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Statue of WE Gladstone on lawn in front of the Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden
The sun has made an appearance for this Autumnal view of Mr Gladstone’s Library @gladlib.bsky.social
05.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Adrian and me standing outside Gladstone’s Library, a monumental stone building with green lawn
Archivists Assemble @gladlib.bsky.social! Great to see @heritageadrian.bsky.social here by sheer coincidence
05.10.2025 08:31 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Very sorry to hear this news Melinda. Sending sympathy and strength your way, take care of yourself
13.07.2025 09:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Warning sign on gatepost ‘Danger: Mineshaft’
Warning sign: ‘Danger: Mineshafts’
What’s that Lassie?
30.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Distant mountains, a lake and green meadows seen from a train window
Some beautiful scenery from the Inverness to Euston sleeper train at Kingussie
09.06.2025 21:39 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The front door of Orkney Library and Archive
Parkrun start sign for Kirkwall by a park path
View from shingle beach across Kirkwall harbour approach
Parkrun this morning just a couple of minutes round the corner from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social so I had to drop by afterwards
07.06.2025 09:43 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Playbill poster for variety show at Palais de Dance Blackpool with Peter Brough and Archie Andrews
Opening gallery at Showtown, Blackpool including projection montage of history of Blackpool and seats made to look like sticks of rock
Advert poster for Blackpool Illuminations with link to train tickets and fares
Original banjo belonging to George Formby in display case
More from Showtown, Blackpool. Turned out nice again.
20.05.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Museum display case with magic trick artefacts including cards, rabbit and Fez belonging to magician Tommy Cooper
The original puppets for Sooty, Sweep and Sue on display in case, on loan from the V&A museum
Green duck Orville as ventriloquist’s dummy on display in case
Original model dog from HMV (His Master’s Voice) record company marketing
A great experience at Showtown, Blackpool last week. Congratulations on winning Permanent Exhibition of the Year at the Museums and Heritage Awards last week. Can see why you won!
20.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The first one in the thread had George Canning on it .. Selfridge in the second one !
05.05.2025 09:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blue plaque for Clive of India, Soldier and Adminstrator
Blue plaque for Sir Moses Montefiore
Blue plaque for Harry Gordon Selfridge
Blue plaque for William Petty
More blue plaques: Clive of India (LCC style). Moses Montefiore. Harry Selfridge. William Petty.
05.05.2025 09:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blue plaque for Jack Buchanan on brown brick wall
Blue plaques for Bert Ambrose and Sam Browne on hotel wall
Blue plaque for George Canning 1770-1827
Plaque noting that ‘Here Lived Benjamin Disraeli’
Some blue plaques from a walk around Mayfair yesterday. Jack Buchanan. Bert Ambrose. Sam Browne. Harry Selfridge. Benjamin Disraeli (this one not actually blue)
05.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A section of the Civitas Londinum map showing the City of London at the top, the River Thames in the middle, and bull baiting and bear baiting rings at the bottom.
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Panorama of the RIBA Library showing bookshelves and study spaces, laid out to 1930s original design
A view through library bookshelves
Open stack of library book shelves
Large bell to be rung at closing time
Final day of service today for the RIBA Library at 66 Portland Place as we are closing prior to our building’s refurbishment. Temporary services will be provided from later this year until we are back! Last minute researchers in today for a final fix of the 1930s splendour of our home.
10.04.2025 11:57 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Notice on glass door panel informing users of closure of RIBA Library due to covid
Five years ago today we fixed this notice to the door of the RIBA Library at 66 Portland Place, and began to head for home
18.03.2025 14:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of Mystery at Olympia by John Rhodes
Thank you @heritageadrian.bsky.social for supplying this topical introductory reading for my first London Book Fair. Mystery now solved until next year #whodunnit #lbf2025
16.03.2025 22:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yellow daffodil flower amongst daffodil flowers and stems
Daffodils in the garden today, for St David’s Day
01.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Myself and presenter in London Live tv studio
Quick bit of TV this week .. I’m at 27 mins in on this link if you would like to watch www.londonlive.co.uk/news/watch-a...
18.12.2024 17:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Series of colourful books on shelves in bookshop
Nice and warm in the crime fiction section in the bookshop today
07.12.2024 13:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quick bit of Handel (sung by @satisfactory20.bsky.social & friends) before Christmas
27.11.2024 18:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Railway viaduct made of concrete crossing snow covered valley
Three arches of railway viaduct, one reinforced
Cannington Viaduct nr Uplyme, Devon, seen in wintry surroundings today. 3rd arch from left in the photo had to be reinforced, apparently during its construction.. the viaduct was in use on the Axminster-Lyme Regis railway line, 1903-1965
21.11.2024 17:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Books piled high in illuminated bookshop window
The Bookshop window, Lyme Regis
19.11.2024 19:59 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fossil ammonite in stone
Various fossils on a large stone
Cliff fall showing rocks and mud
Sunset on the beach showing cliff and rocks
Fossils on Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis this afternoon
17.11.2024 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mimosa cake with mimosa flowers
Yesterday my RIBA colleague Valeria made this excellent Mimosa cake to share, very nice
30.01.2024 09:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hellebore flowers behind green leaves
For #JacobinDay today, the hellebore is back in my garden - despite doing its best to hide
30.01.2024 09:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Bookshelf full of whodunit books
Whodunit bookshelf has had a good clean and tidy today, acquisitions from the last two years have been put in their places and surplus set aside for the charity shop
30.12.2023 14:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red flowering cactus plant
Christmas cactus is actually flowering at Christmas this year
29.12.2023 12:03 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning and Happy Christmas! For #JacobinDay I have Tommy, a silver Labrador who belongs to my brother and sister in law, seen this morning on the beach near Cancale
25.12.2023 11:39 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Round iced Christmas cake with decorations
The local Christmas raffle was drawn on Sunday, I won this excellent cake (inc 6 tablespoons of Brandy)
19.12.2023 10:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perpetual cornflower .. blue flower
Alyssum .. small white flower
Winter Jasmine .. small yellow flower
Stocks .. small white flowers
Very grey weather today .. the sort of day that when you open the curtains in the morning, the house gets darker inside. However .. in the garden I have managed to find a few winter flowers
16.12.2023 15:18 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
View of Arthur’s seat from Edinburgh
Great view from outside today’s office
14.12.2023 09:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
