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Linda Hardy

@lindahardy.bsky.social

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English born Australian My interests: Genealogy mostly researching in England loves old buildings, thatched cottages, architecture and history, photography, animals, nature, gardens, the sea, books Location: Queensland, Australia

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Journeydude @scottishinsider.org · 1d

🪬🧿Safe to be myself.

#safety #vulnerability #authenticity #connection #community #trust #support #alttext

The image is a teal square with the text: "I want people in my life that make me feel safe. Safe to talk. Safe to share things with. Safe to be myself." At the bottom of the square is the text: "@whatwomenwant".

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Linda Hardy @lindahardy.bsky.social · 5h

"My Idol is actually A Secret Socialite and evey one seems to forget about the Murder" 😨

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Hull Images - Dave Wise @hullimages.bsky.social · 23h

High Street with a couple of Lovely autumnal trees.

#hull #yorkshire #travel #city #england #history #photography #photographerofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #autumn #fall

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Linda Hardy @lindahardy.bsky.social · 5h

well done Kristi, great pictures too
#Photography

Kristi Tange @kristitange.bsky.social · 7h

Yesterday I finished the final segment of walking the entire 182 miles of the Thames Path, by walking 15 miles from Abingdon to Wallingford. So excited to complete this epic experience.

@thamespathnt.bsky.social

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Henry Long @henrylong9.bsky.social · 7h

Roupell St. #SundayYellow

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Cloudymamma @cloudymamma.bsky.social · 4d

Conker Season is upon us 🍂🤎🧡🌰

#Autumn #Fall #conkers

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 3d

On this day in 1940 John Lennon was born.

In 1946, following his parents' separation, he came to live with his aunt at Mendips in the Woolton area of Liverpool. We're incredibly proud to look after this house as a place for people to visit and experience where it all began.

Exterior of a suburban semi-detached house with a front porch and gates across a driveway

John Lennon's childhood bedroom. We see the bed, posters on the wall and a view from the window onto a street.

Interior of John Lennnon's childhood home. We're looking into the living room with a comfy, worn sofa and chairs, small desk and a fireplace. They are arranged around a patterned rug.

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Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social · 3d

The building we know as Tudor House was originally built between 1491 and 1518, incorporating an older banqueting hall from around a century earlier. Pictured here before its restoration when it was occupied by George Cawte, a bookbinder, and George Pope, a dyer.

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Chris Cookman Photography @chriscookman.bsky.social · 3d

Autumnal sunrise at Hall Leys Park, ft Hunters/Harvest Supermooon
8th October 2025

#photography #hallleyspark #matlock #sunrise #googlepixel8pro #teampixel #autumn

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Laura Rocklyn @lauralostintime.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve finally had a chance to settle in and explore #HeslingtonHall. Turns out the #gardens are quite magical. It almost feels as if walking through the #TopiaryGarden could take one into another century…

#tudorarchitecture #universityofyork #18thcenturygarden #yorkuk #englishmanor #writerslife

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn colours at Batsford Arboretum (near Moreton in Marsh) #Trees #Autumn

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North York Moors National Park @northyorkmoors.org.uk · 3d

Rare fungi species like the Pink Waxcap and Violet Coral have been found in record numbers during a UK-wide citizen science survey by @plantlifeuk.bsky.social, including here in the North York Moors National Park. To learn more visit https://www.plantlife.org.uk/

Image: Pink Waxcap (c) Ray Woods

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Tony Hurley @tonyhurley.bsky.social · 2d

The very curious but beautiful Nyboder neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Originally built in 17th and 18th centuries as naval accommodation. Feels a bit neglected today. #copenhagen

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Passed Wonder @passedwonder.bsky.social · 2d

With the spring #tide, the banks doth floweth over and it becomes #Thames upon #Richmond. But the local animals are pretty used to that by now!
Thanks to @thamespathnt.bsky.social for the tidal-tipoff!

#ThamesPath #NaturePhotography #Walktober #photography

A crow swoops low over a water-covered riverside path, where the tide has caused the river to overflow its banks

A dog with a stick in its mouth and a cyclist both spash along a flooded pathway, next to a river that has overflowed its banks

Seagulls sit and stand on a flooded pathway, the waterlogged grass next to it, and the nearby benches.

A heron stands next to bushes and a railing by the edge of a river that has overflowed its banks

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Linda Hardy @lindahardy.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my, I love this 😍
#Thatched #Cottage #Shop #Ireland

Kenchie @kenchie.bsky.social · 2d

Doolin #ireland #shopfrontfriday #fujifilm #travel #photography

A brightly painted pink cottage with a thatched roof in Doolin, Ireland. The building houses “The Sweater Shop,” with a blue sign above the doorway. Colorful sweaters and knitwear are displayed on the outside walls, and flower boxes with pink flowers sit under the green-trimmed windows.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 6d

#StPeterPort #ChannelIsles A eye catcher - La Plaiderie House Lower Pollet St Peter Port Guernsey Channel Isles photographed 25th August 2025.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d

Stamford, Lincolnshire, is full of excellent historic buildings - but it also has this fabulous Norman arch and enticing cobbled passageway 😍

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 6d

Looking to Long Band from near Alisongrass Hoghouse today.

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Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social · 5d

a lovely nutty acorn

Large nut brown striped acorn on tree cup hat gold green surrounded by small branches and oak leaves

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 4d

The Wigtown Martyrs Memorial, Stirling, by Alexander Handyside Ritchie, 1859.

Sisters Margaret and Agnes Wilson, aged 18 and 13, and Margaret McLauchlan, in her late 60s, were Presbyterian covenanters opposed to religious reforms of Charles II. 1/2

#31DaysofGraves 7: angel

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Stalwart Plants @stalwartplants.bsky.social · 4d

Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Double Click Rose Bonbon’. The Cosmos have been flowering for months and still going strong.

#cosmos #cosmosbipinnatus #cosmosbipinnatusdoubleclickrose #stalwartplants

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Cameron Self @camself.bsky.social · 4d

Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
#Walcott
#hentut

Chalet at Walcott in Norfolk after a high tide/ sand incursion.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 4d

🌞☀️🌤️Through the darker days, I’'ll be heading out on my camper-van-camino, seeking out the light and magnificence in places like Ely Cathedral and sharing each week’s glimmer in my Genius Loci Digest to lift the spirits. ✨Subscribe for free: www.digest.andymarshall.co

The painted wooden vault of Ely’s octagon tower seen from below — a radiant starburst of teal and gold, edged by stained glass windows glowing with daylight.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 4d

I think I'd cycle 80 miles in a headwind to see Ely Cathedral. No other cathedral feels so organically grown from the earth itself - it's lantern tower is one of the most verdant wonders of the medieval world. #thread

Ely Cathedral’s octagon and spires rise above the town’s tiled rooftops, their weathered stone and intricate pinnacles catching morning light beneath a pale blue Fenland sky.

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Helen Baggott | Editor ~ Author ~ Speaker @postedinthepast.bsky.social · 4d

Linton High Street & a pair of posties. The card was posted in 1909 to Master Palmer in Cranmer Road, Forest Gate: Have you used Pear's Soap? If that fails try chisel & hammer. Grandma wants to know if you are helping pick the blackcurrants.
#PostedInThePast

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