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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 4h

"School Harvest Festival
Parents and pupils at the Chantry Primary School harvest festival service admire the abundant variety of harvest produce."
Bexhill Observer 13.10.1962. #FolkloreSunday #HarvestFestival #History #1960s

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4h

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 4h

"Invasion Defences Going.
Military works on Bexhill parade constructed for defence against invasion are now being demolished. This is the "fort" at Channel View in course of removal."
Bexhill Observer 12.10.1946. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Invasion #WW2 #History #1940s

Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Observer 12.10.1946 showing the demolition of a Second World War "fort" at Channel View.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 4h

"Physical And Bayonet Training Staff. Cooden Camp 1917."
#Cooden #Bexhill #Sussex #CoodenCamp #WW1 #History #1910s

Black and white photograph as a postcard. "Physical And Bayonet Staff. Cooden Camp 1917." First World War.

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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 8h

La Pierre de la Hune in Bazougers (Mayenne) is 5.6m tall and the biggest menhir in the département. This card by a publisher called Guégan c.1905. #StandingStoneSunday.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 4h

Sunbeam #StraitofMagellan #Chile 12.10.1876. "Although perhaps I ought not to say so, I cannot help admiring the manner in which Tom has piloted his #yacht through the Straits, for it would do credit, not only amateur, but to a professional seaman." #Brassey #Sailing #Travel #History #1870s

Page and maps from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 5h

Sunbeam #StraitofMagellan #Chile 12.10.1876. "...blackest clouds came suddenly down upon us, & descended upon the decks in a tremendous shower - not of rain, but dust & ashes...Assuming the dust to be of volcanic origin, it must have travelled an immense distance..." #Brassey #Travel #History #1870s

Pages from a "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. 12.10.1876 Strait of Magellan, Chile.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 5h

In legend, Faust sold his soul for knowledge. The pact became Europe’s great warning... beware the hunger to know too much. Yet his story endures, because we all long to ask the same forbidden questions. #FolkloreSunday

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21h

Derwent village’s drowned church in Ladybower Reservoir, Derbyshire

two people looking at a church spire above the water level of a reservoir

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 5h

I adore this ghost ridden land 🦇

#ghosts #Shropshire #paranormal #Folklore

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h

The Ferry - wood engraving by George Mackley, 1951

several boats, a boat house and a large impressive house higher up on the land

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

Shot and bullets, all found on #Bexhill beach. Most of the musket shot dates to the Napoleonic War period 1803-1815. Soldiers of the King’s German Legion were based in the town from 1804-1814 and they used the beach for firing practice. There were also smugglers battles on the beaches.

There are six round musket shots at the top left of the picture. There are six pistol balls on the top right. On the left under the balls are early bullets used in muskets. Under them improved design musket bullets and at the bottom two early rifle bullets. On the right under the balls at the top are lead pistol bullets then 20th century pistol bullets then at the bottom 20th century rifle bullets. They are all displayed on a glass shelf.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 7h

It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 5h

The term covers both, I think, given the size this is more likely to be Risso's dolphin.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

@anniebrassey.bsky.social Any ideas?

nickinthecorner.bsky.social @nickinthecorner.bsky.social · 1d

I had to Google Grampus. Do they mean a killer whale/ Orca here, or the Risso's dolphin I wonder?

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Henry Bedford Lemere’s photograph of the Manor House at Bidborough, Kent, 1865

digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3...

photo of an old house, brick, wood, wattle and daub

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 1d

We are sorry to hear you have failed to pass your examination, and can only advise you to try again. We do not at all agree with your idea that “the only thing that can be done for you is to run away to London and try to get on the stage” nor do we see how that would help you.

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 1d

It is not everyone who can dispose of terraces falling away beneath towering walls and buttresses #gardening

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 1d

Sunbeam, Guia Narrows #Chile 11.10.1876. "We were passing through a deep gloomy mountain gorge, with high perpendicular cliffs on either side. Below, all was wrapped in the deepest shade. Far above, the sun gilded the snowy peaks and many-tinted foliage with his departing light..." #Brassey #1870s

Pages and maps from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 1d

Sunbeam, Guia Narrows #Chile 11.10.1876. "I never...saw anything so beautiful as the view when I came on deck ...moon was shining, large and golden, high in the heavens; the rosy streaks of dawn were just tinging the virgin snow on the highest peaks with faint bit ever-deepening colour..." #Brassey

Pages from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

"Grampus Visits Bexhill.
On Sunday morning a monster fish was washed ashore just to the right of the Colonnade bandstand."
Bexhill Chronicle 11.10.1913. #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1910s #Orca

Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Chronicle 11.10.1913. Dead killer whale washed up by the Colonnade.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Soldiers, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, World War One. #Bexhill #Sussex #Soldiers #WW1 #History #1910s

A group of soldiers in the street, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, World War One.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 1d

Take a moment to enjoy the colours and structures of a leaf in the October sunshine.

sun shines through a medium-sized green leaf, still on the tree, showing its spines and tiny gaps. top right it looks like a small worm has taken a winding nibble through a now damaged section. the leaf is yellow and brown on the edges. blue sky. other leaves blurry in the background.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

🖼️ Bernhard Anton Funke

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 1d

Eothen #Halifax #Canada 11.10.1872. "At five am we made the red light on Devil's Island, and anchored off the dockyard...The phosphorescence on the quay...was so great that our feet left tracks of living fire, and each time the oars were dipped, the water was like molten silver." #Brassey
#1870s

Pages from "A Cruise in the Eothen" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1873.

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