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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 54m

This beautiful image is in a book I bought in about 1979. It was taken by Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. (1910-2007) who was an American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and cartographer. It is called After the Storm, Climbers on Doldenhorn, Switzerland, 1960.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 7h

Uncredited painting which the Modern Antiquarian suggests is based upon a sketch entitled ‘The Shap Avenue’ by Lady Lowther, 1775. From the south. I read that the original is at Askham Hall Hotel which includes a peel tower.
#StandingStoneSunday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 9h

Kemp Howe stone circle which has been mostly buried by a rail embankment. This circle was at the southern end of Shap Avenue which was once a two-mile avenue of megalithic standing stones. In the 18th century, Shap Avenue was comparable to Avebury in Wiltshire.
#StandingStoneSunday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

Old mini in the auctioneers in Cockermouth, Cumbria today.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

Found by a lane near Bassenthwaite last weekend.
#FungiFriday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

The Norman font in the church of St Michael & All Angels at Torpenhow, West Cumbria. The church was built in the 12th Century and is thought to have incorporated stone from the Great Roman Camp of Old Carlisle.
#FontsOnFriday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 4d

The appropriately named Stonethwaite, Cumbria.
#WallsOnWednesday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 5d

Looking to Long Band from near Alisongrass Hoghouse today.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 6d

Unusual 13th century carving of a knight in St Luke’s Church, Ousby, East Cumbria. Thought to have been removed from the church during the time of Oliver Cromwell. Later found by a farmer while ploughing a field. Tullie House Museum identified a date of around 1200-1250.
#MedievalMonday

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 7d

Staircase in Leith. Pic: Erm Dea

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

Found this Fly Agaric today. Wikipedia says 'one derivation is that the term fly refers not to insects but rather the delirium resulting from consumption of the fungus. This is based on the medieval belief that flies could enter a person's head and cause mental illness'.
Early for #MedievalMonday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

We were in Maryport, Cumbria a couple of weeks ago and saw this depiction of the town by Percy Kelly (1918-1993) in the Shipping Brow art gallery. Kelly was born in West Cumbria but later also lived in Wales and Norfolk. He rarely sold his work saying he could not bear to part with them.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

The River Lowther in Askham, North Cumbria today. It's dark because the river channel is constrained here by rock outcrops which has made it go deep.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 8d

The North Pier Whitehaven a few weeks ago.
#StaircaseSaturday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 9d

St Cuthbert’s, Cliburn, Cumbria.
Listing says late C12 font has octagonal bowl (recut?), with moulded underside, on shaft with zig-zag decoration; moulded necking to chamfered base.
#FontsOnFriday

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 9d

Morning all.

Crown St, Gorbals, Glasgow 1970. Credit TSPL

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 9d

#FungiFriday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 9d

#FungiFriday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 9d

Low Jock Scar Woods, Cumbria.
#FungiFriday
#FungiFriends

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 9d

The old bridge across the beck between Thirlmere and Leatheswater that no longer exists. This bridge was swallowed up when these lakes were turned into a reservoir by the Victorians. The bridge was called Wath Bridge and linked Armboth and Dalehead Hall.
#BridgesThursday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 10d

Sweet chestnut presenting well in the woods today. Clever how the spikey jacket opens to reveal the nuts inside.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 10d

An old packhorse bridge near Smaithwaite Farm, Thirlmere, Cumbria. In the 17th and 18th centuries, this would have carried one of the two roads through the valley over the beck.
#BridgesThursday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 10d

Former entrance to The Welcome to Cumberland Inn, Eamont Bridge, Cumbria. “Struimus in Diem, sed Nox venit,” (We build for the Day, but Night comes) with the date “MDCCXVII” (1717) and the names of Nathan and Elizabeth Coull. R. L. Wharton added later in 1781.
#WindowsOnWednesday

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 11d

Two more visitors from Suffolk making use of the topography.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 12d

Bassenthwaite Lake at the weekend where it flows into the River Derwent.

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