paris at the Notre Dame.

Panel One. Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books" Dog-walker "Really?" Panel Two. Front, becoming agitated "It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!" Panel Three. Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?" Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped."

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race

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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Socks Appeal with special dispensation to the late Walter Lure who liked flashy socks.

They’ve just changed their registered address btw. 😂
Well done. ✅

A grey board display card into which approximately 50 paper clips of varying shapes and sizes are set in rows. Below is a rough outline drawing of the clip and also the handwritten date

Paper clip collection, annotated with date of invention.

Via @sedgarchivist.bsky.social & Denver Archives.

The Truth about Venezuela.

Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982

44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman

A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8

#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD

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1930s suburban Middlesex homes Adverts from the c.1936 Middlesex County Handbook showing builders, developers and estate agents.

1930s suburban houses in Middlesex tickle your interest? An album of adverts from the c.1936 County Handbook showing the spread of Metroland & beyond #architecture #housing #1930s #suburbs @c20society.bsky.social @timenw.bsky.social

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Manchester Ship Canal, a 36-mile waterway linking the city to the Mersey estuary, opened for traffic on this day 1894. Eventually Manchester became Britain’s third busiest port. (Punch cartoon ridiculing the idea)

University Challenge Christmas 2025. Alumni Teams had never heard of Eric Hobsbawm The University Challenge Christmas series, consisting of teams of Alumni, on Monday 29th December featured St Hilda’s Oxford and Edinburgh Amol Rajan asked who the joint author (with Terence …

do you remember or know of socialist historian Eric Hobsbawm? Christmas University Challenge teams on 29th December didn't
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Beautiful!!

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A marvellous advert from the famous "Schweppervescence" series of adverts that ran for many years for Schweppes drinks, the famous and long-lived brand. It is a fine piece of '50s graphic design, issued in 1954, and shows a wide range of the company's products around a groaning Christmas table. The artwork is by the noted artist and illustrator Sheila Robinson (1925–1988), a member of the Great Bardfield Artists group who mostly lived and worked in the vicinity of the Essex village of that name.

It looks like a #ChristmasParty to me @arascot.bsky.social A 1954 advert with the whole of the Schweppe family around the Schweppervescent table ready to party! Artwork by Sheila Robinson of the Great Bardfield Artists group in Essex. #ArchiveAdvertCalendar

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Lincolnshire Gothic

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